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Brabantia Ducatus.
A very decorative map by Willem Blaeu with west is at the top. On the lower left a magnificent cartouche with a sitting female figure carrying a globe and compasses and t...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1645
Mappa Aestivarum Insularum, alias Barmudas..
Based closely on Blaeu's map of 1630 but with a simpler centered title piece. The map includes the arms of Bermuda and England, and lists proprietors of the various tribe...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1645
Quarta pars Brabantiae cujus caput Sylvaducis.
The coat of arms of Brabant and 's-Hertogenbosch do appear on the map. But the municipal arms in the columns on right and left-hand side have not yet been filled in. The ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1645
Carta particolare che comincia con il c.apo Aldea è Finisce con il capo Degortam. . .
Dudley’s magnificent chart shows the south west coast of Africa. A first edition without the privilege..Engraved by Lucini.Sir Robert Dudley's Dell'Arcano del Mare is t...
Place & Date: Florence, 1645
Moluccae Insulae Celeberrimae.
Showing the geographical features of the islands and decorated with ships, sea monsters and a handsome cartouche. With an inset of Bachian island. From early on Willem J...
- $750 / ≈ €702
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca.1645
Russiae vulgo Moscovia dictae, Partes Septentrionalis et orientalis.
In the north the Murmansk Sea. Including the western coast of Nova Zembla. Title cartouche and two cartouches, the bottom right one showing two hunters, bears, stags etc....
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1647
Prussiae nova tabula.
Rare map of Prussia with nowadays Poland. The map features a bold title cartouche, a ship, compass rose, and a sea monster in the Baltic Sea. The map was prepared by the ...
- $550 / ≈ €515
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1647
Brasilia.
Striking old color example of Blaeu's second map of Brazil prepared by Krystof Arciszewski, a Polish general who worked for the Dutch West Indian Company. The map perpetu...
- $850 / ≈ €795
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1647
Penbrochia Comitatus et Comitatus Caermaridunum.
Attractive map of the country of Pembroke shire in UK by J. Blaeu. From a Dutch edition of "Atlas Maior" in beautiful color. With 13 coats of arms, the feathere...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1648
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[ The repositioning of the Vatican obelisk ]
Joan Blaeu published The Repositioning of the Vatican Obelisk. This large engraving on multiple sheets and in beautiful original colors is based on Domenico Fontana’s d...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1649
Curia Hollandiae Interior. (Binnenhof)
The government center of the Netherlands is situated in and around the Binnenhof-Buitenhof in The Hague. In 1248 the Roman king Willem II built a castle here and named it...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1649
Macedonia, Epirus et Achaia.
Nice map of northern Greece with the southern parts of present day Macedonia and Albania. Includes the region of Athens. Strapwork title cartouche and Spanish text on ver...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1650
Anglia Regnum.
Willem Blaeu was the first publisher to bring out a new map of England and Wales. The outline and place names are taken from Speed with county boundaries marked but no bo...
- $500 / ≈ €468
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1650
Russiae vulgo Moscovia pars australis. . .
Shows southern Russia from Crimea to 60 degrees north and from the Volga west to Smolensk. Centered on Moscow. Prepared by Isaac Massa, a Dutch mapmaker who traveled to R...
- $750 / ≈ €702
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1650
Tabula Russiae.
A re-issue, by Willem Blaeu, of Hessel Gerritsz' rare and influential map of Russia. This fine map was compiled from manuscripts brought back from Russia, by Isaac Massa ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1650
![[Title page] Theatrum orbis Terrarum sive Atlas Novus pars Tertia.](/uploads/cache/43695-250x250.jpg)
[Title page] Theatrum orbis Terrarum sive Atlas Novus pars Tertia.
Glorious mid-seventeenth century engraved frontispiece by Joan and Cornelis Blaeu from the third part of his 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum'. Finely decorated with a pair of te...
- $350 / ≈ €328
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1650
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[Title page from Theatrum orbis Terrarum, with past-on]
The frontispiece of the third part of the 'Theatrum', by Johan Blaeu.Decorated with terrestrial and celestial globes and to the left Ptolemy (with sphere and pair of comp...
- $450 / ≈ €421
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1650
Asia noviter delineata..
From 1633 the members of the Blaeu family were official cartographers to the United East India Company and, as such, had access to the most up-to-date cartographic inform...
- $3500 / ≈ €3275
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1650
Tabula Anemographica seu Pyxis Nautica.
Impressive compass rose with a fleur de lis at the center and 32 wind directions flowing from it identified in six languages, Greek, Latin, French, Dutch, Italian, and Sp...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1650
Japonia Regnum.
It is the first map to correctly show Korea as a peninsula.This was to remain the standard form of Japan until the eighteenth century and although replaced by the maps of...
- $2000 / ≈ €1871
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1655
Japonia Regnum.
The first map to correctly show Korea as a peninsula. This was to remain the standard form of Japan until the eighteenth century and although replaced by the maps of Rela...
- $2000 / ≈ €1871
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1655
Tweevoudigh onderwiis van de Hemelsche en Aerdsche Globen; Het een Na de meyning van Ptolemeus met een vasten Aerdkloot...
Tweevoudigh onderwiis van de Hemelsche en Aerdsche Globen; Het een Na de meyning van Ptolemeus met een vasten Aerdkloot; Het ander Na de Natuerlijcke stelling van N. Cope...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1655
(China Atlas) Novus Atlas Sinensis, A Matino Martinio... Seste Deel van de Nieuwe Atlas, oft Toonneel des Aerdrijck, Uytgegeven door Joan Blaeu.
Dutch text edition of the First European Atlas of China. 17 engraved maps in original hand-color, and engraved title pages in original hand-color, heightened in gold. [6]...
- $15000 / ≈ €14036
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1655
Magni Mogolis Imperium.
An attractive map of the northern part of India, Tibet, Iran to Burma. The travel route from Kabul to Surat is the most prominent feature of the map. Richly decorated wit...
- $650 / ≈ €608
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1658
Natolia, quae olim Asia minor.
A finely designed map of Turkey and Cyprus from the great Blaeu family of Amsterdam. The decoration consist of a colored title cartouche, sea monsters, a naval engagement...
- $450 / ≈ €421
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1658
Tabula Magellanica.
A map with Willem Blaeu's signature, but published by his son Joan, of South America's extremity with the Strait of Magellan and Le Maire Strait.The coastlines are depict...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1658
Virginiae Partis Australis, et Floridae Partis Orientalis.
Blaeu based this map on the Mercator-Hondius of 1606. A number of geographical improvements, however were incorporated, although two large fictions lakes accompanied by e...
- $1500 / ≈ €1404
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1658
Turcicum Imperium.
A very handsome map with a particularly fine cartouche showing the Turkish Sultan on his throne and allegorical figures at either side brandishing weapons. At right is a ...
- $1500 / ≈ €1404
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1658
Turcicum Imperium.
A very handsome map with a particularly fine cartouche showing the Turkish Sultan on his throne and allegorical figures at either side brandishing weapons. At right is a ...
- $1100 / ≈ €1029
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1658
Insula Huaena sive Venusia a Guiljelmo Blaeu cum sub Tychone Astronomiae operam daret, delineata.
Decorative map of the island Hvan in the Danish Sound. In the center Tycho Brahe's famous observatory Uraniborg established in 1576, under the patronage of Frederick II, ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1659
Xantung, sinarum imperii provincia quatra.
A map of the northern province ‘Xantung’ of China after the Jesuit Martino Martini.Shows the Great Wall and is centered on the Bohai Sea, and the Shandong and Liaonin...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca 1660
Dwina Fluvius.
An interesting strip-style map showing the course of the Dvina River in three sections from the Black Sea into the White Sea at Archangel. A group of reindeer and two str...
- $750 / ≈ €702
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1660
Prussia accurate descriptia a Gasparo Henneberg Erlichensi.
Prussia and the Baltic Region, with two large decorative cartouches, coat of arms and three sailing ships. As indicated in the title cartouche, the map was prepared by th...
- $900 / ≈ €842
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1660
Nova Virginiae tabula.
A fine example of Blaeu's map of Virginia and the Chesapeake region is based on the first state of Smith's map, 1612, and is slightly larger and more expertly engraved.Th...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1635/1660
Xantung, sinarum imperii provincia quatra.
A map of the northern province ‘Xantung’ of China after the Jesuit Martino Martini.Shows the Great Wall and is centered on the Bohai Sea, and the Shandong and Liaonin...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca 1660
Magnus Ducatus Finlandiae Auct. Andrea Bureo Succo.
The first printed survey map of Finland, composed by the Swedish cartographer Anders Bureus (1571-1661). The map was published in 1662 in the second volume of Joan Blaeu'...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1660
Paraquaria vulgo Paraguay cum adjacentibus.
Rare map only included in Joan Blaeu's Atlas major. Detailed map of Uruguay, Paraguay, Northern part of Argentina and northern part of Chili. Engraved by Gerard Coeck. Tw...
- $800 / ≈ €749
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1660
![[Printed on silk] Nova Totius Americae Sive Novi Orbis Tabula, Auct. Hugo Allardt.](/uploads/cache/48420-250x250.jpg)
[Printed on silk] Nova Totius Americae Sive Novi Orbis Tabula, Auct. Hugo Allardt.
Hugo Allard’s ca. 1661 map of the Americas, showing California as an island printed on silk. This separately issued map printed on paper is quite rare on the market. T...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1661
Fretum Nassovium vulgo de Straet Nassou.
Decorative map of the Nassau Strait, from the Atlas Major. Includes 2 compass roses, sailing ships, rhumb lines and 2 elaborate cartouches. Latin text below and on verso....
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1662
Norlandiae et quibies Gestricia et Helsingicae regiones Auct: Andrea Buraeo Sueco.
Uncommon map prepared by Anders Bure (1571-1646) with a dedicational cartouche to Gabriel Bengtsson Oxenstierna.The Atlas Maior is the epitome of decades of achievement b...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1662
Mappa Aestivarum Insularum alias Barmudas.
Blaeu based his work on John Speed's remarkably accurate map of 1626-1627. It shows the island divided into tribes and lots, and below the map itself appear the names of ...
- $2200 / ≈ €2059
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1662
Arabia.
A handsome map of the Arabian Peninsula drawn on a large scale on which the three classical divisions are shown with some urban centers and topographical features. A cert...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1662
Nova et Accuratissima Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula.
Since its appearance as an Appendix in 1630, the atlas launched by Willem Blaeu and continued by his son Joan had expanded greatly. But despite many new regional maps the...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1662
Sinus Omnium Sanctoru. Bahia de Todos os Sanctos.
RARE. First Atlas Major issue: originally issued by Blaeu in Casper van Baarle's 'Rerum per Octennium in Brasilia' (1647) dedicated to the former Governor of the Dutch co...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1664
![[Title page to] Atlas mayor, o geographia Blaviana : Que contiene las cartas, y descripciones de Partes Orientales de Europa.](/uploads/cache/29952-250x250.jpg)
[Title page to] Atlas mayor, o geographia Blaviana : Que contiene las cartas, y descripciones de Partes Orientales de Europa.
Title page from a Spanish text edition of the Atlas Major. Ionic portico with celestial and terrestrial globes. To the left is Ptolemy with sphere and pair of compasses. ...
- $800 / ≈ €749
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c.1672
Terra Firma et Novum Regnum Granatense et Popayan.
Detailed map of Panama and northwestern South America derived from the Blaeu/Jansson map of the regionFeaturing ships at sea, two compass roses, and two cartouches depict...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1673
French composite atlas made up of rare maps published by Parisian editors from the 17th century , mainly by G. Jollain including scarce maps of America.
A rare French composite atlas including 90 maps, published by Parisian publishers from the 17th century, mainly by Gérard I Jollain, or by maps bought from Dutch publish...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1675
Novissima et Accuratissima Totius Americae Descriptio.
Second state of Visscher's map of the Americas, this decorative map greatly influenced the cartography of the Americas both geographically and artistically.Although it di...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1677
(Totius Americae nova et exacta tabula ex) optimis tum geographorum tum aliorum scriptis collecta et ad hodiernam regnorum principatuum et maiorum partium distinctionem accomodata.
Eastern part of a two-sheet map of America, with attribution to Willem Blaeu. According to Philip Burden, the map was derived from Cornelius Danckert's 1647 map of the sa...
Place & Date: Rome, 1679
Guinea.
A close copy of the map by Blaeu. Covers the Guinea and Benin coast. A very decorative map with a large title cartouche. At bottom right two putti area carrying an elepha...
- $1100 / ≈ €1029
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1680
Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica ac Hydrographica Tabula.
A beautifully decorative world map taken from the 'English Atlas' by Moses Pitt and Steven Swart, based on an earlier engraved world map by Pieter van den Keere ca. 1630,...
Place & Date: Oxford, 1680
Navarra Regnum.
RARE : The signature by Willem Blaeu in the lower right corner has been erased. The copperplate was published by Frederick de WitDecorative map of the region which includ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1645-1680
Pascaerte van Carybes, Nieu Neder landt, Brazil. . .
This progenitor chart covers the American shores of the Atlantic Ocean. This chart by Theunis Jacobsz. was most probably engraved close to his death in 1650 or shortly af...
- $2200 / ≈ €2059
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1653-1681
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Rumiliacum vulgo Rumilix. [Rumilly]
Showing in great detail a bird's-eye view of the city of Rumilly in the Haute-Savoie, decorated with the coat of arms and a lettered key.From "Theatrum Sabaudiæ&quo...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1682
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Abbaye d'Hautecombe. [Hautecombe Abbey]
Showing in great detail a bird's-eye view of the Hautecombe Abbey, a former Cistercian monastery, later a Benedictine monastery, in Saint-Pierre-de-Curtille near Aix-les-...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1682
Amstelodami Veteris et Novissimi Delineatio per Joannem de Ram
Johannes de Ram’s very rare and beautiful map of Amsterdam, which is made after a map of Frederik de Wit. The river Amstel is still an open water flowing through the h...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c.1682
La Turquie en Asie, l'Arabie et la Perse.
Uncommon map centered on Arabian Pen Insular and Turkey, Cyprus, Palestine, Iran, Iraq.Pierre Du Val (1619-1683) was one of the most influential and prolific mapmakers an...
- $2500 / ≈ €2339
Place & Date: Paris, 1684
Xantung, e Peking provincie della china. . .
A beautiful map depicting the area of Beijing with decorative title cartouche and scale cartouche. Information about the area at the top of the map.To the right the west ...
- $350 / ≈ €328
Place & Date: Venice, 1698
Dwina Fluvius.
Covens and Mortier's re-print of Joan Blaeu's map of 1662, first issued in the Atlas Maior. The course of the river from its source, a confluence in the Vologod Province ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1700
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2010
Alexius Hubertus Jaillot . . .
Copper engraving portrait of Alexis Hubert Jaillot (ca. 1632- 1712) holding a folio atlas in right hand and compass in left, more books behind. Engraved by Cornelis Marti...
- $800 / ≈ €749
Place & Date: Paris, ca 1700
Lugdunum vulgo Lyon.
SCARCE bird's-eye view of Lyon. Adorned with a title cartouche at bottom left, a cartouche at bottom right containing the legend with key tables 1-98 and three coats of a...
- $1000 / ≈ €936
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1700
Amstelodami celeberrimi hollandiae emporii delineatio nova.
Frederik de Wit’s beautiful bird's-eye view of the city. The river Amstel is still an open water flowing through the hart of the city. Only near the Dam it has been cov...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c.1700
Avignon.
SCARCE bird's-eye view of Avignon (Provence) figuring the Popes' Palace and the fortifications. Adorned with a cartouche at bottom right containing the legend with key ta...
- $1000 / ≈ €936
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1700
La Place de Saint Marc a Venise.
A very attractive Town plan of the place St Marc in Venice.Joan Blaeu published during his life three town-books of Italy: Citta del Vaticano, Rome and Napoli. By the yea...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1705
Hortus et Palatium Atestinorum Tyburi.
Showing in great detail the hortus and gardens of Villa Tivoli.Joan Blaeu published during his life three town-books of Italy: Citta del Vaticano, Roma and Napoli. By the...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1705
Valletta ou Valete ville Forte, de l'Isle de Malta.
A beautifully engraved and richly detailed birds-eye plan of the harbour and city of Valletta seen from the northwest. In lower part extensive key, identifying 57 feautur...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1705
Estats..de Dannemark, Suede, et Pologne..
Rare map of Poland, Denmark, Sweden, The Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. Engraved by H.van Loon. Upper left hand corner fine title cartouche and inset map of the island...
- $400 / ≈ €374
Place & Date: Paris, 1705
![[A magnificent 18 inch. (46 cm.) diameter celestial globe] URANOGRAPHIA / SYDERUM ET STELLARUM / in Singulis Syderibus conspicuarum / exhibens Delineationem accuratissimam, / qua / ex Observationibus Astronomi plane Singularis / IOHANIS HEVELII...](/uploads/cache/48959-250x250.jpg)
[A magnificent 18 inch. (46 cm.) diameter celestial globe] URANOGRAPHIA / SYDERUM ET STELLARUM / in Singulis Syderibus conspicuarum / exhibens Delineationem accuratissimam, / qua / ex Observationibus Astronomi plane Singularis / IOHANIS HEVELII...
RARE FIRST STATE OF THIS CELESTIAL TABLE GLOBE, 46 cm in diameter, produced by Gerard and Leonard Valk at the beginning of the 18th century. The globe comprises of t...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1711
Huquang, Kiangsi, Chekiang ac Fokien.
A reissue of Janssonius' map of south east China, with wash color and uncolored cartouches.The map is based on the maps of Martin Martini, themselves based on Chinese sou...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Japonia Regnum.
It is the first map to correctly show Korea as a peninsula. The rare Covens and Mortier issue of this important map of Japan and Korea, originally published by Blaeu. Thi...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1655 - 1720
Ticho-Braché . . .
Uncommon portrait of Tycho Brahe, (1546 - 1601) engraved and published by Étienne Jehandier Desrochers ( Lyon 1668 - Paris 1741). Brahe was a Danish astronomer whose wor...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Paris, 1720
Mappa Aestivarum Insularum, alias Barmudas..
The map is the rare re-issue of the Blaeu's copperplate of 1630. The map includes the arms of Bermuda and England, and lists proprietors of the various tribes into which ...
- $1600 / ≈ €1497
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Ducatus Silesiae Iauranus. Aut : Frid : Kühnovio. . .
Rare Pieter Schenk edition of Friedrich Kubn's (Kühnovio) map of Jawor in southwest Poland based on Johann Gottfried Bartsch, map first published in Świdnica (then Schw...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1700-1725
Selling price: $1250
Sold in 2017
Insularum Moluccarum Nova description.
Exquisite map of the famous Spice Islands based on the islands described by Jan Huyghen van Linschoten. This map was the first large-scale map of the region and depicts t...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1730
Nouvel atlas de la Chine, de la Tartarie chinoise, et du Thibet.
First edition of "the principal cartographic authority on China during the 18th century". It was the second major atlas of China produced in Europe following th...
Place & Date: The Hague, H. Scheurleer, 1737
Les Provinces confederées du Pais-Bas
The first wall map of the Seven Provinces of 1651, re-issued as 'Stoel des Oorlogs' by Covens & Mortier. The first issue of the present wall-map is known to be includ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c. 1740
Carte d' Amerique Dressee pour l'Usage Du Roy. . .
Detailed copper-engraved map of the American continent. Decorative title cartouche with foliate garland, and embellished lettering of d' Amerique. The western parts of Af...
- $1000 / ≈ €936
Place & Date: Amsterdam c. 1745
L'Empire du Japon..
Very similar to Joan Blaeu's map of 100 years previously: Europeans by then had been expelled, except the Dutch, whose movements were so curtailed that they were not able...
- $500 / ≈ €468
Place & Date: Paris, 1756
Tablaeu de l'Univers premiere partie/ .. seconde partie.
Uncommon and interesting manual containing a double hemisphere world map (with fine outer decoration and showing an imagined great sea in West America, easily the size of...
Place & Date: Luik, Belgium, 1784
Carte de l'Europe dediée a Son Altesse royale Monseigneur Charles Louis archiduc d'Autriche, prince royal de Hongrie et de Bohéme, chevalier de la Toison d'Or, Grand-Croix de l'ordre...
Probably the largest published map of Europe during the regime of Napoleon.In upper left corner a large title cartouche with coats of arms and a dedication to Archduke Ch...
- $4000 / ≈ €3743
Place & Date: Paris, 1803