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Vogliono alcuni l'isola di Corfu fosse prima ..
Fine map of the island of Kerkyra (Corfu), based on a map of the French artist Jacques Prevost. The present edition by Fernando Bertelli (ascribed by D.Woodward to Paolo ...
Place & Date: Venice, 1564
Selling price: $2100
Sold in 2010
IL PORTO DI MALTA.
Rare plan of the town of Valetta showing the counter attack of the army of Ascanio against the Turks. Thirteen departing Turkish galleys have been engraved within "P...
Place & Date: Venice, after 1564
Selling price: $4200
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Britania Insula quae dup Regna continet Angliam et Scotiam cum Hibernia adiacente. Ferando Berteli exc. 1561. Venise: 1562
One of the earliest printed maps of England. The essential roots of mid-16th century mapping of the British Isles go back to the English catholic priest George Lily (ca 1...
Place & Date: Venice, 1564
Selling price: $16800
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Totius Graeciae Descriptio.
A rare map of Greece. One of the first printed maps of Greece, decorated with many ships. A unique opportunity to acquire a fine example of a map from the early Lafreri s...
Place & Date: Venice, 1564
Selling price: $14250
Sold in 2010
[Von dem königreich Poland das in Sarmatia auch..]
Early wood block printed map of Poland. Set in a page of German text.Taken from Sebastian Münster's encyclopedic work, the "Cosmographia Universalis". The Cosm...
Place & Date: Basle, 1564
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2010
Das Pomerisch Meere.
RECTO: A double-page map of Pomeren, today's Poland. Illustrated in upper portion nine coats of arms of the duchies of the region. VERSO: a small map of the Prussian coas...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1564
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2009
Friesland.
RECTO: A map of Friesland. VERSO: two woodcuts of two mice, one entering a mouse trap, and the other of a pope.Taken from Sebastian Munster's encyclopedic work, the "...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1564
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2009
Beschreibung der Statt Antorff? [Antwerp ]
RECTO: a bird's-eye-view of a Antwerp. VERSO: a woodcut portrait of Alfa. Taken from Sebastian Munster's encyclopedic work, the "Cosmographia Universalis". The ...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1564
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2010
Martpurg (Marburg)
RECTO: A print of the city of Marburg in Germany illustrated in lower right portion by a woodcut of a scholar . VERSO: a small map of a provincial German village.Taken fr...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1564
Selling price: $10
Sold in 2014
Hessen.
RECTO: A map of the city of Hessen in Germany illustrated in lower right portion by a woodcut of a scholar.Taken from Sebastian Münster's encyclopedic work, the Cosmogra...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1564
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2012
Das Funffte Buch. Aldenburg.
RECTO: A map of the city of Aldenberg in Germany. Taken from Sebastian Münster's encyclopedic work, the Cosmographia Universalis. The Cosmographia by Sebastian Münster ...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1564
Selling price: $10
Sold in 2014
Wittenburg. / Portrait of Luther
RECTO: A map of the city of Wittenburg in Germany illustrated in lower right portion by a woodcut of Luther. VERSO: a woodcut of a Pope.Taken from Sebastian Münster's en...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1564
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2011
Eyfalia.
RECTO: a map of the area around Cologne, including the Dutch province Limburg and part of Luxemburg. VERSO: a woodcut of a Turkish bath scene and the its outside surround...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1564
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2009
Munster.
A of Münster in Germany. VERSO: a woodcut of a coat of arms.Region known for its agriculture, dairy farming, livestock raising.Taken from Sebastian Münster's encyclope...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1564
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2012
Das Funffte Buch. Mitnacht.
Town-plan of Mitnacht with a key: A-Q. VERSO: a woodcut of a scholar. Taken from Sebastian Münster's encyclopedic work, the "Cosmographia Universalis". The &qu...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1564
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2012
Rubeaquum Rusach (Château D'Isenbourg)
Rubeaquum Rufach is a detailed woodcut by Sebastian Münster showing the famous Château D'Isenbourg located in the heart of the vineyards on the Alsace wine route and th...
Place & Date: Basil, 1564
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2018
De Lacu Lemanno. (Lake Geneva)
One Latin text page with a woodcut map of Lake Geneva (147x157mm). From Münster's Cosmographia Universalis. The Cosmographia by Sebastian Münster from 1544 is the earli...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1564
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2017
Bohemici Regni . . . [Czechoslovakia]
One Latin text page with a wood cut engraved map of Czechoslovakia centered on Prague (93 x 135 mm). From Münster's Cosmographia Universalis.The Cosmographia by Sebastia...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1564
Selling price: $15
Sold in 2016
Ungariae & Omnium partium eius. (Hungary)
One Latin text page with a wood cut engraved map of Hungary (100 x 135 mm). From Münster's Cosmographia Universalis. The Cosmographia by Sebastian Münster from 1544 is ...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1564
Selling price: $10
Sold in 2016
Descriptio Germanicae nationis propter . . .
One text page with a small wood cut map of central Europe (10 x 13,5 cm) with south to the top. On verso, Latin text with German locals. From Münster's Cosmographia Univ...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1564
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2019
Transsylvania Ungarici Regni Provincia.
One text page with a map of Hungary, Moravia and Macedonia (150 x 190 mm). On verso Latin text page with a small wood cut of a monastery on a mountain.From Münster's Cos...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1564
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2016
[ Wood cut map of Russia centered on Moscovy]
One text page with a map of Russia, centered on Moscovie (175 x 160 mm). On verso, a text page in one hand , and in the other a horn from Münster's Cosmographia Universa...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1564
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2017
[Versalis Lib I]
One text page with Latin text with reference to Delos, Rhodes, Alone, Thera/ Sicilia and Therasia, illustrated with a fancy wood cut map (130 x 145 mm) with three dimensi...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1564
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2018
[De Germania - Prinum Suitenfium Foedus]
One Latin text page telling a story from the years 1316-1323. Illustrated with a wonderful wood block print of medieval knights and men shown in a highly stylized primiti...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1564
Selling price: $15
Sold in 2017
[ Zürich ]
One Latin text page with a wood-cut illustration of Zürich (120 x 173 mm). From Münster's Cosmographia Universalis. The Cosmographia by Sebastian Munster from 1544 is t...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1564
Selling price: $14
Sold in 2022
Description de la Germanie.
A wood cut printed map of Germany, The Low Countries, Poland, Austria and Switzerland (345 x 250). South to the top and a scale to the right. On verso French text.From MÃ...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1564
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2016
[Bull from Lithuania]
One text page with a map of a bull on the recto (11 x 14 cm). On verso, a description of Poland and Russia taken from Münster's Cosmographia Universalis.The Cosmographia...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1564
Selling price: $10
Sold in 2018
[De Galliae et eius fitu, item de eius patitione . . . . . . ]
One text page with a map of France on the recto (7,8 x 13,5 cm). On verso, a text page in one hand , and in the other a horn from Münster's Cosmographia Universalis.The ...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1564
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2018
[De Regionibus, Ubibus et Fluviis Galliae . . . ]
One text page with a map of Europe on the recto (12,2 x 15,5 cm). From Münster's Cosmographia Universalis.The Cosmographia by Sebastian Munster from 1544 is the earliest...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1564
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2022
De Batavia Quae Hodie est Holandia.
One text page with an illustration of floating in the Netherland on the recto. From Münster's Cosmographia Universalis.The Cosmographia by Sebastian Münster from 1544 i...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1564
Selling price: $10
Sold in 2018
De pago aventico vulgo Wifelspurgergow. . .
A lovely detailed wood cut map of South-western Switzerland it shows Geneva, Lake Geneva, Lake Neuchatel, Lake Biel, Bern, Freiburg, Lake Thuner, etc (150 x 155 mm). On v...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1564
Selling price: $10
Sold in 2020
Tabula Europae III (France)
Early map of France. Girolamo Ruscelli first published the map in his "La Geographi di Claudio Tolomeo" (Venice, 1561). In 1574 a new plate was used which laste...
Place & Date: Venice, 1564
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2020
Tabula Europae V.
Early map of the Balkans. Girolamo Ruscelli first published the map in his "La Geographi di Claudio Tolomeo" (Venice, 1561). In 1574 a new plate was used which ...
Place & Date: Venice, 1564
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2020
Ultimo disegno delli forti di Malta uenuto novamente. . . Ant. Lafrerj Romae formis 1565 de Mese Augusti.
A rare and important map showing the Great Siege of Malta which took place in 1565 when the Ottoman Empire invaded the island, then held by the Knights HospitallerThe Kni...
Place & Date: Rome, 1565
Selling price: $6400
Sold in 2010
Der Statt Neapolis Abcontrafhetung
The rare miniature woodblock map of Italy. On verso are half-maps of the Holy Land (Israel) and Greece. The maps in Honter’s books were printed back-to-back, so the ...
Place & Date: Basel, 1565
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2023
[Gÿor] Iavarino in Ongaria et trinciere dove al presente al ritrova lo Imperatore aloggiato con lo essercito ...
Showing the siege of Iavarin (nowadays Gÿor). Title in a cartouche lower left, with compass rose, date 1566 and initials of Marios Kartaro.A unique opportunity to acquir...
Place & Date: Venice, 1566
Galliae exactissima descriptio.
A unique opportunity to acquire a fine example from a map from the early Lafreri school. It was the custom for Italian map sellers to bind together available maps into a ...
Place & Date: Venice, 1566
Selling price: $4500
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Descrittione del Piamonte Mon- / ferra, et la maggior parte della / Riuiera di Genoua, con jl territorio / Astesano, Alexandrino Tortonese, / Nouarese, et la maggior parte del ..
Fine map of Piedmont, with the Mediterranean coast including Monaco till Genoa, and Milan on the top. In the center is the river PO. State 3 of 5, with the name of Camoci...
Place & Date: Venice, 1566
Selling price: $4900
Sold in 2012
DISEGNO VERO DELLA NVOVA CITTA DI MALTA.
Rare fortification plan of the town of Valletta. Engraved by Paolo Forlani (active 1561-1577).With hatching to highlight the ditch on the landward side of Valletta. It se...
Place & Date: Venice 1566
Selling price: $1500
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[untitled map of Spain and Portugal] Al Molto Mag et Ecc Alessandro Serego, Che lo studio della Geografia..
A rare map of Spain and Portugal, with an oversized Majorca. One of the first printed maps of Cyprus. A unique opportunity to acquire a fine example of a map from the ear...
Place & Date: Venice, 1566
Selling price: $9000
Sold in 2010
[Gÿor] Iavarino in Ongaria et trinciere dove al presente al ritrova lo Imperatore aloggiato con lo essercito . . .
Showing the siege of Iavarin (nowadays Gÿor). Title in a cartouche lower left, with compass rose, date 1566 and initials of Marios Kartaro. A unique opportunity to acqui...
Place & Date: Venice, 1566
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2010
IIII. Die ganz Eydgnoschafft.
Very early wood cut printed map of Switzerland.Originally engraved in 1548. The map was prepared by Johannes Stumpf (1500-1576) and engraved by Heinrich I. Vogtherr (1490...
Place & Date: Zurich, Christoffel Froschover, 1548,1552-1566
Selling price: $900
Sold in 2021
VI. Das Zürychgow.
Very early wood cut printed regional map of Switzerland centered on Zurich.Originally engraved in 1548. The map was prepared by Johannes Stumpf (1500-1576). Included in &...
Place & Date: Zurich, Christoffel Froschover, 1548,1552-1566
Selling price: $400
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X. Rhetia. Die Pündt.
Very early wood cut printed regional map of Switzerland with River Rhine.Originally engraved in 1548. The map was prepared by Johannes Stumpf (1500-1576). Included in &qu...
Place & Date: Zurich, Christoffel Froschover, 1548,1552-1566
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2018
[Gotha] GOTTA. Alli 25 di Gennaro 1567 su posto l'assedio sotto la gr: an fortezza..
Rare plan of the town and siege of Gotha in 1567. In the foreground nice depiction of tents and soldiers on horses.Engraved by Nicolo Nelli.Collector's item. A unique opp...
Place & Date: Venice 1567
Selling price: $2000
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[Double-page woodcut map of Malta]
Very rare wood-block map of Malta, one of the earliest obtainable separately issued map of the island. Includes several sailing ships and a large compass card to the righ...
Place & Date: Rome, 1567
Selling price: $3000
Sold in 2011
Amsterdam.
One of the oldest plans of Amsterdam, from the first edition of the book by Lodovico Guicciardini, Descrittione di tutti i Paesi Bassi, in its French translation from 156...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1567
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2015
Anvers.
Charming and highly detailed bird’s-eye plan of Antwerpen with attractive pictorially drawn buildings, walls, churches, ships, and towers. Very early woodblock print pr...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1567
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2018
Brusselles.
Charming bird’s-eye plan of Brussel with attractive pictorially drawn buildings, walls, churches, and towers. Very early woodblock print printed in 1567 by Silvius with...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1567
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2014
Particvliere description de Flandres.
Famous bears’ map of Flanders, showing the four bears reflecting the four baronies of Flanders and their flags: Syson, Heyne, Pamele en Boelare. Charming bird’s-eye m...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1567
Selling price: $285
Sold in 2020
Brugae - Brugge
Rare and charming woodcut of Brugae or Brugge. Extensive legend below the plan including thirty-four letter press names of churches, palaces, monasteries, and more. Coat ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1567
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2018
Louvain - Leuven.
Rare and charming woodcut of Louvain or Leuven. Extensive legend below the plan including thirty letter press names of churches, palaces, monasteries, and more. Coat of a...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1567
Selling price: $190
Sold in 2015
Malines - Mechelen
Rare and charming woodcut of Malines or Mechelen. The extensive legend below the plan including nineteen letterpress names of churches, palaces, monasteries, and more, an...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1567
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2018
Yprae - Ieper
Rare and charming woodcut of Yprae, or Ieper. Extensive legend below the plan including twenty letter press names of churches, palaces, monasteries, and more. Coat of arm...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1567
Selling price: $140
Sold in 2015
(SCANDINAVIE). Monogr. THW (Thomas Weber) dated 1567.
Rare and important map of Scandinavia from Olaus Magnus' Historia Olai Magni gothi archiepiscop upsalensis, de gentium septentrionalium, published in Basel in 1567.The ma...
Place & Date: Basle, 1567
Selling price: $7000
Sold in 2019
FRANCKFORT [Frankfurt]
Rare Lafreri School town-plan of Frankfurt, engraved by Paolo Forlani, of the Lafreri school of mapmakers, first published in "Il Primo Libro Delle Citta, Et Fortezz...
Place & Date: Venice, Zaltieri, (1567) 1567
Selling price: $790
Sold in 2016
CHALES [Calais]
Rare Lafreri School town-plan of Calais, engraved by Paolo Forlani, of the Lafreri school of mapmakers, first published in "Il Primo Libro Delle Citta, Et Fortezze P...
Place & Date: Venice, Zaltieri, (1567) 1567
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2018
GINEVRA [Geneve]
Splendid and rare Lafreri School town-plan of Geneva, Calvin's paradise on earth, with index, lake of Lausanne and dated 1567, engraved by Paolo Forlani, of the Lafreri s...
Place & Date: Venice, Zaltieri, (1567) 1567
Selling price: $790
Sold in 2017
Brabantia Belgarum Provinciae recens exactaque descriptio Venetiis.
A very early Brabant map, published in Venice, 1567.In excellent condition, and uncolored. On centre top, the crowned coat of arms of the Emperor Charles V with the emble...
Place & Date: Venice, 1567
Selling price: $2200
Sold in 2020
Frankfurt an der Oder.
Interesting woodblock of the medieval town of Frankfurt an der Oder, in Brandenburg. It lies on the Oder river, which marks the current border between Germany and Poland...
Place & Date: Basel, 1552 - 1568
Selling price: $250
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[Fano] Disegno uero della Citta et fortezza di Fano nella Marca d'ancona.
Extremely rare print of the town of Pesaro. Engraved by Paolo Furlani (active 1561-1577), his address was all'insegna della Colonna. (Thieme Becker, XII,599).One of the e...
Place & Date: Venice 1568
Selling price: $300
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[Modena] A Lettori. Non solamente mi son contentato .. Della Mirandola ..
Extremely rare print of the town of Modena in Lombardia. The print is addressed and dated In Venetia l'anno M.D.LXVII. Alla libraria della Colonna. Orientated south-East ...
Place & Date: Venice 1568
Selling price: $700
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[Siena] Il vero disegno et ritratto di Siena.
Scarce bird's-eye view of the town of Siena. An imaginary view. Showing a group of soldiers passing the town. Engraved by Paolo Furlani (active 1561-1577), his address wa...
Place & Date: Venice 1568
Selling price: $300
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[Rome] Eluero sito di Roma, il quale dimostra li Monta, colli, et altre ..
Extremely rare bird's-eye view of the town of Rome. In the upper right part the Vatican is depicted. The print is dated In Venetia l'anno M.D.LXVII. Alla libraria della C...
Place & Date: Venice 1568
Selling price: $880
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[Rome and Ostia.] Il nero disegno de forti fatti intorno ad Ostia dalli ..
Extremely rare map including the town of Ostia and the river Teverre from Rome till the Gulf of Tuscany.The print is addressed and dated Fernando Berteli exc. Ano 1566.. ...
Place & Date: Venice 1568
Selling price: $400
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Napoli - Castel S.Martin.
Extremely rare panoramic view of the town of Naples. With extensive shipping in foreground. In the back ground the castle St.Martin.Engraved by Paolo Furlani (active 1561...
Place & Date: Venice 1568
Selling price: $500
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La nobile citta di Messina.
Extremely rare panoramic view of the town of Messina, with extensive shipping in foreground. In bottom part a numbered key 1-167 relating to important places in town.Engr...
Place & Date: Venice 1568
Selling price: $400
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Genova.
Extremely rare panoramic view of the town of Genoa, with extensive shipping in foreground. In bottom part a numbered key 1-25 relating to important places in town. Engrav...
Place & Date: Venice 1568
Selling price: $600
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Parma.
Extremely rare panoramic view showing the siege of the town of Parma. In bottom part : Il uero disegno e ritrato di Parma Citta nobilissima, et illustrissima in Lombardia...
Place & Date: Venice 1568
Selling price: $350
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[Milan] Il uero disegno della pianta di Milano si come ueramente ogi di si rittoua.
Extremely rare bird's-eye fortification plan of the town of Milan. The print is addressed and dated In Venetia all' insegna della Colonna l'anno 1567.Engraved by Paolo Fu...
Place & Date: Venice 1568
Selling price: $600
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Perpignan.
Extremely rare panoramic view showing the siege of the town of Perpignan in 1595. Also showing the towns of Narbonne, Rivesaltes along with the Mediterranean coast.Engrav...
Place & Date: Venice 1568
Selling price: $300
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Desegno et circutio della citta di Metz.
Extremely rare panoramic view showing a plan of the siege of the town of Metz. In bottom left a numbered key 1-53. Engraved by Paolo Furlani (active 1561-1577), his addre...
Place & Date: Venice 1568
Selling price: $300
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[Geneva] Vedendo quanto il mondo sia hoggi di curioso di ueder il sito e forma bdi Ginevra ..
Extremely rare bird's-eye plan of the town of Geneva. In lower text banner a lettered key A-O.The print is addressed and dated In Venetia alla libraria dalla Colonna l'an...
Place & Date: Venice 1568
Selling price: $775
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[Vienna] Il vero vitrato della fortezza di Vienna Citta nobilissima in Austria, si veramente come ogi di si ritrova.
Extremely rare bird's-eye plan of the town of Vienna. Unfortunately the plan is imaginary or according to Fauser probably a mix-up.The print is addressed and dated L'ann...
Place & Date: Venice 1568
Selling price: $300
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[Tokaj] Tochai, fortezza nei confini di Transilvania et Ongharia, assediato dal campo del Re Ioannes Secondo ..
Extremely rare bird's-eye plan of the siege of the town and fortress Tokaj in Hungary in 1566.The print is signed Dnco Zenoi.Engraved by Domenico Zenoi, who was an engra...
Place & Date: Venice 1568
Selling price: $400
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La description de Boheme selon les plus nobles cites...
Early map of Czechoslovakia, oriented south to the top. From a French edition of Münster's Cosmographia Universalis.
Place & Date: Basel, 1552 - 1568
Selling price: $95
Sold in 2019
Europae Brevis AC Novissima descriptio Venetis. Apud Johannem Ern.Camotiu..
Collector's item. The first Italian map of Europe in folio format. The general outline is copied from the Gastaldi wall map of the world of ca. 1561. Punctual additions o...
Place & Date: Italy 1568
Selling price: $12700
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Die Stat Nordlingen.
Interesting woodblock view of the medieval town of Nordlingen, today Riess, in Bayern.Individual landmarks and buildings are named as well as farms and other points of i...
Place & Date: Basel, 1552 - 1568
Selling price: $67
Sold in 2011
La cité de Augspourg des Vindeliciens auiourdhuy des Rhetiens cogneue par tout le monde.
Interesting woodblock view of Augsburg illustrating a detailed plan of the fortified city, with west at the top and 3 coats of arms.One of the most detailed of all Münst...
Place & Date: Basel 1552 - 1568
Selling price: $50
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Friburg Im Brisgew. 1549.
Decorative woodblock bird's-eye view of Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany. From a French edition of Munster's Cosmographia Universalis.
Place & Date: Basel 1552 - 1568
Selling price: $35
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