Neapolis.
On recto an early birds-eye view of Naples. On verso a city view of Tivoli. From a Latin text edition of his Geographia , that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge.S...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1590
Selling price: $67
Sold in 2012
![[ Italy ]](/uploads/cache/32528-250x250.jpg)
[ Italy ]
On recto a wood block printed map of the center part of Italy (159x129mm.), south orientated to the top. Corsica in upper right corner.From a Latin text edition of his Ge...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1590
Selling price: $55
Sold in 2013
Siciliae insulae atque totius regni eius descriptio, secundum uarium eius habitudinem.
On verso an early map of Sicily. From a Latin text edition of his Geographia , that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge.
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1590
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2013
Regnum Neapolit. Mare mediterraneum.
On recto a map of Southern part of Italy. />From a Latin text edition of his Geographia , that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge.
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1590
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2013
Theatrum Veronense. . .
A double page illustration of the Roman Theatre of Verona, constructed in the 1st century B.C., at the foot of the Hill of St. Peter on the banks of the Adige River. />...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1590
Selling price: $33
Sold in 2013
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Descriptio Italiae secundum uarios populos. . . [Italy]
On verso a wood block printed map of Italy.From a Latin text edition of his Geographia , that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge.
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1590
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2013
Venetia. (Venice)
Precise, beautiful bird's-eye town-plan of Venice, clearly depicting the city's architectural landmark. The surrounding lagoon is animated with a great variety of sailing...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1590
Selling price: $2100
Sold in 2013
Venetia. (Venice)
Precise, beautiful bird's-eye town plan of Venice, clearly depicting the city's architectural landmark. The surrounding lagoon is animated with a great variety of sailing...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1590
Selling price: $2500
Sold in 2014
Caprarola Arx et Horti Farnesiani.
A nice view of the castle and gardens of the Farnese family, in Lazio. From the famous "Civitates orbis terrarum". Attractive original colors. French text on ve...
Place & Date: Cologne, circa 1590
Selling price: $190
Sold in 2016
Catana urbs Siciliae clarissima patria sc.te Agathae virgin. . .
A large, beautiful print of the Italian city of Catania, in Sicily, with Mount Etna in the background, one of the most impressive volcanos in Europe. It comes from the gr...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1590
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2018
Perusia gratu musis in Tuscia domicilium. (Perugia)
A large, early, very detailed, strong impression, bird's-eye view of the Italian city of Perugia. From the famous Civitates Orbis Terrarum, compiled and written by George...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1590
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2020
Panormus / Palermo.
A large, early, very detailed, strong impression, bird's-eye view of the Italian city of Palermo in Sicily. From the famous Civitates Orbis Terrarum, compiled and written...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1590
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2018
Roma.
Though a contemporaneous view, the structures of Ancient Rome are still much in evidence. The example contains a 119 point legend and figures in typical costume.From the ...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1590
Selling price: $750
Sold in 2019
![Brixiani Agri Typus [Brescia].](/uploads/cache/47101-250x250.jpg)
Brixiani Agri Typus [Brescia].
A very nice map of northern province of Italy, Brecia. Copied after a map prepared in 1560 by Christoforo Sorte. Very large title cartouche on the lower left corner. Abra...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1590
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2021
Ducatus Mediolanensis, Finitimarumq Regionu Descriptio Auctore Iooanne Georgio Septala Mediolanense
Beautiful colored map of northern Italy by A. Ortelius. Showing the area around Milan with Lago di Como, Genoa, Parma, Cremona and Bergamo. With a nice Renaissance cartou...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1592
Selling price: $650
Sold in 2010
Veronae Urbis Territorium.
A very fine map of part of Italy, centered on Verona, Vizenza and Lake Garda. Prepared by Bernardino Brugnoli, which was first published in 1574 by Forlani. This Ortelius...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1592
Selling price: $85
Sold in 2019
Tusciae Antiquae Typus.
Based on Bellarmati's map of Tuscany, supplemented by classical sources, viz. Livius, Plinius, Cato, Virgil, Halicarnassaeus and Plutarchus.This map belongs to a series o...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1595
Selling price: $400
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Siciliae Veteris Typus.
A very beautiful early map of ancient Sicily. Title cartouche centred on the upper part: includes also an inset map of Syracuse in the upper left, and a list of the towns...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1595
Selling price: $400
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Latium.
Based on classical authors sources, specifically Virgilius, Plinius, Varro, Halicarnasseus, Festus and Ausonius.Philip Wingius in his letter to Ortelius from 1592 mention...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1595
Selling price: $180
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Tuscia.
Miniature map of Tuscany. From the second series of miniature atlas of Ortelius' Epitome. A new series of pocket-size atlases was begun by Philip Galle in 1588. It seems ...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1595
Selling price: $120
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Venetia.
Superb bird's-eye view of Venice, which precisely illustrates most of the architectural features of the city. The lagoon is also depicted, animated with many vessels. The...
Place & Date: Cologne, circa 1595
Selling price: $2000
Sold in 2015
FLORENZA (Florence)
Rare Lafreri School town-plan of Florence, engraved by Paolo Forlani, of the Lafreri school of mapmakers, first published in "Il Primo Libro Delle Citta, Et Fortezze...
Place & Date: Venice, 1596
Selling price: $560
Sold in 2016
Als Konig Heinrich Von Naverr . . .
Early print showing Henry of Navarra (1553–1610) baptized in Rome on 23 September 1595.Plate from the series about the "Eighty Years' War" or the Independence...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca. 1596
Selling price: $75
Sold in 2019
Italia.
Map of Italy adorned with a title-cartouche, 6 ships, a sea monster and a scale. This is a rare copper-engraved map of Italy based on the Mercator projection. Present in ...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1596
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2020
Elegantissimus ad mare Thyrrenum ex monte Pausillipo Neapolis montisque Vesuvij prospectus.
A general view of Naples from Posillipo, from “Civitates Orbis Terrarum”. An old map - bird's-eye view of the Bay of Naples with mount Vesuvius, by Braun and Hogenber...
Place & Date: Köln, 1596
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2021
Italia.
Lovely copper engraved map of Italy featuring fancy lettering in the seas. Southern part of Sicily and Sardinia are not included. Good detail in the interior.The map come...
Place & Date: Cologne 1597
Selling price: $115
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Antiquae Urbis perfecta imago. (Rome)
From "Pars antiquitatum Romanarum seu Topographia Romanae Urbis iam inde ab V. C. ad nostra usque temporae maxime quando in summo flore fuit, accuratissima: [...] Ma...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1597
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2013
Venetia.
First state (unknown before) of this spectacular town-plan of Venice published engraved by Stefano Scolari, after the Bernardo Salvioni (1597) plan of Venice. It's the fi...
Place & Date: Venice, c.1597
Selling price: $6500
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Patavini territorii../ Tarvisini agri typus.. (2 maps)
Two maps on one sheet. Map to the left is a detailed map including Venice and the area north of it including Padua and Vincenza. Very fine map after Giacomo Gastaldi. The...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1598
Selling price: $575
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Agri Cremonensis Typvs.
Region in the Northern portion of Italy with the city of Cremonia near the center. With very decorative inset map of Crema, copied after Forlani's map of 1570. First publ...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1598
Selling price: $345
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Siena.
A fine early miniature map of Siena, this map is from the first edition of the Langenes atlas (later well known under the name of Bertius). Dutch text on verso.
Place & Date: Middelburg, 1598
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2014
Regnum Neapolitanum.
Very fine early miniature map of the Southern part of Italy, this map is from the first edition of the Langenes atlas, (later well known under the name of Bertius). Dutch...
Place & Date: Middelburg, 1598
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2010
Aprutium
Very fine early miniature map of a part of Italy, this map is from the first edition of the Langenes atlas, (later well known under the name of Bertius). Dutch text on ve...
Place & Date: Middelburg, 1598
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2014
Ischia insula
Very fine early miniature map of a part of Italy, this map is from the first edition of the Langenes atlas, (later well known under the name of Bertius). Dutch text on ve...
Place & Date: Middelburg, 1598
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2010
Florentini Dominii Fidelissima et nova descriptio.
Very fine map bu Ortlius including the towns of Pisa, Florence, Siena, etc. The map is based on Stefano Buonsignori's map.Copper engraving with French text on verso. Abra...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1598
Selling price: $590
Sold in 2015
Ducatus Mediolanensis.
A very nice map of Italy, centered on Milan, prepared by Johannes Septala. Very decorative title cartouche on the left side. A sea monster and a ship are depicted on the ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1598
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2022
Veronae Urbis Territorium.
Very fine map of part of Italy centered on Verona, Vizenza and Lake Garda. Prepared by Bernardino Brugnoli, which first was published in 1574 by Forlani. Ortelius' map is...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1598
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2018
Fori Ivlii accvrata descriptio
Map from 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum [Atlas of the Whole World]': published in Antwerp.Dare to go in Black. All early maps are printed in black and white and many were kept ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1598
Selling price: $375
Sold in 2018
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 faithfully foll...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1598
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2018
Perusini Agri.
A very nice map of northern province of Italy, centered on Perugia. Very nice title cartouche on the lower right corner, with a credit to the cartographer who prepared th...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1598
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2019
Thusciae descriptio . . .
Very fine map of Tuscany after Girolamo Bellarmati (1493-1555). In lower right hand corner Rome, includes Chianti wine region, Pisa, Florence, etc.Abraham Ortelius (1527-...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1598
Selling price: $275
Sold in 2021
Pedemontanae vicinorumque...
Very fine map of Piemonte after Giacomo Gastaldi (1500-1566). Including towns of Turin, Milan, Genoa, S.Remo, Monaco, etc.Abraham Ortelius (1527-1598) was a cartographer ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1598
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2018
![Brixiani Agri Typus [Brescia].](/uploads/cache/41011-250x250.jpg)
Brixiani Agri Typus [Brescia].
A very nice map of northern province of Italy, Brecia. Copied after a map prepared in 1560 by Christoforo Sorte. Very large title cartouche on the lower left corner. Abra...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1598
Selling price: $185
Sold in 2018
Agricremonensis Typus
Very decorative map of northern Italy with the city of Cremona near the center. The map is based on the 1571 map of Antonio Campi. Large inset of essentially the same reg...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1598
Selling price: $195
Sold in 2018
Regni Neapolitani verissi..
Very fine map of Southern Italy, including the towns of Ascoli Piceno, Napels, Fogia, Bari, Catanzaro, most northern tip of Sicily with Messina. The map is based on Pirro...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1598
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2022
Aprutii Ulterioris Descriptio.
Very fine map covering Abruzzi area, including the towns of Ascoli Piceno, Teramo, Pescara, etc. Prepared by Natale Bonifacio (1538-1592). Three fine title cartouches. A ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1598
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2018
Italiae Novissima descriptio. . .
Very fine map of Italy after Giacomo Gastaldi. Embellished with a title cartouche, vessels, sea monsters and sea gods. No text on verso.Abraham Ortelius (1527-1598) was a...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1598
Selling price: $750
Sold in 2018
Calatia vulgo Caiazo.
The well-fortified town of Caiazzo (also called the Città dell'Olio, "City of Oil"), which lies northeast of Capua in the immediate vicinity of the Vilturno, i...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca 1598
Selling price: $175
Sold in 2020
Senensis ditionis, Accurata descript.
Map by Ortelius of Tuscan Sea, with Siena in upper left corner. The map was based on a map of Caesar Orlandi.In attractive original colors. From 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1598
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2019
Novissima Urbis Romae Descriptio.
A rare view of Rome from the Lafreri-School.
Place & Date: Sienne, 1600
Selling price: $2325
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DESCRITTIONE DELL\'ISOLA DELL\'ELBA
Rare early map of Elba of the Tuscany coast. Beautifully engraved with pictoral symbols for the towns and decorated with seamonsters, ships, a mermaid, a compassrose and ...
Place & Date: Padua c.1600
Selling price: $180
Sold in 2010
Citta dell\' Aqulia.
Rare and early plan of L\'Aquila in central Italy.Published by Jacobus Laurus.Rare, separately published, "Lafreri" map.
Place & Date: Rome, 1600
Selling price: $2150
Sold in 2008
Italia mit dreien fürnemsten Inseln / Corsika / Sardinia und Sicilia.
An early woodcut map from a German edition of Münster's famous 'Cosmographie.' Shows the area from Marseille to Albania, including the Adriatic Sea, the islands of Sicil...
Place & Date: Basel, ca. 1600
Selling price: $240
Sold in 2016
Oropitum.
A lovely, detailed miniature map of the region around the Lago di Bolsena, including the cities of Montefiascone, Viterbo, Orvieto, and many more.
Place & Date: Antwerp, ca. 1600
Selling price: $17
Sold in 2017
La Citta di Napoli Gentile.
Florimi's plan of the city of Naples derives from Mario Cartaro's plan (1579). Probably engraved by Arnoldo di Arnoldi (Arnold van Scherpenseel) who worked for a short ti...
Place & Date: Siena, c. 1600
Selling price: $1800
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Novissima Urbis Romae Descriptio.
First state. A rare bird's-eye-view of Rome from the Lafreri-School. Numbered key below the view with 86 references. It is inspired by the plan created by Ambrogio Brambi...
Place & Date: Sienne, 1600
Selling price: $2200
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Ducatus mediolanensis, ?
Miniature map of a part of Italy, with major cities named. Strapwork title cartouche. Latin text on verso.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1601
Selling price: $110
Sold in 2010
Ceremonensis Ager.
Miniature map of a part of Italy, with major cities named. Strapwork title cartouche. Latin text on verso
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1601
Selling price: $85
Sold in 2010
Typus regni Neapolitani.
Miniature map of a part of Italy, with major cities named. Strapwork title cartouche. Latin text on verso.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1601
Selling price: $110
Sold in 2010
Perusia.
Miniature map of a part of Italy, with major cities named. Strapwork title cartouche. Latin text on verso.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1601
Selling price: $105
Sold in 2010
Apulia.
Miniature map of a part of Italy, with major cities named. Strapwork title cartouche. Latin text on verso.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1601
Selling price: $85
Sold in 2010
Fori Iuly vulgo Friuli typus.
Miniature map of a part of Italy, with major cities named. Strapwork title cartouche. Latin text on verso.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1601
Selling price: $155
Sold in 2010
Siciliae Veteris Typus.
A very beautiful early map of ancient Sicily. Title cartouche centered on the upper part: includes an inset map of the ancient city of Syracuse, a city notable for its ri...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1601
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2021
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[Puteoli]
Rare and early plan of Pozzuoli, in the province of Naples. Its Latin name was Puteoli 'little wells', referring to the many hot springs in the area, most notably Solfata...
Place & Date: Rome, 1586 / 1602
Selling price: $2450
Sold in 2008
La Mirandola.
A rare and early town-plan with the siege of Mirandola. In the foreground Modena and in the background Mantua. To the left the French Royal flag as Mirandola had allied w...
Place & Date: Rome, 1586 / 1602
Selling price: $3000
Sold in 2012
La Toscana.
Rare map of Tuscany reissued by Orlandi after Bell'Armato's Chorographia Tusciae. This map derives from Bell'Armato's Chorographia Tusciae. The present map was first issu...
Place & Date: Rome, Giovanni Orlandi, 1602
Selling price: $5100
Sold in 2017
Pianta del Conclave fatta in sede vacante di Clemente 8° per l'elettione del nuovo Pontefice cominciando il di 14 di marzo 1605.
Scarce representation of the conclave of March 1605. Numbered key with 69 references below the plan."Pope Clement VIII died in March 1605. The 60 cardinal electors w...
Place & Date: Italy, ca. 1605
Selling price: $2000
Sold in 2020
Lombardiae Alpestris Pars Occidentalis cum Valesia.
Very fine map centered on northern Italy.Mercator was born in Rupelmonde in Flanders and studied in Louvain under Gemma Frisius, Dutch writer, astronomer and mathematicia...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $440
Sold in 2009
Senensis ditionis accurata descriptio - Corsica - Marcha anconae, olim picenum.
Extremely rare 1606 English text edition of the 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum' the first modern atlas of the world.Fine example of Ortelius' maps of Corsica, part of Tuscany a...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1606
Selling price: $425
Sold in 2015
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Italia. [Set of 21 maps]
A lovely miniature set of maps of Italy, published by Petrus Bertius, in Amsterdam at the beginning of the seventeenth century. The maps have strap-work titles, and inclu...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $1160
Sold in 2019
Siciliae Veteris typus.
A very decorative map shows the island Sicily with an inset map of port Gyas, including decorative scroll-cartouches and ships.From a 1606 English edition of Ortelius' Th...
Place & Date: London, 1606
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2021
Ischia, quae olim Aenaria.
Rare english edition A beautiful map of Ischia island with a part of the coast near Naples. Superbly engraved and highly decorative. Several sailing ships, three cartouc...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1606
Selling price: $550
Sold in 2021
Corsica. Sardinia.
A lovely copper engraved map from Mercator's 'Atlas minor', republished by Hondius. Published by Adrianus Bottius with Latin text on verso.This map shows Corsica and Sard...
Place & Date: Dordrecht, ca 1607
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2017
Tarvisina Marchia et Tirolis Comitatus.
Decorative regional map, extending from the Gulf of Venice to Tirol, centered on Lago di Garda and Verona.Shows Venice, Padua, Ferrara, Crema, etc. From the first French-...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1608
Selling price: $70
Sold in 2021
Romandiola cum D. Parmensi.
Detailed map centered on the region Emilia-Romagna. Including towns of Bologna, Ferrara, Parma, etc. as far as Florence in Tuscany.From the first French-text edition of J...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1608
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2008
Veronae Vicentiae et Pataviae Dit.
Early map centered on Vincenza, Padua and Venice to the right. From the first French-text edition of Jodocus Hondius' Atlas Minor.Shortly after the publication of the big...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1608
Selling price: $55
Sold in 2022
Pedemontana Regio, cum Genuensium territorionet Montiferrati Marchionatu.
Detailed map centered on Piemonte. Including towns of Turin, Milan, Genua, Monaco, etc.From the first French-text edition of Jodocus Hondius' Atlas Minor.Shortly after th...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1608
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2010
Calaris
Rare woodcut view of Cagliari (Casteddu) the capital of Sardinia. From "Parvum Theatrum Urbium sive Urbium Praecipuarum totius orbis Brevis & Methodica Descripti...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1608
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2009
Lombardiae alpestris pars occidentalis cu Valesia.
Detailed map of north west Lombardy, including part of Piedmont and great part of Switzerland. From the first French-text edition of Jodocus Hondius' Atlas Minor.Shortly ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1608
Selling price: $55
Sold in 2017
Brescia Episcopatus Mediolanu Ducatus.
Detailed map centered on Brescia. Including towns of Milan, Bergamo, Brescia, Mantua etc.From the first French-text edition of Jodocus Hondius' Atlas Minor.Shortly after ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1608
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2015