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Gallia IIII Nova Tabula (France)
Sebastian Münster's map of France. Appeared in his "Geographia Universalis", first published in 1540. The Geographia was a new and important edition of Ptolemy...
Place & Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1545
Selling price: $240
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Polonia et Ungaria XX Nova Tabula (Poland and Hungary)
The first edition of Munster's map of Poland, Lithuania, the Ukraine, Muscovy and the Balkans. Appeared in his "Geographia Universalis", first published in 1540...
Place & Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1545
Selling price: $425
Sold in 2014
Tabula nova prima Europa.
This map comes from The first edition of Munster's "Geographia Universalis", first published in 1540. It is thus the first modern map of Europe, with south orie...
Place & Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1545
Selling price: $1090
Sold in 2014
Hispaniam dividunt à Gallia. . . (Spain and Portugal)
Fine map of Spain and Portugal by Sebastian Münster, with an additional title in the top "hispanicae regionis nova descriptio". Sebastian Münster (1448-1552) ...
Place & Date: Basel, ca 1545
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2016
Tabula Europae IX ( Greece & Turkey).
The first edition of Munster's map of Greece & Turkey, based upon Claudius Ptolemy which appeared in his "Geographia Universalis", first published in 1540. ...
Place & Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1545
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2021
Tabula Europae VIII ( Russia, Ukraine, Baltic, Scandinavia).
The first edition of Münster's map of the Russia, Ukraine, Baltic, Scandinavia, based upon Claudius Ptolemy which appeared in his "Geographia Universalis", fir...
Place & Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1545
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2019
Tabula Europae I (Great Britain).
Nice example of the rare third state of Ruscelli's map of the British Isles, based Claudius Ptolemy.The map first appeared in the 1561 edition of Ruscelli's edition of Pt...
Place & Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1545
Selling price: $170
Sold in 2017
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Tabula Europae IX [Greece and Turkey]
First edition of Münster's map of Greece & Turkey plus the region west of the Black Sea and north of the Aegean and Adriatic Seas.Based on Claudius Ptolemy which app...
Place & Date: Basel, 1545
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2019
(Balearic Islands: Majorca, Minorca, Ibiza, Formentera)
The first separate printed maps of the Balearics, and the first regional map to name "Catalunya" (Catalonia) on the Spanish mainland! A wood cut page with Ital...
Place & Date: Venice, 1528-1547
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2015
Italia Nova Tavola.
Gastaldi's modern map of Italy. From Giacomo Gastaldi's Atlas of 1548 which has been called the most comprehensive atlas, produced between Martin Waldseemüller's Geograp...
Place & Date: Venice, 1548
Selling price: $230
Sold in 2021
Gallia Nova Tavola.
Gastaldi's modern map of France. From Giacomo Gastaldi's Atlas of 1548 which has been called the most comprehensive atlas, produced between Martin Waldseemüller's Geogra...
Place & Date: Venice, 1548
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2021
Prussia E. Livonia Nova.
Gastaldi's modern map of Eastern Europe. Covers coasts of Poland and Livonia. From Giacomo Gastaldi's Atlas of 1548 which has been called the most comprehensive atlas, pr...
Place & Date: Venice, 1548
Selling price: $350
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Sicilia Sardinia Nova Tabula.
Gastaldi's modern map of Sicily and Sardinia. From Giacomo Gastaldi's Atlas of 1548 which has been called the most comprehensive atlas, produced between Martin Waldseemü...
Place & Date: Venice, 1548
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2023
Sconladia Nova.
Gastaldi's modern map of Scandinavia, Iceland, and the Baltic According to Bill Ginsberg the map was "built upon previous publications, in particular, the representa...
Place & Date: Venice, 1548
Selling price: $1100
Sold in 2022
Anglia e Hibernia Nova
Gastaldi's modern map of the British Isles. It is one of the earliest obtainable modern maps of the British Isles.From Giacomo Gastaldi's Atlas of 1548 which has been cal...
Place & Date: Venice, 1548
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2021
Germania nova Tabula MDXXXXII.
Gastaldi's modern map of Germany, from the Low Countries to Poland in the North and covering Germany and part of Hungary in the South.It is one of the earliest obtainable...
Place & Date: Venice, 1548
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2021
Piamonte Nova Tav.
Gastaldi's modern map of Piemonte, Northern Italy. It is one of the earliest obtainable modern maps of the region.From Giacomo Gastaldi's Atlas of 1548 which has been cal...
Place & Date: Venice, 1548
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2022
Marcha de Ancona Nova.
Gastaldi's modern map of Ancona. It is one of the earliest obtainable modern maps of the region.From Giacomo Gastaldi's Atlas of 1548 which has been called the most compr...
Place & Date: Venice, 1548
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2021
Tabula Europae I. (British Isles)
Gastaldi's map of the British Isles based upon Ptolemy.It is one of the earliest obtainable maps of the region .From Giacomo Gastaldi's Atlas of 1548 which has been calle...
Place & Date: Venice, 1548
Selling price: $450
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Tabula Aphricae I. (Morocco & Southeast Spain)
Gastaldi's map of North Africa with Morocco and the Balearic Islands to the Pillars of Hercules. Based upon Ptolemy.Embellished is a sailing ship, sea monster and several...
Place & Date: Venice, 1548
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2023
Tabula Europae VIII. (Russia, Ukraine, Baltic, Scandinavia)
Gastaldi's map showing the Baltic in the North and the Black Sea in the south. Based upon Ptolemy.Embellished is a sailing ship, sea monster and several curious animals.I...
Place & Date: Venice, 1548
Selling price: $325
Sold in 2022
Tabula Europae VII. (Sicily, Sardinia and Malta)
Gastaldi's map showing Sicily, Sardinia and Malta. Based upon Ptolemy.Embellished is a sailing ship, sea monster and several curious animals.It is one of the earliest obt...
Place & Date: Venice, 1548
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2023
Hispanien nach aller gelegenheit?
Early map of Spain and Portugal.
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1550
Selling price: $200
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Bohemia Praha Budweiss Cheb.
Fine wood block engraved map of Bohemia or The Czech Republic by Sebastian Münster. Published in "COSMOGRAPHIA". The page includes copper engravings of a royal...
Place & Date: Basel, ca. 1550
Selling price: $26
Sold in 2016
Hispanien nach aller seiner gelegenheit?
Early map of Spain and Portugal. Featuring vessels and a sea monster.
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1550
Selling price: $120
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Die erst Tafel, innhaltend das Schweytzerlandt, mit den anstossenden Ländern / Die ander Tafel des Rheinstroms, begreiffend die Pfaltz, Westereich, Eyfel ec. . .
A monumental map of the course of the Rhine river. This is a three-sheet woodcut map showing the Rhine from the headwaters in Switzerland to its mouth in the North Sea. T...
Place & Date: Basel, H.Petri, ca. 1550
Selling price: $375
Sold in 2020
Quarta Rhein et IX Nova Tabula.
Sebastian Münster, 1489-1552, outstanding geographer of Basle. Edited Ptolemy's atlas 'Geographia Universalis', editions 1540,-42, -45, -51 and -52. Published his 'Cosmo...
Place & Date: Basle, c. 1550
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2008
Universelle livre IIII.
An attractive map of southern Russia and the Caucasus from Sebastian Munster's 'Cosmographia'.
Place & Date: Basel, c. 1550
Selling price: $175
Sold in 2008
Landtafel des Ungerlands / Polands / Reussen / Littaw / Walachey und Bulgarey
Early, attractive colored woodcut map showing the area between Poland, Austria and Croatia in the West and from Moscow to Istanbul (Constantinople)in the East. From a Ger...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2008
Hispanien nach aller seiner Gelegenheit, in Bergen, Stetten, Volckern, Konigreichen, Wassern und Inseln
Early, attractive woodcut map of Spain and Portugal in beautiful handcolor.From a German edition of Cosmographia from Sebastian Munster.
Place & Date: Basle, 1550
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2009
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Genff [Geneva]
Early wood block print of Geneva. From his Geographia , that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge.The Cosmographia was one of the most successful and popular books o...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1550
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2008
![Die Stadt Florentz. [Florence].](/uploads/cache/26198-250x250.jpg)
Die Stadt Florentz. [Florence].
Early wood block print of Florence. From his Geographia , that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge.The Cosmographia was one of the most successful and popular books...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1550
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2008
Die Siebenburg, so man sunst auch Transsylvaniam nennt
Early, attractive colored woodcut map showing Transylvania today part of Romania. From a German edition of Cosmographia from Sebastian Munster.
Place & Date: Basle, 1550
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2008
Schlesia nach aller Gelegenheit / in Stetten / Wassern und Bergen / mit sampt andern anstossenden Ländern.
Early, attractive colored woodcut map showing Silesia in Poland. From a German edition of Cosmographia from Sebastian Munster.
Place & Date: Basle, 1550
Selling price: $220
Sold in 2009
Noua Graecia secundum omnes eius regiones & prouincias citra ultra & Hellespontum
Nice colored woodcut map of Greece with the western part of Turkey. From an edition of "Cosmographiae Universalis" by Sebastian Münster.
Place & Date: Basle, 1550
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2009
Helvetiae moderna descriptio
Early woodcut map showing Switzerland, South Germany and the Lake Constance. From a Latin edition of Cosmographia from Sebastian Munster, published around 1550.
Place & Date: Basle, 1550
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2010
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Tabula Asiae VII. [Central Asia and Russia]
Wood block printed map with letter press on verso. A Ptolemaic map of the region north and east of the Black Sea and Caspian Sea, extending to the Imaus Mountains.Münste...
Place & Date: Basle, c.1550
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2010
New Griechenlande/mit andern anstossenden Ländern/wie es zu unsern zeiten beschriben ist . . .
Map of Greece with the Peloponnese an all islands, partly showing Crete.
Place & Date: Basel, 1550
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2014
Moderna Evropae descriptio.
This important map represents one of the first printed maps of the European continent as a whole. Printed initially around 1550 in the famous Cosmographia, it was then re...
Place & Date: Basel, ca. 1550
Selling price: $700
Sold in 2013
Hispanien nach aller seiner gelegenheit...
Early map of Spain and Portugal. Featuring vessels and a sea monster.
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1550
Selling price: $140
Sold in 2013
Bende Stett Genff Gross und Klein/mit Einer Brucken Zusammen Gehencht. (Geneva)
Detailed hand-colored woodcut engraving of Geneva. The plate shows buildings, gardens and town walls. Map is adorned with a large armorial and has German text on the vers...
Place & Date: Basle, c1550
Selling price: $55
Sold in 2013
Moscovia.
Important hand-colored, woodcut map of Russia with Moscow and the Ukraine and published in Munster's "Cosmography". this is from the German text edition from 15...
Place & Date: Basel, 1550
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2013
(Poland & Transylvania.)
Fine hand-colored woodcut map of the Transylvania and Poland regions. From the earliest German edition of "Cosmography." One of the first printed maps. Sebastia...
Place & Date: Basel, 1550
Selling price: $90
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Moderna Evropa descriptio.
At the time Sebastian Münster published this map, it was not yet conventional to orient the North at the top. The uncommon orientation to the South for this map was deri...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550
Selling price: $1650
Sold in 2013
Bohemiae descriptio iuxta insigniores eius civitates & oppida
This particular woodblock map displays the Czech Republic centred on Prague and the Elb River. Cities, towns, rivers and mountains are shown along with a key at lower rig...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2014
Galliae Regionis Nova Descriptio.
Sebastian Münster's handsome and fascinating 1550 map of France and Belgium from the Pyrenees to Holland, also showing the south coast of England and the Channel Islands...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550
Selling price: $170
Sold in 2014
Poloniae Et Ungariae XV Nova Descriptio.
Early edition Munster's map of Poland, Lithuania, the Ukraine, Moscovy and the Balkans, extending from Prussia, Vilna and Smolensky in the north to Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cons...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550
Selling price: $180
Sold in 2014
Germanicae Nationis Descriptio.
This charming map was published in the 1550-edition of Sebastian Münster’s Cosmographia. This edition is considered to be Münster’s Magnum Opus. Early Munster's ma...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2014
Noua Graecia, secundum omneseius regiones & prouincias citra & ultra Hellespontum.
A fine graphic example of Munster's map of Greece, Turkey, and adjoining regions, from the 1550-Latin edition of Munster's Cosmographia. It extends to Just north of the D...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550
Selling price: $230
Sold in 2015
Sveviae et Bavariae Descriptio.
An attractive early woodcut map Bavaria in Southern Germany. The map extends from the source of the Danube through Ulm, Ingolstad, Regensberg and Passau on the Danube, th...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2020
Hispaniae Regionis Nova Descriptio.
One of the earliest obtainable maps of Spain & Portugal. Woodcut map featuring the mountain ranges, rivers, roads, and major cities. Fully engraved seas. Text block a...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2014
Helvetiae Moderna Descriptio.
Early woodcut map showing Switzerland, South Germany and the Lake Bodensee below right. Fine colored map of Switzerland and the Alps, with north oriented to the right. Th...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2014
Moderna Evropae Descriptio.
One of the first printed maps of the European continent as a whole. Initially, it appeared in the famous Cosmographia (CIRCA 1550) and then re-issued several times before...
Place & Date: Basel, circa 1550
Selling price: $2100
Sold in 2015
Nouvelle Description du Pays de Souysse. . .
Interesting woodblock map of Switzerland. From a French edition of Munster's Cosmographia Universalis.
Place & Date: Basle, 1550
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2015
Warhaffte abcontrafactur der namhafften Statt St. Quintin sampt aller Laegerstatt und umbligenden Ort wie sie von Konigs Philippi Heer im jar 1557 belagert worden
Rare and charming woodcut of St. Quentin. A bird's eye view of the siege of St. Quentin in Aisne (France) by the forces of King Philip II of Spain, in 1557. It shows the ...
Place & Date: Basel, H.Petri, ca. 1550
Selling price: $90
Sold in 2020
Die vierdt Landtafel haltet inn die alt Helvetiam Julii Cesaris. . .
A very early and rare wood engraved map of Switzerland orientated to the south. With many towns, lakes, rivers, and mountains named. Small boats are sailing on the lakes....
Place & Date: Zurich, ca 1550
Selling price: $165
Sold in 2018
Don Gallia.
A detailed vieGravelines, from an early edition of Sebastian Münster's 'Cosmography'.Münster's 'Cosmography' was one of the most influential geographical works of the 1...
Place & Date: Basil, c 1550
Selling price: $35
Sold in 2016
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[Moscovia].
Woodcut map of Russia centered on Moscow and including Ukraine and published in Münster's "Cosmography", this is from the German text edition from 1550 and is ...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1550
Selling price: $18
Sold in 2023
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[Moscouia].
Very early and detailed map centred on Moscow.
Place & Date: Basle, 1550
Selling price: $75
Sold in 2016
Riga.
One of the first printed views of Riga, from the famous 'Cosmographia' of Sebastian Münster.
Place & Date: Basle, 1550
Selling price: $90
Sold in 2021
Gallia oder Franckrych / Die Landtafel des dritten Buchs.
One of the earliest available maps of France. The wood cut printed map also shows small parts of Italy, Germany, and England. Filled with place names, rivers, mountains, ...
Place & Date: Zurich, ca 1550
Selling price: $235
Sold in 2018
Germania Teutschland/die ander Landtafel des anderen Buchs.
An early woodcut printed map. The fantastic map shows the area between Lübeck, Preßburg, Brixen and Gent. Oriented to the south.Filled with place names, rivers, mountai...
Place & Date: Zurich, ca 1550
Selling price: $160
Sold in 2018
Die Statt Paris etlicher mass figuriert und contrafehtet nach ietziger gelegenheit.
A remarkable cityscape, because unlike most cityscapes in the Cosmographia, where the bird's-eye perspective or the profile view on cities is used, here we find what come...
Place & Date: Basel, H.Petri, ca. 1550
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2020
Contrafehtung der fürnemmen Statt Venedig, sampt den umbligenden Inseln.
A large, early woodcut view of Venice (Venezia) and the surrounding islands by Sebastian Munster on the full double sheet. Two text cartouches providing additional inform...
Place & Date: Basel, H.Petri, ca. 1550
Selling price: $230
Sold in 2019
Der Koenigliche Statt Neapels abcontrafehtung.
A large, early woodcut view of the fortified city of Naples (Napoli) by Sebastian Munster on the full double sheet. The castle of San Martino is shown on the hill, as wel...
Place & Date: Basel, H.Petri, ca. 1550
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2020
Beschreibung der Herzlichen und weitberhümten Statt Mirandula.
A large, early woodcut view of Mirandola by Sebastian Munster on the full double sheet. Title and a description of the city on verso. Interesting bird's-eye view of the f...
Place & Date: Basel, H.Petri, ca. 1550
Selling price: $120
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Figur und gelegenheit der edlen und hoch berhümpten Statt Florentz.
An attractive woodblock view of the city of Florence surrounded in an elaborate Gothic border. The city is situated on both sides of the river Arno connected by four ston...
Place & Date: Basel, H.Petri, ca. 1550
Selling price: $195
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Bern in der Eydgnoschafft an dem Wasser Aar gelegen, figuriert nach ihrer gelegenheit.
This well rendered bird's-eye view depicts the fortified Swiss city of Bern. The detailed plan shows the Arola Fl or Aare River wrapping around the city with scores of in...
Place & Date: Basel, H.Petri, ca. 1550
Selling price: $125
Sold in 2020
Der Schönen und Weitberhümpten Statt Genua abcontrafactur.
A large, early woodcut view of Genoa (Genova) by Sebastian Munster on the full double sheet. Title and a description of the city on verso. The 'Cosmographia' is famous fo...
Place & Date: Basel, H.Petri, ca. 1550
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2019
Der Statt Rom in aller Welt bekant contrafehtung nach ietziger gelegenheit.
A large, early woodcut view of Rome (Roma) by Sebastian Munster on the full double sheet. On verso is a beautiful woodcut of the Sibylline Oracles (lat. Oracula Sibyllina...
Place & Date: Basel, H.Petri, ca. 1550
Selling price: $300
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Der Statt Rom boden und circkel sampt thor vnnd porten, wie sie gestanden ist vor zeiten, do sie noch in ihrer herrlichkeit was.
An early woodcut map of ancient Rome and its vicinity by Sebastian Münster. To the left of the map, a detailed explanation of the most important buildings seen on the ma...
Place & Date: Basel, H.Petri, ca. 1550
Selling price: $85
Sold in 2021
Beyde Stett Basel mit dem fürfliessenden Rhein und allen fürnemmen gebeüwen.
A double-page wood block bird's-eye view of the fortified Swiss city of Basel. Filled with detail, down to individual streets and buildings, bridges, towers and churches....
Place & Date: Basel, H.Petri, ca. 1550
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2019
Wien, die Hauptstatt im Ertzhertzogthumb Oestereich aller Welt wol bekant des gewaltigen widerstandshalb so wie zu unsern Zeiten hat wieder den grimmigen Feind der Christenzeit gethan.
"Anno Domini 1548. Viena Austriæ Hunc Habuait Situm." "Civitas Vienensis, Urbs metropolitana..."Decorative 2-full folio panoramic view of Vienna from...
Place & Date: Basel, H.Petri, ca. 1550
Selling price: $490
Sold in 2021
Die erst Tafel, innhaltend das Schweytzerlandt, mit den anstossenden Ländern / Die ander Tafel des Rheinstroms, begreiffend die Pfaltz, Westereich, Eyfel ec. . .
A monumental map of the course of the Rhine river. The three-sheet woodcut map showing the Rhine from the headwaters in Switzerland to its mouth in the North Sea. The map...
Place & Date: Basel, H.Petri, ca. 1550
Selling price: $325
Sold in 2020
Der Schönen und Weitberhümpten Statt Genua abcontrafactur.
A large, early woodcut view of Genoa (Genova) by Sebastian Münster on the full double sheet. Title and a description of the city on verso. The 'Cosmographia' is famous f...
Place & Date: Basel, H.Petri, ca. 1550
Selling price: $175
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SCLAVONIA ODER WINDISCH MARCK, BOSSEN, CRABATEN (Croatia, Dalmatia)
A beautifully colored, antique woodcut map of Dalmatia, Bosnia, Slovenia, Croatia.
Place & Date: Basle, 1550
Selling price: $130
Sold in 2021
Transilvania.
A beautifully colored map of the "Seven Cities" also known as 'Transsylvania', today western Romania.
Place & Date: Basle, 1550
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2021
Das gantz Franckreich..Belgica und Celtica. . .
This fine and beautifully hand colored original antique map of modern contemporary France in the mid 16th century was published by Sebastian Münster in the 1550's. Date ...
Place & Date: Basel, ca 1550
Selling price: $130
Sold in 2020
Das Engelland, mit dem anstossenden Reich Schottland. . . Britannia. . .
An antique map of England and Wales, with parts of Scottland and Ireland. Full title : Engellandt/ mit dem anstossenden Reich Schottlandt/ so vor zeiten Albion und Britan...
Place & Date: Basel ca 1550
Selling price: $325
Sold in 2020
Gemeine beschreibung aller Mitnaechtigen Laender, Schweden, Gothen, Nordwegien, Dennmarck, sc.
An early Sebastian Münster's woodcut map of Scandinavia, based on the 'Carta Marina' of Olaus Magnus, 1539. The map includes Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Iceland, S...
Place & Date: Basel, ca 1550
Selling price: $550
Sold in 2020