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China.
A splendid map of China heightened in gold. Besides China, the map depicts Korea as an elongated island and Japan from the Teixeira model of 1595. Decorated with strapwor...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1623
Selling price: $3800
Sold in 2016
Insulae Indiae Orientalis Praecipuae, In quibus Moluccae.
A beautiful new map of Southeast Asia created by the Dutch mapmaker Jodocus Hondius for an enlarged issue of the Mercator Atlas of 1606. Focusing on the islands. Geograph...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1623
Selling price: $1490
Sold in 2018
Asia ex magna orbis terre descriptione Gerardi Mercatoris desumpta studio et industria G. M. Iunoris
An important map of Asia, that includes an ornate cartouche and sailing ship. The map was updated and the cartouche etc. changed in 1606, making these early examples scar...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1623
Selling price: $650
Sold in 2017
Insular. Aliquot Aegaei Maris Antiqua Descrip.
Ten maps on one plate. Showing Rinia and Dilos, Nicaria, Euboea, Samos, Keos (near Euboea), Rhodus, Chios, Cyprus, Lesbos, Lemnos.This map belongs to a series of historic...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1624
Selling price: $950
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.. Lumen Historiarum Per Orientem .. Concinn. Fran. Hareio ..'
Shows the pyramids in Egypt, the route of Abraham from Ur to Sichem, and the wandering of the Children of Israel.Inset top a fine world map according to Ortelius. (Typus ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1624
Selling price: $425
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Abrahami Patriarchae Peregrinatio, et Vita.
The most beautiful "carte à figures" map from Ortelius' Theatri Orbis Terrarum Parergon. The medallions illustrate the life of Abraham. Latin text on verso.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1624
Selling price: $2900
Sold in 2009
Lumen Historiarum per Orientem.
The Rare Ortelius Middle East map from the 'Parergon.' In the upper right corner is an inset with a world map.The map is surrounded by letterpress explanatory text with p...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1624
Selling price: $1150
Sold in 2009
Alexandri Magni ma Cedonis Expeditio. . .
Historical map of the Near East showing the expedition of Alexandre the Great.The inset lower left shows the oracle of Jupiter Ammon, supposedly situated in present day L...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1624
Selling price: $475
Sold in 2012
Descripcion de las Indias Ocidentalis.
De Bry's version of this important map of China, Southeast Asia, the Philippines, etc., it first appeared in Herrera's Descripcion de las Indias Ocidentales, first publis...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1623-1624
Selling price: $1150
Sold in 2016
Abrahami Patriarchae Peregrinatio et Vita.
The Holy Land map itself occupies the center and is surrounded by vignettes of the life of the Patriarch Abraham. Extremely decorative map made by Ortelius, based on Ptol...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1624
Selling price: $1600
Sold in 2023
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 Mediterra...
Place & Date: London 1625
Selling price: $260
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Ceilan Insula.
The rare Samuel Purchas' edition of the Mercator/Hondius Atlas Minor atlas map. Early map of Sri Lanka published in his famous collection of voyages His Pilgrimes . With ...
Place & Date: London, 1625
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2020
Ceilan Insula.
The rare Samuel Purchas' edition of the Mercator/Hondius Atlas Minor atlas map. Early map of Ceylon published in his famous collection of voyages His Pilgrimes. With desc...
Place & Date: London 1625
Selling price: $130
Sold in 2013
India Orientalis.
The rare Samuel Purchas' edition of the Mercator/Hondius Atlas Minor atlas map. Early map of the East Indies published in his famous collection of voyages His Pilgrimes. ...
Place & Date: London 1625
Selling price: $120
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Tartaria.
The rare Samuel Purchas\' edition of the Mercator/Hondius Atlas Minor atlas map. Early map showing China, Korea and the northern Pacific coast of America showing the two ...
Place & Date: London, 1625
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2009
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...
Place & Date: London, 1625
Selling price: $100
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INDIA orientalis
Attractive map of South East Asia entitled "Hondius his Map of the East Indies", extending from India with the Maldives to Japan and China, also includi...
Place & Date: London, 1625
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2009
![Salomonis templi Vestigium. [Salomon's temple]](/uploads/cache/26450-250x250.jpg)
Salomonis templi Vestigium. [Salomon's temple]
Plan of Salomon's Temple. From an uncommon edition of Kerckelycke Historie van Neder-Landt which was a Dutch text edition of Agostino Torniello's Annales Sacri et Profani...
Place & Date: Holland, ca. 1625
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2009
Occidens Templi Herodiani ex Iosephi Descriptione vesticium.
Plan of Herod's Temple in Jerusalem, which was a massive expansion of the Temple Mount and construction of a completely new and much larger Jewish Temple by King Herod th...
Place & Date: Holland, ca. 1625
Selling price: $45
Sold in 2010
Templi Salomonis.
Engraving of the Temple of Solomon. From an uncommon edition of Kerckelycke Historie van Neder-Landt which was a Dutch text edition of Agostino Torniello's Annales Sacri ...
Place & Date: Holland, ca. 1625
Selling price: $65
Sold in 2010
![[Various ritual objects].](/uploads/cache/26461-250x250.jpg)
[Various ritual objects].
Various ritual objects such as the candelabrum. From an uncommon edition of Kerckelycke Historie van Neder-Landt which was a Dutch text edition of Agostino Torniello's An...
Place & Date: Holland, ca. 1625
Selling price: $65
Sold in 2010
![[Altar of Burnt Offerings].](/uploads/cache/26462-250x250.jpg)
[Altar of Burnt Offerings].
Altar of Burnt Offerings or also called the Brazen Altar. From an uncommon edition of Kerckelycke Historie van Neder-Landt which was a Dutch text edition of Agostino Torn...
Place & Date: Holland, ca. 1625
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2010
![[Salamon muro ab ima Valle erecto montis vierticem Templi area coaqual].](/uploads/cache/26463-250x250.jpg)
[Salamon muro ab ima Valle erecto montis vierticem Templi area coaqual].
Engraving showing the construction of the wall of Salamon's Templel. From an uncommon edition of Kerckelycke Historie van Neder-Landt which was a Dutch text edition of Ag...
Place & Date: Holland, ca. 1625
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2010
Typus Castrametationis in deserto per moysen praescriptae.
A campment with its tents of Moses and Aron among others. In center "Atrium Sanctum". From an uncommon edition of Kerckelycke Historie van Neder-Landt which was...
Place & Date: Holland, ca. 1625
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2010
Exterior Tabernaculi eiusqtabularum vectium ac basium aspectus / Coverings of the tabernacle.
Closeup of the coverings of a tabernacle. Starting from left to right : curtains of fine linen, curtains of goat's hair, ram's skin dyed red, outer covering of badger's s...
Place & Date: Holland, ca. 1625
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2015
![[Altaris uncensi / the incense altar].](/uploads/cache/26470-250x250.jpg)
[Altaris uncensi / the incense altar].
Engraving depicting an Incense Altar, used to purify a room.From an uncommon edition of Kerckelycke Historie van Neder-Landt which was a Dutch text edition of Agostino To...
Place & Date: Holland, ca. 1625
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2016
![[Atrii Sancti ac Tabernaculi Foederisorthographia].](/uploads/cache/26473-250x250.jpg)
[Atrii Sancti ac Tabernaculi Foederisorthographia].
Military campment with its tabernacle moving forward. The Tabernacle (small tent which contained the most holy writings of the ancient Jews) is being carried towards a ne...
Place & Date: Holland, ca. 1625
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2011
Sacra Iudaeorum spolia in triumpho titi romam delata.
Triumphal procession of men holding on their shoulders various pieces of Tabernacle furniture : the Brazen Altar, the Candlestick, and the Golden Altar. From an uncommon ...
Place & Date: Holland, ca. 1625
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2015
Hierosolymae, cura Neemiae ducis Instauratae Descriptio.
Two plans of Jerusalem, left according to Brocadus (Burchardus de Monte Sion), and right after Villalpando. The plans are very similar. From an uncommon edition of Kercke...
Place & Date: Holland, ca. 1625
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2008
![Tabula XXXXII Mansinum Populi Israelitici in Deserto. [ the flight into Egypt ]](/uploads/cache/26448-250x250.jpg)
Tabula XXXXII Mansinum Populi Israelitici in Deserto. [ the flight into Egypt ]
Map of the Holy Land showing the flight into Egypt. From an uncommon edition of Kerckelycke Historie van Neder-Landt which was a Dutch text edition of Agostino Torniello'...
Place & Date: Holland, ca. 1625
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2008
Terrae Chanaan inter XII Tribuus Isrel Distributae Orthographia.
Map of the Holy. 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 Herib...
Place & Date: Holland, ca. 1625
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2008
![[Two Brazen Lavers].](/uploads/cache/26471-250x250.jpg)
[Two Brazen Lavers].
Detailed description two Brazen Lavers. The laver was a great bowl or basin of polished brass, thus giving the effect of a mirror. From an uncommon edition of Kerckelyck...
Place & Date: Holland, ca. 1625
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2016
Asia.
A scarce map, newly re-issued from the important Hondius map, issued in Mercators "Atlas minor". Probably by J. Janssonius. Engraved by van der Keere or A. Goos...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca.1625
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2010
Sacer Pontificum et Sacerdotum Aronici Ordinis Haitus.
Copper engraved print depicting a ceremony by a high priest. From an uncommon edition of Kerckelycke Historie van Neder-Landt which was a Dutch text edition of Agostino T...
Place & Date: Holland, ca. 1625
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2010
![[Closeup plan of the structure of a tabernacle].](/uploads/cache/26465-250x250.jpg)
[Closeup plan of the structure of a tabernacle].
Plan of the structure of a tabernacle. In the foreground you have the gate which leads you in the outer court to the brazen altar behind which we find the laver before en...
Place & Date: Holland, ca. 1625
Selling price: $45
Sold in 2010
The kingdome of China..
Speed?s splendidly embellished map of China and Japan. The upper borders illustrate the cities of Macao and Quinzay (Hangchow). Further images depict the curious Chinese ...
Place & Date: London 1626
Selling price: $4225
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A newe map of Tartary.
One of the most decorative maps of Tartary, known for its figured borders with people in local dress, among them a woman and man in local dress. Upper panel of town panor...
Place & Date: London 1626
Selling price: $1100
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A newe map of Tartary.
One of the most decorative maps of Tartary, known for its figured borders with people in local dress, among them a woman and man in local dress. Upper panel of town panor...
Place & Date: London 1626
Selling price: $1400
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The Turkish Empire. Newly Augmented by John speed. 1626
Nice example of the Speed map of the Turkish Empire.One of the most decorative maps of the region appeared in the 17th Century and the first map of the region published i...
Place & Date: London, 1626
Selling price: $1260
Sold in 2013
The Kingdom of Persia with the cheef Citties and Habites described by John Speede.
A stunning "carte à figures" map of the old Kingdom of Persia, including Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, known for its figured borders with people in local dress, among ...
Place & Date: London, G.Humble, 1626
Selling price: $2400
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Asia with the Islands adioyning described, the atire of the people, & Townes of importance, all of them newly augmented
John Speed's map of Asia, with 10 costumed figures and 8 town plans of Asian cities (Candy, Goa, Damascus, Jerusalem, Orumus, Bantam, Aden and Macao).A piece of North Ame...
Place & Date: London, ca.1626
Selling price: $1080
Sold in 2013
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. Bassett & Chiswell, 1626
Selling price: $2300
Sold in 2016
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
Selling price: $6000
Sold in 2016
Asia with the Islands Adjoining Described. . .
John Speed's map of Asia dated 1626, decorated with 10 costumed figures and 8 town plans of important early Asian cities (Candy, Goa, Damascus, Jerusalem, Orumus, Bantam,...
Place & Date: London, 1626
Selling price: $625
Sold in 2019
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 1627
Selling price: $3600
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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, 1627
Selling price: $4000
Sold in 2008
Carte De L'Asie Corrigée, et augmentée, dessus toutes les autres cy devant faictes par P. Bertius.
This rare map is according to Burden one of a set of the four known continents that Melchior Tavernier published in Paris, with Petrus Bertius' named on the map. It is ve...
Place & Date: Paris, 1627
Selling price: $900
Sold in 2020
Terra Sancta..
A finely detailed copperplate engraving with north on the left. From Latin text version of Atlas Minor.
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1628
Selling price: $150
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Japonia.
Drawn to a smaller scale than the 1607 map: including Korea and part of China. Engraved by Petrus Kaerius.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1628
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2009
Asia ex magna Orbis terre descriptione Gerardi Mercatoris. . .
The cartography derives directly from the 1569 Mercator world map and includes the southern landmasses of New Guinea and Terra Australis, the East Indian Islands, the Phi...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1628
Selling price: $1800
Sold in 2016
Persici vel Sophorum Regni typus
Hand colored copper map of Persia by G. Mercator. With two beautiful colored cartouche. Covering the area of today Iran with the Caspian Sea and the Persian Gulf. From a ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1628
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2011
Persici vel sopho rum regni typus.
The focus of this map is the old Kingdom of Persia though the map clearly shows present-day Iraq, Iran, and Afghanistan. Of note are the cities: Bagadet (Baghdad), Chabul...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1628
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2015
Insulae Indiae Orientalis Praecipuae, In quibus Moluccae..
A beautiful new map of Southeast Asia created by the Dutch mapmaker Jodocus Hondius for an enlarged issue of the Mercator Atlas of 1606. Focusing on the islands. Geograph...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1628
Selling price: $1500
Sold in 2015
Persici vel sophorum regni typus.
A detailed map of Persia from the "Atlas Minor" (Gerhard Mercator / Jodocus Hondius). Extends from Armenia to India, including a part of Arabia. Engraved by Pie...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1628
Selling price: $12
Sold in 2018
Persici vel sopho rum regni typus.
The focus of this map is the old Kingdom of Persia though the map clearly shows present-day Iraq, Iran, and Afghanistan. Of note are the cities: Bagadet (Baghdad), Chabul...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1628
Selling price: $130
Sold in 2018
India quae Orientalis dicitur, et Insulae Adiacentes.
An important Dutch map of South East Asia, noteworthy for being the first map to include, albeit incompletely, the discoveries made by the Dutch vessel Duyfken in 1605-06...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1629
Selling price: $1500
Sold in 2013
Turcici Imperii Imago.
Detailed map covering the Ottoman territories in Balkans, Anatolia, Levant, Arabia and North Africa. On top of title cartouche the portrait of Sultan Mahumet Turcorum Imp...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1629
Selling price: $1299
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Isle de Cipre.
Early copper engraved map showing a deformed Cyprus, engraved by Henry Raignauld. Oversized depiction of the towns of Nicosia, Limosol and Famagusta. A numbered key (1-16...
Place & Date: Paris, Michael Soly, 1629
Selling price: $2450
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Turcici Imperii Imago.
A very decorative map. On top of title cartouche the portrait of Sultan Mahumet Turcorum Imperat .
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1629
Selling price: $880
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![(Castle Margat - La ville De Valanie.]](/uploads/cache/23997-250x250.jpg)
(Castle Margat - La ville De Valanie.]
Early copper engraved print of the castle of Margat in modern Syria, engraved by Henry Raignauld. Raigniauld?s signature is carefully worked into the shore line. The top ...
Place & Date: Paris, Michael Soly, 1629
Selling price: $250
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Turcici Imperii Imago.
A very decorative map. On top of title cartouche the portrait of Sultan Mahumet Turcorum Imperat .
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1629
Selling price: $980
Sold in 2008
Arabia Eudaemon ex. Plinio Lib VI Cap. 28.
Charming small map of the Arabian Peninsula decorated with a strapwork title cartouche. Sparsely detailed reflecting the lack of knowledge of the geography other than the...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1629
Selling price: $130
Sold in 2018
Insulae Indiae Orientalis.
Map of South East Asia with good detail on the Philippines from the rare Cloppenburg edition slightly larger format and more scarce edition of the Mercator/Hondius "...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Asia ex magna Orbis terre descriptione Gerardi Mercatoris..
The cartography derives directly from the 1569 Mercator world map and includes the southern landmasses of New Guinea and Terra Australis, the East Indian Islands, the Phi...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Selling price: $1800
Sold in 2011
IAPONIA.
This is one of the most significant maps Hondius the elder added to his first publication of the Mercator atlas in 1606. Based on the 1595 Abraham Ortelius map, but with ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1630
Selling price: $1325
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India Orientalis.
Published in Hondius' editions of the Mercator Atlas from 1606 onwards, showing the Indian subcontinent, the Malay Peninsula, Siam and Cambodia, China and the Philippines...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Selling price: $2500
Sold in 2011
India Orientalis.
Published in Hondius' editions of the Mercator Atlas from 1606 onwards, showing the Indian subcontinent, the Malay Peninsula, Siam and Cambodia, China and the Philippines...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1630
Selling price: $1200
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Cyprus Ins.
A decorative map of Cyprus, with six inset maps of Stalimini, Chius, Mitilene, Negroponte, Cerigo, and Rhodes. The map's engraver was likely Jodocus Hondius. Though Hondi...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1630
Selling price: $1350
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IAPONIA.
This is one of the most significant maps Hondius the elder added to his first publication of the Mercator atlas in 1606.Based on the 1595 Abraham Ortelius map, but with a...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1630
Selling price: $1000
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Iaponia.
Jodocus Hondius' fine map early 17th century map of the islands of Japan, first issued as one of the new maps in the expended Mercator Hondius Atlas of 1606.The map is cl...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1630
Selling price: $2000
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Asiae Nova Descriptio..
Several sources appear to have been used in the compilation of this map, including the Portuguese Jesuits Luis Teixeira (1595) for Japan, and Luis Jorgede Barbuda (1584) ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Selling price: $2500
Sold in 2015
China.
Important map of China. Besides China, the map depicts Korea as an elongated island and Japan from the Teixeira model of 1595. Decorated with strapwork cartouches, a Euro...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1630
Selling price: $3600
Sold
Persici vel sopho rum regni typus
Map of Persia.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2008
Insulae Indiae Orientalis.
One of the most decorative maps of the Indonesian Archipelago, including the Philippines, Malaya and further India. Ships in the sea and a beautiful title cartouche add t...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Selling price: $2900
Sold in 2008
China.
An important map of China. Besides China, the map depicts Korea as an elongated island and Japan from the Teixeira model of 1595. Decorated with strapwork cartouches, a E...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Selling price: $4500
Sold in 2008
Asiae Nova Descriptio..
Several sources appear to have been used in the compilation of this map, including the Portuguese Jesuits Luis Teixeira (1595) for Japan, and Luis Jorgede Barbuda (1584) ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Selling price: $1060
Sold in 2009
Asia recens summa cura delineata. Auct. Henr. Hondio.
Henricus Hondius\' fine and decorative map of the Continent of Asia depicting a refined Japan & Korea, issued in editions of the Hondius & Janssonius Atlases.Fren...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Selling price: $870
Sold in 2009
Terra Sancta que in Sacris Terra Promissionis ol: Palestina
A complete map of the Holy Land. In the upper right corner we find a nicely decorated title cartouche, on the upper left side is a scale bars. A attractive map which incl...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2009
Ins. Ceilan que incolis Tenarisin dictur.
In 1606 J. Hondius introduced in the Mercator Atlas a separate map of Ceylon. Prepared by Petrus Plancius.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Selling price: $900
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Insulae India Orientalis.
A beautiful map of South East Asia. With Italian text on verso.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cloppenburg, 1630
Selling price: $210
Sold in 2011