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Italia.
Map of Italy adorned with a title-cartouche, 6 ships, a sea monster and a scale. This is a rare copper-engraved map of Italy based on the Mercator projection. Present in ...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1596
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2020
Oitinense oppidulum et arx Episcopi Lubecensis sedes / Delineatio Civitatis Tonderensis. Tonder - Eutin
Two bird's-eye plans on one sheet: Tønder (Denmark) and Eutin (Germany) by Braun & Hogenberg.From: Civitates Orbis Terrarum, ... Part 5. Köln, 1596 EUTINCAPTION: Eu...
Place & Date: Cologne 1596
Selling price: $200
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Visbia Gothorum. Visby / Gotland.
A fine antique map - bird's-eye view / plan of Visby on Gotland by Braun and Hogenberg, from: Civitates Orbis Terrarum, ... Part 5. Köln, 1596.TRANSLATION OF CAPTION: In...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1596
Selling price: $700
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Antwerpia
Siege of Antwerp and blockade of the river "Schelde" by the Duke of Parma, 1584-1585.Originally engraved by Frans Hogenberg. For this second edition the text un...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1596
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2020
Elegantissimus ad mare Thyrrenum ex monte Pausillipo Neapolis montisque Vesuvij prospectus.
A general view of Naples from Posillipo, from “Civitates Orbis Terrarum”. An old map - bird's-eye view of the Bay of Naples with mount Vesuvius, by Braun and Hogenber...
Place & Date: Köln, 1596
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2021
![RATZENBURGK [RATZEBURG.]](/uploads/cache/84682-250x250.jpg)
RATZENBURGK [RATZEBURG.]
A fine antique map - bird's-eye view of Ratzeburg by Braun & Hogenberg, signed and dated bottom centre: Gerdt Hane 1588. From: Urbium Praecipuarum Mundi Theatrum Quin...
Place & Date: Cologne,1596
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2020
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BREMA [BREMEN.]
A fine antique map - bird's-eye view of Bremen by Braun and Hogenberg, from the rare: Urbium Praecipuarum Mundi Theatrum Quintum Auctore Georgio Braunio Agrippinate. Part...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1596
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2020
![Saarburg & Pfalzel, Chorographica descriptio Civitatis Sarburgensis [on sheet with] Opp: Palatinum ad Mosellam Flu; vulgo Pfaltz auff der Musell.](/uploads/cache/84684-250x250.jpg)
Saarburg & Pfalzel, Chorographica descriptio Civitatis Sarburgensis [on sheet with] Opp: Palatinum ad Mosellam Flu; vulgo Pfaltz auff der Musell.
A fine antique map with two bird's-eye views by Braun and Hogenberg: Saarburg and Pfalzel, from: Civitates Orbis Terrarum, ... Part 5. Köln, 1596. COMMENTARY BY BRAUN (o...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1596
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2020
![Zell,Berncastel,Manderscheid - Cel im Ham, Berncastel, Ober Manderscheidt, Nider Manderscheidt. [on one sheet]](/uploads/cache/84685-250x250.jpg)
Zell,Berncastel,Manderscheid - Cel im Ham, Berncastel, Ober Manderscheidt, Nider Manderscheidt. [on one sheet]
A fine antique map with three bird's-eye views on one sheet: Zell - Berncastel - Manderscheid, from: Civitates Orbis Terrarum, ... Part 5. Köln, 1596.ZELL AN DER MOSEL. ...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1596
Selling price: $210
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LUNEBORCH - Lüneburg.
A fine antique map - birds eye view of Lüneburg in northern Germany ,by Braun and Hogenberg. From the rare 5th volume of 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum..'
Place & Date: Cologne, 1596
Selling price: $240
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BARDOWICK - Bardewick.
A fine antique map - bird's-eye view of Bardowick by Braun and Hogenberg, engraved after a drawing by Daniel Freese, 1588.From the rare: Civitates Orbis Terrarum, ... Par...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1596
Selling price: $200
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BARDUM POMERANIAE, BARTH/POMERANIA.
A fine antique map - bird's-eye plan of Barth by Braun and Hogenberg, from the Urbium Praecipuarum Mundi Theatrum Quintum Auctore Georgio Braunio Agrippinate. Part 5. Kö...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1596
Selling price: $240
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Cochem + Münstermaifeld, Chorographica Descriptio Civitatis Cocheimensis, Exactissima Civitatis Monasteriensis. . .
A fine antique map with a view of Cochem and a bird's-eye plan of Münstermaifeld by Braun and Hogenberg, with key to locations. From the: Civitates Orbis Terrarum, ...th...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1596
Selling price: $200
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Stade / Staden.
A fine antique map - a bird's-eye plan of Stade by Braun and Hogenberg, from: Urbium Praecipuarum Mundi Theatrum Quintum Auctore Georgio Braunio Agrippinate. Part 5. Köl...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1596
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2020
Plön / Plona.
A fine antique map - a bird's-eye view of Plön by Braun and Hogenberg, from the: Civitates Orbis Terrarum, ... Part 5. Köln, 1596.TRANSLATION OF CARTOUCHE TEXT: Drawn o...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1596
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2021
Heide + Meldorf, Icon Oppidi Heide / Delineatio Urbis Meldorpie.
A fine antique map with two bird's-eye plans by Braun and Hogenberg: Heide and Meldorf. From: Civitates Orbis Terrarum, ... Part 5. Köln, 1596.HEIDE. TRANSLATION OF CAPT...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1596
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2020
Elsenor / Ripen. Helsingør (Sjaelland) & Ribe (Jutland).
A fine antique engraving with two panoramic views by Braun and Hogenberg on one sheet: Helsingør (Sjaelland) & Ribe (Jutland), from Braun G. & Hogenberg F. Civit...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1596
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2020
Gmunden.
A fine antique map - a bird's-eye view of Gmunden by Braun and Hogenberg, engraved by G. Hoefnagel after L. van Valkenborch, 1594, from: Urbium Praecipuarum Mundi Theatru...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1596
Selling price: $325
Sold in 2020
![Ratisbona [Regensburg.]](/uploads/cache/84712-250x250.jpg)
Ratisbona [Regensburg.]
A fine antique map - a bird's-eye view of Regensburg by Braun and Hogenberg, drawn and engraved by J. Hoefnagel in 1594. Dedicated to Emperor Rudolph II. From the: Urbium...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1596
Selling price: $430
Sold in 2020
![Wiismaria [Wismar.]](/uploads/cache/84713-250x250.jpg)
Wiismaria [Wismar.]
A fine antique panoramic view of Wismar by Braun and Hogenberg, from the: Civitates Orbis Terrarum, ... Part 5. Köln, 1596.COMMENTARY BY BRAUN: "The town has greatl...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1596
Selling price: $400
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Inn Valley.
A fine antique map with three views by Braun and Hogenberg: View of the Innvalley; a view of the "Schlosberg" and a view of a monument for the emperor Carolus V...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1596
Selling price: $240
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Linsum Austriae vulgo Lintz. Linz.
A fine antique bird's-eye view of Linz, with key to locations by Braun & Hogenberg, from: Urbium Praecipuarum Mundi Theatrum Quintum Auctore Georgio Braunio Agrippina...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1596
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2020
Innsbruck.
A fine antique view of Ambras castle with Innsbruck in the distance, by G. Hoefnagel after Alexander Colijn, from: Braun & Hogenberg, Civitates Orbis Terrarum, ... Pa...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1596
Selling price: $330
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Dithmarschen Costumes. Diversi Dithmarsorum et vicinarum gentium habitus.
A fine antique engraving of costumed figures from the 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum', it shows the dignitaries and peasants of Dithmarschen. In the 15/16th centuries Dithmars...
Place & Date: Cologne,1596
Selling price: $250
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CAMBRAI. - La Ville de Cambray.
A handsome birds-eye view/map of the northeast French city of Cambrai, from "Civitates Orbis Terrarum", in fine color. With a strong graphic element of the ...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1596
Selling price: $220
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Europa.
Map of Europe, including great part of northern Africa and the Near East.The map comes from a scarce pirate edition published by Petrus Keschedt in Cologne one year after...
Place & Date: Cologne 1597
Selling price: $200
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Italia.
Lovely copper engraved map of Italy featuring fancy lettering in the seas. Southern part of Sicily and Sardinia are not included. Good detail in the interior.The map come...
Place & Date: Cologne 1597
Selling price: $115
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Antiquae Urbis perfecta imago. (Rome)
From "Pars antiquitatum Romanarum seu Topographia Romanae Urbis iam inde ab V. C. ad nostra usque temporae maxime quando in summo flore fuit, accuratissima: [...] Ma...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1597
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2013
Poloniae Regnum.
A detailed map of Poland, Lithuania and the Ukraine stretching from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Black Sea in the south.Latin text on verso.The map comes from the G...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1597
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2010
Venetia.
First state (unknown before) of this spectacular town-plan of Venice published engraved by Stefano Scolari, after the Bernardo Salvioni (1597) plan of Venice. It's the fi...
Place & Date: Venice, c.1597
Selling price: $6500
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Tabula Asiae II.
A striking example of Magini's map of the Black Sea region, from the 1597 edition of Magini's 'Geographia', based upon the work of Claudius Ptolemy. Latin text and tables...
Place & Date: Venice, 1597
Selling price: $90
Sold in 2016
FLANDRIAE DESCRIPTIO.
A highly decorative and rare map of Flanders by Matthias Quad, published in the Cosmographia by Johann Rauw in 1597. On verso a woodcut plan of Brussels.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1597
Selling price: $225
Sold in 2020
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Stocholmia [Stockholm].
The top engraving, showing the timber houses so typical of Scandinavia, is a view from the northeast across what was then the suburb of Norrmalm and is now the city centr...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1588-1597
Selling price: $435
Sold in 2018
Bergen.
The delightful Braun & Hogenberg bird's-eye view of the Norwegian city of Bergen, founded in 1070 and fortified with a palisade, is seen from the southwest across Và...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1588-1597
Selling price: $625
Sold in 2018
Romaniae, (quae olim Thracia dicta) ..
Very fine map centered on the Danube area. The map is based on the double sheet map by Jacob Gastaldi. Abraham Ortelius (1527-1598) was a cartographer and publisher, who ...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1598
Selling price: $300
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Basiliensis territorii descriptio nova./Circulus sue Liga..
Left hand map centred on Basle, east to top. With credit to Sebastian Münster in title cartouche.Right hand map with Boden See, Strasbourg and Augsburg. The map was prep...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1598
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2016
Bavariae, olim vindeliciae delineationis..
Fine and early map of Bavaria, prepared by Philipp Apian in 1561 and used by Ortelius in his atlas 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum [Atlas of the Whole World].The Theatrum was re...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1598
Selling price: $240
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Austriae ducatvs chorographia, Wolfgango Lazio auctore
Fine and early map of Austria after Wolfgang Lazius and used by A.Ortelius in his atlas 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum [Atlas of the Whole World].Only included in the atlas edi...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1598
Selling price: $300
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Silesiae typus..
Fine and early map of Silesia after Martin Helwig (1516-1574) and used by A.Ortelius in his atlas 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum [Atlas of the Whole World].Only included in the...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1598
Selling price: $320
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Regni Bohemiae descriptio.
Fine and early map of Czechoslovakia after Johann Criginger. and used by A.Ortelius in his atlas 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum [Atlas of the Whole World].The Theatrum was re-i...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1598
Selling price: $260
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Carpetaniae Partis Desc.1584. -Guipus Coae Regionis Typus.
An ornate and highly decorative set of three maps on one sheet, Carpetanin, (upper left), Guipuzcoa, (upper right) and Cadiz (lower center). The maps are highly decorativ...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1598
Selling price: $380
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Brabantiae Descriptio.
In an inset Mechelen and surroundings. Decorative scale and title cartouche with dedicational initials which may refer to Laurentius Michaelis who may be connected with t...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1598
Selling price: $575
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Helvetiae descriptio.
A fine map based upon a map by the Swiss cartographer Aegidicus Tschudi of 1538.
Place & Date: Anvers, 1598
Selling price: $560
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Patavini territorii../ Tarvisini agri typus.. (2 maps)
Two maps on one sheet. Map to the left is a detailed map including Venice and the area north of it including Padua and Vincenza. Very fine map after Giacomo Gastaldi. The...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1598
Selling price: $575
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Melita.
This tiny map, set into a sheet of text, is one of the earliest available maps of the strategically important Mediterranean islands of Malta and Gozo. The woodblock map s...
Place & Date: Basle, 1598
Selling price: $145
Sold in 2010
Insularum Aliquot Maris Mediterranei Descriptio.
Six maps on one sheet. In the center a map of Sicily, surrounded by maps of Sardinia, Djerba, The island of Elbe, Corfu and Malta.
Place & Date: Antwerp 1598
Selling price: $350
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Burgundiae inferioris quae Ducatus Nomine Censetur, Des.
Centered on the province of Burgundy, from his 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum'.
Place & Date: Antwerp 1598
Selling price: $335
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Leodiensis Diocesis Typus.
East to the top. Centered on Liege, including southern part of Dutch Limburg. Prepared by Jan van Schille.
Place & Date: Antwerp 1598
Selling price: $540
Sold in 2009
Namurcum Comitatus.
Prepared by Jacques Surhon in 1555. His manuscript map was for security reason not published. Only in 1579, when Antwerp was independent for a short time, Ortelius used a...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1598
Selling price: $525
Sold in 2009
Nobilis Hanoniae Comitatus descrip.
Including part of Belgium and northern part of France.
Place & Date: Anvers, 1598
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2009
Galliae Regni Potentiss: Nova Descriptio Ioanne Ioliveto Auc
A decorative view of 16th Century France that is derived from Jean Jolivet's woodcut map of 1560. Decorated with one large cartouche and one smaller royal crest. The map ...
Place & Date: Anvers, 1598
Selling price: $385
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Gotland
Very fine early miniature map of Gotland, 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: $140
Sold in 2010
CALARIS, MALTA, RHODUS, FAMAGUSTA.
Four separate views of historical Mediterranean islands on one sheet. Malta, Calaris, Rhodes ( Rhodus ), Famagusta.From the greatest publication in this genre! The Civita...
Place & Date: Cologne 1598
Selling price: $660
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Insularum Aliquot Maris Mediterranei Descriptio.
Six maps on one sheet. In the center a map of Sicily, surrounded by maps of Sardinia, Djerba, The island of Elbe, Corfu and Malta.
Place & Date: Antwerp 1598
Selling price: $770
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Galliae Regni Potentiss: Nova Descriptio Ioanne Ioliveto Auctore.
A decorative view of 16th Century France that is derived from Jean Jolivet's woodcut map of 1560. Decorated with one large cartouche and one smaller royal crest. The map ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1598
Selling price: $360
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Bavariae, olim vindeliciae delineationis..
Fine and early map of Bavaria, prepared by Philipp Apian in 1561 and used by Ortelius in his atlas 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum [Atlas of the Whole World]. The Theatrum was r...
Place & Date: Anvers, 1598
Selling price: $150
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Agri Cremonensis Typvs.
Region in the Northern portion of Italy with the city of Cremonia near the center. With very decorative inset map of Crema, copied after Forlani's map of 1570. First publ...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1598
Selling price: $345
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Oost ende West Vrieslandte beschryvinghe.
Prepared by Jacob van Deventer. A very decorative map of the Dutch provinces of Friesland, Groningen and Drente and of the German Province of Friesland.
Place & Date: Antwerp 1598
Selling price: $465
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Regionis Biturigum... Per Ioannem Calamaeum. / Limaniae Topographia Gabriele Symeoneo Auct.
Two maps on one sheet.
Place & Date: Antwerp 1598
Selling price: $180
Sold in 2009
Austriae ducatvs chorographia, Wolfgango Lazio auctore.
Fine and early map of Austria after Wolfgang Lazius and used by A.Ortelius in his atlas Theatrum Orbis Terrarum [Atlas of the Whole World].Only included in the atlas edit...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1598
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2009
Insularum Aliquot Maris Mediterranei Descriptio.
Six maps on one sheet. In the center a map of Sicily, surrounded by maps of Sardinia, Djerba, The island of Elbe, Corfu and Malta.
Place & Date: Antwerp 1598
Selling price: $650
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Septentrionalium Regionum Descrip.
This influential map of the Arctic, including Scandinavia, Iceland, Greenland and part of the North American continent, includes also the legendary islands of i.a. Drogeo...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1598
Selling price: $1800
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MALTA, CALARIS, RHODES, FAMAGUSTA.
Four separate views of historical Mediterranean islands on one sheet. MALTA, CALARIS, RHODES ( Rhodus ), FAMAGUSTA.From the greatest publication in this genre!. The Civit...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1598
Selling price: $1150
Sold in 2008
Europa Regina
This is one of the most famous of cartographic oddities showing Europe in the shape of a woman. The representation of Europa Regina or Queen of Europe, was first drawn by...
Place & Date: Basel 1598
Selling price: $950
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Melita.
This tiny map, set into a sheet of text, is one of the earliest available maps of the strategically important Mediterranean islands of Malta and Gozo. The woodblock map s...
Place & Date: Basle, 1598
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2009
Hiberniae Britannicae insulae nova descriptio.
Copied from Mercator's influential wall map of the British Isles of 1564, this is certainly the best map of Ireland of the 16th century.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1598
Selling price: $1450
Sold in 2009
Pomeraniae, Wandalicae Regionis, Typ. - Livoniae Nova Descriptio, Ioanne Portantio auctore. - Ducatus Oswieczensis, et Zatoriensis, Descriptio.
Three maps on one sheet. The first map covers northern part of Pomerania. The map of Livonia is prepared by Johannes Portanius, who was a contemporary of Ortelius who als...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1598
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2009
.. Stett Genff.. (Geneva)
An uncommon and early woodblock view of Geneva as a medieval walled city on the shores of Lake Leman. The skyline is dominated by the Cathedral of St. Peter, where John C...
Place & Date: Basle 1598
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2009
Regni Bohemiae descriptio.
Fine and early map of Czechoslovakia after Johann Criginger and used by A.Ortelius in his atlas 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum [Atlas of the Whole World].Only included in the a...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1598
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2010
Moraviae, quae olim Marcomannorum Sedes, Corographia, A.D. Pavlo Fabritio Medico et Mathematico Descripta. . .
Copper engraving, uncolored as published. Fine and decorative early map of Moravia, Slovakia prepared by Paul Fabritius (1569) and revised by Crato.The map provides good ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1598
Selling price: $95
Sold in 2010
Pomeraniae, Wandalicae Regionis, Typ. - Livoniae Nova Descriptio, Ioanne Portantio auctore. - Ducatus Oswieczensis, et Zatoriensis, Descriptio.
Three maps on one sheet. The first map covers northern part of Pomerania. The map of Livonia is prepared by Johannes Portanius, who was a contemporary of Ortelius who als...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1598
Selling price: $210
Sold in 2010
Romaniae, (quae olim Thracia dicta) ..
An early impression, without text on verso. Very fine map centered on the Danube area. The map is based on the double sheet map by Jacob Gastaldi. Abraham Ortelius (1527-...
Place & Date: Antwerp, before 1598
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2010
Carpetaniae Partis Desc.1584. -Guipus Coae Regionis Typus.
An ornate and highly decorative set of three maps on one sheet, Carpetanin, (upper left), Guipuzcoa, (upper right) and Cadiz (lower center). The maps are highly decorativ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1598
Selling price: $210
Sold in 2010
Siena.
A fine early miniature map of Siena, 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: $40
Sold in 2014
Regnum Neapolitanum.
Very fine early miniature map of the Southern part of Italy, this map is from the first edition of the Langenes atlas, (later well known under the name of Bertius). Dutch...
Place & Date: Middelburg, 1598
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2010
Aprutium
Very fine early miniature map of a part of Italy, this map is from the first edition of the Langenes atlas, (later well known under the name of Bertius). Dutch text on ve...
Place & Date: Middelburg, 1598
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2014
Ischia insula
Very fine early miniature map of a part of Italy, this map is from the first edition of the Langenes atlas, (later well known under the name of Bertius). Dutch text on ve...
Place & Date: Middelburg, 1598
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2010
Valentia
Excellent early miniature map of a part of Spain; this map is from the first edition of the Langenes atlas (later well known under the name of Bertius). Dutch text on ver...
Place & Date: Middelburg, 1598
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2010
Hispania
Excellent early miniature map of a part of Spain; this map is from the first edition of the Langenes atlas (later well known under the name of Bertius). Dutch text on ver...
Place & Date: Middelburg, 1598
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2010
Tirolis Comita
Excellent early miniature map of a part of Austria; this map is from the first edition of the Langenes atlas (later well known under the name of Bertius). Dutch text on v...
Place & Date: Middelburg, 1598
Selling price: $27
Sold in 2014