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Moraviae, qvae olim Marcomannorvm sedes, corographia,..
Early map of Slovakia prepared by Paul Fabritius in 1569. From 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum [Atlas of the Whole World] with Latin text on verso.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1574
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2009
Anglia et Hibernia Nova. . .
One of the earliest maps of Great Britain.Girolamo Ruscelli's edition of Ptolemy's Geographia included newly engraved copperplates by Giulio and Livio Sanuti. From the se...
Place & Date: Venice, 1574
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2009
Rochella munitissimum galliae opp :
Town-plan of La Rochelle, with a numbered key (1-16) in the upper left corner gives the locations of the important buildings and landmarks.From volume II of Braun and Hog...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca. 1574
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2011
Brabantiae Germaniae Inferioris.
Based on a map by Jacob van Deventer, by order of King Charles V. Jacob van Deventer was one of the first cartographers of the Southern Netherlands. He was famous for his...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1574
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2011
Daniae Tabula...
Striking map of Denmark, extending from the Mechlenberg, Pomerania and Prussian Coastlines to the Norwegian Coastline, and extending north to show Stockholm. from the 157...
Place & Date: Antwerp,1572/1574
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2012
Graeciae Universae Secundum Hodiernum Neoterica Descriptio.
Published in a French edition of the 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum'. Finely hand-colored in wash and outline. A fine map, showing Greece prominently with its neighbouring coun...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1572/1574
Selling price: $650
Sold in 2012
Eryn - Hiberniae, Britannicae Insulae, Nova Descriptio - Irelandt.
A beautiful map of Ireland from Ortelius' "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum." This map is significant as the first separate printed map of Ireland. It’s also one of th...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1574
Selling price: $900
Sold in 2012
Italiae Novissima Descriptio.
Original copper engraving, published 1572/74 in a French text edition of the Atlas 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum' at Christopher Platin in Antwerp. A highly decorative and ear...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1572/1574
Selling price: $950
Sold in 2012
Zarra et Contado citta principale della Dalmatia posta sul mare adriatico loco Ihr.me Sri. Venetiani al pnte molestata aa Turchi.
Uncommon map of the Dalmatian coast with the town of Zadar in Croatia, with Turkish and Venetian warships in the foreground, from Giovanni Francesco Camocio's rare "...
Place & Date: Venice, D.Bertelli, ca.1574
Selling price: $1200
Sold in 2012
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[Greece]
Rare map of Greece. From Giovanni Francesco Camocio's rare " Isole Famose porti, fortezze, e terre maritime . . ." issued by Bertelli. The second state, which i...
Place & Date: Venice, D.Bertelli, ca.1574
Selling price: $900
Sold in 2019
(Greece)
Uncommon map of Greece with the western part of Turkey. From Giovanni Francesco Camocio's rare " Isole Famose porti, fortezze, e terre maritime . . ." issued by...
Place & Date: Venice, D.Bertelli, ca.1574
Selling price: $1200
Sold in 2012
Austriae Descrip. Par Wolfganum Lazium.
Early map of the Duchy of Austria, engraved after the cartographic source by Wolfgang Lazius. This is the first state of two, before the horizontal hatching in the Neusie...
Place & Date: Antwerp, ca. 1574
Selling price: $140
Sold in 2012
Rochella munitissimum galliae opp :
Town-plan of La Rochelle, with a numbered key (1-16) in the upper left corner gives the locations of the important buildings and landmarks.From volume II of Braun and Hog...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca. 1574
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2012
![Russiae, Moscoviae et Tartariae Descriptio. [With Latin text on verso]](/uploads/cache/33401-250x250.jpg)
Russiae, Moscoviae et Tartariae Descriptio. [With Latin text on verso]
From a Latin text edition, v.d. Broecke estimates that 175 copies are printed. Engraved by Frans Hogenberg from an original of 1562 by Anthony Jenkinson of the English Mu...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1574
Selling price: $1500
Sold in 2013
Gallia Nova Tabula.
Early map showing parts of France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Cornwall, and the Ligurian coast with Genoa and Milan. Engraved with mountains and rivers wi...
Place & Date: Venice, c1574
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2013
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Russiae, Moscoviae et Tartariae Descriptio. [With Latin text on verso]
From a Latin text edition. Engraved by Frans Hogenberg from an original of 1562 by Anthony Jenkinson of the English Muscovy Company. The map covers the region from the Gu...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1574
Selling price: $1500
Sold in 2014
Hiberniae Britannicae insulae nova descriptio.
Copied from Mercator's influential wall map of the British Isles of 1564, this is certainly the best map of Ireland of the 16th century.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1574
Selling price: $870
Sold in 2015
Scotiae tabula.
Very fine general map of Scotland with north to right of page. Derived from Mercator's 1564 map of the British Isles in 8 sheets.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1574
Selling price: $650
Sold in 2016
Europae.
Early edition of the classic Europa map by Ortelius. Somewhat distorted land masses: vignette of Europe being carried off by the bull (Zeus). The first plate with title A...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1574
Selling price: $925
Sold in 2017
Daniae Regni Typus.
Early decorative map of Denmark, extending from the Mechlenberg, Pomerania and Prussian Coastlines to the Norwegian Coastline, and extending north to show Stockholm. Abra...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1574
Selling price: $475
Sold in 2017
Tabula Asiae II.
A scarce map of the ancient region of Asiatic Sarmatia - now Southern Russia and part of Ukraine, around the Azov sea. Shows Armenia Maior, Iberia, Albania, Colchis, Port...
Place & Date: Venice, 1574
Selling price: $55
Sold in 2017
Valesia - Wallisserland.
Early woodcut map of the Valais in southern Switzerland. Showing the region at the river Rhone from the Furka Pass to St. Maurice. Published by Heinrich Petri in Basel.
Place & Date: Basel 1574
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2017
![Tabula Europae I [British Isles].](/uploads/cache/42111-250x250.jpg)
Tabula Europae I [British Isles].
An early double page Ptolemaic map of the British Isles from 'La Geografia Di Claudio Tolomeo Alessandrino...' published by G. Ziletti, Venice (using plates from the 1561...
Place & Date: Venice, 1574
Selling price: $210
Sold in 2019
Portugalliae que olim Lusitania.
The best-known map of Portugal, after Alvares Secco (1560), map is orientated west to the top of the sheet, seen here in a fine, early impression in good color. Fernando ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1574
Selling price: $255
Sold in 2019
Die statt Eger vor dem Bohemer wald gelegen conrafhe et nach jetziger gelegenheit..
An attractive, large, early woodcut view of Cheb (Eger) in the Karlovy Vary region of the Czech Republic by Sebastian Munster on a full double sheet. Title and a descript...
Place & Date: Basle, 1574
Selling price: $45
Sold in 2020
Die Statt Rom boden und circkel sampt thor. . .
An early woodcut map of the ancient Rome by Sebastian Münster. From the German edition of Sebastian Münster's Cosmography, titled Cosmographey oder beschreibung aller L...
Place & Date: Basle, 1574
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2020
Die statt Montpellier . . .
Panoramic view of Montpellier by Sebastian Münster. Title and a description of the city on verso. With a lettered key underneath the engraving. From the German edition o...
Place & Date: Basel, 1574
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2019
![Weimaria [on sheet with] Iena [and] Erdfordia [and] Gotha [and] Fuldensis Civitatis. [Weimar, Jena, Erfurt, Gotha, and Fulda]](/uploads/cache/84191-250x250.jpg)
Weimaria [on sheet with] Iena [and] Erdfordia [and] Gotha [and] Fuldensis Civitatis. [Weimar, Jena, Erfurt, Gotha, and Fulda]
Five bird's-eye views on one sheet: Weimar, Jena, Erfurt, Gotha and Fulda. TRANSLATION OF CARTOUCHE TEXT: Weimar, a handsome town in Thuringia, the famous seat of the Duk...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1574
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2020
Teutschland mit seinem gantzen begriff und eingeschlossnen Landschaften
Early woodcut map from Munster's Cosmographey, one of the most influential geographical works of the 16th Century. It shows central Europe, Poland, Germany, Austria, S...
Place & Date: Basle, c1574
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2022
Amsterdam
This important early map of Amsterdam is from Braun and Hogenberg’s important work Civitates Orbis Terrarum, the first atlas of cities of the world.This particular map ...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1574
Selling price: $1200
Sold in 2023
Regni Neapolitani verissima…
Very attractive antique Ortelius map of the Southern Italy. It shows the area with towns of Ascoli Piceno, Napels, Fogia, Bari, Catanzaro and Messina.The map comes from L...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1574
Selling price: $700
Sold in 2023
Septentrionalium Partium Nova Tabula
The map of Italy, Corsica and the Gulf of Venice.Comes from atlas “La geografia di Claudio Tolomeo Alessandrino, nuouamente tradotta di Greco in Italiano, da Girolamo R...
Place & Date: Venice, 1574
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2023
Graeciae Universae Secundum Hodiernum Situm Neoterica descriptio.
Ortelius' fine map of Greece, based on Jacobo Gastaldi's map of 1560. The early imprint with the uncorrected scale bar numeral ..80-90-10.
Place & Date: Antwerp 1575
Selling price: $240
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Description Générale de toute la France.
Detailed and uncommon wood block map of France after Ortelius, from François Belleforest's Paris version of Münster's cosmography : Histoire Universe du Monde ..
Place & Date: Paris 1575
Selling price: $400
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Middelburgum Selandiae Opp:
Originally colored birds's-eye view of the city of Middelburg. Coats of arms of the province of Zeeland. With ships in the city port. Churches and city walls with gates a...
Place & Date: 1575
Selling price: $350
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Hollandiae Antiquorum.
This map was published by Ortelius on the basis of the map drawn by Jacob van Deventer in abt. 1550. In the Spanish text on verso Ortelius marvels that such a small count...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1574-1575
Selling price: $1150
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Flandria.
Map of Flanders. Very decorative, egg-shaped map. This is the early state with the farmer's wife and three ships in the North Sea.
Place & Date: Antwerp 1574-1575
Selling price: $1150
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Transilvania.
Detailed map of Hungary prepared by Sambucas in 1566, who itself based his map on Honter's map of 1532.Latin text on verso.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1575
Selling price: $170
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Soest.
Fine panoramic view of the town of Soest. From the greatest publication in this genre!. The "Civitates" was compiled and written by George Braun, Canon of Colog...
Place & Date: Cologne 1575
Selling price: $250
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Monasterium.. / Osnabrugum.. / Wesalia Inferior.
Three prospects of Osnabruck, Münster and Wesel in Northern Germany above each other on one sheet.From the greatest publication in this genre!. The "Civitates"...
Place & Date: Cologne 1575
Selling price: $240
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Cliviam../ Duisburgum.. / Embrica.. / Gennapium..
Four prospects clockwise showing : Cliviam (Kleve ) Duisburgum (Duisberg) Embrica (Emmerich) Gennapium (Gennip in The Netherlands).From the greatest publication in this g...
Place & Date: Cologne 1575
Selling price: $575
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Nurnberga
Fine panoramic view of Nuremberg.From the greatest publication in this genre!. The "Civitates" was compiled and written by George Braun, Canon of Cologne Cathed...
Place & Date: Cologne 1575
Selling price: $425
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Lubeca Urbs Imperialiss Libera.. / Hamburga, Florentisimum inferioris Saxoni..
Two prospects of Hamburg and Lubeck in Northern Germany above each other on one sheet.From the greatest publication in this genre!. The "Civitates" was compiled...
Place & Date: Cologne 1575
Selling price: $300
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Hamburgum.
Plan of Hamburg in Northern Germany.From the greatest publication in this genre!. The "Civitates" was compiled and written by George Braun, Canon of Cologne Cat...
Place & Date: Cologne 1575
Selling price: $400
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Civitas Francofordiana Ad Mo:
Plan of Frankfurt in central Germany.From the greatest publication in this genre!. The "Civitates" was compiled and written by George Braun, Canon of Cologne Ca...
Place & Date: Cologne 1575
Selling price: $550
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Soest. / Warborch.
Two prospects of Soest and Warborch in Northern Germany above each other on one sheet.From the greatest publication in this genre!. The "Civitates" was compiled...
Place & Date: Cologne 1575
Selling price: $300
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Russiae, Moscoviae et Tartariae Descriptio.
Engraved by Frans Hogenberg from an original of 1562 by Anthony Jenkinson of the English Muscovy Company. The many vignettes are based on the reports of Marco Polo's expl...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1575
Selling price: $1600
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Moscauw.
It shows the city of Moscow from a slightly elevated viewpoint across the frozen Moskva River.The walled center of the city is depicted with its many churches and filled ...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1575
Selling price: $1800
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Cliviam../ Duisburgum.. / Embrica.. / Gennapium..
Four prospects clockwise showing : Cliviam (Kleve ) Duisburgum (Duisberg) Embrica (Emmerich) Gennapium (Gennip in The Netherlands).From the greatest publication in this g...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1575
Selling price: $425
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Europae. La carte d'Europe.
In 1575 Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia was translated into French and published in Paris by François de Belle-Forest. The Europe map being a folding woodcut copy of O...
Place & Date: Paris, 1575
Selling price: $2000
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Flandria.
Very decorative, egg-shaped map. This is the early state with the farmer's wife and three ships in the North Sea.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1574-1575
Selling price: $1200
Sold in 2008
Europae. La carte d'Europe.
In 1575 Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia was translated into French and published in Paris by François de Belle-Forest. The Europe map being a folding woodcut copy of O...
Place & Date: Paris, 1575
Selling price: $750
Sold in 2008
Moscavw. Moscovia, Urbs, regionis eiusde nominis metropolitia, duplo maior. . .
It shows the city of Moscow from a slightly elevated viewpoint across the frozen Moskva River. The walled center of the city is depicted with its many churches and filled...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1575
Selling price: $3100
Sold in 2008
Illustris Civitatis Conimbriae in Lusitania. . .
A rare and exceptional copper plate engraving of the city of Coimbra in N. Central Portugal. The town is home to the tenth oldest continuously extant university in the w...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca, 1575
Selling price: $925
Sold in 2011
Noua Bracarie Auguste Descriptio.
A rare, beautifully engraved bird's-eye view of Braga, one of the world's most famous ecclesiastical centers. The city has a rich history and served as the capital of th...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca, 1575
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2011
Nurnberga, urbs noblissima, totius quasi Germanie . . .
Fine panoramic view of Nuremberg.From the greatest publication in this genre!. The "Civitates" was compiled and written by George Braun, Canon of Cologne Cathed...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1575
Selling price: $550
Sold in 2008
Cantebrigia...
A sought after and highly decorative early bird's-eye plan of the ancient university town of Cambridge. From Braun & Hogenberg's monumental work, CIVITATES ORBIS TERR...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca. 1575
Selling price: $1050
Sold in 2008
Transilvania.
Detailed map of Hungary prepared by Sambucas in 1566, who itself based his map on Honter's map of 1532.Latin text on verso.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1575
Selling price: $180
Sold in 2008
Europae. La carte d\'Europe.
In 1575 Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia was translated into French and published in Paris by François de Belle-Forest. The Europe map being a folding woodcut copy of O...
Place & Date: Paris, 1575
Selling price: $1300
Sold in 2008
Vegel. / Velis Malaga.
Two panoramic town-views of Vejer de la Frontera (top half) and Vélez-Málaga (bottom half) on one page.From the greatest publication in this genre!. The Civitates was ...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1575
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2009
Regni Bohemiae descriptio.
Fine and early map of Czechoslovakia after Johann Criginger and used by A.Ortelius in his atlas 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum [Atlas of the Whole World].Fine map with Prague n...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1575
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2011
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[ Italy ]
On verso a small map of Italy.From a French text edition of his Cosmographia , that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge. In 1575 Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia w...
Place & Date: Basle, ca.1575
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2009
![[ Milan ]](/uploads/cache/27242-250x250.jpg)
[ Milan ]
On verso a woodcut representing a view of the city of Milan. On recto a portrait of an Emperor and a woodcut of a countryside with a village.From a French text edition of...
Place & Date: Paris, ca.1575
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2018
Misena Hermun Durorum Urbs.
Braun & Hogenberg of Meissen.
Place & Date: Kologne, 1575
Selling price: $325
Sold in 2009
Dordravum vulgo Dortt.. (Dordrecht)
A panoramic town-view of Dordrecht with noble figures in the foreground.From the greatest publication in this genre!. The ,Civitates, was compiled and written by George B...
Place & Date: Cologne 1575
Selling price: $351
Sold in 2009
Urbis Campensis. (Kampen)
Fine panoramic town-view of the town of Kampen. From the greatest publication in this genre!. The ,Civitates, was compiled and written by George Braun, Canon of Cologne C...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1575
Selling price: $210
Sold in 2011
Soest.
Fine panoramic of Soest, in North Rhine-Westphalia. From the greatest publication in this genre!. The "Civitates" was compiled and written by George Braun, Can...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1575
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2011
Grodna (Hrodna or Grodno)
This is a stunning view of what is now referred to today as Hrodna or Grodno, a city in Belarus. This image showings the city situated on the banks of the Neman River (ca...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1575
Selling price: $800
Sold in 2011
Nouvelle description de Poloigne et Hongrie.
Early wood block printed map of Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria with the River Danube. The Black Sea in the lower right corner with Constantinople.
Place & Date: Basle, 1552 - 1575
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2011
De la Cosmographie. Rauenne. Boloigne.
Text page with imaginary town views of Bologna and Ravenna.From a French text edition of his Cosmographia , that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge. In 1575 Sebast...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1575
Selling price: $10
Sold in 2012
La figure de la place ou sut iadiz la cite de Rome avec ses portes quand elie estoit en sa grand fleur.
Plan of ancient Rome. On recto a child coming out of a bull. From a French text edition of his Cosmographia , that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge. In 1575 Seba...
Place & Date: Basle, ca.1575
Selling price: $10
Sold in 2012
Transilvania.
Detailed map of Hungary prepared by Sambucas in 1566, who itself based his map on Honter's map of 1532.Latin text on verso.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1575
Selling price: $240
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Moschouie.
Early woodcut map of the European part of Russia, centered on Moscow. The area shown extends to Kiev, the Sea of Azov, the Caspian Sea, the Ob River in Siberia, and borde...
Place & Date: Basel, c1575
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2012
Bloys.
Early and detailed birds-eye town-view of Bloys. From the greatest publication in this genre!. The Civitates was compiled and written by George Braun, Canon of Cologne Ca...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1575
Selling price: $240
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Le Vray pourtraict de la ville d'Aix en Provence.
A very decorative and rare town-plan of Aix en Provence from Franc¸ois de Belleforest's "La Cosmographie universelle de tout le monde". Paris, 1575. The book w...
Place & Date: Nicolas Chesneau and Michel Sonnius, Paris,1575
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2012
Le vif portaict de la noble ville, & cité de Tours.
Early bird's eye of Tours. In 1575 Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia was translated into French and published in Paris by François de Belle-Forest.
Place & Date: Paris, 1575
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2012
Grodna.
This is a stunning of what is now referred to today as Hrodna or Grodno, a city in Belarus. This image showings the city situated on the banks of the Neman River (called...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1575
Selling price: $625
Sold in 2013
Leyda, Batavorum Lugdumum, vulgo Leyden.. (Leiden)
A bird's-eye view of Leiden, Voorschoten, Zoeterwoude and Leiderdorp. From the greatest publication in this genre!. The Civitates was compiled and written by George Braun...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1575
Selling price: $425
Sold in 2013
Augusta iuxta figuram quam his ce temporibus habet delineata
A bird's-eye of Augsburg, with a numbered key in the lower left corner (1-133) shows the individual groups of buildings very clearly, including the Fuggerei (72, bottom ...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1575
Selling price: $220
Sold in 2013
Marcha Anconae, olim Picenum. 1572.
The Ancona region along the coast of the Adriatic Sea. Oceans, mountains, rivers, lakes, cities and important towns are detailed. No text on verso.Taken from a larger she...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1574-1575
Selling price: $75
Sold in 2017