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A new mappe of the Romane Empire. . .
This delightful map of the Roman Empire has six lovely bird's-eye vignette views of important cities (Rome, Genoa, Jerusalem, Venice, Constantinople & Alexandria), an...
Place & Date: London, 1626
Selling price: $550
Sold in 2019
The Mape of Hungari. . .
A detailed and decorative map of Hungary, showing 2 sets of 4 costumed figures on each side of the map and views of Presburg, Ofen (Buda), Comorra and Raab. John Speed pr...
Place & Date: London, 1626
Selling price: $325
Sold in 2019
Spaine Newly Describedwith Many Indictions. . .
John Speed's map of Spain dated 1626, decorated with 10 costumed figures and 9 town plans of important early Spanish cities (Madrid, Sevilla, Livbona, Valladolid, Granada...
Place & Date: London, 1626
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2019
Italia Newly Augmented by J. Speede. . .
John Speed's lovely map of Italy dated 1626, decorated with 8 costumed pairs of various Italian figures, 6 town plans of early Italian cities, including (Verona, Naples, ...
Place & Date: London, 1626
Selling price: $468
Sold in 2020
Hispaniae nova et exacta descriptio.
Uncommon map of Spain and Portugal, engraved by David Custos.
Place & Date: Augsburg 1627
Selling price: $70
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Angliae Scotiae et Hiberniae sive Britannicarum Insularum &
Uncommon map of England, Scotland and Ireland, engraved by David Custos.
Place & Date: Augsburg 1627
Selling price: $50
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Carte de L'Europe, corrigée et augmentée desus toutes les autres cy ..
Rare map of Europe, dated 1627. First state, issued by Melchoir Tavernier. Most probably engraved by Cornelis Danckerts (the elder), a highly skilled engraver. Most proba...
Place & Date: Paris, 1627
Selling price: $1250
Sold in 2023
Nova Brabantiae Ducatus Tabula. . .
First and only edition with borders. This beautiful and very rare carte à figures map has been engraved by Dirk Gryp who engraved only three town views in the lower left...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1622-1627
Selling price: $2800
Sold in 2009
Carte de L'Europe, corrigée et augmentée desus toutes les autres cy ..
Rare map of Europe, dated 1627. First state, issued by Melchoir Tavernier. Most probably engraved by Cornelis Danckerts (the elder), a highly skilled engraver. Most proba...
Place & Date: Paris, 1627
Selling price: $850
Sold in 2019
Hartforde Shire (Hertfordshire).
Fine miniature map of Hertfordshire by Pieter Van Den Keere. An attractive 17th Century map of Hertfordshire that was originally engraved between 1599 and 1605. Origina...
Place & Date: London, George Humble, 1627
Selling price: $85
Sold in 2012
Carte particuliere des costes de Poittou, Aunis et de la Rochelle.
Finely designed map of Isle Ré and the French coast with La Rochelle.Title cartouche with title in French and Dutch. Underneath insets of fortifications of St. Martin an...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1627
Selling price: $3800
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EUROP, and the cheife Cities contayned therin described. . .
A nice impression of this very decorative and prestigious "carte à figures"- map. Speed published the first world atlas in England.Many figures in national cos...
Place & Date: London, 1627
Selling price: $1400
Sold in 2013
Oxfordshire.
Fine miniature map of Oxfordshire by Pieter Van Den Keere. An attractive 17th Century map of Oxfordshire that was originally engraved between 1599 and 1605. Original copp...
Place & Date: London, George Humble, 1627
Selling price: $135
Sold in 2014
Comites Ac Duces Lucelburgici...
Rare copper engraved plate showing a genealogical tree of rulers of Luxembourg and Bohemia. With a nice and detailed view of the city of Luxembourg below. Highly decorati...
Place & Date: Strasbourg, 1627
Selling price: $220
Sold in 2014
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Europ, and the Cheife Cities Contained therein Described... [Europe]
A classic decorative map of Europe, published in Speed's "Prospect of the Most Famous Parts of the World", with ten costume vignettes down the sides and eight c...
Place & Date: London c. 1627
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2016
La Principaute d'Orange et Comtat de Venaissin.
A fantastic map of the area around the cities of Avignon and Orange along the Rhone River. Highly detailed with numerous smaller villages shown, mountains, rivers, and fo...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1627
Selling price: $125
Sold in 2016
MONTGOMERY SHIRE.
An early decorative engraved 17th century map of the Welsh county of Montgomeryshire published in London and bearing the imprint of the publishers John Sudbury and George...
Place & Date: London, 1627
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2017
The Invasions of England and Ireland with al their Civill Wars Since the Conquest.
A fantastic map of England, Wales and Ireland that illustrates all the notable battles since the Norman Conquest (including Hastings in 1066, Bosworth Field in 1485 and F...
Place & Date: London, ca. 1627
Selling price: $925
Sold in 2019
EVROP, and the cheife Cities contayned therin described. . . 1626.
A good impression from an early edition of this famous and decorative cartes-a-figures from the first world atlas produced by an Englishman - John Speed’s Prospect Of T...
Place & Date: London, George Humble, 1627
Selling price: $1200
Sold in 2019
Essex, divided into Hundreds, with the most ancient and fayre Towne Colchester described. . .
A highly decorative and truly stunning 17th century map of Essex by the renowned English cartographer John Speed which was published in his Theatre of the Empire of Great...
Place & Date: London, 1627
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2020
Gallia: Nova Galliae descriptio multis in locis de integro emendata simulquae effigies principum, praecipuas Gallorum urbés ac habitus exhibens, excudebat Ioannes Ianssonius Anno 1627.
Decorative map of France with a border containing 14 city views and images of regional costumes. The title cartouche includes the French coat of arms and the date of orig...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1627
Selling price: $1800
Sold in 2020
Kent.
Miniature county map of Kent. Text on verso.
Place & Date: London, George Humble, 1627
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2020
Wiltshire.
All the undoubted artistry and skill of the English cartographer John Speed. Is on display with his rendition of this English County map of Wiltshire. There are beautiful...
Place & Date: London, 1627
Selling price: $325
Sold in 2021
Stafford Countie and Towne with the ancient Citie Lichfield described. . .
A beautiful early edition John Speed's map of Staffordshire. As well as the county itself, the map boasts all manor of embellishments and decoration; a pair of wonderful...
Place & Date: London, 1612 - 1627
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2022
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, 1628
Cleve et Murs
Map of Cleve, including Eindhoven, Dusseldorf, Aachen, Maastricht, etc., published by Janssonius and included in Atlas Minor Gerardi Mercatoris. Engraved by Petrus Kaeriu...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1628
Selling price: $50
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Emden et Oldenbor.
c published by Janssonius and included in Atlas Minor Gerardi Mercatoris. Engraved by Petrus Kaerius.
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1628
Selling price: $40
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Tabula Italiae Corsicae, Sardiniae,...
Beautifully engraved by Jansson Mercators Atlas Minor. Shows Italy, the Dalmatian Coast, Corsica, Sardinia and half of Sicilly with the Vulcano. Very detailed with well e...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1628
Selling price: $120
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Anglia Scotia et Hibernia.
Nice map of the British Isles and Ireland showing the major cities. Large strapwork title cartouche. Latin text on verso.
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1628
Selling price: $120
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Ducatus LUTZENBURGICUS
Janssons desirable miniature-map of Luxembourg and surroundings, engraved for Mercators Atlas Minor (page 393-Ddd). Very detailed with well engraved symbols representing ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c.1628
Selling price: $75
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Portugallia et Algarve
Superb map of Portugal by Jansson, engraved for Mercators Atlas Minor (page 155-V 2). The map is oriented with North to the right. Very detailed with a lot of topographic...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c1628
Selling price: $50
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Moravia.
Janssons superb map of the eastern Czech Republic, engraved for Mercators Atlas Minor (page 459). Very detailed with a lot of topographical information with engraved symb...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c1628
Selling price: $70
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Schotia
Charming small map of Scotland decorated with a strapwork title cartouche. Latin text on verso.
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1628
Selling price: $140
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Livonia
Finely engraved small map of Estonia and Latvia filled with forests, rivers and lakes. Latin text on verso. Embellished with a strapwork title cartouche and distance scal...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1628
Selling price: $100
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Anglesey, Wight, Garnesey, Iarsay.
This is a reduced version of Mercator's folio map with four maps on one sheet depicting the English islands of Jersey, Guernsey, Wright and Alderney. Each map is embellis...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1628
Selling price: $100
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Tabula Italiae Corsicae, Sardiniae, et adjacentium Regnorum
Fine small map of all Italy, with Sardinia and Corsica, but only the northern part of Sicily. Decorated with a strapwork title cartouche and compass rose. Latin text on v...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1628
Selling price: $130
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Forum Iulium Karstia, Caniola Histria etc.
Charming small map of the northern tip of the Adriatic Sea and the Gulf of Venice, present-day north-eastern Italy, Slovenia and Croatia. Two cartouches fill the Gulf of ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1628
Selling price: $105
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Lacus Lemannus
Handsome map of Lake Geneva with good detail of surrounding towns and villages. Decorated with 2 strapwork title cartouches. Latin text on verso.
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1628
Selling price: $100
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Daniae. . .
Map of Denmark. Ornamental title cartouche in the upper right has been painted in recent colors.Mercator was born in Rupelmonde in Flanders and studied in Louvain under G...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1628
Selling price: $160
Sold in 2008
Ivtia Septentrionalis. . .
Map of southern part of Denmark. Ornamental title cartouche in the center bottom has been hand colored in recent colors.Mercator was born in Rupelmonde in Flanders and st...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1628
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2016
Hassa Landgraviarus.
Folding-map of Hassia: the Latin name for the German state Hessen (capital Wiesbaden). Beautiful map of a part of Germany from Jansson's edition of Mercator's Atlas.More ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1628
Selling price: $35
Sold in 2020
Helvetia cum finitimis regionibus confoederatis
Original old colored detailed engraved map of Switzerland by G. Mercator. With one cartouche and a mileage scale. Covering complete Switzerland with the Lake Constance an...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1628
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2009
Gallaecia regnum.
Map of Spain, including part of Portugal. Two ships on the sea.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1628
Selling price: $650
Sold in 2009
Legionis, Biscaiae et Guipiscoae Typus.
Shows cities of Bilbao, Laredo, Andero, Santillana.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1628
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2022
Castillae veteris et novae description.
Jodocus Hondius map of Castille, showing Zaragoza, Valencia, Alicante, Cartagena, Madrid, Cordoba, Sevilla, Salamanca, Palencia, Segovia, Toledo, Cuenca, Granada, etc.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1628
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2013
Andaluziae nova descript.
A very decorative and detailed map of Andalucia centered on the Guadalquivir river with the cities of Almeria, Cádiz, Córdoba, Granada, Huelva, Jaén, and Sevilla.Depic...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1628
Selling price: $900
Sold in 2011
Gallicia, Legio et Asturias de Oviedo.
A copper engraved map with original hand-coloring from the Minor-Mercator Atlas. Verso text: Latin. Maps from this atlas were engraved by Abraham Goos and Pieter van den ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1628
Selling price: $170
Sold in 2010
Hispaniae nova describtio...
This dramatic map of Spain and Portugal includes Majorca and Minorca. The map is very finely engraved by Petrus Kaerius with elaborate cartouches, sailing ships, sea mons...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1628
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2012
Regni Valentiae Typus.
Fine early map of Valencia. Latin text on verso.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1628
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2012
Cataloniae principatus descriptio nova.
Map of Catalonia. Two sea monsters are shown in the upper right corner, along with a sailing ship, compass rose and decorative cartouche.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1628
Selling price: $395
Sold in 2012
Cataloniae principatus descriptio nova.
Map of Catalonia. The map is highly detailed, identifying cities, rivers, mountains, castles, ports and other features. Two sea monsters are shown in the upper right corn...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1628
Selling price: $700
Sold in 2013
De Zurichgow.
Striking map of Zurich , Switzerland. Part of the Cloppenburgh edition with French on verso. Engraved by Van der Keere. Gerard Mercator (1512-1594) was the prime cartogr...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1628
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2013
Tabula Italiae Corsicae, Sardiniae, et adjacentium Regnorum.
Attractive small map of all Italy, with Sardinia and Corsica, but only the northern part of Sicily. Decorated with a strapwork title cartouche and compass rose. German te...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1628
Selling price: $130
Sold in 2015
Tabula ITALIAE Corsicae, Sardaniae, et adjacentium Regnorum. . . Ioannem Ianssonium . . . 1628.
First state (of 3) of this "carte à figures"- map of Italy produced by Johannes Janssonius in 1628. The composition, decoration and geographical content follow...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1628
Selling price: $6000
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Salin die Namhaffte Stadt in Burgund Nach Ihrer Figur und Gelegenheit Abgemalet.
A woodcut of Salin, in France by Sebastian Münster. Salin-les-Bains in the Jura, the walled city with fortifications and the castle Belim. From his famous Cosmographia, ...
Place & Date: Basel, 1628
Selling price: $17
Sold in 2023
Die Statt Hammelburg in Francken Conerafaccur.
Fine double page wood block bird's-eye view of the fortified city of Hammelburg, germany. An original wood engraved map from the “COSMOGRAPHIA UNIVERSALIS” by Sebast...
Place & Date: Basel, 1628
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2018
Bahre Contrasehtung der Reichstatt Landaw.
Fine double page wood block bird's-eye view of the fortified city of Landau, Germany. An original wood engraved map from the “COSMOGRAPHIA UNIVERSALIS” by Sebastian ...
Place & Date: Basel, 1628
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2018
Hafnia Coppenhagen. / Hafnia oder Coppenhagen die Königliche Statt in Dennmarck gantz epgentlich abcontrafehtet / in dem jaht Christi / 1627.
A large-sized view of Copenhagen, double-leaf woodcut from Sebastian Münster 'Cosmography', edition of 1628 (only in this issue!).German text on verso.
Place & Date: Basel, 1628
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2018
Morea olim Peloponnesus.
Gerard Mercator's map of the Greece's Peloponnesus peninsula called and labeled Morea. A few of the other smaller islands appear included the larger Cerigo (today's Cythe...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1628
Selling price: $65
Sold in 2018
Helvetia cum finitimis regionibus confederatis.
A great early 17th century map of Switzerland, that Includes also small areas of Austria, Italy, and France. Very detailed with many towns, rivers, lakes, mountains, etc....
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca 1628
Selling price: $52
Sold in 2018
Ivtia Septentrionalis. . .
Map of Denmark.Ornamental title cartouche in the center bottomMercator was born in Rupelmonde in Flanders and studied in Louvain under Gemma Frisius, Dutch writer, astron...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1628
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2020
Zutphania Comitatus.
Nice map of the county of Zutphen in Gelderland. The map shows the eastern part of the province of Gelderland as well as a smal part of Germany. Important cities are Arnh...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1629
Selling price: $250
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Pomeraniae Ducatus Tabula. Auctore Eilhardo Lubino.
Extremely rare first edition of which Peter van der Krogt list only 5 other copies in his updated Atlantes Neerlandici of this important map of present day eastern German...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1629
Selling price: $1900
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Valletta citta nova dimalta.
Early copper engraved map of the town of Valetta, engraved by Henry Raignauld. In lower left corner an inset with Malta and Gozzo.Raigniauldi's signature is carefully wor...
Place & Date: Paris, Michael Soly, 1629
Selling price: $1050
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Austria Archiducatus auctore Wolfgango Lazio.
Extremely rare first edition of this fine map of Austria.Jodocus Hondius Jr. planned to produce a new modern atlas less dependent on the Mercator plates that his father h...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1629
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2010
Ducatus Holsatiae nova tabula.
Extremely rare first edition of this beautiful map of Schleswich Holstein.Jodocus Hondius Jr. planned to produce a new modern atlas less dependent on the Mercator plates ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1629
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2020
Celeberrimi Fluvis Albis nova delineatio.
Extremely rare first edition of this beautiful map of Elbe and Hamburg.Jodocus Hondius Jr. planned to produce a new modern atlas less dependent on the Mercator plates tha...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1629
Selling price: $750
Sold in 2020
Ducatus Geldriae novissima descriptio
Copper engraved map of Gelderland, but also including Utrecht, and parts of Brabant. It shows many cities (like Nijmegen, Eindhoven, Zutphen, Zwolle, etc.), roads, rivers...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1629
Selling price: $84
Sold in 2012
Sabaudia ducatus La Savoie.
Map of the French region of Savoie. Including the towns of Geneva, Grenoble, St. Anton, Val D'Isre, etc. Very dramatic topographic detail in the Alps. With the signature ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, after 1629
Selling price: $500
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Episcop. Ultraiectinus.
A very detailed map based on Utrecht. Scale cartouche held by a surveyor. Based on the map by B.F.van Berckenrode (1620-21) and engraved by the master engraver Evert Sijm...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, after 1629
Selling price: $225
Sold in 2019
Novissima Delflandiae, Schielandiae..
A very nice map showing the southern part of the province of Holland.Mercator was born in Rupelmonde in Flanders and studied in Louvain under Gemma Frisius, Dutch writer,...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1629
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2020
Daniae Regni Typum..
Very decorative map of Denmark with the signature of the engraver Petrus Kaerius. Printed on heavy paper, despite its repair still a very desirable and attractive item. T...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1629
Selling price: $525
Sold in 2019
Sclavonia, Bosnia cum Dalmatiae parte.
Excellent map with coat-of-arms focusing specifically on the embattled nations of the former Yugoslavia.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Selling price: $400
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Marca Brandeburgensis & Pomerania.
Centered on the towns of Brandenburg and Berlin. Based on the map by Elias Cameriarus (abt.1530-1581).RARE second state, with both the signatures of Gerard Mercator and H...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2015
Limburgensis Ducatus Nova Descriptio.
Map of Limburg, prepared by the Antwerp expert in law and mathematics Aegidius Martini.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2020
Belgii inferioris descriptio..
Gerard Mercator Junior?s decorative map of the Low Countries. A fine, early map of the area of Europe showing present-day Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg and east pa...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1630
Selling price: $500
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Europa, ad magnae Europae Gerardi Mercatoris..
General map of Europe by one of the greatest mapmakers.
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1630
Selling price: $900
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Livonia.
Map of Lithuania.
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1630
Selling price: $450
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Jutia Septentrionalis.
Early and detailed map of Jutland.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2016
Fionia.
Early map, including Odense and the island Langeland .
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Selling price: $225
Sold in 2018