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Tabula Asiae II.
Scarce FIRST edition of this map of the ancient region of Asiatic Sarmatia - now Southern Russia and part of Ukraine, around the Azov seaGirolamo Ruscelli's edition of Pt...
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
Moschovia nuova tavola.
Scarce FIRST edition of this map centered on Moscow. In the lower left Crimea and the Sea of Azov. The map is filled with small tents to represent Tartar camps.Girolamo R...
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
Natolia nuova tavola.
Uncommon first edition of this early map of Turkey.Girolamo Ruscelli's edition of Ptolemy's Geographia included newly engraved copperplates by Giulio and Livio Sanuto. Th...
- $375 / ≈ €351
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
Tabula Europae IIII.
The scarce FIRST edition of this classical map depicting Northern Europe, Denmark and the Baltic. Includes engravings of a number of interesting animals in the right-hand...
- $450 / ≈ €421
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
Arabia Felice Nuova Tavola.
Fine early map of Arabian peninsula, being one of the earliest modern maps of the region.Girolamo Ruscelli first published the map in his "La Geographi di Claudio To...
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
Arabia Felice Nuova Tavola.
Uncommon first edition of this modern map of Saudi Arabia, the Persian Gulf and Red Sea, for the first time it "clearly shows the island of Bahrain and Qatar".T...
Place & Date: Venice, Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1561
Tabula Asiae VI.
Uncommon first edition of this classical map of the Arabian Peninsular, is an enlarged version of Giacomo Gastaldi's published in 1548Girolamo Ruscelli's edition of Ptole...
- $750 / ≈ €702
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
![Arabia Felice Nuova Tavola. [Arabian Peninsular]](/uploads/cache/40089-250x250.jpg)
Arabia Felice Nuova Tavola. [Arabian Peninsular]
Fine early map of this modern depiction of the Arabian peninsula, being one of the earliest modern maps of the region. The map extends from the Arabian Desert south as fa...
- $900 / ≈ €842
Place & Date: Venice, Vincenzo Valgrisi, c.1561
Egitto nuova tavola.
Fine early map of Egypt and the Nile delta. Extends east to the Upper Red Sea and West to "Deserto De Marmarica". Nice detail in the lower Nile regions. Page ta...
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
Tierra Nueva.
Uncommon first edition of this early map of the east coast is an enlarged version of Giacomo Gastaldi map published in 1548. Nomenclature and cartography are unchanged, w...
- $1000 / ≈ €936
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
Tavola nuova di Prussia et di Livonia.
Uncommon first edition of this early map of the region from Pomerania to Livonia, includes a portion of Estonia, and coastal detail on the Baltic Sea with a small section...
- $400 / ≈ €374
Place & Date: Venice, Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1561
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[West Africa]
Second block. West Africa, from the Tropic of Cancer south to St Thomas. The interior is filled with lions, elephants, monkeys and camels, with a fenced native village. O...
Place & Date: Venice, 1563
Il Cuscho citta principale della provincia del Peru.
A very desirable and scarce item of this decorative and early bid's-eye town-plan of the Inca city of Cuzco. Several figures shown inside the city walls and on the hillsi...
Place & Date: Lyons, 1564
Meche.
Panoramic view of Mecca from Antoine du Pinet's "Plantz, Pourtraitz, Et descriptions De Plusieurs Villes". Woodblock print in text leaf with an interesting desc...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Lyon, 1564
Calecut Nuova Tavola.
Early map of India, extending from west of the Gujarat peninsula eastward to Bengal and south as far as northern Ceylon (“Ceilam”). Girolamo Ruscelli first published ...
- $350 / ≈ €328
Place & Date: Venice, 1564
![Groeninga MDLXXIII. [Groningen]](/uploads/cache/27192-250x250.jpg)
Groeninga MDLXXIII. [Groningen]
RECTO: A panoramic view of the city of Groningen dated 1573.VERSO: a woodcut of a cow, a bull and their calf.Taken from Sebastian Munster's encyclopedic work, the "C...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1564
De Lucerna Helvetiorum Civitate. (Luzern)
One Latin text page with a wood cut bird's-eye view of Luzern (147x157mm). From Münster's Cosmographia Universalis. The Cosmographia by Sebastian Münster from 1544 is t...
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1564
![[No title] 'Daniel's Dream Map' or 'Wittenberg World Map'.](/uploads/cache/34785-250x250.jpg)
[No title] 'Daniel's Dream Map' or 'Wittenberg World Map'.
Wood block print engraved by the famous engravers Jost Amman and Virgil Solis - with their initials in lower bottom of the map. This somewhat curious map of Europe, Afric...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca. 1564
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[Tartaria].
One text page with a woodcut map of Tartary. On verso, a woodcut of a horse and a figure holding a wipe, from Münster's Cosmographia Universalis.The Cosmographia by Seba...
- $80 / ≈ €75
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1564
Disegno dell Isola di Malta con li porti et forti… In Roma per Antonio Lafreri nel anno 1565.
The map includes a title cartouche with a lettered-key A-P and imprint at the top left and a scale decorated with a compass at the lower left.The second state of Antonio ...
- $4000 / ≈ €3743
Place & Date: Rome, 1565
IX. Die Lepontier.
Very early wood cut printed regional map of Switzerland.Originally engraved in 1548. The map was prepared by Johannes Stumpf (1500-1576). Included in "Landtaflen. Hi...
Place & Date: Zurich, Christoffel Froschover, 1548,1552-1566
VIII. Das Wiflispurgergow.
Very early wood cut printed regional map of Switzerland with Lake Geneva.Originally engraved in 1548. The map was prepared by Johannes Stumpf (1500-1576). Included in &qu...
Place & Date: Zurich, Christoffel Froschover, 1548,1552-1566
I Europa / Das dritteil der Welt.
Very early wood cut printed map of Europe with South to the top. In the lower-left corner we see Poland, Livonia and parts of England and Ireland in the lower right corne...
Place & Date: Zurich, Christoffel Froschover, 1548,1552-1566
( II Germania) / Tütschland.
Very early wood cut printed map of Germany, Poland, The Low Countries, Alsace and part Europe with of Switzerland, Croatia. Originally engraved in 1548. Included in "...
Place & Date: Zurich, Christoffel Froschover, 1548,1552-1566
III. Gallia. Franckrych.
Very early wood cut printed map of France, North of river Rhine, Northern Italy. Coast of England from Dover to Cornwall. A ship, sea monsters and coats of arms are filli...
Place & Date: Zurich, Christoffel Froschover, 1548,1552-1566
![[Title page to 'Landtaflen. Hierinn findst du lieber Läser schöner recht und wolgemachter Landtaflen XII...']](/uploads/cache/37084-250x250.jpg)
[Title page to 'Landtaflen. Hierinn findst du lieber Läser schöner recht und wolgemachter Landtaflen XII...']
Title page with wood cut device to "Landtaflen. Hierinn findst du lieber Läser schöner recht und wolgemachter Landtaflen XII namlich ein Allgemeine Europae demnach...
Place & Date: Zurich, Christoffel Froschover, 1566
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2016
XII. Laurater Basler gelegenheit.
Very early wood cut printed regional map of Switzerland with Basel region.Originally engraved in 1548. The map was prepared by Johannes Stumpf (1500-1576). Included in &q...
Place & Date: Zurich, Christoffel Froschover, 1548,1552-1566
VII. Das Ergow.
Very early wood cut printed regional map of Switzerland centered on Ergow.Originally engraved in 1548. The map was prepared by Johannes Stumpf (1500-1576). Included in &q...
Place & Date: Zurich, Christoffel Froschover, 1548,1552-1566
XI. Wallis.
Very early wood cut printed regional map of Switzerland with Wallis region.Originally engraved in 1548. The map was prepared by Johannes Stumpf (1500-1576). Included in &...
Place & Date: Zurich, Christoffel Froschover, 1548,1552-1566
![[Two plates on one sheet] Ordinanza Turchesa alla presa di Zigeth in Ongaria l’anno 1566 / Ordinanza Turchesca sotto Viena, contra lo Invictißimo Imperatore Carlo quinto l'anno 1550.](/uploads/cache/49073-250x250.jpg)
[Two plates on one sheet] Ordinanza Turchesa alla presa di Zigeth in Ongaria l’anno 1566 / Ordinanza Turchesca sotto Viena, contra lo Invictißimo Imperatore Carlo quinto l'anno 1550.
Ordinanza Turchesca sotto Viena, contra lo Invictißimo Imperatore Carlo quinto l'anno 1550". C. 1560. This extremely rare plate depicts the order of battle and for...
- $5500 / ≈ €5146
Place & Date: Venice, 1550/ 1566
DESCRIPTION DE TOUT LE PAIS BAS Autrement dict La Germanie Inferieure, ou Basse-Allemaigne…
First French edition. Illustrated with a coat of arms and portrait of Philips II, with a folding map of The Netherlands and maps and views of Brabant, Louvain, Brussel, A...
- $4500 / ≈ €4211
Place & Date: Anvers. Guillaume Silvius, 1567
Descritione dell Austria, et Ongheria, Transsilvania. . .
Rare war map showing Austria, Hungaria, Croatia, Slovakia, Venice, etc., being the battlefield of Christian Imperial vs. Ottoman forces from Vienna / Venice to Budapest/B...
- $1250 / ≈ €1170
Place & Date: Venice, Zaltieri, (1567) 1568
Orleans assiegé au mois de Janvier. 1563.
Rare copper engraved view of the siege of Orleans in January 1563, engraved by Jean Jacques Perrissin, (1536 - before 1611).Print from the suite "The Wars, Massacres...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Geneva, ca. 1570
Novae Urbis Hierosolymitanae topographica delineatio . . .
A very rare plan of modern Jerusalem oriented to the east, according to a note on the map the map was drawn after a map by Peter Laicstain. A lettered key to the right.Up...
- $2500 / ≈ €2339
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1571
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[Euboe].
Woodcut Ptolemaic-style map by Sebastian Münster figuring Euboea Island, published in the edition of Strabo by Henri Petri in 1571."Strabonis rerum geographicarum&q...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Basle, Henri Petri, 1571
Disegno dove al presente si ritrova l'armata della santa legha contro la turchesca, nel promontorio della Morea dirincontro a Modon, dove l'armata nemica si è retirata… VI.Ottobre.1572.
Disegno dove al presente si ritrova l'armata della santa legha contro la Turchesca, nel promontorio della Morea dirincontro a Modon dove l'armata nemica si e retirata, lu...
- $8000 / ≈ €7486
Place & Date: Rome, 1572
Damascus, urbs.
Early view of Damascus, a bird's eye view from the greatest publication in this genre ! The Civitates was compiled and written by George Braun, Canon of Cologne Cathedral...
- $750 / ≈ €702
Place & Date: Cologne, 1572
Benedict. Arias Montanus Sacrae Geographiae Tabulam Ex Antiq
THE EXTREMELY RARE FIRST STATE landmark world map, famed for its depiction of the Australian landmass.One of the earliest printed maps to depict the “terra incognita...
Place & Date: Anvers 1571 /1572
Lutetia, vulgari nomine Paris, urbs Gallia. . .
Beautiful and early town-plan of Paris with title cartouche and figures in the foreground. The Bastille is shown at the upper center of the engraving and the Notre-Dame c...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca. 1572
Basiliensis territorii descriptio nova.
Left hand map centered on Basle, east to top. With credit to Sebastian Münster in title cartouche.
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1573
Provincia Di Albania.
Uncommon map of Albania, from Giovanni Francesco Camocio's rare " Isole Famose porti, fortezze, e terre maritime . . ." The second state, includes the plate n...
- $1200 / ≈ €1123
Place & Date: Venice, D.Bertelli, ca.1574
Trau citta nella Dalmacia vicino al Spaleto. . .
Uncommon map of the Dalmatian coast with the town of Trau (Trogir) in Croatia, from Giovanni Francesco Camocio's rare " Isole Famose porti, fortezze, e terre maritim...
- $1000 / ≈ €936
Place & Date: Venice, D.Bertelli, ca.1574
Franciae orientalis../ Monasteriensis et osnaburgensis..
From 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum [Atlas of the Whole World]' published in Antwerp. French text on verso.The map of Frankenland is prepared by Sebastian Rotenhan (1478-1532) ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, c.1574
![[Citta Di Ragusi]-[Citta Di Cataro]](/uploads/cache/32474-250x250.jpg)
[Citta Di Ragusi]-[Citta Di Cataro]
Uncommon map of the coast of Montenegro with the bay and town of Kotor (citta di Cataro) and Dubrovnik (cita di Ragusi) with Venetian war ships in the foreground. From Gi...
- $1250 / ≈ €1170
Place & Date: Venice, D.Bertelli, ca.1574
Sebenico antiquam.e Sico detto Citta nobile nella prouincia della Dalmacia. . .
Uncommon map of the coast of Croatia with the bay and town of Šibenik (Sebenico) with Venetian war ships in the foreground. From Giovanni Francesco Camocio's rare "...
- $1000 / ≈ €936
Place & Date: Venice, D.Bertelli, ca.1574
Illyricum.
Early map of Istria and Slovenia. Prepared by Johann Sambucus 1572.The map is in a strictly contemporary coloring.Read more about coloring.
- $400 / ≈ €374
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1574
Illyricum.
Early map of Istria and Slovenia. Prepared by Johann Sambucus 1572.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1574
Die statt Montpellier . . .
Panoramic view of Montpellier by Sebastian Münster. Below the engraving a letterpress key. From the German edition of Sebastian Munster's Cosmography, "Cosmographey...
Place & Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1574
Golfo de Lodrin con parte di Albania.
Rare map of the northern coast of Albania, Serbia and Montenegro, extending from Malonta and Castel Novo and Bocca del Colfo di Cattaro to Durrës. Venetian war ships in ...
- $1500 / ≈ €1404
Place & Date: Venice, D.Bertelli, ca.1574
Pedemontanae Vicinorumque Regionum.
Fine map including the Italian coast from Monaco till Genoa. Milan in the upper righthand corner and Turin in the center of the map.
- $600 / ≈ €561
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1574-1575
Thusciae Descriptio Auctore Hieronimo Bellarmato.
Decorative and detailed map of Tuscany, from the 1574 or 1575 Latin text edition of Ortelius' Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first modern atlas of the world. The map is bas...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1574-1575
Goa fortissima Indiae urbs in Christianorum potestatem anno Salutis 1509. devenit.
A rare and early woodcut view of Goa in India. Decorated with one ship. This woodcut was published in La Cosmographie Universelle de tout le monde, printed 1575 in two vo...
Place & Date: Paris, 1575
Hierosolymia, Clarissima totius Orientis civitas. . .
Two bird's eye perspectives on one sheet. The left plan shows ancient Jerusalem at the time of Christ. The view on the left also portrays the procession of Jesus to Golgo...
- $1200 / ≈ €1123
Place & Date: Cologne, 1575
Plan, et figure de la riche cité de Calecut en la premiere Inde.
A rare and early woodcut view of Calcutta in India. Decorated with several ships on the sea, shipbuilding, fishermen and elephants.This woodcut was published in La Cosmog...
Place & Date: Paris, 1575
Page from La Cosmographie Universelle with map of France. (Page 160)
Text page with woodblock map of ancient France (122 x 163 mm.) In 1575 Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia was translated into French and published in Paris by François d...
- $75 / ≈ €70
Place & Date: Paris, 1575
Lympurch. (Limburg)
Very desirable and early town-plan of the city of Limburg in Belgium with its fortifications at the end of the 16th century.From volume one of the greatest publication in...
- $250 / ≈ €234
Place & Date: Cologne, 1575
Dordrecht.
Very desirable and early town-plan of Dordrecht.From volume one of the greatest publication in this genre!. The Civitates was compiled and written by George Braun, Canon ...
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: Cologne, 1575
Calechut / Ormus / Canonor.
Four panoramic town-view on one sheet: the upper approximately two-thirds of this double page sheet contains a fine panoramic view of Calicut which is on the west coast o...
- $875 / ≈ €819
Place & Date: Cologne, 1575
Cyprus Insula / Candia, Olim Creta.
Two maps on one sheet. Copper engraving illustrating Cyprus and Crete, with Latin text on verso. From 1584 onwards editions of the Ortelius atlas no longer included this ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1575
Le vray portraict de la Ville de Marseille.
Fine wood cut bird's-eye view of Marseille. Decorated with several ship in the harbour and on the sea. To the left two keys describing the main buildings and places. Publ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1575
Femina indica Orientalis - Indus Africanus - Singava vulgo dicta sive erratica femina Ori.
Beautiful engraving by Abraham de Bruyn showing inhabitants of Asian and African people with captions in Latin, French and German.Abraham de Bruyn, a Flemish engraver and...
Place & Date: Cologne, c.1577
![Calechut Celeberrimum Indiae Emporium [on sheet with] Ormus [and] Canonor [and] S. Georgii Oppidum Mina.](/uploads/cache/41525-250x250.jpg)
Calechut Celeberrimum Indiae Emporium [on sheet with] Ormus [and] Canonor [and] S. Georgii Oppidum Mina.
Four desirable and early town plans of Kozhikode, Hormuz, Kannur, and Almina. "KOZHIKODE (CALICUT) : "The city is viewed from the sea, just as it would have ap...
- $800 / ≈ €749
Place & Date: Cologne, (1572) 1577
Leodium. (Luik or Liège)
Very desirable and early town-view of Liège, which shows the city with the Meuse flowing in its favorable location amongst gentle hills, sturdy trees and fertile fields....
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: Cologne, (1572) 1577
Messana, Urbs est Sicilie maxima, situ, opulentia, & tuta navium statione.
Very desirable and early town-plan of Messina on Sicily, with a numbered key (1-167) in lower part. "Messina is shown from the east, in a view looking down upon the ...
- $500 / ≈ €468
Place & Date: Cologne, (1572) 1577
![Sevilla, Hispalis ... [on sheet with] Cadiz [and] Malaga.](/uploads/cache/33642-250x250.jpg)
Sevilla, Hispalis ... [on sheet with] Cadiz [and] Malaga.
Very desirable and early view of Sevilla, Cadiz and Malaga, with the Roman and Moorish citadels on the hills in the background. "In the upper part Sevilla, showing ...
- $500 / ≈ €468
Place & Date: Cologne, (1572) 1577
Die Statt Paris etlicher mass figuriert und contrafehtet nach jetziger Gelegenheit.
Published in the "Universal Cosmography" of S. Münster. Text in German. Under the legendary plan in German A to G. It is framed by a border composed of foliage...
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: Bâle, H. Petri, 1578
Exacta novaqve descriptio dvcatvs Andegravensis qvem vvlgari nomine Le Duche d'Aniou Indigitant.
Centered on the town of Angiers. From the first edition of De Jode's Speculum Orbis Terrarum, the second general atlas of the world, after Ortelius. Engraved by Ioannes V...
- $750 / ≈ €702
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1578
Primae Partis Asiae.
The Very Rare First State. Turkey/ Holy Land/ Iran/ Iraq/ Arabia/ Afghanistan. A superb example of the rare 1578 edition of this fine map of the Middle East, spanning fro...
- $4500 / ≈ €4211
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1578
Schlavoniae, Croatiae, Carniale.. Bosniae. . .
First state. Fine and early map of former Yugoslavia after a map of Hirschvogel (1552-1565) and used by A.Ortelius in his atlas 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum [Atlas of the Who...
- $400 / ≈ €374
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1579
Americae Sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio.
This is the second copperplate of Ortelius' map showing the western hemisphere, showing the prominent bulge in the South American coastline. An important map because of i...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1579
Tingis, Lusitanis, Tangiara. / Tzaffin. / Septa. / Arzilla/ Sala.
Views of the five northern and western African coastal town-view on one sheet: Latin text.From the greatest publication in this genre!. The Civitates was compiled and wri...
- $600 / ≈ €561
Place & Date: Cologne, 1580
Tingis, Lusitanis, Tangiara. / Tzaffin. / Septa. / Arzilla/ Sala.
Views of the five northern and western African coastal town-view on one sheet: Latin text.From the greatest publication in this genre!. The Civitates was compiled and wri...
- $600 / ≈ €561
Place & Date: Cologne, 1580
Calechut Celeberri mum Indiae Emporium/ Ormus/ Canonor, St.Georgii.
Four panoramic town-views on one sheet: The upper approximately two-thirds of this double page sheet contains a fine panoramic view of Calicut which is on the west coast ...
- $750 / ≈ €702
Place & Date: Cologne, 1580
Spectandum dedit Ortelius mortalib..
This famous portrait, engraved by Galle, was included in Ortelius' atlases from 1579 onwards.The title translation is By looking, Ortelius gave to mortal beings the world...
- $550 / ≈ €515
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1580
Vienna.. / Buda..
Pair of views on one sheet, the first showing the Austria capital of Vienna with fields, and figures in the foreground.Lower view shows the Hungarian capital of Budapest....
Place & Date: Cologne 1580
Constantinopel . . .
Early bird's eye view of Constantinople. From a German text edition of S. Münster's Cosmographia, which is a short and complete summary of Renaissance knowledge.Sebasti...
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1580
Sarmatia Asie.
The map is showing the area of Armenia and Kazakhstan. From his Cosmographia, that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge. Sebastian Münster was born in Nierder-Ingel...
- $90 / ≈ €84
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1580
Roterodamum.. (Rotterdam) / Gouda.
One of the oldest panoramic views of the cities of Gouda and Rotterdam.From the greatest publication in this genre !. The ,Civitates, was compiled and written by George B...
- $500 / ≈ €468
Place & Date: Cologne 1580
Moscavw. Moscovia, Urbs regionis eiusde nominis metropolitica, duplo maior. . .
Showing Moscow within the walled city and figures in the foreground. Title cartouche in the lower right corner Moscovia, Urbs. Regionis ciusde nominis metropolitica, dup...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1580
Selling price: $2600
Sold in 2009
Jerusalem.
On verso an early representation of Jerusalem (102x79mm) and underneath a temple and a church.From a German text edition of his Cosmographia , that great compendium of Re...
- $500 / ≈ €468
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1580