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Russiae, Moscoviae et Tartariae Descriptio.
Engraved by Frans Hogenberg from an original of 1562 by Anthony Jenkinson of the English Muscovy Company. The map covers the region from the Gulf of Finland, Lithuania an...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1601
Selling price: $2500
Sold in 2010
The third Dutch artic voyage by W.Barentsz.
Scene during the third Dutch arctic voyage in order to find the north-east passage to India.Barentsz made three voyages (1594, 1595, 1596-1597) in search of the Northeast...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1601
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2016
LV. Quo loco tandem homines iterum in conspectum nobis dati sint 20. (The third Dutch artic voyage by W.Barentsz.)
Willem Barentsz encounter with Russian locals during the third Dutch arctic voyage in order to find the north-east passage to India.Barentsz made three voyages (1594, 159...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1601
Selling price: $70
Sold in 2023
Quo Pacto vix Magna Agilitate Navfra (The Third Dutch Arctic Voyage).
Fine Copper Engraving of "The Third Dutch Arctic Voyage", engraved by W. Barentsz. This scene pictures one of Barentsz's voyages attempting to find a North-East...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1601
Selling price: $99
Sold in 2015
Provincia
Miniature map of Provence after Ortelius published by Giovanni Battista Vrients. Names the cities of Arles, Aix, Avignon, Marseille, Antibes, Toulon, and Nice. Decorated ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, ca. 1601
Selling price: $24
Sold in 2016
Normandia.
Miniature map of Normandy after Ortelius published by Giovanni Battista Vrients. Among many others it names the cities of Paris, Amiens, Dieppe, Caen, and Rouen. Decorate...
Place & Date: Antwerp, ca. 1601
Selling price: $110
Sold in 2016
The third Dutch artic voyage by W.Barentsz.
These famous and desirable scene is engraved by de Bry depicting the two open ships during the return voyage during the third Dutch arctic voyage in order to find the nor...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1601
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2022
Daniae Typus.
A fine early map of Denmark and including southern Sweden by Abraham Ortelius, engraved in small format by J.B. Vrients. Latin text on verso.
Place & Date: Antwerp, ca 1601
Selling price: $46
Sold in 2020
Siciliae Veteris Typus.
A very beautiful early map of ancient Sicily. Title cartouche centered on the upper part: includes an inset map of the ancient city of Syracuse, a city notable for its ri...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1601
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2021
" Mürs Comitatus."
"Detailed and early map centred on Moers, Duisburg and Xanten. With two insets: ""Mürs Oppidum et Arx"" and ""Modiliana"&...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1602
Selling price: $120
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Hollandiae Antiquorum Catthorum..
Prepared by Jacob van Deventer in 1550. It shows Holland in great detail, including small towns, walled cities, rivers and lakes (many of which were reclaimed in the 17th...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1602
Selling price: $850
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Hollandiae Antiquorum Catthorum. . .
Prepared by Jacob van Deventer in 1550. It shows Holland in great detail, including small towns, walled cities, rivers and lakes (many of which were reclaimed in the 17th...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1602
Selling price: $1400
Sold in 2008
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Rare and early plan of Pozzuoli, in the province of Naples. Its Latin name was Puteoli 'little wells', referring to the many hot springs in the area, most notably Solfata...
Place & Date: Rome, 1586 / 1602
Selling price: $2450
Sold in 2008
Hungaria.
A scarce map of Hungary by Matteo Florimi (fl.1580-1612) was active in Sienna as a publisher and is perhaps more famous for his town views than his maps. Most of his maps...
Place & Date: Siena, 1602
Selling price: $1700
Sold in 2012
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Anglia, Regnum si quod aliud in toto Oceano ditissimuin et florentissimum. [imprints] Christophorus Saxton describedat, J.le Clerc ex.
Rare map of England, with elaborate title cartouche, and Royal coat-of-arms A close copy of the Saxton (c.1543-1610) / Ortelius map of 1603, however slightly smaller. Acc...
Place & Date: Paris, 1602
Selling price: $1850
Sold in 2009
Moravia.
Detailed and uncommon map of Moravia, now the eastern part of the Czech Republic. Including cities of Litta, Boskowitz, Landstein, Austerlitz.
Place & Date: Bussemacher, 1602
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2010
Hollandiae Antiquorum Catthorum. . .
Prepared by Jacob van Deventer in 1550. It shows Holland in great detail, including small towns, walled cities, rivers and lakes (many of which were reclaimed in the 17th...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1602
Selling price: $750
Sold in 2016
Die Stat und Vestung Kynsael.. Ihrlandt welchs vbr die dreissig Jahr der Cron England zu wider war. . .
Showing siege of Kinsale on 8 January 1602, when the Spanish forces surrender to the English. The Battle of Kinsale was a decisive turning point in Irish history, bringin...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1602
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2012
La Mirandola.
A rare and early town-plan with the siege of Mirandola. In the foreground Modena and in the background Mantua. To the left the French Royal flag as Mirandola had allied w...
Place & Date: Rome, 1586 / 1602
Selling price: $3000
Sold in 2012
La Toscana.
Rare map of Tuscany reissued by Orlandi after Bell'Armato's Chorographia Tusciae. This map derives from Bell'Armato's Chorographia Tusciae. The present map was first issu...
Place & Date: Rome, Giovanni Orlandi, 1602
Selling price: $5100
Sold in 2017
Namur Namen.
A striking, Langenes miniature 1602 copper engraved map of Namur in Belgium. With French text on the verso.BARENT LANGENES (1598-1610) was a publisher in Middelburg about...
Place & Date: Middleburg, 1602
Selling price: $17
Sold in 2020
Germania.
A beautiful general map of Germany, including Switzerland, Austria, The Netherlands and Belgium. From a Latin text edition. Based on Christiaan Sgrothen (1520-1608) map o...
Place & Date: Antwerp, ca 1570-1602
Selling price: $93
Sold in 2020
Helvetiae descriptio.
A fine map based upon a map by the Swiss cartographer Aegidicus Tschudi of 1538.
Place & Date: Antwerp 1603
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2008
Anglia Regnum si quod aliud in toto Oceano ditissimum et florentissimum.
Rare England map by Ortelius. Latin text on verso.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1603
Selling price: $1250
Sold in 2009
Pontus Euxinus
Detailed engraved map of the Black Sea by Abraham Ortelius. Covering the Black Sea with Ukraine, Crimea, and the surrounding countries. With two Renaissance cartouches. F...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1603
Selling price: $1050
Sold in 2011
Gallia Narbonens / Sabavdiae Ducat / Venuuxini comitatus Nova Descr.
Detailed maps of regions of southern and southeastern France by Ortelius. "Gallia Narbonens," the map on the top left, depicts the southern French Riviera coast...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1603
Selling price: $124
Sold in 2010
GERMANIAE Veteris, typus. Ex conatibus geographicis Abrahami Ortelij.
Historical map of Germany and much of central Europe, including the Low Countries, Poland, Switzerland, Austria and including most important European rivers. According to...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1603
Selling price: $220
Sold in 2011
Hollandiae Antiquorum.
A third state of this mile stone map published by Ortelius on the basis of the map drawn by Jacob van Deventer in abt. 1550. Decorated with a large strapwork title cartou...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1603
Selling price: $555
Sold in 2015
Limburgensis Ducatus Nova Descriptio . .
This hand colored Mercator/Hondius map of the Duchy of Limburg is now of northeastern Belgium and southern Netherlands. Large title cartouche with coat of arms. Latin tex...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1603
Selling price: $275
Sold in 2015
Islandia.
From the Latin text edition of the Theatrum of 1603 (according to van den Broecke only 300 copies printed). The most famous map of Iceland. On the south side a series of ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1603
Selling price: $7500
Sold in 2018
Anglia.
Miniature map of England and Wales from Ortelius-Coignet atlas published by Hulsius in Frankfurt after Abraham Ortelius. The title is contained in a strapwork cartouche.I...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1604
Selling price: $410
Sold in 2014
Hispaniae nova descriptio de integro multis in locis.
Nice example of the Kaerius-Hondius map of Spain and Portugal. A dark impression of this fine decorative map.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1605
Selling price: $360
Sold in 2018
The sea coastes of the landes of Poyctou and Bordeaux ...as they shew and appeare, when you sayle there alongst betweene Picquelier and the River of Bordeaux called the Garonne
This particular chart is a fine example of the west coast of France including Isle de Re and Oléron. The nearby mainland displays La Rochelle and the town of Charente ne...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1588 - 1605
Selling price: $3700
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Lovanium.
A special and extremely rare engraving designed by the Leuven painter Joes vander Baren. It is about the Lovanium of Leuven engraving. Vander Baren had previously painted...
Place & Date: Antwerpen, 1605
Selling price: $570
Sold in 2020
Heverlea.
A special and extremely rare engraving designed by the Leuven painter Joes vander Baren. This is the Heverlea engraving. The engraving was etched by Peeter vander Borcht ...
Place & Date: Antwerpen, 1605
Selling price: $249
Sold in 2021
Picardia.
From "Cosmographia Universalis" by Paul Merula, printed in Amsterdam in 1605. The maps used to illustrate the first edition of Cosmography were engraved in by J...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1605
Selling price: $32
Sold in 2019
Pianta del Conclave fatta in sede vacante di Clemente 8° per l'elettione del nuovo Pontefice cominciando il di 14 di marzo 1605.
Scarce representation of the conclave of March 1605. Numbered key with 69 references below the plan."Pope Clement VIII died in March 1605. The 60 cardinal electors w...
Place & Date: Italy, ca. 1605
Selling price: $2000
Sold in 2020
Basilea (Basle).
This superb miniature view of the city of Basilea is from an edition of the famous Abraham Saur's Theatrum Urbium.The Theatrum Urbium was republished numerous times. The ...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1605
Selling price: $56
Sold in 2023
Corsica.
A fine miniature map of the island of Corsica. North to the left.
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1606
Selling price: $150
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Nortcaep
A beautifully engraved early 17th century map of Scandinavia, west to the top. With lovely hand color.
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1606
Selling price: $200
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Franckenlandt Francia Orientalis.
Map centred on Alsace-Lorraine.Mercator was born in Rupelmonde in Flanders and studied in Louvain under Gemma Frisius, Dutch writer, astronomer and mathematician. The exc...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1606
Selling price: $45
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Fionia.
"Early map, including Odense and the island ""Langeland"".Mercator was born in Rupelmonde in Flanders and studied in Louvain under Gemma Frisius,...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1606
Selling price: $65
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Holsatia ducatus.
Map of Holsatia. Including the town of Hamburg.Mercator was born in Rupelmonde in Flanders and studied in Louvain under Gemma Frisius, Dutch writer, astronomer and mathem...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1606
Selling price: $60
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Daniae Regnu.
Map of Denmark, with a sea monster in the sea.Mercator was born in Rupelmonde in Flanders and studied in Louvain under Gemma Frisius, Dutch writer, astronomer and mathema...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1606
Selling price: $110
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Jutia Septentrionalis.
Early and detailed map of Jutland.Mercator was born in Rupelmonde in Flanders and studied in Louvain under Gemma Frisius, Dutch writer, astronomer and mathematician. The ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1606
Selling price: $67
Sold in 2022
Warwicum Northamtonia Huntingdonia Cantabrigia..
A map of the south-eastern part of England.Mercator was born in Rupelmonde in Flanders and studied in Louvain under Gemma Frisius, Dutch writer, astronomer and mathematic...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1606
Selling price: $140
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Eboracum, Lincolnia, Derbia, Staffordia, Notinghamia..
Map of the eastern part of England from about Middlesbrough to Yarmouth, inland to include Coventry, Nottingham, Sheffield, Leeds, and York.Mercator was born in Rupelmond...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1606
Selling price: $110
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West Morlandia, Lancastria..
A map of the north-western part of England, including the Island of Man.Mercator was born in Rupelmonde in Flanders and studied in Louvain under Gemma Frisius, Dutch writ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1606
Selling price: $110
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Northumbria, Cumberlandia et Dunelmensis Episcopatus.
A map of the most northern part of England.Mercator was born in Rupelmonde in Flanders and studied in Louvain under Gemma Frisius, Dutch writer, astronomer and mathematic...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1606
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2015
Anglia regnum.
Counties are shown in outline and named. The coast of Ireland is shown across the Irish Sea.Mercator was born in Rupelmonde in Flanders and studied in Louvain under Gemma...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1606
Selling price: $300
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Irlandiae Regnum.
Two fine and early separate maps of southern and northern part of Ireland, can be joined.Mercator was born in Rupelmonde in Flanders and studied in Louvain under Gemma Fr...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1606
Selling price: $420
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Saltzburg Achiepiscopatus cum Ducatu Carinthiae.
A map centered on the country of the Austrian city of SaltsburgMercator was born in Rupelmonde in Flanders and studied in Louvain under Gemma Frisius, Dutch writer, astro...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1606
Selling price: $102
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Austria archiducatus.
Map of Austria.Mercator was born in Rupelmonde in Flanders and studied in Louvain under Gemma Frisius, Dutch writer, astronomer and mathematician. The excellence of his w...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1606
Selling price: $90
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Westfalia Cum Dioecesi Bremensi.
Map of north western part of Germany. Including the towns of Emden, Bremen, etc and the river Elbe. Decorative title cartouche in the upper left-hand corner.Mercator was ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1606
Selling price: $60
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Berghe Ducatus Marck Comitatus et Colonien..
Map of the province of Westphalia. Including the River Rhine and the towns of Cologne, Coblenz and Frankfurt. Title cartouche in the lower right-hand corner. With hand-wr...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1606
Selling price: $50
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Murs Comitatus.
Two maps on one sheet: left hand map showing part of the Netherlands with rivers Rhine and Maas. The right hand map the river Rhine from Zanten till Münchengladbach, wit...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1606
Selling price: $40
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Sclavonia, Croatia, Bosnia cum Dalmatiae Parte.
Detailed and early map of the former Yugoslavia. Signed lower left.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2008
Walachia, Servia, Bulgaria, Romania.
Map of the Eastern Balkans.Mercator was born in Rupelmonde in Flanders and studied in Louvain under Gemma Frisius, Dutch writer, astronomer and mathematician. The excelle...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1606
Selling price: $140
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Morea olim Peloponnesus.
Gerard Mercator's map of the Greece's Peloponnesus peninsula called and labelled Morea. A few of the other smaller islands appear included the larger Cerigo (today's Cyth...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1606
Selling price: $160
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Burgundia Ducatus.
One of the earliest maps of Burgundy.Mercator was born in Rupelmonde in Flanders and studied in Louvain under Gemma Frisius, Dutch writer, astronomer and mathematician. T...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1606
Selling price: $200
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L´Isle de France. Parisiesis Agri Descriptio..
Very detailed map of Isle de France, prepared by François de la Guillotiere. Centered on Paris and showing cities like Saint-Denis, Pontoise, Senlis, Meaux, etc. And dep...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1606
Selling price: $170
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Aquitania australis Regnu Arelatense cum consinijs.
Map of the southern part of France, centered on region of Auvergne, including Bourgogne, Provence, Limousine and Languedoc.Mercator was born in Rupelmonde in Flanders and...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1606
Selling price: $140
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Gallia.
Fine map of France.Mercator was born in Rupelmonde in Flanders and studied in Louvain under Gemma Frisius, Dutch writer, astronomer and mathematician. The excellence of h...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1606
Selling price: $140
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Legionis, Biscaiae et Guipiscoae Typus.
Map showing the Spanish northern coast from the Asturies to the city of Bayonne. Showing the cities of Oviedo, Burgos, Bilbao, etc. Decorated with two sailing ships and d...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1606
Selling price: $140
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Frisia Occidentalis.
Finely engraved map of the provinces Groningen and Friesland. Mercator was born in Rupelmonde in Flanders and studied in Louvain under Gemma Frisius, Dutch writer, astron...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1606
Selling price: $410
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Anglia regnum.
Counties are shown in outline and named. The coast of Ireland is shown across the Irish Sea.Mercator was born in Rupelmonde in Flanders and studied in Louvain under Gemma...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1606
Selling price: $250
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Belgii..
A beautiful map of the Low Countries, with a nice cartouche and a sail ship going the England.
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1606
Selling price: $420
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Taurica Chersonesus.
One of the earliest detailed maps of the Crime and Ukraine.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $105
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Castiliae Veteris et Novae Descriptio.
Very attractive map of Castillia with Madrid and Toledo in the centre of the map. Also showing Salamanca, Saragossa, Cordoba, etc.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $125
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Murs Comitatus.
Two maps on one sheet: left hand map showing part of the Netherlands with rivers Rhine and Maas. The right hand map the river Rhine from Zanten till Monchengladbach, with...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $230
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Germania.
Map of Germany by G. Mercator who was born in Rupelmonde in Flanders and studied in Louvain under Gemma Frisius, Dutch writer, astronomer and mathematician.The excellence...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $80
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Gallia.
Fine map of France.Mercator was born in Rupelmonde in Flanders and studied in Louvain under Gemma Frisius, Dutch writer, astronomer and mathematician. The excellence of h...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $120
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Hungaria.
A nice map showing the details of Hungary.Mercator was born in Rupelmonde in Flanders and studied in Louvain under Gemma Frisius, Dutch writer, astronomer and mathematici...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $190
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Eboracum, Lincolnia, Derbia, Staffordia, etc.
Map of the eastern part of England from about Middlesbrough to Yarmouth, inland to include Coventry, Nottingham, Sheffield, Leeds, and York.Mercator was born in Rupelmond...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $170
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Chorographica Tabula Lacus Lemanni Locorumque Circumiacentium Auctore Iac. G. Genevensi
Beautiful old colored map of the Lake Geneva after J. Goulart from the first Latin edition of the Mercator-Hondius Atlas. Rare edition with the five portraits of Calvin, ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $2500
Sold in 2008
Portugalliae que olim Lusitania..
The best-known map of Portugal, after Alvares Secco (1560), orientated west to the top of the sheet. Secco's map was copied by many mapmakers and publishers for upwards o...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $395
Sold in 2009
Chorographica Tabula Lacus Lemanni Locorumque Circumiacentium Auctore Iac. G. Genevensi.
Beautiful old colored "carte à figures" map of the Lake Geneva after J. Goulart from the first Latin edition of the Mercator-Hondius Atlas. Rare edition with t...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $4500
Sold in 2013
Sardinia.
Early depiction of the island of Sardinia. A number of place-names and with mountains in relief appearance. Text on the back in French.Mercator was born in Rupelmonde in ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $411
Sold in 2011
Lombardiae Alpestris Pars Occidentalis cum Valesia.
Very fine map centered on northern Italy.Mercator was born in Rupelmonde in Flanders and studied in Louvain under Gemma Frisius, Dutch writer, astronomer and mathematicia...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $440
Sold in 2009
Berry ducatus.
Mercator/Hondius map of central France, shows city of Bourges. Accompanying text on verso.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2010