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Lotaringia Ducatus.
Small map of Lorraine, oriented with West on top and surrounded by text in Dutch. Nicolaes de Clerck (de Klerc) was active as an engraver and publisher in Delft from 1599...
- $75 / ≈ €70
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cloppenburch, 1621
Hispania.
Small map of the Iberian peninsula with the Balearic Islands, surrounded by text in Dutch.Nicolaes de Clerck (de Klerc) was active as an engraver and publisher in Delft f...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cloppenburch, 1621
Gallia.
Small map of France, surrounded by text in Dutch. Nicolaes de Clerck (de Klerc) was active as engraver and publisher in Delft from 1599-1621.Included in the rare book : W...
- $70 / ≈ €66
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cloppenburch, 1621
Descripcion del audiencia del Nuevo Reino 9.
The earliest map to include information from the previously secret manuscript maps of the Spanish cosmographer, Juan López de Velasco, showing present-day Colombia and V...
- $450 / ≈ €421
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Michel Colin, 1622
Descripcion del audiencia de Guatimala 6
The earliest map to include information from the previously secret manuscript maps of the Spanish cosmographer, Juan López de Velasco, showing part of Central America, i...
- $400 / ≈ €374
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Michel Colin, 1622
Descripcion del destricto del audiencia de la Nueva Galicia. 5.
The earliest map to include information from the previously secret manuscript maps of the Spanish cosmographer, Juan López de Velasco, showing part of Central America, i...
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Michel Colin, 1622
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 "... ...
- $1750 / ≈ €1638
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Michel Colin, 1622
[Locals.]
Scarce print on French text sheet showing a copper engraved view of locals in Oceania.From a description of the voyage of Le Maire and Schouten included in first French t...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1622
[The attack by Schouten and his men on a waka.]
Scarce print on French text sheet showing the attack by Schouten and his men on a waka.From a description of the voyage of Le Maire and Schouten included in the first Fre...
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1622
Cocos Eijlandt Isle de Cocos.
Scarce print (193x165mm.) on a French text sheet showing the landing of Le Maire and Schouten at Cocos Island in May 1616 (today’s Tafahi in the Tonga Islands). Named b...
- $245 / ≈ €229
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1622
Descripcion Del Destrieto Del Audiencia De Lima. (Peru, and parts of Colombia, and Brazil)
Rare early map of the Audiencia of Lima, locating rivers and settlements, the earliest map to include information from the previously secret manuscript maps of the Spanis...
- $475 / ≈ €444
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Michel Colin, 1622
[Title page] Thesauri Philo-Politci pars Secunda. . .
Very skillfully engraved title page from a rare work printed by Eberhard Kieser: Thesaurus Philo-Politicus. Das ist Politisches Schatzkästlein guter Herren und bestendig...
- $75 / ≈ €70
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1624
Lumen Historiarum Per Occidentem ex Conatibus Fran. Haraei Antverpia.'
Showing Europe.Cartographical sources: Frans van Haren [more commonly called Haraeus] who was born circa 1555 and died in 1631. He flourished between about 1615 and 1624,...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1624
Marchionatus Sacri Romani Imperii.
Plan of the city of Antwerp in Belgium, by Claes Janszoon Visscher and first published by his son. The map is surrounded by 3 city views and 10 building vignettes and inc...
- $1750 / ≈ €1638
Place & Date: Amsterdam 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
Carte Universelle, signed 'par S.de Caus Ingenieur et Architecte du Roy 1624
A magnificent manuscript map of the world, probably made for Cardinal Richelieu (1585-1642), the “father of the modern state system” (Kissinger), given the author a...
Place & Date: Paris, 1624
[Title page] Thesauri Philo-Politci Quarta pars. . .
Very skillfully engraved title page from a rare work printed by Eberhard Kieser: Thesaurus Philo-Politicus. Das ist Politisches Schatzkästlein guter Herren und bestendig...
- $90 / ≈ €84
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1624
Lovenstein. [Loevestein]
View of the castle Loevestein, near Gorinchem.. On the sky, three hands holding a quill, a stone and a stick are depicted. With a verse in two languages underneath the pi...
- $60 / ≈ €56
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1624
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
[Title page] Thesauri Philo-Politci Quinta pars. . .
Very skilfully engraved title page from a rare work printed by Eberhard Kieser: Thesaurus Philo-Politicus. Das ist Politisches Schatzkästlein guter Herren und bestendige...
- $75 / ≈ €70
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1624
Artesia descriptio.
Very rare. The map is dated 1624 which is unknown to Van der Krogt. Très rare, Van der Krogt ne signale pas cette édition de 1624, qui est postérieure à la dernières...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1624
Prussiae nova tabula.
Rare map of Prussia with nowadays Poland. The map features a bold title cartouche, a ship, a compass rose, and a sea monster in the Baltic Sea. The map was prepared by th...
- $550 / ≈ €515
Place & Date: London, 1624
[Title page] Thesauri Philo-Politci Quarta pars. . .
Very skillfully engraved title page from a rare work printed by Eberhard Kieser: Thesaurus Philo-Politicus. Das ist Politisches Schatzkästlein guter Herren und bestendig...
- $90 / ≈ €84
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1624
[Atrii Sancti ac Tabernaculi Foederisorthographia].
Campment in Israel.From an uncommon edition of Kerckelycke Historie van Neder-Landt which was a Dutch text edition of Agostino Torniello's Annales Sacri et Profani by Her...
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: Holland, ca. 1625
India Orientalis.
The rare Samuel Purchas' edition of the Mercator/Hondius Atlas Minor atlas map. Thisearly map of the East Indies was published in his famous collection of voyages His Pil...
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: London, 1625
Turcicum Imperium.
The rare Samuel Purchas' edition of the Mercator / Hondius "Atlas Minor" atlas map. Early map of Turkey, the Arabian pen insular and eastern part of the Mediter...
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: London, 1625
Aegyptus.
The rare Samuel Purchas' edition of the Mercator/Hondius Atlas Minor atlas map. Early map of Egypt published in his famous collection of voyages His Pilgrimes . With desc...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: London, 1625
Venezuela, atque Occidentalis Pars Novæ Andalusiae.
The coastline of Venezuela with little interior development. Including Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao, etc. This scarce map was prepared by Hessel Gerritsz (1581-1632), a forme...
- $600 / ≈ €561
Place & Date: Leiden, 1625
Americae sive Indiae Occidentalis.
Hessel Gerritsz. the author and probable engraver of the map had seen maps of California as an island, but he relies on the more trustworthy accounts, such as Herrera, in...
- $1000 / ≈ €936
Place & Date: Leiden, 1625
[Title page] Thesauri Philo-Politci Pars Sexta. . .
Very skillfully engraved title page from a rare work printed by Eberhard Kieser: Thesaurus Philo-Politicus. Das ist Politisches Schatzkästlein guter Herren und bestendig...
- $90 / ≈ €84
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1625
Daniel Meisnerus Comment. Boh. Poeta Laur. Caes.
Very skillfully engraved portrait of Daniel Meisner from a rare work printed by Eberhard Kieser: Thesaurus Philo-Politicus. Das ist Politisches Schatzkästlein guter Herr...
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1625
Taurica Chersonesus, Nostra aetate Prezecopsca, et Gazara dicitur.
Early and detailed map of the Ukraine, Russia with in the north Smolensk and Moscow and in the south the Black Sea. Shows ports, fortified cities and the mouths of the Da...
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1625
Moscovia.
Early map of Russia centered on Moscow published in his pocket atlas "Atlas Minor".
- $180 / ≈ €168
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1625
Persicum Regnum.
The rare Samuel Purchas' edition of the Mercator/Hondius Atlas Minor atlas map. Early map of Turkey, including Cyprus published in his famous collection of voyages His Pi...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: London, 1625
[No title] Tabla de la Europa. . . / Italie.
Page from a Mercator Atlas with letter press in Spanish illustrated with two maps. Recto a map of Europe (109x16mm.) and on verso a map of northern Italy (90x150mm).
- $230 / ≈ €215
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c.1625
Europa.
The rare Samuel Purchas' edition of the Mercator/Hondius Atlas Minor atlas map. Early map of Europe published in his famous collection of voyages His Pilgrimes . With des...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: London, 1625
Hispania Nova.
The rare Samuel Purchas' edition of the Mercator/Hondius Atlas Minor atlas map. This was the standard map of the area for a generation. The map shows an area correspondin...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: London, 1625
Nova Franconiae Descriptio.
In 1626 Abraham Goos engraved a single-sheet "carte à figures"- map of Franconia with decorative borders for Joannes Janssonius. In the center part of the top ...
- $2000 / ≈ €1871
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1626
[Title page] Libellus Novus Politicus.. Pars Octava.
Very skillfully engraved title page from a rare work printed by Eberhard Kieser: Thesaurus Philo-Politicus. Das ist Politisches Schatzkästlein guter Herren und bestendig...
- $75 / ≈ €70
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1626
[Title page] Libellus Novus Politicus.. Pars Altra.
Very skillfully engraved title page from a rare work printed by Eberhard Kieser: Thesaurus Philo-Politicus. Das ist Politisches Schatzkästlein guter Herren und bestendig...
- $80 / ≈ €75
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1626
The Kingdom of Persia with the cheef Citties and Habites described by John Speede.
One of the most decorative "carte à figures"- maps of the old Kingdom of Persia, including modern day Iran and Iraq, as well as portions of the Turkish Empire,...
- $2000 / ≈ €1871
Place & Date: London, G.Humble, 1626
[Title page] Libellus Novus Politicus.. Pars Tertia.
Very skillfully engraved title page from a rare work printed by Eberhard Kieser: Thesaurus Philo-Politicus. Das ist Politisches Schatzkästlein guter Herren und bestendig...
- $80 / ≈ €75
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1626
[Title page] Libellus Novus Politicus.. Pars Spetima.
Very skilfully engraved title page from a rare work printed by Eberhard Kieser: Thesaurus Philo-Politicus. Das ist Politisches Schatzkästlein guter Herren und bestendige...
- $75 / ≈ €70
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1626
[Title page] Libellus Novus Politicus.. Pars Quarta.
Very skillfully engraved title page from a rare work printed by Eberhard Kieser: Thesaurus Philo-Politicus. Das ist Politisches Schatzkästlein guter Herren und bestendig...
- $80 / ≈ €75
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1626
[Title page] Libellus Novus Politicus. . . Pars Spetima.
Very skilfully engraved title page from a rare work printed by Eberhard Kieser: Thesaurus Philo-Politicus. Das ist Politisches Schatzkästlein guter Herren und bestendige...
- $90 / ≈ €84
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1626
[Title page] Thesauri Philo Politci pars septima. . .
Very skillfully engraved title page from a rare work printed by Eberhard Kieser: Thesaurus Philo-Politicus. Das ist Politisches Schatzkästlein guter Herren und bestendig...
- $90 / ≈ €84
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1626
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, 1626
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
Nova totius Westphalia descriptio / ex celeberrimis et variis autoribus in unam tabulam redacta per Nicolaum Janssonium Visscher aut . . .
Shows the area between Maastricht, Dockum, Herschfelt and Hamburg. A fine copy in attractive original colors and dated in the plate, 1626.
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1626
[Title page] Libellus Novus Politicus.. Pars Quarta.
Very skilfully engraved title page from a rare work printed by Eberhard Kieser: Thesaurus Philo-Politicus. Das ist Politisches Schatzkästlein guter Herren und bestendige...
- $80 / ≈ €75
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1626
[Title page] Libellus Novus Politicus.. Pars Spetima.
Very skillfully engraved title page from a rare work printed by Eberhard Kieser: Thesaurus Philo-Politicus. Das ist Politisches Schatzkästlein guter Herren und bestendig...
- $30 / ≈ €28
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1626
[Title page] Libellus Novus Politicus.. Pars Sexta.
Very skilfully engraved title page from a rare work printed by Eberhard Kieser: Thesaurus Philo-Politicus. Das ist Politisches Schatzkästlein guter Herren und bestendige...
- $90 / ≈ €84
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1626
[Title page] Libellus Novus Politicus.. Pars Quinta.
Very skilfully engraved title page from a rare work printed by Eberhard Kieser: Thesaurus Philo-Politicus. Das ist Politisches Schatzkästlein guter Herren und bestendige...
- $90 / ≈ €84
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1626
[Title page] Libellus Novus Politicus.. Pars Tertia.
Very skilfully engraved title page from a rare work printed by Eberhard Kieser: Thesaurus Philo-Politicus. Das ist Politisches Schatzkästlein guter Herren und bestendige...
- $90 / ≈ €84
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1626
[Title page] Libellus Novus Politicus.. Pars Sexta.
Very skilfully engraved title page from a rare work printed by Eberhard Kieser: Thesaurus Philo-Politicus. Das ist Politisches Schatzkästlein guter Herren und bestendige...
- $90 / ≈ €84
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1626
[Title page] Libellus Novus Politicus.. Pars Octava.
Very skilfully engraved title page from a rare work printed by Eberhard Kieser: Thesaurus Philo-Politicus. Das ist Politisches Schatzkästlein guter Herren und bestendige...
- $90 / ≈ €84
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1626
A newe mape of Tartary.
Early edition of one of the most decorative maps of Tartary, known for its figured borders with costume figures, while above are vignettes of the cities of Astrakhan, Sam...
- $2500 / ≈ €2339
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
A new mape of Ye XVII Provinces of Low Germanie.
Showing all 17 Provinces of the Netherlands before the split between Spain and the Protestant Provinces under the House of Orange. The map was published while the war of ...
- $2300 / ≈ €2152
Place & Date: London, George Humble, 1626 [1627
Carte de L'Europe, corrigée et augmentée desus toutes les autres . . .
Rare map of Europe, dated 1627. First state, issued by Melchior Tavernier. Most probably engraved by Cornelis Danckerts (the elder), a highly skilled engraver. Most proba...
- $2250 / ≈ €2105
Place & Date: Paris, 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
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...
- $3500 / ≈ €3275
Place & Date: London, 1627
Europa, ad magnae Europae Gerardi Mercatoris. . .
General map of Europe with in the left hand corner, south east of Iceland the mythical island of Frisland, which was purportedly discovered by the Zeno brothers in a 14th...
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
Arragonia et Catalonia.
Aragon and Catalonia. Decorative map with mountain relief and river. 2 finely engraved sailing boats.Mercator was born in Rupelmonde in Flanders and studied in Louvain un...
- $250 / ≈ €234
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1628
Set of four continents.
Fine set of 4 continents prepared by Gerard Mercator. The general map of Europe, as well as Americae Pars, Greenland, Iceland, a Polar landmass, along with the mythical i...
- $7500 / ≈ €7018
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
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
Hispaniae nova describtio. . .
Map of Spain and Portugal. Engraved by Petrus Kaerius.
- $750 / ≈ €702
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1628
Guineae Nova Descriptio.
The map shows the West African coast from Senegal (the 'Rio Senega' is the Senegal River) to Cape Lopez on the Gulf of Guinea just below the equator.The island of St. Tho...
- $700 / ≈ €655
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1628
Arragonia et Catalonia
Aragon and Catalonia. Decorative map with mountain relief and river. 2 finely engraved sailing boats.Mercator was born in Rupelmonde in Flanders and studied in Louvain un...
- $600 / ≈ €561
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1628
Regni Valentiae Typus.
Fine early map of Valencia.
- $500 / ≈ €468
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1628
Novissima et Accuratissima Brabantiae Ducatus Tabula.
North is to the right. Like all other maps of Brabantiae Ducatus, it encloses the area between the rivers Rhine, Maas and Schelde, with Namur as the most southern town. O...
- $350 / ≈ €328
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1629
Westphalia Ducatus.
Extremely rare first edition of this beautiful map of Westphalia.Jodocus Hondius Jr. planned to produce a new modern atlas less dependent on the Mercator plates that his ...
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
Turcici Imperii Imago.
The map shows the Ottoman Empire with Turkey, Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Arabia and North Eastern Africa. The map is decorated with a title cartouche and a portrait of...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1629
Sueviae Nova Tabula.
Extremely rare first edition of this beautiful map of Swaben, including Ulm, Augsburg, Stuttgart, Zurich, Lucerne and Lake Constance.Jodocus Hondius Jr. planned to produc...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 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
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