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Natoliae, quae olim Asia Minor Nova Descriptio - Aegypti Recentior Descriptio - Carthaginis Celeberrimi Sinus Typus
colored copper engraved map of Turkey by A. Ortelius. On right side a map of Egypt and one of Tunis. Three map on one sheet printed from one plate. From the 1595 Latin ed...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1595
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2010
Thraciae veteris typus
Decorative map of the western part of Turkey by A. Ortelius. Showing the Dardanelles, the Sea of Marmara with the Bosporus and Istanbul. From the 1595 Latin edition of 'T...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1595
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2013
Reisen der Kinder Israel aus Egypten.
A woodblock map which illustrates the route followed by the Israelites in the Exodus from Egypt to the Promised Land. The map is very decorative and shows the Pharaoh dro...
Place & Date: Magdeburg, 1595
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2014
Beschreibung des Heiligen Landes.
Heinrich Bünting map of the Holy Land from the Itinerarum Saccrae Scripturae, which was first published in 1581. It shows Palestineon both sides of the Jordan and the tw...
Place & Date: Magdeburg, 1595
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2014
Turcici Imperii Descriptio
This is the second map by Ortelius depicting the Turkish Empire, based on Ortelius' own map of Asia, derived from the work of Giacomo Gastaldi of 1561. It features the Ar...
Place & Date: Antverpen, ca 1595
Selling price: $472
Sold in 2023
Afbeeldinge der custen van Abex, der engte van Mecha..
A highly decorative and distinctive map showing eastern Africa, Arabia, Persia and India. Around India several manuscript annotations in brown ink. With rhumb lines and d...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1596
Selling price: $2000
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Afbeeldinge der custen van Abex, der engte van Mecha..
A highly decorative and distinctive map showing eastern Africa, Arabia, Persia and India, with rhumb lines and decorative compass roses in sea areas. A lion, elephant and...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1596
Selling price: $1950
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Afbeeldinge der custen van Abex, der engte van Mecha..
A highly decorative and distinctive chart showing eastern Africa, Arabia, Persia and India, with rhumb lines and decorative compass roses in sea areas. A lion, elephant a...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1596
Selling price: $2300
Sold in 2008
Afbeeldinge der custen van Abex, der engte van Mecha..
A highly decorative and distinctive map showing eastern Africa, Arabia, Persia and India, with rhumb lines and decorative compass roses in sea areas. A lion, elephant and...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, after 1596
Selling price: $3500
Sold in 2014
Japonia Regnum.
Very rare map and one of the earliest views of Japan and Korea and was published in a German edition of Botero's "Theatrum Principum Orbis Universi."This is a v...
Place & Date: Cologne, Lambert Andreas, 1596
Selling price: $1800
Sold in 2015
Cochini Rex elephante vectus, cum procerum comitatu, quos Nairos...
In this elegant copperplate engraving you see the King of Cochin, astride an Elephant leading his army, gathered below him. Linschoten was a Dutch Merchant, Trader and Hi...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, after 1596
Selling price: $63
Sold in 2016
Inquilini e Cananor Mahometani infectiss Lusitanorum hostes...
In this attractive copperplate engraving you see a Moslem from Cananor in Kerala, India, and the inhabitants of the Malabar coast between Goa and Cochin, with a rural sce...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, after 1596
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2016
Virginis Lusitane in India gestus et amictus...Der Portugeesen gehoude Vrouwen habyt en cyraet...
In this detailed copperplate engraving you seethe various costume and dress of Portuguese ladies and rank. Linschoten was a Dutch Merchant, Trader and Historian, who trav...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, after 1596
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2016
Gestus et habitus tam civium que militum Lusitanorum in oriente agentium...
In this charming copperplate engraving you see wealthy Portuguese citizens and soldiers of the East Indies, in all their finery, walking under umbrellas. Linschoten was a...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, after 1596
Selling price: $55
Sold in 2016
Malache incole sermone et moribus quam reliqui Indi...Insulanus e Java gens dure cervicis.
In this well engraved copperplate engraving you see men and women of Malacca and Java, standing on a clifftop, with their city sprawled beneath them. Linschoten was a Dut...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, after 1596
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2016
Mercador / Baniane / Bramene.
In this attractive copperplate engraving you see various peoples of the Indies, including a merchant and a Brahmin priest. In the background people pray before an idol se...
Place & Date: Amsterdam , after 1596
Selling price: $41
Sold in 2016
Nuptiarum ritus, et epule in Provincia Ballagate supra Goam.
In this charming copperplate engraving you see a Wedding ceremony in Goa, bride and groom, family and friends and musicians.Linschoten was a Dutch Merchant, Trader and Hi...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, after 1596
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2016
Afbeeldinge der custen van Abex, der engte van Mecha..
A highly decorative and distinctive map showing eastern Africa, Arabia, Persia and India. Around India several manuscript annotations in brown ink. With rhumb lines and d...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1596
Selling price: $4800
Sold in 2017
Cypri Insvla.
Lovely copper engraved map of the island of Cyprus featuring two large cartouches and fancy lettering in the seas. Good detail in the interior.The map comes from a scarce...
Place & Date: Cologne 1597
Selling price: $730
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India Orientalis.
Attractive strong impression showing all island groups, including the Philippines and Japan.Also shows the West Coast of North America with the place name of Quivira.The ...
Place & Date: Cologne 1597
Selling price: $375
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Turcici Imperii Descriptio.
Small engraving showing the Ottoman Empire, the Mediterranean Sea, northern Africa, the Holy Land and Arabia.The map comes from a scarce pirate edition published by Petru...
Place & Date: Cologne 1597
Selling price: $100
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Palaestina, Vel Terra Sancta.
Map of the Holy Land with two large strapwork cartouches. The map comes from a scarce pirate edition published by Petrus Keschedt in Cologne one year after the publicatio...
Place & Date: Cologne 1597
Selling price: $150
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Erythraei Sive Rubri Maris Periplus.
Decorative map covering the north-west coast of Africa, Arabian peninsular, India, Malaysia. In lower part inset map of Mediterranean.Upper right hand corner inset map Hy...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1597
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2008
India Orientalis.
Attractive strong impression showing all island groups, including the Philippines and Japan.Also shows the West Coast of North America with the place name of Quivira.The ...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1597
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2017
Tabula Asiae XII.
A very decorative copperplate map of Ceylon / Sri Lanka with a very elaborate cartouche and a charming engraving of an elephant.From the 1597 edition of Magini's "Ge...
Place & Date: Venice, 1597
Selling price: $140
Sold in 2018
Persia
Very fine early miniature map of Persia, this map is from the first edition of the Langenes atlas, (later well known under the name of Bertius). Dutch text on verso.
Place & Date: Middelburg, 1598
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2010
Tartaria
Very fine early miniature map of Tartaria with the wall on the map, this map is from the first edition of the Langenes atlas, (later well known under the name of Bertius)...
Place & Date: Middelburg, 1598
Selling price: $140
Sold in 2010
Iaponia regnum.
One of the earliest printed map of Japan and the first copy after Ortelius / Teixeira.Published in the German edition of José de Acosta's De Natura Nova Orbis, first pub...
Place & Date: Cologne c. 1598
Selling price: $2200
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Nova tabula Insularum Javae, Sumatrae, Borneonis..
A most important foundation map, one of the first detailed European maps to focus on southern Malaysia and the region around present-day Singapore. The map was published ...
Place & Date: Frankfurt 1598
Selling price: $3900
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Turcici Imperii Descriptio.
This is the best known of all the sixteenth-century maps of the Ottoman Empire, which at the time of publication encompassed the present nations of Egypt, Israel, Lebanon...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1598
Selling price: $950
Sold in 2008
Das erste buch der cosmography
This interesting woodcut illustrates the creation as described in Genesis. It is printed on a full sheet of German text featuring a large decorative initial
Place & Date: Basle 1598
Selling price: $160
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Natoliae quae olim Asia minor.
East to the top. Detailed map Turkey, including Cyprus and Crete. German text on verso.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1598
Selling price: $160
Sold in 2010
Cypri Insulae Nova descript. 1573.
This is a beautiful copy of a classic map of Cyprus. It is the earliest obtainable version of the best map of Cyprus made to date. Ortelius based his map upon that publis...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1598
Selling price: $2000
Sold in 2012
Chinae, olim Sinarum Regionis, nova descriptio. Auctore Ludovico Georgio.
From the rare Dutch text edition of the Theatrum of which according to van den Broecke only 100 copies are printed.The first map of China ever to appear in a Western atla...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1598
Selling price: $5100
Sold in 2016
Soria et Terra Santa nuova tavola.
Early map of this classical map of the Holy Land, including Cyprus, prepared by Giovanni Botero. The copper plate was however later used by Giuseppe Rosaccio's expended e...
Place & Date: Venice, 1598
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2014
Desrittione Dell'Asia Minore addimandata volgarmente La Natolia e dell'Isole circongiacenti.
Map shows Turkey, Cyprus and Greek Islands along Turkish coast south to the Island of Crete (Candia) and the Syrian coast. Verso: related text.ublished in “Geografia ci...
Place & Date: Venice, 1598
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2017
India Tercera Nuova Tavola.
Fine 1598 edition of this early map of South East Asia. Just to the west and south of Malacca one will notice ‘Camatra’ (Sumatra) and Java. China with Canton in the u...
Place & Date: Venice, 1598
Selling price: $750
Sold in 2016
Calecut Nova Tavola.
Fine early map of Indian peninsula, being one of the earliest modern maps of the region.Girolamo Ruscelli first published the map in his "La Geographi di Claudio Tol...
Place & Date: Venice, 1598
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2016
Natoliae quae olim Asia minor.
East to the top. Detailed map Turkey, including Cyprus and Crete.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1598
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2015
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, 1598
Selling price: $7300
Sold in 2017
Nova tabula Insularum Javae, Sumatrae, Borneonis. . .
A most important foundation map, one of the first detailed European maps to focus on southern Malaysia and the region around present-day Singapore. The map was published ...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1598
Selling price: $11250
Sold in 2015
Nova tabula Insularum Javae, Sumatrae, Borneonis..
A most important foundation map, one of the first detailed European maps to focus on southern Malaysia and the region around present-day Singapore. The map was published ...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1598
Selling price: $5200
Sold in 2016
Tabula Asiae VI.
Scarce third edition of this classical map of the Arabian Peninsular, with the addition of the galleon and sea monster. This map is an enlarged version of Giacomo Gastald...
Place & Date: Venice, 1598
Selling price: $185
Sold in 2016
Turcici Imperii Descriptio.
A map depicting the Turkish Empire, with the Arabian Peninsular at its center. Taken from the 1598 Italian printing of Giovanni Antonio Magini's edition of Claudius Ptole...
Place & Date: Venice, 1598
Selling price: $133
Sold in 2018
A ilhae cidade de Goa metropolitanada Indiae. . .
One of the earliest printed detailed plans of a European trading post in the Indies, this finely engraved and designed bird's-eye plan was made by Baptista a Doetecum and...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1598
Selling price: $2500
Sold in 2019
Tartariae sive magni Chami regni typus.
Much of the information shown on this map relates to the travels of Marco Polo between 1275 and 1291 with later information gained from the Portuguese Jesuit missionaries...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1598
Selling price: $950
Sold in 2018
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. A first edition wi...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1598
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2022
Calecut Nuova Tavola.
Fine 1598 edition of this early map of India. Girolamo Ruscelli first published the map in his "La Geographi di Claudio Tolomeo" (Venice, 1561), with the presen...
Place & Date: Venice, 1598
Selling price: $175
Sold in 2018
How the Javanese bet on cock-fighting.
The people of Java rear cocks for fighting and put bets on them for high sums of money. The fiercest and strongest birds are taken to an open space where pairs are chosen...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1598
Selling price: $65
Sold in 2020
A picture of the Aloë, Maguey mexicanum & Sycomorg.
Here is the aloë, or semper vivum, which is as tall as a man and found in great numbers in Agua de Sanbras. Also the maguey, often called metl, grows here, but originate...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1598
Selling price: $75
Sold in 2021
The Indian coconut, fig-tree and others.
The Indians have many uses for the palm or coconut tree. Not only do they obtain food and drink from its fruit, they can also make clothing, ships’ sails, rope and othe...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1598
Selling price: $75
Sold in 2018
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. The second state with "Las Philipinas" somewhere in 1587 added to the plate. When thi...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1598
Selling price: $5000
Sold in 2018
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Insulae Philippinae [Philippines].
A miniature map of Philippines, centered on Mindanao and Luzon. Title cartouche on the upper left corner. First published in 1598 in his Caert-Thresoor, the plates were e...
Place & Date: Middelburg, 1598
Selling price: $1500
Sold in 2018
Tabula Asiae I.
The third state of Ruscelli's map of Turkey, based upon Claudius Ptolemy. Showing Asia Minor and parts of the Black Sea and Cyprus. Girolamo Ruscelli first published the ...
Place & Date: Venice, 1598
Selling price: $85
Sold in 2018
Tabula Asiae III.
The third state of Ruscelli's map of the region between the Black Sea and Caspian Sea extending south to include all of Armenia Maior and part of Armenia Minoris, based u...
Place & Date: Venice, 1598
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2018
Tabula Asiae VII.
The third state of Ruscelli's map the region north and east of the Black Sea and Caspian Sea, extending to the Imaus Mountains, based upon Claudius Ptolemy. Showing Caspi...
Place & Date: Venice, 1598
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2018
Tabula Asiae VIII.
The third state of Ruscelli's map of central Asia, based upon Claudius Ptolemy. Girolamo Ruscelli first published the map in his "La Geographi di Claudio Tolomeo&quo...
Place & Date: Venice, 1598
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2018
Tabula Asiae IX.
The third state of Ruscelli's map of part of Northern India, based upon Claudius Ptolemy. Showing India, Pakistan and the Indian Ocean. Girolamo Ruscelli first published ...
Place & Date: Venice, 1598
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2018
Tabula Asiae X.
The third state of Ruscelli's map of part of India and the Indian Ocean, based upon Claudius Ptolemy. Showing part of India and the Indian Ocean, extending north to the s...
Place & Date: Venice, 1598
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2018
Turcici Imperii Descriptio.
Map of the Middle East, extending from Greece to Arabia and covering the Cradle of Civilisation region. This is a new plate copied from another Ortelius map of 1570 with ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1598
Selling price: $900
Sold in 2022
Descriptio Hydrographica accommodata ad Battavorum navagatio
The German writer Levinas Hulsius compiled an extensive collection of accounts of explorers' voyages, published ultimately in twenty-six parts. This handsome map sets out...
Place & Date: Nuremberg 1598
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2019
Nova tabula Insularum Javae, Sumatrae, Borneonis..
A most important foundation map, one of the first detailed European maps to focus on southern Malaysia and the region around present-day Singapore. The map was published ...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1598
Selling price: $7000
Sold in 2019
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Cipro [Map of Cyprus]
Very rare map of Cyprus Island published in the first edition of "Viaggio da Venetia, a Costantinopoli. Per Mare, e per Terra, & infieme quello di Terra Santa. D...
Place & Date: Venice, Giacomo Franco, 1598
Selling price: $625
Sold in 2020
Asiae Nova Descriptio.
Ortelius' fine map of Asia well represents the continent at a time when Europeans were expanding their power in the far east.Showing all of Asia, India, Indonesia, the Fi...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1598
Selling price: $900
Sold in 2020
Nicosia.
Very rare view of Nicosia, also known as Lefkosia, which is the divided capital city of Cyprus. Published in the first edition of "Viaggio da Venetia, a Costantinopo...
Place & Date: Venice, Giacomo Franco, 1598
Selling price: $850
Sold in 2020
Floating Tea House in China.
This famous and desirable scene from Linschoten's famous voyages to the East of 1583-1592 here published by De Bry the year after they first appeared as a separate book. ...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1599
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2012
Transport of China
Scene of a "Chinese" landscape with a wind carriage and the transportation of a noble woman from Linschoten's famous voyages to the East of 1583-92 here publish...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1599
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2013
Mirae Chinensium ceremoniae, quibus in sacris & diuino cultu vtuntur.
A religious scene in China Linschoten's famous voyages to the East of 1583-92 here published by De Bry the year after they first appeared as a separate book. From Part II...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1599
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2021
Status Officiatorum Lusitanorum in India.
A scene of Portuguese officials in India from Linschoten's famous voyages to the East of 1583-1592 here published by De Bry the year after they first appeared as a separa...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1599
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2013
A Ilha e Cidade de Goa Metropolitana da India e Partes Orientais que esta em 15 Graos da Banda do Norte.
A bird's-eye town-plan of Goa, the capital of the Portuguese trading empire in Asia. This is a reduced version of Doetechum's view that illustrated editions of Jan Huygen...
Place & Date: Frankfurth, 1599
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2013
Regis in candt et Admiralis effigies. (The king of Candy meets the Dutch Admiral)
This shows the mighty king who received the name: Fimala Derura Suriada as a child in Colombo. He was also christened Don Lean d'Austria do Colombo. He is of royal blood ...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1599
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2016
XIV. Festum Poenitentiae Apud Populos, Qui. . . ( Strange ceremonies in the state of Silon.)
Strange ceremonies in the state of Silon. Among the Oriental Indians are several from Casta who, whenever a man dies, digs a large pit. Then the corpse is placed in the o...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1599
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2018
XVIII. Pugna Inter Regem in Pegu . . . [A battle between King Pegu and King Auua)
Battle with two elephants between King Pegu and King Auua. After King Pegu had burnt the traitors, he gathered together three hundred thousand men and declared war on Kin...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1599
Selling price: $75
Sold in 2016
De foro Goae frequentao, Leylon. . . (The daily market at Goa).
This famous and desirable scene of the daily market of Goa, drawn after Jan Huijgen van Linschoten during his visit to the East of 1583-1592 here published by De Bry the ...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1599
Selling price: $220
Sold in 2020
XI. Insignia et Sigilla Regum in Celon.
Theodore de Bry, a German engraver and book dealer, began a compilation of early voyages in 1590 and had published six parts at the time of his death in 1598. His widow, ...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1599
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2018
Navis Quaedam Lusitanica ab Anglis. . . (The English and Dutch attack a Portuguese ship )
A nice engraving of a battle between Dutch, English and Portuguese ships (137 x 167mm.) with a numbered key. According to the Latin explanation "On the 14th October,...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1599
Selling price: $180
Sold in 2018
India Orientalis.
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 1600
Selling price: $880
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Magni Chami Tartari Imperium.
Included in German edition of José de Acosta's De Natura Nova Orbis . Acosta was a Spanish Jesuit missionary, historian and cosmographer.Scarce. Including the north west...
Place & Date: Cologne 1600
Selling price: $1450
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XI. Delineatio Duorum Oppidorum, Ortattani & Londorae in Banda Insula sitorum.
Earliest map of Banda islands. Copper engraving with letter press.
Place & Date: Frankfurt 1600
Selling price: $180
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Quinzai.
Uncommon plan of Quinzai (in China) with its bridges from Francesco Valegio's townbook: Raccolta di le piv illustri et farmose citta di tutto il mondo.
Place & Date: Venice 1600
Selling price: $60
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