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Berry ducatus.
Mercator/Hondius map of Loire Valley region of central France, of what was previously called the province of Berry. The city of Bourges, which was the capital of Berry, i...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $33
Sold in 2010
Trier & Lutzenburg
Map with great original color of areas surrounding the city of Trier, the oldest city in Germany, and Lutzenberg region in northern Switzerland from the Mercator-Hodius a...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $56
Sold in 2010
Austria Descrip.
Beautifully detailed map from Ortelius' Theatrum Orbis Terrarum of Austria with Danube River running horizontally acress the map. Depicted are the cities of Vienna, Linz ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1606
Selling price: $70
Sold in 2010
Hungaria
Fine Mercator/Hondius map of Hungary. Includes the Boloton (Balaton) Lake, Neusiedler Sea, the city of Budapest and the rivers, forests, mountains, villages of castles of...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2010
Chorographica Tabula Lacus Lemanni Locorumque Circumiacentium Auctore Iac. G. Genevensi.
Beautiful detailed "carte à figures"- map of the Lake Geneva after J. Goulart. Only published in the first three editions of J. Hondius’ atlas. Rare edition ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $1200
Sold in 2012
Castillae veteris et novae descrition.
Jodocus Hondius map of Castille, showing Zaragoza, Valencia, Alicante, Cartagena, Madrid, Cordoba, Sevilla, Salamanca, Palencia, Segovia, Toledo, Cuenca, Granada, etc.No ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, after 1606
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2012
Anglia Regnum.
A map of England from the Mercator's Atlas III. 1606 latin edition.A finely engraved map of Elizabethan England filled with names taken from the Saxton map of 1579. Merca...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2015
Austria archiducatus.
Miniature map of Austria. From one of the earliest pocket atlases.Mercator was born in Rupelmonde in Flanders and studied in Louvain under Gemma Frisius, Dutch writer, as...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2014
Saxoniae Superioris Lusatiae Misniaeque. . .
Map depicting part of Saxony and is centered on the towns of Dresden and Meissen.Mercator was born in Rupelmonde in Flanders and studied in Louvain under Gemma Frisius, D...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2020
Senensis ditionis accurata descriptio - Corsica - Marcha anconae, olim picenum.
Extremely rare 1606 English text edition of the 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum' the first modern atlas of the world.Fine example of Ortelius' maps of Corsica, part of Tuscany a...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1606
Selling price: $425
Sold in 2015
Chorographica Tabula Lacus Lemanni Locorumque Circumiacentium Auctore Iac. G. Genevensi.
Beautiful detailed carte à figures map of the Lake Geneva after J. Goulart. Only published in the first three editions of J. Hondius’ atlas. Rare edition with the five...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $1150
Sold in 2017
Descriptio Livoniae / Prussia.
A rare miniature map of the area which is now the modern Poland. Title cartouche on the lower right corner.First published in 1598 in his Caert-Thresoor, the plates were ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cornelis Claes, 1606
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2016
Descriptio Silesiae / Silesia.
A rare miniature map of the area which is now in modern Poland. Title cartouche on the lower left corner.First published in 1598 in his Caert-Thresoor, the plates were ex...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cornelis Claes, 1606
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2016
Descriptio Islandiae / Islandiae.
A rare miniature map of Iceland. With two sea monsters.First published in 1598 in his Caert-Thresoor, the plates were executed by the most famous engravers in Amsterdam, ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cornelis Claes, 1606
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2016
Descriptio Russiae et Moschoviae / Russia.
A rare miniature map of Russia. Title cartouche on the upper right corner.First published in 1598 in his Caert-Thresoor, the plates were executed by the most famous engra...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cornelis Claes, 1606
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2017
Britannia & Normandia cum consinib regionibus.
Map of Brittany and Normandy, including part of Picardy. Mercator was born in Rupelmonde in Flanders and studied in Louvain under Gemma Frisius, Dutch writer, astronomer ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $170
Sold in 2016
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: $50
Sold in 2016
Hibernia.
An attractive miniature map of the island of Ireland, published by Petrus Bertius, in Amsterdam at the beginning of the seventeenth century.Ireland is seen 'lying on its ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $105
Sold in 2019
Scotia.
An attractive miniature map of Scotland, published by Petrus Bertius, in Amsterdam at the beginning of the seventeenth century.Scotland is seen 'lying on its back' , as n...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $75
Sold in 2020
Anglia.
An attractive miniature map of Anglia (England & Wales), published by Petrus Bertius, in Amsterdam at the beginning of the seventeenth century.Anglia is seen 'lying o...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2020
Corfu.
A lovely miniature map of the Greek island of Corfu, published by Petrus Bertius, in Amsterdam at the beginning of the seventeenth century. The map is orientated with nor...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $65
Sold in 2023
Islandia.
A superbly decorative miniature map of Iceland, published by Petrus Bertius, in Amsterdam at the beginning of the seventeenth century.This facinating map is littered with...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $190
Sold in 2019
Namur.
A lovely miniature map of Namur. It has an attractive strap-work title, and has detailed topography and information. Bertius (1565-1629) was a Flemish cartographer, theol...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2020
Candia.
An attractive miniature map of Crete by Petrus Bertius, published in Amsterdam at the beginning of the seventeenth century. The sea is hatched, it has a strap-work title ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2023
Die Zyp.
A lovely miniature map of the Zijpepolder in The Netherlands, published by Petrus Bertius, in Amsterdam at the beginning of the seventeenth century. There is a small rect...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2020
Transilvania.
A really attractive miniature map of the region of Transylvania is central Romania, as it was at the beginning of the seventeenth century. Published by Petrus Bertius in ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $90
Sold
Andaluzia.
An attractive miniature map of the southern Spanish region of Andalusia published by Petrus Bertius, in Amsterdam at the beginning of the seventeenth century. It features...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2019
Salisburgensis Dioecesis.
An attractive miniature map of the ancient Diocese of Salzburg in western Austria, published by Petrus Bertius, in Amsterdam at the beginning of the seventeenth century. ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2021
Frisia.
An attractive miniature map of the north Holland, region of Frisia, published by Petrus Bertius, in Amsterdam at the beginning of the seventeenth century. It features a s...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2019
Nortcaep.
A lovely miniature map of Scandinavia, published by Petrus Bertius, in Amsterdam at the beginning of the seventeenth century.North is orientated to the right. The sea is ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $140
Sold in 2019
Silesia.
This lovely miniature map of Silesia (Poland) is from an atlas by Barent Langenes, named “Caert-Thresoor”, published by Cornelis Claesz in Middelburg in 1598. This ma...
Place & Date: Leiden/Amsterdam, 1603 or 1606
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2023
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Italia. [Set of 21 maps]
A lovely miniature set of maps of Italy, published by Petrus Bertius, in Amsterdam at the beginning of the seventeenth century. The maps have strap-work titles, and inclu...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $1160
Sold in 2019
Hispania.
A lovely miniature map of Spain, published by Petrus Bertius in the early seventeenth century in Amsterdam. Map features are a strap-work title, a mileage scale, many tow...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2019
Majorcae et Minorcae descrip.
A really decorative miniature map of the two largest Balearic Islands, Majorca and Minorca, in Spain, published by Petrus Bertius in the early seventeenth century in Amst...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $95
Sold in 2019
Valentia.
A fine miniature map of the Spanish provence of Valencia, published by Petrus Bertius in Amsterdam early in the seventeenth century. The map features a nice strap-work ti...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $75
Sold in 2019
Dania.
A fine miniature map of Denmark, published by Petrus Bertius in Amsterdam early in the seventeenth century. The map is expertly engraved by Petrus Kaerius, and has a stra...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $55
Sold in 2019
Gotia.
A miniature map showing a part of Sweden, including Stockholm. Title cartouche on the lower right corner. First published in 1598 in his "Caert-Thresoor", the p...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2019
Cefalonia.
A fine miniature map of Cephalonia, the largest of the Ionian islands in western Greece, published by Petrus Bertius in Amsterdam early in the seventeenth century. The ma...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2021
Zante Insula.
A fine miniature map of Zante (Zakynthos), the third largest of the Ionian islands in western Greece, published by Petrus Bertius in Amsterdam early in the seventeenth ce...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2021
Scio.
A fine miniature map of Scio (Chios) in the Aegian Sea, in eastern Greece, published by Petrus Bertius in Amsterdam early in the seventeenth century. The lovely map and h...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2021
Descriptio Insulae Gothland.
A nice early miniature map by Petrus Bertius of the south eastern Swedish island of Gotland. Titled in bold above the map, with a large, ornate compass rose and rhumb lin...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $65
Sold in 2021
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Germania. [Set of 15 maps]
A lovely miniature set of maps of Germany, as published by Petrus Bertius, in Amsterdam at the beginning of the seventeenth century. The maps have various strap-work titl...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2019
Descriptio Normanniae.
A charming small map of Normandy, showing Rouen ,Amiens, Cherbourg, Harfleur etc. From the Bertius atlas Tabularum geographicarum contractarum. Bertius (1565-1629) was a ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2020
Descriptio Britanniae.
A charming small map of Britany in N.W. France. Showing Brest, St. Malo, Rennes, Nantes etc. From the Bertius atlas Tabularum geographicarum contractarum. Bertius (1565-1...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2021
Russia.
A lovely detailed miniature map of Russia, centered on Moscow, with the southern reaches of the map showing Persia, Armenia and Tashkent, the Black and Caspian Seas, and ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2020
Selandia.
An original early 17th century copper engraved miniature antique map of the S.W. Dutch province of Zeeland by Petrus Bertius, that was published in Amsterdam at the begin...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2022
Hollandiae.
An original early 17th century copper engraved miniature antique map of Holland by Petrus Bertius, that was published in Amsterdam at the beginning of the seventeenth cen...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2019
Descriptio Comitatus Embdani.
An original early 17th century copper engraved miniature antique map of East Friesland by Petrus Bertius, that was published in Amsterdam at the beginning of the seventee...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2023
Description Norwegiae et Sveciae.
An attractive miniature map of Sweden and Norway, and northern Europe by Petrus Bertius, published in Amsterdam at the beginning of the seventeenth century. Apart from Sc...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2019
Elba.
An attractive miniature map of the Mediterranean and Italian island of Elba, situated off the Tuscan coast. The island found fame as the Emperor Napoleon was briefly exil...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2020
Graecia.
An very attractive miniature map of Greece, published by Petrus Bertius, and published in Amsterdam at the beginning of the seventeenth century. A map that is beautifully...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $55
Sold in 2020
Zuydhollad.
An very attractive miniature map of south Holland, published by Petrus Bertius, and published in Amsterdam at the beginning of the seventeenth century. A map that is beau...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $45
Sold in 2022
Descriptio Alsatiae.
A decorative miniature map of Alsace - a cultural and historical region in eastern France, on the west bank of the upper Rhine next to Germany and Switzerland. A map full...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2019
Waldeck Comitatus.
An early regional map by Mercator, centered on the central German towns of Waldeck and Korbach, etc. The map highlights major towns and cities, some highlighted in red, r...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $22
Sold in 2021
Descriptio Comitatus Hannoniae.
A striking miniature 1606 copper engraved map of the Hainaut Province, in the Wallonia region of Belgium. The title is inside a strap-work cartouche. The map is orienta...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $15
Sold in 2020
Siciliae Veteris typus.
A very decorative map shows the island Sicily with an inset map of port Gyas, including decorative scroll-cartouches and ships.From a 1606 English edition of Ortelius' Th...
Place & Date: London, 1606
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2021
Portugalliae que olim Lusitania, novissima et exactissima descriptio Auctore Vernando Alvaro Secco. . .
A splendid map of Portugal, engraved by Baptista van Doetecum, it is richly embellished with a title, a dedication and a scale cartouches, in addition, with two sailing s...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1606
Selling price: $370
Sold in 2020
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 mathem...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $110
Sold in 2020
Ischia, quae olim Aenaria.
Rare english edition A beautiful map of Ischia island with a part of the coast near Naples. Superbly engraved and highly decorative. Several sailing ships, three cartouc...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1606
Selling price: $550
Sold in 2021
Hispaniae nova describtio...
Hondius beautiful map of Spain and Portugal, including the Balearic islands and a small tip of northern Africa. Fully hand-coloured double-page engraving, done by Peter v...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1606
Selling price: $304
Sold in 2023
Cornub Devonia Somerset etc. ANGLIAE IIII TABULA.
Mercators map of Southwest England and South Wales. Decorated with a small strapwork title cartouche ‘Cornub. Devonia. Somerset etc.’From the Latin text edition of Jo...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1607
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2014
Transsylvania.
A fine copper engraved map. An original map from Mercator's 'Atlas minor', republished by Hondius. Published by Adrianus Bottius with Latin text on verso.This map shows i...
Place & Date: Dordrecht, ca 1607
Selling price: $180
Sold in 2017
Corsica. Sardinia.
A lovely copper engraved map from Mercator's 'Atlas minor', republished by Hondius. Published by Adrianus Bottius with Latin text on verso.This map shows Corsica and Sard...
Place & Date: Dordrecht, ca 1607
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2017
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[Pict warrior holding a head].
A marvellous print by de Bry of a Pict (Celtic / Scottish) warrior holding the head (dripping blood) of a defeated opponent. His nude body is stained and painted, much li...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1607
Selling price: $275
Sold in 2017
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[An accurate picture of a male neighbour of a Pict].
The male neighbours of the Picts wore cloth cassocks or jerkins. They grew their hair and moustaches long but shaved their chins. Around their waists they had girdles fro...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1607
Selling price: $275
Sold in 2017
NOTINGAMIAE Comitatus olim pars Coritanorum.
1607 first edition Latin text verso. A very attractive and detailed early 17th Century map of Nottinghamshire - based on the first survey of England by Christopher Saxton...
Place & Date: London, 1607
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2020
(Title page) Britannia.
Very attractive and decorative early 17th century frontispiece from Camden's Britannia.Below the title, a map of Britain, inscribed with the Latin names places and tribes...
Place & Date: London, W.Hole, ca. 1607
Selling price: $305
Sold in 2017
Livonia.
Antique map of the Baltic States Estonia & Latvia.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1607
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2017
Livonia.
Early miniature map of Estonia and Latvia. Including the southern tip of Finland and the south eastern tip of Sweden, including Stockholm.From an pocket edition of the Me...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1607
Selling price: $225
Sold in 2020
Macedonia, Epirus et Achaia.
A fine Mercator / Hondius copper engraved map of Macedonia and parts of Greece and Albania from Mercator's "Atlas Minor", published in Amsterdam in 1607. It fea...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1607
Selling price: $161
Sold in 2018
Palatinat Rhen.
A copper engraved map from Mercator's "Atlas Minor", published in 1607. The County Palatine of the Rhine in Germany was later the Electorate of .... Bavarian el...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1607
Selling price: $26
Sold in 2020
Hassia Landgraviatus.
A copper engraved map from Mercator's "Atlas Minor", published in 1607. Showing the Hesse-Kassel region centred on Kessel, Germany with the course of the Fulda...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1607
Selling price: $10
Sold in 2020
Hollandia Occidens.
Quad's atlas publication of Jacob van Deventer's survey of the province of Holland surveyed in 1537 and published first in Antwerp in nine sheets by Bernard van der Putte...
Place & Date: Cologne 1592 - 1608
Selling price: $360
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Trajectum. (Utrecht)
A bird's eye view of the town. From the first Dutch translation of Guicciardini's description of the Netherlands.
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1608
Selling price: $230
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Tarvisina Marchia et Tirolis Comitatus.
Decorative regional map, extending from the Gulf of Venice to Tirol, centered on Lago di Garda and Verona.Shows Venice, Padua, Ferrara, Crema, etc. From the first French-...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1608
Selling price: $70
Sold in 2021
(Irlandiae Regnum - Northern part of Ireland)
Expertly engraved map of Ireland, being the top sheet of Mercator's two-sheet map of Ireland, including sailing ships and a sea monster. From an early edition of Mercator...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1607-1608
Selling price: $275
Sold in 2020
Scotia.
Map of the Scotland from the first French-text edition of Jodocus Hondius'' Atlas Minor.Shortly after the publication of the big folio-atlases the need was apparently fel...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1608
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2008
Scotiae Tabula. III.
Map depicting the northern part of Scotland. From the first French-text edition of Jodocus Hondius'' Atlas Minor.Shortly after the publication of the big folio-atlases th...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1608
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2008
Lotharingia Meridiona.
Map depicting the southern part of the French region Lorraine. From the first French-text edition of Jodocus Hondius'' Atlas Minor.Shortly after the publication of the bi...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1608
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2011
Burgundiae Duca.
Map depicting the French region Burgundy. From the first French-text edition of Jodocus Hondius'' Atlas Minor.Shortly after the publication of the big folio-atlases the n...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1608
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2008