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![Candia [Map of the island Crete]](/uploads/cache/45233-250x250.jpg)
Candia [Map of the island Crete]
Very rare map of the island Crete published in the first edition of "Viaggio da Venetia, a Costantinopoli. Per Mare, e per Terra, & infieme quello di Terra Santa...
Place & Date: Venice, Giacomo Franco, 1598
![[Map of Corfu. View of the city of Corfu on the foreground. ]](/uploads/cache/45221-250x250.jpg)
[Map of Corfu. View of the city of Corfu on the foreground. ]
Very rare map of Corfu with a view of the city of Corfu on the foreground. Published in the first edition of "Viaggio da Venetia, a Costantinopoli. Per Mare, e per T...
Place & Date: Venice, Giacomo Franco, 1598
![[ Map of the island Nexos]](/uploads/cache/45289-250x250.jpg)
[ Map of the island Nexos]
Very rare map of the island Naxos published in the first edition of "Viaggio da Venetia, a Costantinopoli. Per Mare, e per Terra, & infieme quello di Terra Santa...
Place & Date: Venice, Giacomo Franco, 1598
Chinae, olim Sinarum regionis. . .
The first printed map of China. It is signed by Ludovico Georgio, whose real name was Luis Jorge de Barbuda. He was a Portuguese Jesuit cartographer and besides that a sp...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1598
Florentini Dominii Fidelissima et nova descriptio.
The map is centered on the city of Florence and extends to Liguria, the Apennine Mountains, the Adriatic Coast, Siena and Lago di Perugia. The map is based upon Stefano B...
Place & Date: Anvers, 1598
Carinthiae et Goritiae... / Histria tabula.../ Zarae, et Serebenici ..
Three maps on one sheet. The left hand is centered on the eastern part of Austria. The right upper hand map is centered on northern Yugoslavia, and the last map is center...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1598
Christophorus Columus Ligur Indiarum Prim invet A°1492
Very decorative portrait of Christopher Columbus (c. 31 October 1451 – 20 May 1506), engraved by Theodor de Bry (1528-1593) and published in Jean Jacques Boissard, &quo...
Place & Date: Frankfurt a.M. 1597 - 1599
![XIX. Venatio Elephantum in Pegu. [How elephants are caught in Pegu]](/uploads/cache/29795-250x250.jpg)
XIX. Venatio Elephantum in Pegu. [How elephants are caught in Pegu]
How elephants are caught in Pegu. The king of Pegu had a particular method of transporting elephants. He had a great enclosure built of strong wooden posts, with a trap d...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1599
Funeral in China.
A scene of a funeral in China from Linschoten's famous voyages to the East of 1583-92 here published by De Bry the year after they first appeared as a separate book. From...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1599
Feast of China.
A scene of a Chinese dinner feast from Linschoten's famous voyages to the East of 1583-92 here published by De Bry the year after they first appeared as a separate book. ...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1599
Punishment of a criminal in China.
Punishment of a criminal in China from Linschoten's famous voyages to the East of 1583-92 here published by De Bry the year after they first appeared as a separate book. ...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1599
Punishment of China.
The Chinese way of a punishment from Linschoten's famous voyages to the East of 1583-92 here published by De Bry the year after they first appeared as a separate book. Fr...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1599
![Le Roy de Navarra venant à Paris recheut le coup de cousteau au visaige par ung Pierre Chastel, lequel par quatre chevaulx fut tiré en pièces, faict le 27 de Decemb[re] l'an 1594.](/uploads/cache/38548-250x250.jpg)
Le Roy de Navarra venant à Paris recheut le coup de cousteau au visaige par ung Pierre Chastel, lequel par quatre chevaulx fut tiré en pièces, faict le 27 de Decemb[re] l'an 1594.
Engraved news-sheet with text in German and French. Pictorial reportage on the failed assassination attempt on King Henri IV of France by Jean Châtel (here identified as...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca. 1600
Asiae nova descriptio.
Ortelius' fine map of Asia well represents the continent at a time when Europeans were expanding their power in the Far East. The Indian subcontinent and Malaysian penins...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1603
Terra Sancta.
This is the most modern of Ortelius' maps of the Holy Land. It focuses specifically on the Holy Land and is oriented with east of the top. Ortelius used as a model the wa...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1603
Islandia.
Perhaps the most famous map of Iceland. On the south side of the island a collection of all possible sea monsters is depicted. Polar bears on ice flows and volcanoes in t...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1603
![[Title page] Perspective die hooch-gheroemde conste..](/uploads/cache/25554-250x250.jpg)
[Title page] Perspective die hooch-gheroemde conste..
Title page from Perspective, Dat is, de hooch-gheroemde conste eens schijnende in oft door-siende ooghen-ghesichtespunt ... (&c.) by Hans, or Johannes Vredeman de Vri...
Place & Date: Leiden, 1604
La marca d'Ancona. Marchia Anconitana Picaenum olim dicta. . . Romae apud Joannem Orlandini formis Rome 1604.
A re-issue of the plate by Vicentium Luchinù of 1564 now with the address of Orlandini and the dates 1602 / 1604.Collector's item. A unique opportunity to acquire a fine...
Place & Date: Rome, 1604
Perspective print by Vredeman de Vries. 5
Engraving from Perspective, c'est a dire, le tresrenomme art du poinct oculaire d'une veue dedans ou travers regardante, estant sur une muraille unie, sur un tableau, ou ...
Place & Date: The Hague, 1604 - 1605
![[Title page] Geographiae libri octo Graeco-Latini . . .](/uploads/cache/47936-250x250.jpg)
[Title page] Geographiae libri octo Graeco-Latini . . .
Fine decorative titlepage from the 1605 edition of Ptolemy. The plate is adorned with allegorical figures, fruits and architectural motifs. This 1605 edition was based on...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1605
Inferior Germania.
A rare miniature map of present-day The Netherlands and Belgium. Strap-work title cartouche in the lower right corner with scale. Expertly engraved by Petrus Kaerius, the...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Arabia
A lovely miniature map the Arabian Peninsular, published by Petrus Bertius, and published in Amsterdam at the beginning of the seventeenth century. With an attractive s...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Ormus
A lovely map of miniature map the Kingdom of Ormus, published by Petrus Bertius, and published in Amsterdam at the beginning of the seventeenth century. With an attractiv...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Aracam.
A rare miniature map of Thailand and Burma. Title cartouche on the upper left corner. First published in 1598 in his 'Caert-Thresoor', the plates were executed by the mos...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Iava Maior.
Very fine miniature map of Java, engraved by Benjamin Wright (1575-1613). This early map contains detailed geography and nomenclature around the northern coastline of the...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cornelis Claes, 1606
Ultrajectum.
An original early 17th century copper engraved miniature antique map of the Dutch province of Utrecht by Petrus Bertius, that was published in Amsterdam at the beginning ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
![[Perspective print after J. Vredeman de Vries. ]](/uploads/cache/26445-250x250.jpg)
[Perspective print after J. Vredeman de Vries. ]
Engraving depicting the use of the vanishing point. From Les cinq rangs de l'architecture, a savoir, Tuscane, dorique, ionique, corinthiaque et composée avec l'instructi...
Place & Date: The Hague, 1606
Perspective print by Vredeman de Vries.
Engraving from Les cinq rangs de l'architecture, a savoir, Tuscane, dorique, ionique, corinthiaque et composée avec l'instruction fondamentale. by Paul Vredeman de Vries...
Place & Date: The Hague, 1606
Perspective print by Vredeman de Vries.
Engraving from Les cinq rangs de l'architecture, a savoir, Tuscane, dorique, ionique, corinthiaque et composée avec l'instruction fondamentale. by Paul Vredeman de Vries...
Place & Date: The Hague, 1606
(Sea-chart of Catalunia, Languedoc, Provence, Cote d'Azur, Riviera, Corsica with Marseille, Cannes, Nice, Monaco.)
This very rare chart is important as the first printed sea chart of France's Mediterranean coast, also depicting Catalunya's northern coast, the Italian Cote d'Azur till ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1607
Germania.
Second state of this rare "carte à figures"- map of Germany, The Netherlands, Poland and central Europe. Bordered on three sides with portraits and views. In t...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1607
![[Title page for] Atlas Minor de Guerard Mercator. . .](/uploads/cache/47933-250x250.jpg)
[Title page for] Atlas Minor de Guerard Mercator. . .
Title page from a 1608 French edition of the Atlas Minor (351:11). The title page is similar to that in the Latin edition of 1607, but a slip of paper with the engraved t...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1608
Die Zyp / La Zype.
A miniature map showing the polder of De Zype. Title cartouche in the upper side.First published in 1598 in his Caert-Thresoor, the plates were executed by the most famou...
Place & Date: Amsterdam / Frankfurt, 1609
Biturigum.
A miniature map of the Berry. Fine cartouche in the upper left corner.First published in 1598 in his Caert-Thresoor, the plates were executed by the most famous engravers...
Place & Date: Amsterdam/Frankfurt 1609
Maldivae Insulae.
Very fine early miniature map of Maldives Islands. East is at the top. Title cartouche on the lower right corner. A dolphin and two ships are depicted.First published in ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam / Frankfurt, 1609
VII. Quorundam ob Delicta sua misere mutilatorum effigies.
This shows Sebald van de Weert, the Dutch sailor who emerged from the Magellan Straits in 1600 and spotted the rocky islands off the coast of South America. For most of t...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1609
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[Bantam].
Text engravings from "Premier livre de l'histoire de la navigation aux Indes Orientales, par les hollandois, et des choses a eux advenues . . . ", being the cla...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cornille Nicolas, 1609
Sumatra Insula.
A miniature map of Sumatra and the Malay Peninsula, including Singapore and the various islands directly south of it. Containing detailed geography and nomenclature aroun...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1609
1) Natoliae,.. 2) Aegypti recentior.. 3) Carthaginis..
To the left a map of Turkey. Oriented with west at bottom. Right side of sheet contains a map of northern Egypt showing the Nile River delta, and a map the vicinity of Tu...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1570-1609
Lutzenburgensis Ducatus veriss descript.
Prepared by Jacob Surhon who made a manuscript map of Luxembourg for which he received 500 Livres from Charles V in 1551. For security reasons the map was not published. ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1609
Orbis Terrae Compendiosa Descriptio.
Gerard Mercator's great world map of 1569 was condensed into double hemispherical form by his son Rumold. It first appeared in 1587 in Casaubon's edition of Strabo's Geog...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1595-1609
Limburgensis Ducatus Tabula Nova.
Map of Limburg, prepared by the Antwerp expert in law and mathematics Aegidius Martini. After 1600 Jan Baptist Vrients acquired the stock and the plates of Ortelius' Thea...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1606-1612
Hydrograhica descriptio
This very rare chart is important as the first printed sea chart of the Mediterranean coast of Spain, Gibraltar, also depicting the northern coast of Marocco.Willem Bar...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, W.Blaeu, 1612
Cruydt-Boeck van Remberus Dodonaeus. . .
Scarce, the last edition of Dodoens' Cruydt-Boeck, one of the most influential and important botanical works of the 16th and 17th centuries. With richly engraved frontisp...
Place & Date: Leyden, 1612
Sardinia / Sicilia.. / Corfu / Zerbi.. / Elba / Malta. . .
Six very fine and early maps on one sheet. Including the islands of Sicily, Corfu, Sardinia, Zerbi (Djerba), Elba and Malta.The map of Malta has a sinking ship at Cala di...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1570-1612
Ruremunda Gelriae opp.
A bird's eye town-plan of the town of Roermond. From the first Dutch translation of Guicciardini's description of the Netherlands.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1612
DELFT. Delphium urbs Hollandiae cultissima. . .
A bird's-eye view of the town of Delft. From the first Dutch translation of Guicciardini's description of the Netherlands. In this town-plan, three buildings, still domin...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1612
Helmond.
A panoramic view of the Helmond, seen from the Kromme Steenweg .
Place & Date: Arnhem, 1613
![[Title page colored by Georg Mack Jr. to : Hortus Eystettensis, Sive Diligens et Accurata Omnium Plantarum, Florum, Stirpium,. . .]](/uploads/cache/39343-250x250.jpg)
[Title page colored by Georg Mack Jr. to : Hortus Eystettensis, Sive Diligens et Accurata Omnium Plantarum, Florum, Stirpium,. . .]
Title page to the first edition, one of about 300 copies printed, from one of the largest and most magnificent of the great flower books, depicting more than 1000 flowers...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, ca 1613
Nieuw Nederlandtsch Caertboeck. Waer in volkomentlijcker als oyt te voren vertoont werden de XVII. Nederlanden.
Rare first edition of this atlas of the provinces of the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxemburg. Engraved title page, with : "Gedruckt t' Amsterdam by Abraham Goos Plaet...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1616
Leo Belgicus.
Among the greatest decorative works of early cartography is a series of arresting maps showing The Netherlands and Belgium in the shape of a lion. The various versions of...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1617
Frisia occidentalis.
A rare separately published carte-a-figures of Friesland by Geelkercken in its first state. The title and the coats of arms of the eleven Frisian towns appear in the cent...
Place & Date: [Leeuwarden], Dierick Albertsen, 1618
Deliciae Batavicae.
It is a charming book illustrated with portraits of Willem of Orange and Prince Maurits and eight engraved armorial plates. Followed by 30 engraved views or scenes of ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius, 1618
Premislia celebris russiae civitas.
RARE only included in part VI of his town book. Bird's-eye of Przemysl in Poland. Frans Hogenberg (1535 Mechelen - Cologne 1590) was a copper engraver and etcher. Georg B...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1618
Solimannus Turcarum Imperator X. Ex Stirpe Ottomannicae.
The engraving depicts a half length oval portrait of "Solimannus Turcarum Imperator X", signed lower right corner N. de Cleck". Nicolaes de Clerck (de kler...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cloppenburch, 1621
Angliae, Scotiae, et Hiberniae, sive Britannicar : Insularum descriptio.
A rare and ornate map with inset portraits of James First, Henry Prince of Wales Princess Anne of Denmark.Janssonius acquired the copperplate of van den Keere's 1604 Brit...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1621
Maria De Medices D. G Galliae et Navarrae Reg. Uxor Henr. IIII.
The engraving depicts a half length oval portrait of Marie de' Medici, queen consort of France .Nicolaes de Clerck (de Klerc) was active as engraver and publisher in Delf...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cloppenburch, 1621
Descripcion de las Yndias Ocidentalis.
Rare early general map of America, the Pacific Ocean and the Eastern part of Asia. Showing "Meridiano de la demarcacion porla parte oscidental" - and "... ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Michel Colin, 1622
Asia recens summa cura delineata.
This is the rare early issue with decorative paneled borders of four sides. It is surrounded by elaborate borders incorporating twelve bird's eye views of cities and te...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, H.Hondius,1623
Typus Frisiae Orientalis à Dullarto
One of the most decorative maps of East Frisia and its important shipping center of Emden and the Watten Islands, from the cartography of Ubbo Emmius, a local cartographe...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1624
Marchionatus Sacri Romani Imperii.
A wonderfully decorative map showing in the middle of the image a town plan from Antwerp and in the lower part an inset with a panoramic view of the city and harbour of A...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1617- 1624
![Summa philosophiae quadripartita, de rebus dialecticis, moralibus et metaphysicis . . [ With unrecorded world map ]](/uploads/cache/28639-250x250.jpg)
Summa philosophiae quadripartita, de rebus dialecticis, moralibus et metaphysicis . . [ With unrecorded world map ]
On page 107 a finely copper engraved world map (88x84mm.) Paradigma Terrae Plagas 4.ac 12. Ventorum situm indicans., centered on Europe and Africa, with parts of America,...
Place & Date: Leiden, Peter Rigaud, 1626
Malta.
Attractive birds-eye town-view of Valetta on Malta. With coat of arms lower right. With page number 398 in top. Latin text on verso.From "Nova et accurate Italiae ho...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1626
A Newe mape of Poland Done into English by I.Speede.
A wonderful map of Poland. Incorporated into Speed's 'Prospect Of The Most Famous Parts Of The World'. Includes birds-eye views of Cracow, Dantzick, Posna, Crossen, Sando...
Place & Date: London, 1627
The Kingdome of China.
A most sought-after map of China. Decorative border vignettes including views of the cities of Quinzay and Macao along the top border with the wheeled wind machines and p...
Place & Date: London, G. Humble, 1627
A Newe mape of Poland Done into English by I.Speede.
A wonderful map of Poland. Incorporated into Speed's 'Prospect Of The Most Famous Parts Of The World.' Includes birds-eye views of Cracow, Dantzick, Posna, Crossen, Sando...
Place & Date: London, 1627
Carte de la Coste de La Rochelle a Brouaige et de l'Isle d'Oleron Observee par le S.r de Chattillon ingenieur du Roy.
Map of the island of Oléron, with an inset in lower left corner showing the route of an English fleet to La Rochelle. At the time of mapping the area was a stronghold of...
Place & Date: Paris, 1627
Portugalliae que olim Lusitania..
The best-known map of Portugal, after Alvares Secco (1560), orientated west to the top of the sheet. Secco's map was copied by many mapmakers and publishers for upwards o...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1628
Europa, ad magnae Europae Gerardi Mercatoris. . .
General map of Europe, as well as Americae Pars, Greenland, Iceland, a Polar landmass, along with the mythical islands of Frisland, Drogeo, and Bradain. A large strapwor...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1628
Kaerte van Bergen op Zoom, Steenbergen ende de nieuwe fortificatien gemaeckt tot bevrÿdinge van 't landt van ter Tolen in tjaar 1628.
Very detailed and scarce map showing Bergen Op Zoom, Steenbergen and its surrounding countryside. North to the left side.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, after 1628
Valletta citta nova dimalta.
Early copper engraved map of the towns of Valletta, Borgo, Sanglea di Sto. Michele, and the church of St. Salvator -known as the Three Cities., engraved by Henry Raignaul...
Place & Date: Paris, Michael Soly, 1629
Coloniensis Archiepisscopatus.
Extremely rare first edition of this beautiful map of Cologne and Dusseldorff.Jodocus Hondius Jr. planned to produce a new modern atlas less dependent on the Mercator pla...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1629
Daniae Regni Typum..
A first state. Very decorative "carte à figures"- map of Denmark with the signature of the engraver Abraham Goos. Printed on heavy paper, in spite of its repai...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1629
![Figure 27 deuxieme partie a gauche.. [Hors riding].](/uploads/cache/14160-250x250.jpg)
Figure 27 deuxieme partie a gauche.. [Hors riding].
This fabulous illustration depicts formal movements of equitation for horse riding school movements. The print shows both A.de Pluvinel and the future King at the age of ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1629
![Figure 38 troisieme partie. [Hors riding]](/uploads/cache/14164-250x250.jpg)
Figure 38 troisieme partie. [Hors riding]
This fabulous illustration depicts formal movements of equitation for horse riding school movements. The print shows both A.de Pluvinel and the future King at the age of ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1629
Palatinatus Rheni Nova et Accurata Descriptio.
Early state (1630) of Visscher's "carte à figures"- map of the German Rhine River Valley. Inset views of Frankfurt am Main, Mainz, Speyer, Worms and Heidelberg...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Pas-Caert vande ghelegetheyt vande Schans te Santvliet, Vertoonede de verdroncken overwaeterde Landen, nieuw aengewasse gorsingen,. . .
Showing the surrounding countryside of the cities of Antwerp, Santvliet, Lillo, Bergen op zoom, etc. The map is ponctuated by several fortifications to indicate the main ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Romani Imperii Imago.
Very rare map in a first edition by Jacques Honervogt. Copied after a map by Ortelius but much rarer. The medallion portraits are of Romulus and Remus - the genealogical ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1630
Nova Helvetiae Tabula.
A most decorative "carte à figures" map with panoramic views of Lucern, S.Gal, Bern, Solothurn, Schafhausen in upper border and Basel and Zurich in lower left ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
![Hanc Tabulam continens Laetam Pharnambuci.. . [Brazil].](/uploads/cache/16521-250x250.jpg)
Hanc Tabulam continens Laetam Pharnambuci.. . [Brazil].
An extremely rare and decorative map of coast-line of Pernambuco. With one inset: In the upper left corner a map of Brazil, with title in five lines Dutch and five lines ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630