Before 1700: Dutch Golden Age
Sea charts and maritime prints printed before 1700, the dutch golden age. Every one a period original.
72 pieces

Blaeu Strait of Magellan Map, Tierra del Fuego, Decorative Sea Chart, 1642

Blaeu Virginia and Florida Map, Decorative Early America Chart, 1642

Blaeu Venezuela Map, Decorative Caribbean & Nueva Andalusia Chart 1642

Antique Sea Chart of Hudson Bay and Arctic Canada by Van Keulen, circa 1681

Blaeu Map of Boulogne & Calais Coast, Maritime France, Ships c.1642

Blaeu Map of Île de Ré & Oléron, La Rochelle Coast France, c.1642

Antique Print of the Royal Flagship of the English Fleet by P. Mortier, c.1693

Large 1693 Maritime Map of Irish Sea, West Coasts of Ireland, England, Scotland

Original Antique Sea Chart, the Northern Part of Hispaniola, Western Cuba, 1684

Antique Print of a Naval Vessel by Mortier '1695'

Rare Large 1650 Copper Engraving Depicting the Naval Battle of Gibraltar, 1607

Old Decorative & Highly Detailed Sea Chart of the North Dutch-German Coast, 1681

Map of Japanese Coast from Osaka to Tokyo & the Kyushu and Shikoku Islands, 1669

Old Decorative Map of the West African Coast & St. Thomae Island, c.1600

Original Hand-Coloured Nautical Chart of West-Africa, c.1680

1690 Frederick de Wit Sea Chart of Hudson Bay, Baffin Bay and Greenland

Original Antique Engraving of a Sea Chart of the Western Mediterranean, ca.1650

Antique Engraving of Dutch and German North Sea Coast of Friesland, ca.1680

Rare View of Olinda Pernambuco Brazil and Dutch Fleet, 1671

Antique Print of a Fleet of Nine Ships Departing to the East Indies '1603'

Large Portrait of Vice Admiral Abraham van der Hulst, Dutch Naval Hero, c.1666

Nautical Chart of Skagerrak and Øresund by Johannes van Keulen, 1680

Antique Map of the Coast of Angola Up to Port Elizabeth in South Africa, 1675

Rare Map of Six Coast Views and Anchorages of Sierra Leone and Indonesia, 1660

Large Copper Engraved Map of the Coastline of Friesland and Terschelling, c.1670

Small Map of Bantam with Dutch Ships and an Engraving of Portugese, 1614

Ingenious Destruction: Fire Ship Design of the Eighty Years' War, 1632

Original Antique Map of the Southern Coast of France by Janssonius, 1657

Orginal Antique Sea Chart of the Western Coast of Africa, circa 1697

Original Antique Sea Chart of the Maas 'or Meuse' River with Neptunes, 1684

Two Original Antique Engravings with the Dutch and German North Sea Coast, c1650

Engraving of Dutch Attacking the Portuguese Fleet off Bantam, Indonesia, 1644

Venetian Fleet vs. Ottoman Turks, Dardanelles Naval Battle Engraving, 1656

Antique Print of Sestos in Turkey with Ships , circa 1680

Dutch Inland Sailing Boats, Amsterdam–Haarlem & Delft–Rotterdam, Coronelli 1690

English Galleons & Dutch Vessels, Naval Ship Engravings, Coronelli 1690

Copper Engraving by Merian of The Battle Fleet off Constantinople, 1646

Prince Henry's Naval and Land Battle during the Seven Years' War Engraved, 1667

Maritime Majesty: The 17th-Century Skyline of Kalmar in Sweden, 1693

Dutch Fleet and Fortified Port City of Bantam, from History of Amsterdam, 1611

Antique Engraving Cocos Island, Maritime Scene, Manesson Mallet, 1683

Coast of Northumberland, England, Incl the Holy & Farne Islands, Etc, 1693

Antique Print of the Frisian Harbour City of Stavoren in the Netherlands, 1659

The Fury of the Azores: Shipwreck Disaster at Terceira, Engraved in circa 1610

Capsizing Warships, Hand-Colored Etching of Schouten’s East Indian Voyage, 1676

Antique Map of the West African Coast and the Cape Verde Islands, c.1680

Cortés Scuttling Ships at Veracruz, Hand-Colored Engraving by Van Beecq, c.1690

Dieppe, Antique Hand-Coloured French Coastal Town Engraving (1666)
Before 1700: Dutch Golden Age
The age of the Dutch masters. Amsterdam dominated chart making for most of the 1600s, and the charts of Blaeu, Janssonius, Doncker, De Wit and the Van Keulen family, often hand coloured and decorated with cartouches, ships and sea monsters, are among the most sought after of all antique charts. Prints of the period record the fleets and sea battles of the Dutch Republic and the first voyages to the East Indies.
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Indonesia and the Dutch East Indies 52Africa 45The Pacific 38North America 35South America 24The Caribbean 12The Mediterranean 41Britain and Ireland 23France 20The Netherlands and the North Sea 17Amsterdam 19India 11China 17Japan 12Southeast Asia 12Australia and New Zealand 13The Arctic and the far north 14
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