Browse Listings in Europe
Dioecenis Stavangriensis . . .
Map of Southern Norway with Bergen and Stavanger.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1650
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2011
Nova Zemla.
The Dutch were the most persistent searchers after the north-east Passage, whether to the north of Novaya Zemlya (whose west coast is shown in detail) or through what the...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1650
Selling price: $1200
Sold in 2014
Tabula ITALIAE Corsicae, Sardaniae, et adjacentium Regnorum. . .
An extremely rare map of Italy, including Sicily and Corsica. The map is copied by Cornelis Danckerts II after a map by Henricus Hondius. This map is found only in French...
Place & Date: Paris, 1650
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2009
Europa Antiqua cum finitimis Africae & utriusque Asiae regionibus Nicolaus Blancardus Belga, Leidensis, Illustrium Comitatus Zelandiae Ordinum Historicus, ad lucem aevi veteris delineabat.
An uncommon map of Europe prepared by Nicolas Blankaart , extending to the Middle East and the northern tip of Africa, as it was during the time of the Roman Empire. The ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1650
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2009
Pascaart Vande Zee-Custen van Finmarcken, Laplandt, Ruslant, Nova Zembla en Spitsbergen ... - Tabula Hydrographica Orae Maritimae seu Littorum Finniae, Laplandiae, Russiae, Novae Zemblae et Spitsbergii ...
Chart of the fishing ground of Dutch fishing- and whaling fleets during the 16th, 17th and 18th century, comprising the Barents Sea, northern Norway, Sweden, Finland, nor...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1650
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2009
![Teflis. . . [or Tiflis, the Capital of Georgia]](/uploads/cache/27925-250x250.jpg)
Teflis. . . [or Tiflis, the Capital of Georgia]
Early view of Teflis, [or Tiflis] the capital of Georgia and of the other Trans-Caucasian provinces. The print shows the river Kour, and is set in an irregular mountains ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, ca 1650
Selling price: $210
Sold in 2009
Russiae vulgo Moscovia pars australis. . .
Centered on Moscow. Prepared by Isaac Massa, a Dutch mapmaker who travelled to Russia, returning to Holland in 1609, bringing with him a large amount of original cartogra...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1650
Selling price: $850
Sold in 2009
Tabula Russiae.
A re-issue, by Willem Blaeu, of Hessel Gerritsz' rare and influential map of Russia. This fine map was compiled from manuscripts brought back from Russia, by Isaac Massa ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1650
Selling price: $1550
Sold in 2009
Russiae, vulgo Moscovia, pars Australis.
Prepared by Isaac Massa, a Dutch map-maker who travelled to Russia, returning to Holland in 1609, bringing with him a large amount of original cartographic manuscript mat...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1650
Selling price: $950
Sold
Nova Zemla.
The Dutch were the most persistent searchers after the north-east Passage, whether to the north of Novaya Zemlya (whose west coast is shown in detail) or through what the...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1650
Selling price: $675
Sold in 2012
Pontus Euxinus.
Handsome depiction of the environs of the Black Sea in classical times filled with ancient place names and titled also in Greek. The cartography is based on Ortelius' fir...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1650
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2015
Russiae vulgo Moscovia pars australis. . .
Centered on Moscow. Prepared by Isaac Massa, a Dutch mapmaker who traveled to Russia, returning to Holland in 1609, bringing with him a large amount of original cartograp...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1650
Selling price: $750
Sold in 2011
Duche de Bretaigne. . .
According to van de Krogt in Atlantes Neerlandici, 4450:1.2 (b) this is the variant with the address of Tavernier erased but still visible. Here with blank verso.Decorati...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c. 1650
Selling price: $360
Sold
Russiae vulgo Moscovia pars australis. . .
Centered on Moscow. Prepared by Isaac Massa, a Dutch mapmaker who travelled to Russia, returning to Holland in 1609, bringing with him a large amount of original cartogra...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c.1650
Selling price: $340
Sold in 2011
Fille de l'Isle de Chio. (56)
Sought-after copper engraved plate of a girl from Chios. Plate from Laonikos Chalcocondyle’s "L'histoire de la décadence de l'empire grec et establissement de cel...
Place & Date: Paris, Mathieu Guillemot, 1650
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2011
Femme de l'Isle de Malthe. (64)
Sought-after copper engraved plate of a woman from Malta. Plate from Laonikos Chalcocondyle’s "L'histoire de la décadence de l'empire grec et establissement de ce...
Place & Date: Paris, Mathieu Guillemot, 1650
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2011
Femme de Marcedoine. (54)
Sought-after copper engraved plate of a woman from Macedonia. Plate from Laonikos Chalcocondyle’s "L'histoire de la décadence de l'empire grec et establissement ...
Place & Date: Paris, Mathieu Guillemot, 1650
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2011
Femme de l'Isle de Chio.
Sought-after copper engraved plate of a woman from Chios. Plate from Laonikos Chalcocondyle’s "L'histoire de la décadence de l'empire grec et establissement de c...
Place & Date: Paris, Mathieu Guillemot, 1650
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2011
Villageoise Grecque. (53)
Sought-after copper engraved plate of a Greek woman in local dress. Plate from Laonikos Chalcocondyle’s "L'histoire de la décadence de l'empire grec et establisse...
Place & Date: Paris, Mathieu Guillemot, 1650
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2011
Fille destat Greque de la ville de Pera. (49)
Sought-after copper engraved plate from Laonikos Chalcocondyle’s "L'histoire de la décadence de l'empire grec et establissement de celuy des Turcs." by Thoma...
Place & Date: Paris, Mathieu Guillemot, 1650
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2011
Fille destat Greque de la Cité d'Andrinople ville de Thaee. (50)
Sought-after copper engraved plate of a woman from Andrinople (now-a-days Edirne). Plate from Laonikos Chalcocondyle’s "L'histoire de la décadence de l'empire gre...
Place & Date: Paris, Mathieu Guillemot, 1650
Selling price: $75
Sold in 2011
![Marchant Ragusej (35) [Coatia]](/uploads/cache/31549-250x250.jpg)
Marchant Ragusej (35) [Coatia]
Sought-after copper engraved plate from Laonikos Chalcocondyle’s "L'histoire de la décadence de l'empire grec et establissement de celuy des Turcs." by Thoma...
Place & Date: Paris, Mathieu Guillemot, 1650
Selling price: $70
Sold in 2011
![Qsante de Raguse ou porteur de lettres. (36) [Coatia]](/uploads/cache/31550-250x250.jpg)
Qsante de Raguse ou porteur de lettres. (36) [Coatia]
Sought-after copper engraved plate from Laonikos Chalcocondyle’s "L'histoire de la décadence de l'empire grec et establissement de celuy des Turcs." by Thoma...
Place & Date: Paris, Mathieu Guillemot, 1650
Selling price: $70
Sold in 2011
Marchant Grec. (32)
Sought-after copper engraved plate from Laonikos Chalcocondyle’s "L'histoire de la décadence de l'empire grec et establissement de celuy des Turcs." by Thoma...
Place & Date: Paris, Mathieu Guillemot, 1650
Selling price: $70
Sold in 2011
Gentilhomme Grec. (31)
Sought-after copper engraved plate from Laonikos Chalcocondyle’s "L'histoire de la décadence de l'empire grec et establissement de celuy des Turcs." by Thoma...
Place & Date: Paris, Mathieu Guillemot, 1650
Selling price: $70
Sold in 2011
Dioecesis Leodiensis
Detailed map of Belgium. Embellished an allegorical title cartouche surrounded by a coat of arms. Shows the Maas, part of Belgium next to Brabant. Cities include Liege, M...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c. 1650
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2023
ARGONAUTICA
This decorative map illustrates the geography of the Golden Fleece legend in the Mediterranean, covering from Italy to the Black Sea. The Argonautica is a Greek epic poem...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c1650
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2011
Abriß der Dreyen, gegeneinander Correspondierenden Vestungen Monaco, Capo di Sant Spirito, und Niza die Provenza.
Nice view of the coast in southern France, from Nice to Monaco, including Villefranche-sur-Mer and Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat! A very decorative and informative map, with t...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, c1650
Selling price: $182
Sold in 2011
Circulus Westphalicus sive Germaniae Inferioris.
West to the top. Detailed map of the northern part of Germany far south to Düsseldorf and Waldeck and Paderborn.Lower right imposing title cartouche with inset map of Ha...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1650
Selling price: $170
Sold in 2013
Villageois Grec. (20)
Sought-after copper engraved plate of a musician from Greece. Plate from Laonikos Chalcocondyle’s "L'histoire de la décadence de l'empire grec et establissement d...
Place & Date: Paris, Mathieu Guillemot, 1650
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2012
Femme Déstat Grecque de la Ville de Pera. (47)
Sought-after copper engraved plate of a woman from Greece. Plate from Laonikos Chalcocondyle’s "L'histoire de la décadence de l'empire grec et establissement de c...
Place & Date: Paris, Mathieu Guillemot, 1650
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2012
Magni Ducatus Lithuaniae Caetrarumq Regionum illi Adiacentium exacta decrip. . .
Detailed map of Lithuania, Poland and part of Russia up to the River Dnepr, based upon Blaeu's four sheet map. Highly detailed, extending from Cracow to the Baltic in the...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1650
Selling price: $1500
Sold in 2018
Duche et Gouvernement de Bretagne.
First state of this decorative map of Bretagne, including the cities of Nantes, Rennes, Belle-Île, etc. engraved by Robert Cordier d'Abbauil. The map is dated 1650. In t...
Place & Date: Paris, ca.1650
Selling price: $500
Sold
Nova descriptio Palatinatus Rheni.
Detailed map of Germany centered of Manheim. An extremely rare map finely engraved. The map is copied by Cornelis Danckerts II after a map by Henricus Hondius. This map a...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1650
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2023
Bohemia (Map showing Rübezahl, Giants + Dragon)
Shows the Riesengebirge (Montes Gigantium - mountains of giants), and showing "Ribenzal" (Rübezahl) as figures and a dragon(?). Rare old copper engraving of B...
Place & Date: ?, c1650
Selling price: $46
Sold in 2012
Ischia, quae olim Aenaria.
Prepared by Giulio Iasolino (1537-1622), who wrote a book about Ischia in 1568 and its beneficial baths which included a map of the island, which Ortelius and later Janss...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1650
Selling price: $750
Sold in 2013
Duche et gouvernement de Normandie.
Fine map of Normandy, with the islands of Jersey and Guernsey. Engraved by R. Cordier d'Abbauil. This edition carries the date 1650. Nicolas Sanson was to bring about the...
Place & Date: Paris, 1650
Selling price: $300
Sold
.Catalogne et Arragon.
Early imprint of this fine map of Catalonia. With decorative cartouches for the title and scale. Included in " Theatre geographique de France contenant les cartes pa...
Place & Date: Paris, 1650
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2016
Insularum Britannicarum Acurata Delineatio ex Geographicis Conatibus Abraham Ortelii.
This is Jansson's historical map of the British Isles giving credit to Abraham Ortelius in the title. Engraved by Peter van den Keere. North is oriented to the right. H...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c1650
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2013
Palatina tus ad Rhenum.
A lovely, super-decorated, detailed map of Germany with "three" cartouches depicting "seven" putti plus a coat of arms. The cities, including Bingen, ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1650
Selling price: $48
Sold in 2016
Bercheria vernacule. . . (Barkshire)
‘Bercheria vernacule’ - Barkshire by Joannes Blaeu. A very decorative map, with armorials and escutcheons.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1650
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2013
Novissima descriptio Angliae Scotiae et Hiberniae.
Uncommon map of Great Britain and Ireland.
Place & Date: Paris, c. 1650
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2015
Ehrenau.
Striking detailed, copper engraving of a view of Schloss Ehrenau, Austria. There is a wonderful cartouche featuring two cherubs, a crown and a coat of arms. In addition t...
Place & Date: Germany, 1650
Selling price: $31
Sold in 2016
Tabula Russiae.
Map shows total Russia with Scandinavia.
Place & Date: Frankfurt on Main, 1650
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2014
Herfordiensis Ecclesiae Cathedralis Ab Aquilone Prospectus.
Striking copper engraving of Herford Cathedral by Wenceslaus Hollar. It was created in about 1650 for Sir. W. Dugdale of England for his well known book featuring British...
Place & Date: London, c1650
Selling price: $69
Sold in 2015
Imperium Caroli Magni.
Nice large map showing the Empire of Karol the Great.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1650
Selling price: $260
Sold in 2017
Livonia vulgo Lyefland.
Showing the Baltic region with present-day Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, with the Baltic Sea, as well as the neighboring coastlines of Sweden and Finland. Based on a map...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1650
Selling price: $275
Sold in 2018
Magni Ducatus Lithuaniae Caetrarumq Regionum illi Adiacentium exacta decrip. . .
Detailed map of Lithuania, Poland, and part of Russia up to the River Dnepr, based upon Blaeu's four-sheet map. Highly detailed, extending from Cracow to the Baltic in th...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1650
Selling price: $850
Sold in 2017
Roma.
Large and detailed bird's-eye town-view of Rome, published and engraved by Matthaeus Merian around 1641. With city arms to the top right corner. One of the most beautiful...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1650
Selling price: $1750
Sold in 2017
Thuringia landgraviatus...
Detailed map of Thuringa centered on Erfurd on the middle of the map. Showing also Weimar. Embellished with a very decorative title cartouche surrounded by six cherubs. I...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1650
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2016
Oxforde.
Superbly detailed plan of Oxford with hundreds of tiny buildings, numerous fields, and rivers. With 48 places, streets, bridges, churches, and colleges identified through...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, c1650
Selling price: $185
Sold in 2015
Riviera di Genova di Levante.
Detailed map of the Gulf of Genoa, including the towns of Genoa and La Spezia. Genoa was the birthplace of Christopher Columbus.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1650
Selling price: $160
Sold in 2015
Beauvaisis, Comitatus Belovacium
A pleasing map of the Beuavais region of France. Decorative title cartouche with royal arms and drapery style scale cartouche with compass. Johannes Janssonius (1588-16...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1650
Selling price: $13
Sold in 2018
GALLIA. Le royaume de France.
The map was first published with figured borders (1607). When Blaeu needed a folio size map of France for his first atlas (Appendix 1631) he cut off the borders. The same...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1650
Selling price: $475
Sold in 2016
Languedoc
A great map of southern France from Perpignan to just east of the mouth of the Rhone river, until Étang de Berre. Filled with place names, including Avignon, Arles, Caho...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1650
Selling price: $35
Sold in 2016
Gallia Vetus ad Iuly Caesaris Commentaria
This striking map of Gallia (ancient France) by Jan Jansson is based on information from Caesar's “De Bello Gallico". It is engraved to show the mountains, rivers ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1650
Selling price: $260
Sold in 2016
Europam, sive Celticam Veterem.
A map of the Celtic Empire by A. Ortelius, and reissued by Jansson in the middle of the seventeenth century. Ortelius' map first appeared in 1595.The map shows the contin...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca 1650
Selling price: $190
Sold in 2017
Britannia prout divisa suit temporibus Anglo-Saxonum, praesertim durante illorum Heptarchia.
A very decorative map of England, Scotland and Wales. Wales and Scotland have their own kingdoms, however, England is divided up into seven separate Saxon kingdoms.Northu...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca 1650
Selling price: $700
Sold in 2018
GALLIA. Le royaume de France.
Engraved by the master engraver Josua van den Ende. A very attractive map of France, embellished with a beautiful title cartouche at lower left, two royal shields in the ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1650
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2018
HISPANIAE Veteris descriptio.
A decorative handcolored copper engraved map, Latin text edition of J. Jansson's’ Historical Atlas'.
Place & Date: Amsterdam ca. 1650
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2018
Schwedischen Feiverwerks, Anno 1650,
A night time fireworks display watched by an enthusiastic crowd, a print by M.Merian, published in his "Theatrum Europaeum." Banner title in German.
Place & Date: Frankfurt am Main, 1650
Selling price: $45
Sold in 2019
Tertia Pars Brabantiae. . .
A striking map showing part of present-day Belgium and Dutch Brabant. West is at the top. At the lower left the cartouche is embellished with male figures with compasses,...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1650
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2018
Thuringia Landgraviatus.
A detailed map of Thuringa in central Germany, centred on Erfurd on the middle of the map. Showing also Weimar. Embellished with a very decorative title cartouche that is...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1650
Selling price: $37
Sold in 2018
Afbeeldinge Vande vermaerde Seehaven ... Duynkerken...
A striking coastal chart, extending from Dunkerque and Wynoxbergen to in the east to Waldarn and Gravelines in the west, with an inset showing the continuation of the coa...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1650
Selling price: $48
Sold in 2018
Das Wiflispurgergow.
A lovely detailed map of South-western Switzerland after Gerhard Mercator's map of the same. With an ornamental title cartouche and Dutch text on the verso. It shows Gene...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca 1650
Selling price: $190
Sold in 2018
Russiae vulgo Moscovia dictae, Partes Septentionalis et Orientalis.
Covers the northern part of Russia from Finland to just beyond the Jenisej River and south to the Volga River. Includes the cities of Jaroslavl, Niznij Novgorod, and Kaza...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca 1650
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2019
London.
A beautifully engraved panorama of London during the reign of James I which was based on an earlier Visscher engraving published in 1616.Merian's panorama shows London fi...
Place & Date: London, 1650
Selling price: $2800
Sold in 2019
Hellas. seu Graecia Universa. Autore J. Laurenbergio.
Fine map of Greece with Crete, the Carpathian Sea, the islands west of Peloponesia, the Aegean Sea, and a part of Turkey. Richly detailed with towns, rivers, and topograp...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1650
Selling price: $305
Sold in 2019
Comitatus Tirolensis.
A detailed map of the west Austrian Tirol region, with plenty of excellent topographical detail in the rendering of the numerous mountains, rivers, forests, larger towns,...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca 1650
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2019
Avignon.
Detailed bird's-eye view of the town of Avignon.
Place & Date: Frankfurt 1650
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2020
Abriß der Dreÿen, gegeneinander correspondierenden Vestungen, Monaco, Capo di Sant' Spirito, und Niza di Provenza. (Monaco)
Beautiful map showing the coasts of Provence, with detailed plans of Nice, Villefranche-sur-Mer, the peninsula of Cap Ferrat and Monaco, from the from the Theatrum Europ...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, ca. 1650
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2019
Silesia Inferior. . .
A fine and decorative map of lower Silesia (western Poland), centred on Glogau, the capital of Breslaw (Wroclaw) is found not far away. Each major city in the region is c...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1650
Selling price: $160
Sold in 2019
Afbeeldinge van Zeker Concept tot Bedykinge, van de Haarlemer, Leydse en Andere byleggende Meeren.
Large, rare, and detailed map of the region between Amsterdam, Haarlem and Leiden, from two copperplates. It concerns a concept to reclaiming the Haarlemmermeer, drawn by...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1650
Selling price: $275
Sold in 2019
Russie Blanche ou Moscovie. . .
An unusual map of eastern Europe and western Russia. With two pages of descriptive text in French about the area on verso. Includes many cities and towns, rivers, and reg...
Place & Date: Paris, ca 1650
Selling price: $17
Sold in 2019
ΠΟΝΤΟΣ ΕΥΞΕΙΝΟΣ. PONTUS EUXINUS.
A striking example of the map depicting the Black Sea and the Crimean Peninsula with its surrounding regions. Covers parts of the Ukraine, Russia, Georgia, Romania and Tu...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca 1650
Selling price: $850
Sold in 2020
HISPANIAE Veteris descriptio. Abraham Goos Sculpsit.
A decorative handcolored copper engraved map, Latin text edition of J. Jansson's’ Historical Atlas'. A very handsome and decorative map of ancient Spain based on classi...
Place & Date: Amsterdam ca. 1650
Selling price: $125
Sold in 2019
Duche et Gouvernement de Bretagne.
A probable first state of this decorative regional French map of Bretagne, including the cities of Nantes, Rennes, Belle-Île, St. Malo, Pontivy, Morlaix, Brest and Vanne...
Place & Date: Paris, 1650
Selling price: $55
Sold in 2019
Palatinatus ad rhenum.
A beautiful, detailed map of the south western province of Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany by Blaeu, one of the most famous of all map publishers.A decorative map, coveri...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca 1650
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2020
Helvetiae Confoederatorum Amplissimae Provinciae descriptio.
A scarce and charming miniature map of Switzerland from the first edition of Bucelin’s “Historiae universalis cum sacrae tum prophanae nucleus” published by Praetor...
Place & Date: Ulm, 1650
Selling price: $70
Sold in 2020
Austriae Descriptio.
A very rare and charming miniature map of Austria, covering the area of Vienna, Linz and Graz. From the first edition of Gabriel Bucelin's “Historiae universalis cum sa...
Place & Date: Ulm, 1650
Selling price: $75
Sold in 2019