Descriptio ditionum littoralium maris Germanici, videlicet, Eijderstadij, Dithmarsiae. . .
A detailed chart of the Dithmarschen region in the North coastline of Germany. Decorated by a title, scale and a descriptive cartouche, one compass rose, several vessels ...
Place & Date: Leiden, Plantijn, 1585
Selling price: $2500
Sold in 2008
Beschrijvinghe van de zee custen van Ooft Vriesslandt. . .
A detailed chart of the Groeninger region situated at the southern tip of the Jutland Peninsula. Decorated by a title, scale and a descriptive cartouche, one compass rose...
Place & Date: Leiden, Plantijn, 1585
Selling price: $3500
Sold in 2013
Chilonium, vulgo Kyell
A rare, large, spectacular view of the German city of Kiel. From the famous 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum' of Braun & Hogenberg, with spectacular original colors and with...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1585
Selling price: $464
Sold in 2023
Beschrijvinghe der Zee Custen van Eiderste, Dithmers, en ee deel vant Fromges landt, ...
Sea chart by Waghenaer. Latin text on verso.
Place & Date: Leiden, 1586
Selling price: $650
Sold in 2009
Germania.
Ortelius very decorative map of Germania, including Switzerland, Austria, Poland, The Netherlands and Belgium, from 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum [Atlas of the Whole World]': ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1587
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2019
Germania.
An attractive map centered on Germany. The sea is decorated with a vessel and a sea monster.From a rare Spanish text edition.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1588
Selling price: $325
Sold in 2009
Franckenlandt am Mayn, beschriben nach aller Gelegenheit, in Stetten, Bergen, Wässern, Wäldern, und anstossenden Ländern
Detailed map of Southern Germany around the river Main, from the 1588-German edition of Munster's Cosmography. Mountains, villages, churches and woods are attractively dr...
Place & Date: Basle, S.H. Petrie, 1588
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2019
Teutschlandt mit seinem gantzen begriff und eingschlosznen Landschafften.
Early Munster's map of Germaniae or Northern Europe. The map is south-oriented with "west" on the right side and "east" on the left side. Bamberg and ...
Place & Date: Basle, S.H. Petrie, 1588
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2014
Schwaben und Bayerlandt darbey auch Begriffen der Otenwald, Nortgow.
An attractive early woodcut map A map of Swabia, one of the ten Imperial Circles of the Holy Roman Empire. Orientated with north at the bottom, it marks Strassburg, Bambe...
Place & Date: Basle, S.H. Petrie, 1588
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2020
NOVESIUM [NEUSS]
One of the finest and most sought-after views of Neuss. From volume one of the greatest publication in this genre!. The Civitates was compiled and written by George Braun...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1588
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2019
Arx Segeberga. . .
TRANSLATION OF CARTOUCHE TEXT: The castle of Segeberg, formerly Aelberga, embellishes Wagrien, the famous region in Holstein. This our work has been adorned with this vie...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca 1588
Selling price: $325
Sold in 2020
Franicher Nobiliu Hominum, in Frisia occidental, ut Plurimum Saedes.
A detailed bird’s-eye plan of Franeker located in Friesland, Germany. The cartographer was Jacob van Deventer and the plan is from Braun & Hogenberg. This is the r...
Place & Date: Koln, 1588
Selling price: $22
Sold in 2021
[WERDEN+ESSEN] Civitatis WERDENAE Exactiss: Descrip: [on sheet with:] Civitatis ESSENSIS Exactiss. Descrip.
A nice decorative map with two panoramic views by Braun and Hogenberg: Werden and Essen.Werden is seen from the northwest, coming from the direction of Essen, in its loca...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1588
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2020
Neus (Neuss)
Bird's-eye view of Neuss, published in the famous Stedenboek by Braun and Hogenberg. TRANSLATION OF CARTOUCHE TEXT RIGHT: The Roman king Philip captured Neuss around 1206...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1588
Selling price: $240
Sold in 2021
Hamburgum (Hamburg)
Bird's-eye city plan of Hamburg with key to 27 locations.COMMENTARY BY BRAUN: "The Cimbrian Peninsula, the northernmost region of Germany, went by the name of Hutlan...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1588
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2020
Monachium Utriusque Bavariae Civitas Primar. (Munich, München)
View of Munich by Braun and Hogenberg, after Georg Hoefnagel. With key to locations. TRANSLATION CARTOUCHE TOP: Munich, capital of the two Bavarias.CARTOUCHES BOTTOM LEFT...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1588
Selling price: $800
Sold in 2020
Crempa Holsatiae Opp. ... [on sheet with] Reinholdsburga - Rendesburga. (Krempe - Rendsburg)
Two bird's-eye views by Braun and Hogenberg: Krempe and Rendsburg.KREMPE : TRANSLATION OF CARTOUCHE TEXT: Krempe, at the instigation of Joannes Rantzau, Knight of the Gol...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1588
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2020
Arx Segeberga, Quondam Aelberga, Wagriam, Nobilem Holsatiae Regionem.. (Castle of Segeberg)
This lovely panoramic view depicts the Castle of Segeberg, built in the 12th century upon the Kalkberg, a 91-meter high rock. A small town surrounds the castle. In the fo...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1588
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2021
Munden - Mundensis, ad Visurgum flu: Saxoniae Urbis, genuina delineatio. (Hannoversch Münde)
Bird's-eye view of Hannoversch Münden by Braun and Hogenberg.TRANSLATION OF CARTOUCHE TEXT: A true-to-life drawing of the Lower Saxton town of Hannoversch Münden on the...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1588
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2020
Schleiswygh. (Schleswig)
Bird's-eye view of Schleswig by Braun and Hogenberg.TRANSLATION OF CARTOUCHE TEXT: Gottorp. The castle of Gottorp, which came into the possession of the Dukes of Holstein...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1588
Selling price: $230
Sold in 2021
Ober Wesell [on sheet with] Boppart. (Oberwesel - Boppard)
Two bird's-eye views by Braun and Hogenberg: Oberwesel and Boppard.OBERWESEL with TRANSLATION OF CARTOUCHE TEXT: Accurate drawing of the town of Vosavia, or Ficelia, on t...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1588
Selling price: $220
Sold in 2020
Wesalia in Ducatu Clivensi Urbs Clara Opibus. (Wesel)
Bird's-eye view plan of Wesel.TRANSLATION OF CARTOUCHE TEXT: Hermannus Hammelman. Wesel in the Duchy of Cleves, famous for its wealth, high status, buildings and trade, w...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1588
Selling price: $230
Sold in 2021
Lippe [on sheet with] Dortmund. (Lippstadt and Dortmund)
Two bird's-eye views on one sheet: Dortmund and Lippstadt, by Braun and Hogenberg.LIPPSTADT with TRANSLATION OF CARTOUCHE TEXT: Although the town of Lippe is subject to t...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1588
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2020
Arnsberg.
Bird's-eye view of Arnsberg by Braun and Hogenberg.COMMENTARY BY BRAUN: "The fair and noble land of Westphalia between the Weser and the Rhine stretches all the way ...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1588
Selling price: $230
Sold in 2020
Soest.
Bird's-eye view of Soest, by Braun and Hogenberg.COMMENTARY BY BRAUN (on the verso): "After Münster, Soest is the wealthiest and largest city in Westphalia. [...] I...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1588
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2020
Chilonium, vulgo Kyell. (Kiel)
Bird's-eye view of Kiel by Braun and Hogenberg.TRANSLATION OF CARTOUCHE TEXT: Chilonium, commonly called Kiel, an elegant old city in Holstein on an isthmus in the Baltic...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1588
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2020
Husemum Ducatus Slesvicensis ad Sinum Heveram Opp. [on sheet with] Haderslebia in Ducatu Slesvicensi. (Husum and Haderslev)
Two bird's-eye views by Braun and Hogenberg: Husum and Haderslev.HUSUM with CARTOUCHE LEFT: Husum, town in the Duchy of Schleswig on the Hever coast.CARTOUCHE RIGHT: Reco...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1588
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2020
Eisleben - Eislebia Comitatus Mansfeldiae Opp. [with] Tubingen - Tubinga.
Two bird's-eye views by Braun and Hogenberg on one sheet: Eisleben and Tübingen. EISLEBEN CARTOUCHE: Eisleben, a city in the County of Mansfeld. COMMENTARY BY BRAUN (on ...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1588
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2020
[Two maps of Germany]
Two sheets. One map centered on the river Rhine with the towns of Basle, Zürich, Augsburg, Esling, Strasbourg, Fribourg, etc. The second map showing eastern part of Germ...
Place & Date: Basle 1550-1590
Selling price: $20
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Germaniae Veteris typus.
Made by Ortelius based on the writings by the ancient authors Tacitus, Caesar, Dionysus, Ptolemy, Suetonius, Eutropius, Seneca, Plinius, and Strabo.This map belongs to a ...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1590
Selling price: $138
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Braunsvicensis et Luneburgensis Ducatuum.
Early map of Brunswick and Lunenburg. Nice cartouche on the upper right corner.Abraham Ortelius (1527-1598) was a cartographer and publisher, who is born and died in Antw...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1590
Selling price: $30
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Descriptio Lineae Occiduae Rheni .. / Alsatia.
On recto an early map of the province of Alsace, with Strasbourg, Heidelberg and Metz. (Map : 88x135 mm).From a Latin text edition of his Geographia , that great compendi...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1590
Selling price: $15
Sold in 2014
Lipsia..
On recto an early map of Germany, centered on Leipzig (117x155 mm).From a Latin text edition of his Geographia , that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge.
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1590
Selling price: $19
Sold in 2014
De Suevia et eius Praecipuis Civitatibus..
On recto an early map of south eastern part of Germany, including the towns of Fribourg, Zürich, Basel, Strasbourg, Heidelberg, Spire, etc. (Map : 117x155 mm).From a Lat...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1590
Selling price: $15
Sold in 2014
Thietmarsiae, Holsaticae Regionis Partis Typvs. Auctore Petro Boeckel. / Oldenbvrg Comit.
Two engraved maps on a folio sheet by Petro Boeckel of Germany. Published by Abraham Ortelius (1527-98) in his "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum".
Place & Date: Antwerp, c.1590
Selling price: $105
Sold in 2010
Prussiae vera descriptio.
Map of Poland, oriented to the North. Prepared by the cartographer Caspar Henneberger. From "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum Abrahami Ortelii Antverp".
Place & Date: Antwerpen, 1590
Selling price: $360
Sold in 2015
[Koblentz]
Attractive birds eye view of the region around Coblenz. The Rhine and Mosel Rivers, fortified castles on the hillside and the fortified city below.With a decorative title...
Place & Date: Basle 1550-1590
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2016
Wer lustig ist zu Wissen gar. . .
Plate from the series about the " Eighty Years' War" or the independence war of Holland against Spain, we know approximately four hundred engravings by Frans Ho...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca. 1590
Selling price: $45
Sold in 2020
Beim Colnschen Sant Jeronim Machtelis. . .
Early print showing a beheading in Cologne.Plate from the series about the " Eighty Years' War" or the independence war of Holland against Spain, we know of app...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca. 1590
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2018
Chilonium, vulgo Kyell.
A rare, large, spectacular view of the German city of Kiel. From the famous 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum' of Braun & Hogenberg, with spectacular old colors, partly enhan...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1590
Selling price: $590
Sold in 2017
Monachium Utriusque Bavariae Civitas Primar.
A panoramic view of the city of Munich and its environs, as seen from the east from the famous civitates orbis terrarum of Braun & Hogenberg. Note, left in the backgr...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca 1590
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2017
Saxonia Vetus et Nova . . .
Text sheet with on recto an early map of Saxony, centered on Berlin and including Hamburg and Danzig as well (map : 69x134 mm). South to the top.From a Latin text edition...
Place & Date: Basle 1550-1590
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2017
Chilonium, vulgo Kyell.
A rare, large, spectacular view of the German city of Kiel. From the famous 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum' of Braun & Hogenberg, with spectacular old color. With French t...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1590
Selling price: $590
Sold in 2019
Chilonium vulgo Kyell. . .
COMMENTARY BY BRAUN: "Where the Belt meets the Duchy of Schleswig-Holstein and Schleswig, it has numerous bends forming narrow necks of land notably surrounded by wa...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca 1590
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2018
Kalcar.
An early town plan of Kalkar in Germany, showing an enclosed town with many fine houses and buildings, especially the town hall, the market place and the main church. The...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1590
Selling price: $240
Sold in 2020
Schleswig. . .
The ducal coat of arms and the arms of the city of Schleswig at the corners of an equilateral triangle draw attention down to the little church of Hedeby in the foregroun...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca 1590
Selling price: $160
Sold in 2019
Flensburg and Itzehoe.
Flensburg: This view from the east of the harbour city at the end of the Flensburg Fjord shows the long merchants' yards that are typical of old Flensburg - front-gabled ...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca 1590
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2020
Flensburg and Itzehoe.
Flensburg: This view from the east of the harbour city at the end of the Flensburg Fjord shows the long merchants' yards that are typical of old Flensburg - front-gabled ...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca 1590
Selling price: $340
Sold in 2020
Gottorp.
The ducal coat of arms and the arms of the city of Schleswig at the corners of an equilateral triangle draw our attention down to the little church of Hedeby in the foreg...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca 1590
Selling price: $280
Sold in 2020
Von dem Teutschen land. [Northern Germany]
A nice small map of northern Germany and a part of Poland. Shows the area between Lignitz and Torgau in the south, in the north Gdansk, the Baltic Sea and Holstein, in th...
Place & Date: Basle, ca 1590
Selling price: $4
Sold in 2021
Flensburg and Itzehoe.
Flensburg: This view from the east of the harbour city at the end of the Flensburg Fjord shows the long merchants' yards that are typical of old Flensburg - front-gabled ...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca 1590
Selling price: $110
Sold in 2022
Sueviae.
Very rare and beautifully engraved map from De Jode's atlas Speculum Orbis Terrarum . Detailed map of region of Ulm, Strasbourg, Bodensee.Engraved by Joan and Lucas van D...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1593
Selling price: $150
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Hessiae seu cattorum noblissimorum ac Bellicosissimorum ..
Very rare and beautifully engraved map from De Jode's atlas Speculum Orbis Terrarum . Detailed map of the regions east and west of the river Fulga.Engraved by Joan van Do...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1593
Selling price: $200
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Bavariae utriusque cum in ferioris vera..
Very rare and beautifully engraved map from De Jode's atlas Speculum Orbis Terrarum . Detailed map of southern Germany, with Augsburg, Regensburg, Munich, etc.Engraved by...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1593
Selling price: $110
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Turingiae Comitatus Provincialis - Misniae Marchionatus
2 maps on one plate depicting the German states of Thüringen and Saxony. Centered respectively on Erfurt and Dresden.Gerard De Jode was the great rival of Ortelius, both...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1593
Selling price: $275
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Sueviae utriusq cum Germaniae tum Rhetiae. . .
Very rare and beautifully engraved map from De Jode's atlas Speculum Orbis Terrarum . Detailed map of region of Ulm, Strasbourg, Bodensee.Engraved by Joan and Lucas van D...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1593
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2013
Saxonum regionis quatenus eius gentis imperium nomenquqe olim patebat, recens germanaque delineatio. . .
Map of north east Germany with part of Poland. Like all de Jode maps: scarce and much sought after.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1593
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2012
Typus Vindeliciae Sive Utriusque Bavariae.
Charming miniature map of Danube River as it passes through Bavaria. It is from Philip Galle's 1593 Italian edition of the Epitome. Simple title cartouche.
Place & Date: Rome, 1593
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2017
Prussiae Regionis Sarmatiae Europae Nobilissimae Novaet vera descriptio . . .
Nice example of the first edition of De Jode's map of Prussia, from the 1593 edition of De Jode's atlas.The present map is an entirely new addition to the second De Jode ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1593
Selling price: $1600
Sold in 2018
[Title page] Germania geographicis tabulis illustrata. .
Very rare and beautiful title page from the second edition of Cornelis de Jode rare atlas. In lower part a map of Germany, Poland and the Low Countries.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1593
Selling price: $600
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Holsatia Ducatus.
A detailed map of the Schleswig-Holstein area of Germany extending south to include Hamburg and Lubeck. From the first edition of Mercator's Atlas. Latin text verso
Place & Date: Duisberg, 1595
Selling price: $95
Sold in 2014
Berghe Ducatus Marck comitatus et Coloniensis Dioecisis.
A rare first edition of Mercator's detailed map of Germany, from the first addition (1595) of Mercator's atla, “Atlas Sive Cosmographia”. The map covers a large secti...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1595
Selling price: $70
Sold in 2018
Turingiae Noviss. Descript. / Misniae et Lusatiae Tabula.
A delightful pair of central German maps of Thuringia & Meissen, by Ortelius, published in Antwerp towards the end of the sixteenth century. The left hand map is that...
Place & Date: Antwerp, ca 1595
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2020
Germania.
Giovanni Antonio Magini (1555-1617), Italian mathematician and cartographer. Edited edition of Ptolemy's ' Geographia', 1596.The 'modern' map of Germany. An elegantly eng...
Place & Date: Venice, 1596
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2018
WITTENBERG.
Rare Lafreri School town-plan of Wittenberg, and church marked by Luther, engraved by Paolo Forlani, of the Lafreri school of mapmakers, first published in "Il Primo...
Place & Date: Venice, 1596
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2019
RATZENBURGK [RATZEBURG.]
A fine antique map - bird's-eye view of Ratzeburg by Braun & Hogenberg, signed and dated bottom centre: Gerdt Hane 1588. From: Urbium Praecipuarum Mundi Theatrum Quin...
Place & Date: Cologne,1596
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2020
BREMA [BREMEN.]
A fine antique map - bird's-eye view of Bremen by Braun and Hogenberg, from the rare: Urbium Praecipuarum Mundi Theatrum Quintum Auctore Georgio Braunio Agrippinate. Part...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1596
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2020
Saarburg & Pfalzel, Chorographica descriptio Civitatis Sarburgensis [on sheet with] Opp: Palatinum ad Mosellam Flu; vulgo Pfaltz auff der Musell.
A fine antique map with two bird's-eye views by Braun and Hogenberg: Saarburg and Pfalzel, from: Civitates Orbis Terrarum, ... Part 5. Köln, 1596. COMMENTARY BY BRAUN (o...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1596
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2020
Zell,Berncastel,Manderscheid - Cel im Ham, Berncastel, Ober Manderscheidt, Nider Manderscheidt. [on one sheet]
A fine antique map with three bird's-eye views on one sheet: Zell - Berncastel - Manderscheid, from: Civitates Orbis Terrarum, ... Part 5. Köln, 1596.ZELL AN DER MOSEL. ...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1596
Selling price: $210
Sold in 2020
LUNEBORCH - Lüneburg.
A fine antique map - birds eye view of Lüneburg in northern Germany ,by Braun and Hogenberg. From the rare 5th volume of 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum..'
Place & Date: Cologne, 1596
Selling price: $240
Sold in 2020
BARDOWICK - Bardewick.
A fine antique map - bird's-eye view of Bardowick by Braun and Hogenberg, engraved after a drawing by Daniel Freese, 1588.From the rare: Civitates Orbis Terrarum, ... Par...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1596
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2020
BARDUM POMERANIAE, BARTH/POMERANIA.
A fine antique map - bird's-eye plan of Barth by Braun and Hogenberg, from the Urbium Praecipuarum Mundi Theatrum Quintum Auctore Georgio Braunio Agrippinate. Part 5. Kö...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1596
Selling price: $240
Sold in 2020
Cochem + Münstermaifeld, Chorographica Descriptio Civitatis Cocheimensis, Exactissima Civitatis Monasteriensis. . .
A fine antique map with a view of Cochem and a bird's-eye plan of Münstermaifeld by Braun and Hogenberg, with key to locations. From the: Civitates Orbis Terrarum, ...th...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1596
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2020
Stade / Staden.
A fine antique map - a bird's-eye plan of Stade by Braun and Hogenberg, from: Urbium Praecipuarum Mundi Theatrum Quintum Auctore Georgio Braunio Agrippinate. Part 5. Köl...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1596
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2020
Plön / Plona.
A fine antique map - a bird's-eye view of Plön by Braun and Hogenberg, from the: Civitates Orbis Terrarum, ... Part 5. Köln, 1596.TRANSLATION OF CARTOUCHE TEXT: Drawn o...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1596
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2021
Heide + Meldorf, Icon Oppidi Heide / Delineatio Urbis Meldorpie.
A fine antique map with two bird's-eye plans by Braun and Hogenberg: Heide and Meldorf. From: Civitates Orbis Terrarum, ... Part 5. Köln, 1596.HEIDE. TRANSLATION OF CAPT...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1596
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2020
Ratisbona [Regensburg.]
A fine antique map - a bird's-eye view of Regensburg by Braun and Hogenberg, drawn and engraved by J. Hoefnagel in 1594. Dedicated to Emperor Rudolph II. From the: Urbium...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1596
Selling price: $430
Sold in 2020
Wiismaria [Wismar.]
A fine antique panoramic view of Wismar by Braun and Hogenberg, from the: Civitates Orbis Terrarum, ... Part 5. Köln, 1596.COMMENTARY BY BRAUN: "The town has greatl...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1596
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2020
Dithmarschen Costumes. Diversi Dithmarsorum et vicinarum gentium habitus.
A fine antique engraving of costumed figures from the 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum', it shows the dignitaries and peasants of Dithmarschen. In the 15/16th centuries Dithmars...
Place & Date: Cologne,1596
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2020
Bavariae, olim vindeliciae delineationis..
Fine and early map of Bavaria, prepared by Philipp Apian in 1561 and used by Ortelius in his atlas 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum [Atlas of the Whole World].The Theatrum was re...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1598
Selling price: $240
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