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Hungaria Regnum.
Detailed map of Hungary centered on Budapest. Including the towns of Vienna, Zagreb as well.As Willem Blaeu died in 1638 most of his maps are actually published by his so...
Date: Amsterdam, 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....
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 / ≈ €467
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...
- $750 / ≈ €637
Date: Amsterdam, 1647
Rerum per octennium in Brasilia Et alibi nuper gestarum, Sub Praefectura Illustrissimi Comitis I. Mauritii, Nassoviae, (...) Historia.
First edition. Commissioned by Johan Maurits van Nassau (governor of Brazil between 1636-1644 and founder of "Mauritsstad" (present-day Recife)) and illustrated...
Date: Amsterdam, J. Blaeu, 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...
Date: Amsterdam, 1648
![[ The repositioning of the Vatican obelisk ]](/uploads/cache/49045-250x250.jpg)
[ 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...
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...
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...
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 / ≈ €425
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...
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 / ≈ €297
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. Heightened with goldDecorated with terrestrial and celestial globes and to the left Ptolemy (with sp...
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 / ≈ €2975
Date: Amsterdam, 1650
Magni Mogolis Imperium.
Important map of India, based upon William Baffin's map of India, first published in about 1619. The map is bounded by Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh and extends in...
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...
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...
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...
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 / ≈ €552
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 / ≈ €382
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...
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...
Date: Amsterdam, 1658
![Magni Ducatus Lithuaniae. . . (together with] Campus Inter Bohum et Borystenem. . .](/uploads/cache/49232-250x250.jpg)
Magni Ducatus Lithuaniae. . . (together with] Campus Inter Bohum et Borystenem. . .
Six sheet wall map of Lithuania and parts of Poland, Russia, Ukraine, Latvia, etc., extending to Cracow, Kyiv, Warsaw, Riga, Konigsberg, Danzig, Leopolis, etc.This is the...
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 / ≈ €1275
Date: Amsterdam, 1658
Insula Huaena sive Venusia a Guiljelmo Blaeu cum sub Tychone Astronomiae operam ...
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, ...
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...
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 / ≈ €637
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 / ≈ €765
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...
Date: Amsterdam, 1635/1660
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'...
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 / ≈ €680
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...
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....
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
Date: Amsterdam, 1664
Guiana sive Amazonum regio.
This very rare map shows northwest Latin America with Surinam and French Guiana and was engraved by Johann Philipp Thelott. The map comes from the work of Johann Joachim ...
Date: Frankfurt, 1669
L’Atlas de la Mer ou Monde aquaticque.
Original blind-stamped vellum binding; attractive ORIGINAL HAND-COLOR in outline with cartouches, windroses and decoration in full original color; internally some usual m...
Date: Amsterdam, sur le Cay de Teexel, prez du Rams-Koy, au miroir de la Mer, 1670
![[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 a sphere and a pair of compass...
Date: Amsterdam, c.1672
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...
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...
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...
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...
- $1000 / ≈ €850
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,...
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...
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 / ≈ €1870
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 / ≈ €127
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 / ≈ €127
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-...
Date: Amsterdam, 1682
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 / ≈ €297
Date: Venice, 1698
Delfi Batavorum vernacule Delft.
Detailed plan of the city Delft from Frederick de Wit's town book of the Netherlands. The plates are first published by Joan Blaeu one year after the peace of Münster an...
Date: Amsterdam, 1698
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 / ≈ €680
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 / ≈ €850
Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1700
Amstelodami celeberrimi hollandiae emporii delineatio nova.
Frederik de Wit’s beautiful bird's-eye view of the city. The Amstel river is still open water flowing through the city's heart. Only near the Dam, has it been covered b...
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 / ≈ €850
Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1700
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 ...
Date: Amsterdam, 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 ye...
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...
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...
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 / ≈ €340
Date: Paris, 1705
![[A magnificent 18 inch. (46 cm.) diameter celestial globe] URANOGRAPHIA / SYDERUM ET STELLARUM / in Singulis Syderibus conspicuarum / exhibens Delineationem accuratissimam,](/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,
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...
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...
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...
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 / ≈ €127
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 ...
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...
Date: Amsterdam, 1700-1725
Insularum Moluccarum Nova description.
Exquisite map of the famous Spice Islands based. This map was the first large-scale map of the region and depicts the islands which provided first the Portuguese and then...
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...
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...
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 / ≈ €850
Date: Amsterdam c. 1745
![[Lot of 3 maps] Carte de la Souveraineté de NEUCHATEL et VALLANGIN. Plus Mercator's and Blaeu's maps of the Wiflispurgergou]](/uploads/cache/18600-250x250.jpg)
[Lot of 3 maps] Carte de la Souveraineté de NEUCHATEL et VALLANGIN. Plus Mercator's and Blaeu's maps of the Wiflispurgergou]
Map of the lake of Neuchatel by Covens & Mortier. After the death of the widow of Pieter Mortier in 1719, the firm continued till 1778 as Covens & Mortier. They...
- $350 / ≈ €297
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...
Date: Paris, 1756
Kort begrip der oude en nieuwe staatkundige Geographie: behelzende eene beschryving der heerschappyen, in welken de aarde verdeeld is, haare gelegenheid. . .
Sixth edition- Interesting geographical compendium, prepared by Johann Hubner en W.A. Bachiene. Of particular interest is the section starting with pages 589 with "O...
Date: Amsterdam, Covens / Mortier, Utrecht, Poolsum, 1758
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...
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 / ≈ €3400
Date: Paris, 1803
Tablaeu géographique statistique &C. de l'empire Russe actuel en Europe et en Asie avec ses aquisitions graduelles et caractérisées.
Map showing the extension of the Russian Empire at the beginning of the 19th century. Several letterpress notations are present on the map.Surrounding letterpress explana...
Date: Paris, Paul Renouard, 1828
Carte du pays de Montenegro dressée d'après les opérations géodétiques . . .
Rare map of Montenegro prepared by Mr. le Comte Fedor de Karacsay (1787-1859) and engraved by Pietro Allodi. The title is in Russian, Arabic and French.In lower left corn...
Date: Vienna, ca. 1838