Browse Listings in Asia
Chinae, olim Sinarum Regionis, nova descriptio. Auctore Ludovico Georgio.
WITHOUT TEXT ON VERSO. The first map of China ever to appear in a Western atlas, west to the top. The second state with "Las Philipinas" somewhere in 1587 added...
Place & Date: Antwerp, ca. 1587
Selling price: $2500
Sold in 2019
Das Heilig Landt mit auscheilung der zwolff Geschlechter.
The Holy Land as divided among the 12 Tribes. Although the title speaks about the Tribes, they are not shown on the map itself, only the division into Galilee, Samaria an...
Place & Date: Basle 1588
Selling price: $150
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Syria, Cypern, Palestina, Mesopotamia..
A famous wood block map of the Near East, including Cyprus, Palestine, Iran and Iraq, etc. From his Cosmographia , that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge. In 1588...
Place & Date: Basle c.1588
Selling price: $210
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Persia
Nice miniature map showing the Persian Empire. The map is beautifully engraved with stippled seas.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1588
Selling price: $105
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Tartaria sive magni chami regni typus.
This small map is the reduced version of the earliest map to focus on the North Pacific. While designed to illustrate the expansive Kingdom of the Great Khan in Asia, its...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1588
Selling price: $140
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Syria / Cypern / Palestina Mesopotamia / Babylonia / zwen Arabia / mit Bergen / Wasseren und Stetten.
A famous wood block map of the Near East, including Cyprus, Palestine, Iran and Iraq, etc. From his "Cosmographia", that great compendium of Renaissance knowled...
Place & Date: Basle, c.1588
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2012
Asia wie es Jetziger Zeit nach den Furnemesten Herrschafften Abgetheilet und Beschriben ist .
Nice full color example Sebastian Munster's second map of Asia, first published in 1588.It is filled with numerous small woodcut vignettes of towns and a lone sea monster...
Place & Date: Basle, S. H. Petrie, 1588
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2013
Das Heilig Landt mit Ausztheilung der Zwolff Geschlechter.
Classic woodblock map of the region showing numerous towns along the fertile coast and mountains, rivers and lakes. Although the title mentions the 12 tribes, they are no...
Place & Date: Basle, S.H. Petrie, 1588
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2014
Syria, Cypern, Palestina, Mesopotamia, Babylonia, zwey Arabia mit Bergen, Waesseren und Stetten.
A famous woodblock map of the Near East, including Cyprus, Palestine, Iran, Iraq, etc. From his 'Cosmographia,' that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge. In 1588, n...
Place & Date: Basle, S.H. Petrie, 1588
Selling price: $110
Sold in 2014
Sumatra ein Grosse Insel so von den Alten Geographen Taprobana Genennet Worden.
Early, desirable map of the island of Sumatra and the southern part of Malaysia. It is one of the earliest maps to focus on this region. Shown near today's Singapore on t...
Place & Date: Basle, S.H. Petrie, 1588
Selling price: $280
Sold in 2014
Chinae, olim Sinarum Regionis, nova descriptio. Auctore Ludovico Georgio.
The first map of China ever to appear in a Western atlas, west to the top. When this map appeared, it was by far the most accurate one of China.Japan is shown on a curiou...
Place & Date: Antwerp, after 1588
Selling price: $4300
Sold in 2015
[Asia Minor]
Wood block printed map with German text beneath and to verso of map. Map shows Turkey and many of the Greek Islands, Crete, Cyprus, Syria, Asia Minor and Thracia.
Place & Date: Basle, 1588
Selling price: $12
Sold in 2023
Asia wie es Jetziger Zeit nach den Furnemesten Herrschafften Abgetheilet und Beschriben ist.
Münster’s decorative final map of Asia, from a German edition of Münster’s "Cosmographia", one of the most influential geographical works of the 16th Cent...
Place & Date: Basle, 1588
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2018
Asia wie es Jetziger Zeit nach den Furnemesten. . .
Sebastian Münster (1489-1552) is one of the most renowned cartographers of the sixteenth century, Mercator and Ortelius are considered at the same level. Munster's two m...
Place & Date: Basle, 1588
Selling price: $490
Sold in 2020
Ierusalem, et suburbia eius. . .
Plan of ancient Jerusalem and its suburbs as it looked at the time of Jesus Christ. TRANSLATION OF CAPTION: Jerusalem and its suburbs, as it flourished in the time of Chr...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1588
Selling price: $2500
Sold in 2022
Turcicum Imperium.
Miniature map of Turkish Empire. From the second series of miniature atlas of Ortelius' Epitome. A new series of pocket-size atlases was begun by Philip Galle in 1588. It...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1589
Selling price: $90
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India Orient.
Miniature map of the Far East with Indonesia, Japan, Pacific and New Guinea. From the second series of miniature atlas of Ortelius' Epitome. A new series of pocket-size a...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1589
Selling price: $95
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Asiae Nova Descriptio.
Second state. Ortelius' fine map of Asia well represents the continent at a time when Europeans were expanding their power in the far east. The Indian subcontinent and Ma...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1580/1589
Selling price: $1400
Sold in 2020
Asiae Nova Descriptio.
Second state. Ortelius' fine map of Asia well represents the continent at a time when Europeans were expanding their power in the far east. The Indian subcontinent and Ma...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1580/1589
Selling price: $1500
Sold in 2018
Pontus Euxinus Aequor Iafonio pulfatum remige premum.
Prepared by Ortelius after Mercator, and additional ancient sources as Plinius, Ovidius, Strabo, Apollonius, Procopius and Apppianus.This map belongs to a serie of histor...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1590
Selling price: $107
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Terra Sancta.
This is the most modern of Ortelius' maps of the Holy Land. It focuses specifically on the Holy Land and is oriented with east of the top. Ortelius used as a model the wa...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1590
Selling price: $700
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Natoliae..Aegypti recentior..Carthaginis (3 maps on 1 sheet)
3 Maps on one sheet. Map to the left east to the top. Detailed map Turkey, including Cyprus and Crete. Also map of the Nile delta and another map of Tunis.
Place & Date: Antwerp 1590
Selling price: $310
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Waerachtige beschryvinge vande wydvermaerde Conincklicke Hooft Stadt Jerusalem..
Engraved by Baptista van Doetechum for a bible printed by Jan Everts Cloppenburg. The bible maps of 1590 are the earliest of Plancius compilations to survive.Very rare pl...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1590
Selling price: $800
Sold in 2008
Tabula Geographica, in qua omnes regiones, urbes, oppida..
Engraved by Baptista van Doetechum for a bible by van Liesvelt. The bible maps of 1590 are the earliest of Plancius compilations to survive. Very rare map of Palestine di...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1590
Selling price: $1000
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Natoliae..Aegypti Recentior..Carthaginis.. (3 maps on 1 sheet)
3 Maps on one sheet. Map to the left east to the top. Detailed map Turkey, including Cyprus and Crete. Also map of the Nile delta and another map of Tunis.
Place & Date: Antwerp 1590
Selling price: $325
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Tartariae sive magni Chami regni typus.
The map identifies China and Japan, but not Korea. The body of water lying between China and Japanese archipelago is identified as MARE CIN, which means China Sea.Much of...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1590
Selling price: $2000
Sold in 2012
Cyprus.
Two woodcuts on one page. In upper part a map of Cyprus, in lower part a jumping deer and a sheep drinking water. The drinking sheep with old pen scratches. . From a Lati...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1590
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2012
De terris asiae minoris.
On verso a wood block printed map of Turkey (139x183). From a Latin text edition of his Geographia , that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge.
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1590
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2013
In monte casio iuxta ostracinam. . . [Israel with Cyprus]
On recto a woodcut engraved map of Israel and Cyprus. Engraved by Hans Rudolf Manuel Deutsch, with his monogram. From a Latin text edition of his Geographia , that great ...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1590
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2015
Nova India, ut nostro tempore est explorata & cognita. [India]
On recto a wood block engraved map of India.From a Latin text edition of his Geographia , that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge.
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1590
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2013
[Java Maior ]
On recto a wood block printed map of Java (125x76mm.) with a short description of the island, underneath description of Madagascar , Zanzibar and "Duabus Insulis&quo...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1590
Selling price: $357
Sold in 2013
Sumatra Insula - Taproba.
On recto a wood block printed map of Sumatra within text bearing the name "Taprobana". The island is filled with many images like an elephant and a tiger, as we...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1590
Selling price: $196
Sold in 2013
India extra Gangem, quae Europeis propinquior est. [India]
On recto an wood block printed Ptolemaic map of South East Asia, India and China (122x153mm.)From a German text edition of his Geographia , that great compendium of Renai...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1590
Selling price: $432
Sold in 2013
Tartariae sive Magni Chami Imperium.
This is a very early depiction of the northern Pacific, with the first mapping of Northwest Coast of America and probably the first map to name California 'C. Califormio'...
Place & Date: Antwerp, c. 1590
Selling price: $1050
Sold in 2014
Turcici Imperii Descriptio.
The most famous of all the sixteenth-century maps of the Middle East. It extends from Greece to Arabia and covers the Cradle of Civilisation region. The Eastern Mediterra...
Place & Date: Antwerp, ca 1590
Selling price: $900
Sold in 2016
Indo di Conditione.
Full portrait of a woman and two children from India, by Cesare Vecellio (1521–1601). From "De gli habiti antichi, e moderni di diverse parti del mondo libri du du...
Place & Date: Venice, Damian Zenaro, 1590
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2017
Indiana Di Conditione.
Full portrait of a woman and two children from India, by Cesare Vecellio (1521–1601). From "De gli habiti antichi, e moderni di diverse parti del mondo libri du du...
Place & Date: Venice, Damian Zenaro, 1590
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2017
Indiana Mediocre.
Full portrait of a woman and two children from India, by Cesare Vecellio (1521–1601). From "De gli habiti antichi, e moderni di diverse parti del mondo libri du du...
Place & Date: Venice, Damian Zenaro, 1590
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2017
Taprobana. [Sri Lanka]
An attractive map of the island of Ceylon, or Sri Lanka, with north orientated to the right.Third edition from Porcacchi's L'isole piu famose.It features a pretty strap-w...
Place & Date: Venice, 1590
Selling price: $95
Sold in 2017
Turcici Imperii Descriptio.
A fine map of the Middle East, extending from Greece to Arabia, and covering the “Cradle of Civilisation” region. It features the Arabian Peninsula prominently and il...
Place & Date: Antwerp, ca. 1590
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2017
Asia.
An attractive map of the Asian continent by Rosaccio who was an Italian cartographer and the author of several atlases which were re-issued in various Italian cities from...
Place & Date: ca. 1590
Selling price: $110
Sold in 2018
Indiae Orientalis Insularum Que Adi Acientium Tiipus.
A lovely, miniature map of south east Asia. With Latin text on verso.from an Italian edition of Ortelius Epitome atlas. Box title.
Place & Date: Venice, ca. 1590
Selling price: $190
Sold in 2020
Pharan desertum, et confinia eius cum parte Aegypti, ea videlicet terrae regio . . .
Cristian van Adrichem's map of the Holy Land, depicting the Desert of Pharan or Paran and the Wandering of the Israelites. The map is oriented to the east and covers the ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1590
Selling price: $90
Sold in 2020
Taprobana. [Sri Lanka]
An attractive map of the island of Ceylon, or Sri Lanka, with north orientated to the right. Third edition from Porcacchi's L'isole piu famose.It features a pretty strap-...
Place & Date: Venice, 1590
Selling price: $95
Sold in 2021
[Lot of 11 maps of Persia] Reyno de Persia, o imperia de los Sophies/ Pereici sive Sophorum Regni Ypus
Abraham Ortelius( 1527-98), Dutch cartographer and publisher of the first modern atlas, ' Theatrum Orbis Terrarum' in 1570. Editions till 1612. Also an atlas of ancient c...
Place & Date: Antwerp, c. 1590
Selling price: $325
Sold in 2022
[Set of 5 maps of the Holy Land: Paradise, Canaan, Israel & Egypt, the Eastern Mediterranean. . .]
A lovely set of biblical maps of the Holy Land and its surrounds and, the Eastern Mediterranean by Cloppenburg, and engraved by Baptista Deuticum. The first map is an ear...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca 1590
Selling price: $1700
Sold in 2022
Waerachtige beschryvinge vande wydvermaerde Conincklicke Hooft Stadt Jerusalem. . .
A truly beautiful copper engraved plan of Jerusalem by Baptista van Doetechum for a bible printed by Jan Everts Cloppenburg. The bible maps of 1590 are the earliest of Pl...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca 1590
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2022
Asia is presented as the mythical winged horse Pegasus.
Copper engraved map of Asia in the form of a Pegasus. This is a very rare issue of the map from a Czech edition. The original woodcut map was re-engraved on copper with a...
Place & Date: Magdeburg, 1592
Selling price: $2500
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Typus chorographicus, celebrium locorum in regno Iudae et Israhel
Beautiful colored map of the Holy Land by A. Ortelius. The map is based on T. Stella's map of 1552, with two large Renaissance cartouches. From the 1592 Latin edition of ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1592
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2010
Terra Sancta.
Holy Land of the 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum', described by Petrus Laicstain and designed by Chistian Schrot. Oriented to the east. Shows the shore line from Beirut to Gaza....
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1592
Selling price: $850
Sold in 2010
Palestinae sive totius terraepromissionis nova descriptio auctore tilemanno stella sigensis.
Holy Land from the 'Theartrum Orbis Terrarum'.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1592
Selling price: $800
Sold in 2010
INDIA ORIENTALIS. Cuius nobilior pars sunt duo-ista quasi ingentia totius Asiae promontoria in Oceanum versus Meridiem . . .
Matthäus Quad's uncommon map depicts most of the Asian continent stretching northward to encompass Japan and eastward to show the coast of North America and New Guinea. ...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca. 1592
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2022
Primae Partis Asiae.
Includes the eastern part of the Mediterranean with Cyprus and Holy Land and the Black Sea with Turkey in between, the northern part of Egypt, Arabia Persia and Afghanist...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1593
Selling price: $1475
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Asia partium Orbis Maxima.
A superb decorative map of Asia which is exceptionally rare since it only appeared in the second edition of de Jode's Speculum. The Asian coast is straight south-west to ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1593
Selling price: $6000
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Theatrum Terrae Sanctae et Biblicarum Historiarum. Cum tabulis geographicis aere expressis
Second edition of the work about Palestine by Delft theologian Christian Adrichomius, first published 1590. With a Geography of Palestine, a description of Jerusalem and ...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1593
Selling price: $3200
Sold in 2009
Terrae Israel omnis ante Canaan dictae in tribus undecim ... A. Bened. Aria Montano descripta.
Land of Israel, previously called Canaan, divided into 11 Tribes, showing also the neighboring regions and the 43 stations of the Israelites in the desert.The shore line ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1572 / Leiden, 1593
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2020
Antiquae Ierusalem vera icnographia ad Sacræ Lectionis Præ-cipue et Aliarum de Ila Urbe Historiar. Explicationem Ex collatione auctoru tu ruinaru uestigiis ac situ ipso.
An "imaginary typographic plan" of ancient Jerusalem. Delano-Smith & Ingram describe it as "east oriented with mountains ringing the city and closing t...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1572 / Leiden, 1593
Selling price: $900
Sold in 2013
Montis Domini totiusque Sacri Templi exemplum ex antiquis descriptionibus a Bened Aria Montano observatis ad Apparatus Sacri. . .
Striking view of the Temple, filled with worshippers, merchants, soothsayers, cattle, sheep, poultry, etc.From Benedictus Arias Montanus' Antiquitatum Iudicarum Libri IX....
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1572 / Leiden, 1593
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2013
Sacerdotis antiqui sanctis vestibus et ornamentis instructi exemplum / ex descriptione Mosis. . . [Hebrew priest]
Fine engraving of a Hebrew priest. From Benedictus Arias Montanus' Antiquitatum Iudicarum Libri IX. In quis, praeter Iudaeae, also in Liber Chanaan, and his rare Biblia P...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1572 / Leiden, 1593
Selling price: $360
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[ The Israelites in their camp ]
Fine engraving of The Israelites in their camp. This plate was the frontispiece of Vol. VIII of the Polyglot Bible. From Benedictus Arias Montanus' Antiquitatum Iudicarum...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1572 / Leiden, 1593
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2013
[Schematic of the Temple in Jerusalem. ]
Schematic of the Temple in Jerusalem.From Benedictus Arias Montanus' Antiquitatum Iudicarum Libri IX. In quis, praeter Iudaeae, also in Liber Chanaan, and his rare Biblia...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1572 / Leiden, 1593
Selling price: $210
Sold in 2013
(2 prints) Sacrae aedis sciographiae pars. / Templi cum porticu et cellis absoluta orthographia ...
Two engraving from Arias Montanus, Benito "Antiquitatum Iudicarum Libri IX. In quis, praeter Iudaeae, Hierosolymorum, & Templi Salomonis accuratam delineationem,...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1572 / Leiden, 1593
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2015
(The Ark.)
Engraving of The Ark of Moses from Arias Montanus, Benito "Antiquitatum Iudicarum Libri IX. In quis, praeter Iudaeae, Hierosolymorum, & Templi Salomonis accurata...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1572 / Leiden, 1593
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2015
Sacri tabernaculi. . . (Four engravings of the Holy Tabernacle.)
Four engraving of the Holy Tabernacle from Arias Montanus, Benito "Antiquitatum Iudicarum Libri IX. In quis, praeter Iudaeae, Hierosolymorum, & Templi Salomonis ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1572 / Leiden, 1593
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2015
Secundae partis Asiae, typus.
Excessively rare map of the Arabian Peninsula. Map 9 from: "Speculum orbis terrarum" by Gerard and Cornelis de Jode. Latin text verso: Asiae secunda pars sive A...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1593
Selling price: $5000
Sold in 2016
Natoliam Moderni dicunt tam partem quam Asiam minrem appelauere veteres. (with Cyprus).
Engraved by Van Deutecum, this is a spectacular example of the 1593 edition of the very rare De Jode's map of the Eastern Mediterranean and Asia Minor. It has two title c...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1593
Selling price: $3900
Sold in 2014
Primae Partis Asiae accurata delineatio... [shows Cyprus]
Engraved by the van Deutecum brothers, based upon an earlier map by Gastaldi.0De Jode's rare map of the region, bounded by the Black Sea and Mediterranean in the West, an...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1593
Selling price: $1250
Sold in 2017
TAB. VI ASIAE, Arabiam Felicem, Carmaniam as Sinum Persicum comprehendens.
A Ptolemaic map of the Arabian peninsula. This is the second Mercator edition of the map, which appears for the first time in the 1695 edition of the Ptolemy 'Geographia'...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1578 - 1593
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2018
Percici sive Sophorum Regni Tipus.
A nice detailed miniature map of Persia from one of only two Italian editions of Philippe Galle's pocket atlas, the 'Epitome', a reduced version of the Ortelius 'Theatrum...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1593
Selling price: $85
Sold in 2020
Natoliae quae oli asia minor nova descriptio.
A nice detailed miniature map of Natolia (Turkey in Asia) from one of only two Italian editions of Philippe Galle's pocket atlas, the 'Epitome', a reduced version of the ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1593
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2021
Insulae Moluccae celeberrimæ sunt ob Maximam aromatum copiam quam per totum terrarum orbem mittunt...
FIRST EDITION, engraved by Johannes à Doeticum c.1594. Very rare key map showing Southeast Asia with the Sunda Islands, the Moluccas, and much of the mainland coast well...
Place & Date: Amsterdam,1592-1594
Selling price: $75250
Sold in 2018
The description of the holy Land, conteining the places..
Description of the Holy Land, showing all the places mentioned in the Gospels and the itineraries of Jesus Christ and his disciples in Judea, Samaria, and Galilee. Shows ...
Place & Date: London 1595
Selling price: $350
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Daphne.
Made by Ortelius on the basis of information from ancient sources, specifically Ammianus, Strabo and Philostratus.This is the depiction of the Paradise Daphne, a pleasant...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1595
Selling price: $102
Sold in 2011
Typus chorographicus, celebrium locoum in regno Judae et..
Drawn by Tilemannus Stella Sigenensi, this map delineates the most important places in the kingdom of Judah and Israel. The shore lines runs from Berytus (Beirut) to Rhin...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1595
Selling price: $400
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Peregrinationis Divi Pauli Typus?
A splendid map depicting the travels of Paulus. With two fine scenes in top. Showing the countries along the Mediterranean, including Cyprus and Italy. Based on Mercator'...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1595
Selling price: $650
Sold in 2008
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 1595
Selling price: $600
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Alexandri Magni Maredonis Expeditio.
Handsomely engraved map of Alexander the Great's Empire at full flower, with a large inset depicting the Temple of the Oracle of Jupiter Amman, supposedly situated in pre...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1595
Selling price: $360
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Exacta & accurata.. regionibus China, Cauchinchina, Camboja..
...the Far East and the Malay Archipelago are represented in such detail as was known only to the Portuguese at that time and had never before shown on a printed map. (S...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1595
Selling price: $6025
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Terra Sancta.
This is the most modern of Ortelius' maps of the Holy Land. It focuses specifically on the Holy Land and is oriented with east of the top. Ortelius used as a model the wa...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1595
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2022
[Von der Landtschafft Iudaea]
16th century woodcut view of Jerusalem on the full folio sheet. From "Theatrum Urbium" by Abraham Saur printed in Frankfurt 1595 by N. Basseus.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1595
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2010