Original antique maps and prints
Centuries of the world, on paper.
22,173 original sheets, most from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: maps, sea charts, botanical and natural history plates, views and costume prints. Every one is the original printed page, cataloged, photographed and shipped from our gallery in Friesland.
Cornelian Cherries for the Preserving Pan, Knoop Antique Plate, 1790
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Natural History4,956Views2,630Figures & Portraits964Fashion & Costume1,704Architecture & Design1,588Religion1,059Military & Political1,026Maritime275Ethnography563Art, Myth & Old Masters316Landscape140Medical & Anatomy255Science & Education155Professions & Trades178Emblems & Satire113Music & Instruments58Sports & Leisure247Travel & Transport117Romance40Frontispieces42Other Prints467
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Cornelian Cherries for the Preserving Pan, Knoop Antique Plate, 1790
1790 · US$240
Schenk View of Goa, Great Trading City of Portuguese India, 1702
1702 · US$330
Imperial Guards and Soldiers of Cochinchine, Voyage Plate, circa 1835
circa 1835 · US$290
Inside the Temple of Jugangu at Peking, Hand-Colored Plate, circa 1747
1744-1748 · US$425
Tirion Map of Borneo, Sumatra and Java with the Strait of Sunda, circa 1755
circa 1755 · US$274
Walled Batavia and Its Outlying Forts, Dutch Engraved Plan, circa 1715
circa 1720 · US$547
Hand-Colored Chart of Timor, Solor and the Southwest Banda Islands, 1726
1724-1726 · US$492
Deshima in Nagasaki Harbor, van der Aa Bird's-Eye View, circa 1710
circa 1710 · US$1,620
Five Hand-Colored Views of Java and Batavia, van de Velde, circa 1844
1843-1845 · US$2,681
Batavia Town Hall Across Its Square, Now the Jakarta Museum, circa 1755
circa 1755 · US$358
Amboina and Its Eleven Islands: Broad Valentijn Double-Page Chart, 1726
1724-1726 · US$827
Krakatoa Eruption in the Straits of Sunda, Anjer Before the Wave, 1883
1883 · US$436
Originals only
Every sheet was printed in its own period. We sell no reproductions.
The actual sheet photographed
The photographs show the very sheet you will receive, not a stock image.
Member of the NVvA
Bartele Gallery belongs to the Nederlandsche Vereeniging van Antiquaren and follows its standards for the antiquarian trade.
Certificate of authenticity
Available on request with any sheet you buy.
Worldwide delivery
Packed by hand and shipped from our gallery in Langweer, the Netherlands.