De regno Polonie et eius initio.
Maybe the earliest printed map of Poland. "De regno polonie et eius initio" made with great fantasy. Showing town views, waterways, buildings, ships et. The Nur...
Place & Date: Nuremberg 1493
Selling price: $120
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De Polonia Sarmatica - Lituania. CCLXXIX
A imaginary view of a Lithuanian or Polish City, however the earliest obtainable view of this period.Page from the richest illustrated Incunabula, the famous: Liber chron...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2012
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Casmirus Cracovia Clepardia. [With view of Crakow]
Double page text page in Latin on recto verso with a woodblock of view of Crakow (252x 523mm.)Page from the richest illustrated Incunable, the famous: Chronicle Nuremberg...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $1500
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De regno Polonie et eius initio..
Maybe the earliest printed map of Poland. "De regno polonie et eius initio" made with great fantasy. Showing town views, waterways, buildings, ships etc.Page fr...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $210
Sold in 2019
Polonia et Ungaria XX Nova Tabula (Poland and Hungary)
The first edition of Munster's map of Poland, Lithuania, the Ukraine, Muscovy and the Balkans. Appeared in his "Geographia Universalis", first published in 1540...
Place & Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1545
Selling price: $425
Sold in 2014
Prussia E. Livonia Nova.
Gastaldi's modern map of Eastern Europe. Covers coasts of Poland and Livonia. From Giacomo Gastaldi's Atlas of 1548 which has been called the most comprehensive atlas, pr...
Place & Date: Venice, 1548
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2021
Schlesia nach aller Gelegenheit / in Stetten / Wassern und Bergen / mit sampt andern anstossenden Ländern.
Early, attractive colored woodcut map showing Silesia in Poland. From a German edition of Cosmographia from Sebastian Munster.
Place & Date: Basle, 1550
Selling price: $220
Sold in 2009
(Poland & Transylvania.)
Fine hand-colored woodcut map of the Transylvania and Poland regions. From the earliest German edition of "Cosmography." One of the first printed maps. Sebastia...
Place & Date: Basel, 1550
Selling price: $90
Sold in 2013
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[Lot of 7 leaves of Prussia, Gdansk and Riga]
Seven text pages illustrated with wood block prints relating to Poland, Prussia and Latvia with a small view of Riga. From the 1552 Latin text edition of Münster's Cosmo...
Place & Date: Basel, 1552
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2022
Tabula Europae IIII
Scarce first edition of this classical map of Poland and Germany. The map is an enlarged version of Giacomo Gastaldi's published in 1548.Girolamo Ruscelli's edition of Pt...
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
Selling price: $425
Sold in 2012
Tavola nuova di Prussia et di Livonia.
A Ptolemaic map of the region from Pomerania to Livonia includes a portion of Estonia and coastal detail on the Baltic Sea with a small section of the island of Gotland a...
Place & Date: Venice, Vincentium Valgrisium, 1562
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2012
![[Von dem königreich Poland das in Sarmatia auch..]](/uploads/cache/22813-250x250.jpg)
[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
Il vero disegno della seconda parte dil Regno di Polonia.
A rare map of Poland, prepared by G. Gastaldi, engraved by Paolo Forlani, and published in Venice in 1568. Includes Ukraine and Crimea. Bar scale on the map given in &quo...
Place & Date: Venice, 1568
Selling price: $10000
Sold in 2017
Dantzigt.
Copper engraving illustrating a general view of Gdansk (Danzig), from Civitates Orbis Terrarum.
Place & Date: Cologne 1572
Selling price: $690
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Poloniae finitimarumque locorum descriptio. Auctore Wenceslao Godreccio Polono.
Early map of Poland, Lithuania, parts of Belarus, and the Ukraine, first issued 1570 and replaced 1595. This map has been published in the "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum&...
Place & Date: Antwerp, c1572
Selling price: $650
Sold in 2013
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
POLONIAE finitimarumque locorum descrip:tio. Auctore WENCESLAO GRODECCIO. Polono.
Ortelius' evocative map of Poland, being a close copy of Grodecki / Pograbka's map of 1558/62 map, itself based on Wapovsky 1526 (Karrow 56) With Latin text on verso, a s...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1575
Selling price: $650
Sold in 2016
Dantzigt.
A stunning panoramic view of Gdansk (or Danzig) in Poland, with strapwork title and armorial cartouches above, strapwork text panel lower left, costume figures in the mid...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1575
Selling price: $1000
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Oswiec, et Zator.
A miniature map depicting the Duchies of Oswieczin and Zator in the southern part of Poland. (Prussia). Ortellius map taken from the first French edition of Le Miroir du...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1577
Selling price: $12
Sold in 2021
Pomerania Wandalicae Regionis Tipus.
This map of Poland (Pomerania) has fine detail and attractive engraving; the region shown includes the cities of Dantz, Stettin, Colberg, Lansperg, Gartz; major rivers an...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1577
Selling price: $31
Sold in 2020
Ducatus Osroiczensis et zatoriensis descriptio.
Charming miniature version of Ortelius' map covering Lesser Poland. French text on verso.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1579
Selling price: $110
Sold in 2012
Danzich.
Miniature woodcut view of Gdansk from a German text edition of Munster?s Cosmographia. Text beneath image and continued on verso.
Place & Date: Basle, 1580
Selling price: $45
Sold in 2009
Die Stat Swybuschin in nider Schlesien
Attractive birdeye view of Swiebodzin in Poland, Silesia. Beautiful color. From a Latin edition of "Civitates orbis terrarum".
Place & Date: Cologne, 1580
Selling price: $550
Sold in 2009
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[Poland]
Map of Poland. From his Cosmographia, that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge. An exciting print.Sebastian Münster was born in Nierder-Ingelheim, near Mainz on 20...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1580
Selling price: $45
Sold in 2008
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[Poland]
Little map of Poland. From his Cosmographia, that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge. An exciting print.Sebastian Münster was born in Nierder-Ingelheim, near Main...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1580
Selling price: $95
Sold in 2009
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[Von dem Königreich Poladt das in Sarmatia auch..]
Early map of the coast of Poland. Wood block printed map (12x15cm.) set in a page with German text..
Place & Date: Basle, 1580
Selling price: $85
Sold in 2008
Die Statt Breßlaw
Nice woodcut view of Wroclaw in Silesia, Poland from "Theatrum Urbium" by Abraham Saur on the full text sheet. Printed in Frankfurt around 1580.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1580
Selling price: $110
Sold in 2009
![[Map of Poland] Brieve description du royaume de Poloigne.](/uploads/cache/29076-250x250.jpg)
[Map of Poland] Brieve description du royaume de Poloigne.
Early map of Poland, surrounded on two sides with a brief description of Poland "Brieve description du royaume de Poloigne".Taken from a French edition of Sebas...
Place & Date: Basle, 1580
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2010
Beschreibung aller Laender so Etwann dem Koenigreich Poland...
An attractive, small wood cut map of Poland by Sebastian Münster, from his popular 'Cosmography' atlas. Text below and verso is German. With a small colored illustration...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1580
Selling price: $60
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De Germania Descriptio Prutentiae Seu, Prussiae, Quam Alii Uo.
A fine Münster woodcut map of Prussia. Features a large sailing ship in the sea and many little animals. One of the largest cities is Pomern.Sebastian Münster (1488–1...
Place & Date: Basel, 1580
Selling price: $55
Sold in 2016
Poloniae, Lituaniaeq descriptio.
Fine general map of Poland, the first plate. Based on the now lost map of Waclaw Grodecki (1588). Shows the Polish kingdom near its greatest territorial limits, stretchin...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1584
Selling price: $700
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Poloniae Descrip.
Map of Poland from the first Latin edition and the only not issued in an oblong format of this illustrated treatise of geography, which is considered as the first modern ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1585
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2009
De caerte ofte zee cuften van Pruijssen, met zijne haffen ofte groote Rivieren. . .
A detailed chart of part of the coastline of Poland and the city of Danzig (Gdansk). Decorated by a title, scale and descriptive cartouche, a compass rose, several vessel...
Place & Date: Leiden, Plantijn, 1585
Selling price: $3600
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Caerte van de zee custe vant Landt te Pomere. . .
A detailed chart of part of the coastline of Poland and the city of Pomeren, and part of the Danish island of Bornholm. Decorated by a title and scale cartouche, a compas...
Place & Date: Leiden, Plantijn, 1585
Selling price: $2400
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Wratislavia
Beautiful birdeye view of Wroclaw (Breslau) in Lower Silesia, Poland by Braun & Hogenberg from "Civitated Orbis Terrarum". Dated in plate 1587. ...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1587
Selling price: $700
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Pomeraniae wandalicae regnionis tipus.
Nice map features Pomerania and is based on the Peter Artopaus map published in 1550 by Sebastian Munster. With a nice title cartouche and 2 monsters in the sea. Latin te...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1588
Selling price: $120
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Landtafel des Ungerlands, Polands, Reussen, Littaw, Walachen und Bulgaren.
Early edition Munster's map of Poland, Lithuania, the Ukraine, Moscovy and the Balkans, extending from Prussia, Vilna and Smolensky in the north to Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cons...
Place & Date: Basle, 1588
Selling price: $170
Sold in 2014
Schlesia nach aller Gelegenheit / in stetten / wassern und bergen / mit sampt andern anstossenden Laendern.
An attractive woodblock map centered on Bresla (Wroclaw) with pictorial representations of forests, towns and mountains. The region is Silesia, Poland. German text and il...
Place & Date: Basle, S.H. Petrie, 1588
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2021
Alten Stettin. (Szczecin)
A stunning bird's-eye view of Szczecin (German: Stettin) in Poland. Published in the 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum', the first series of printed town plans. Frans Hogenberg (...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1588
Selling price: $750
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Alten Stettin.
A very decorative view of the city of Szczecin in Poland (its name was Stettin for much of its history). This city was a major port next to the mouth of the Oder River. O...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1588
Selling price: $430
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Regni polonici contracta descriptio. sequens uero. . .
On verso a map of Poland (77x156mm.) 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
De regno & tota regione Poloniae. . .
On recto an early map of Poland (120x153mm.), extending from the Baltic (Danzig and Riga) to Moscow, Cremania, and Moldau in the east and the Oder and Klein Poland in the...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1590
Selling price: $165
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Wratislavia.
Decorative town-plan of the Polish city of Wroclaw, once known as Breslau, ornated with coat of arms in the upper corners. In the lower corners we find two tables with 91...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1587-1590
Selling price: $450
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Poloniae descriptio.
Early miniature map of Poland from Ortelius' Epitome Theatri Ortelianai. Engraved and published by Philip Galle in Antwerp. Based on Ortelius folio map of Poland. The Epi...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1577-1595
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2014
Poloniae Regnum.
A detailed map of Poland, Lithuania and the Ukraine stretching from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Black Sea in the south.Latin text on verso.The map comes from the G...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1597
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2010
Silesiae typus..
Fine and early map of Silesia after Martin Helwig (1516-1574) and used by A.Ortelius in his atlas 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum [Atlas of the Whole World].Only included in the...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1598
Selling price: $320
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Pomeraniae, Wandalicae Regionis, Typ. - Livoniae Nova Descriptio, Ioanne Portantio auctore. - Ducatus Oswieczensis, et Zatoriensis, Descriptio.
Three maps on one sheet. The first map covers northern part of Pomerania. The map of Livonia is prepared by Johannes Portanius, who was a contemporary of Ortelius who als...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1598
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2009
Pomeraniae, Wandalicae Regionis, Typ. - Livoniae Nova Descriptio, Ioanne Portantio auctore. - Ducatus Oswieczensis, et Zatoriensis, Descriptio.
Three maps on one sheet. The first map covers northern part of Pomerania. The map of Livonia is prepared by Johannes Portanius, who was a contemporary of Ortelius who als...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1598
Selling price: $210
Sold in 2010
Poloniae Regnum.
A detailed map of Poland, Lithuania and the Ukraine stretching from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Black Sea in the south.Italian text on recto and verso.The map come...
Place & Date: Venice, Galignani, 1597-1598
Selling price: $220
Sold in 2018
Pomeraniae, Wandalicae Regionis, Typ. - Livoniae Nova Descriptio, Ioanne Portantio auctore. - Ducatus Oswieczensis, et Zatoriensis, Descriptio.
Three maps on one sheet. The first map covers northern part of Pomerania. The map of Livonia is prepared by Johannes Portanius, who was a contemporary of Ortelius who als...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1598
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2018
Poloniae, Lituaniaeq descriptio.
Fine general map of Poland. Rare, the second plate appearing in post-1595 edition of the Theatrum. Only used until 1612. Based on the now lost map of Waclaw Grodecki. Sho...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1598
Selling price: $900
Sold in 2018
Wratislavia silesie metropolis ad Odra et olaue Fluuiorum con fluentern sita est
Beautiful and detailed birdeye view of Wroclaw in Silesia, Poland. Signed in the plate by Francesco Valegio. Printed in Venice around 1600.
Place & Date: Venice, 1600
Selling price: $240
Sold in 2008
Descriptio Silesiae / Silesia.
A rare miniature map of the area which is now in modern Poland. Title cartouche on the lower left corner.First published in 1598 in his Caert-Thresoor, the plates were ex...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cornelis Claes, 1606
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2016
Silesia.
This lovely miniature map of Silesia (Poland) is from an atlas by Barent Langenes, named “Caert-Thresoor”, published by Cornelis Claesz in Middelburg in 1598. This ma...
Place & Date: Leiden/Amsterdam, 1603 or 1606
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2023
Polonia et Silesia.
Detailed map showing the area around Cracow. From the first French-text edition of Jodocus Hondius' Atlas Minor.Shortly after the publication of the big folio-atlases the...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1608
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2011
Livonia.
Miniature map of the Livonia , with major cities named. Strapwork title cartouche at the bottom. Sea is stipple engraved. Latin text on verso.
Place & Date: Antwerp 1609
Selling price: $120
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Poloigne.
A miniature map of Poland. Title cartouche on the lower left corner.First published in 1598 in his Caert-Thresoor, the plates were executed by the most famous engravers i...
Place & Date: Amsterdam/Frankfurt 1609
Selling price: $100
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Prussia.
Miniature map of the coast of Poland, with major cities named. Strapwork title cartouche at the top. Latin text on verso.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1609
Selling price: $80
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Prussiae descrip:
Miniature map of the coast of Poland, with major cities named. North is orientated to the left of the page. Latin text on verso.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1609
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2008
Poloniae, Lituaniaeq descriptio.
Fine general map of Poland. Rare; the second plate appearing in the post-1595 edition of the Theatrum. Only used until 1612.Based on the now-lost map of Waclaw Grodecki. ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1612
Selling price: $1400
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Polonia et Silesia.
Early map of Poland. With French text on verso.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1612
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2013
Oswieczimensis et Zatoriensis Ducat.
An original early 17th century copper engraved miniature antique map of the Oswiecim (Auschwitz) and Zator area of southern Poland by Petrus Bertius.The title is displaye...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, J.Hondius, 1616
Selling price: $160
Sold in 2015
Suevorum et Lygiorum descriptio ex Tacito de Mor. Ger.
Map of ancient Poland and Central Europe, prepared by Petrus Bertius (1565-1629). From "Commentariorum Rerum Germanicarum Libri Tres : Primus est Germaniae veteris. ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, J.Janssonius, 1616
Selling price: $90
Sold in 2015
Cracovia Metropolis Regni Poloniae.
Rare panoramic vioew of Cracow, only included in volume 6 of "Civitates Orbis Terrarum" , pl. 43. With Latin text. The "Civitates Orbis Terrarum" , i...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1617
Selling price: $4500
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Die Stat Swybuschin in nider Schlesien.
A fine birds-eye town-plan of Swiebodzin in Poland. The earliest historical records mentioning Swiebodzin (Ger: Schweibus) date from the beginning of the fourteenth centu...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca. 1617
Selling price: $600
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Tipus Civitatis Lublinesi in Regno Poloniae.
The view of Lublin from the rare Liber Sextus by Braun and Hogenberg. Impression of the illustrious city of Lublin in the Kingdom of Poland; a market for all the world is...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1617
Selling price: $1400
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Posnania elegans Poloniae in finibus Silesiae Civitatis - Crosno.
The views of Poznan and Crosno from the rare Liber Sextus by Braun and Hogenberg.Krosno with a key to 5 locations. In the upper part the town of Poznan is shown from the ...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1617
Selling price: $1400
Sold in 2017
Premislia Celebris Russiae Civitas.
The view of Przemysl from the rare Liber Sextus by Braun and Hogenberg. Bird's-eye town-view of Przemysl in Poland. Frans Hogenberg (1535 Mechelen - Cologne 1590) was a c...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1617
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2017
![Nissa Silesior Sedes Episcopalis [on sheet with] Liginicium.](/uploads/cache/98452-250x250.jpg)
Nissa Silesior Sedes Episcopalis [on sheet with] Liginicium.
Bird's-eye of Nysa and Legnica (Poland)Frans Hogenberg (1535 Mechelen - Cologne 1590) was a copper engraver and etcher. Georg Braun (1541 - Cologne - 1622) was a geograp...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1617
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2017
Tabula Europae VIII.
A fine Ptolemaic map, probably from the Jansson/Magini atlas of 1617. It shows the Baltic Sea, Poland, Ukraine, until Crimea and the Black Sea. Latin text on verso.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1617
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2018
Cracovia Metropolis Regni Poloniae.
Rare panoramic view of Cracow, only included in volume 6 of "Civitates Orbis Terrarum". This edition without text on verso.The "Civitates Orbis Terrarum&qu...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1618
Selling price: $8000
Sold in 2011
Premislia celebris russiae civitas. - Templum S. Leonardi.
A of Przemysl in Poland. RARE only included in part VI of his town book.
Place & Date: Cologne, 1618
Selling price: $1350
Sold in 2012
Zamoscium. Nova Poloniae civitas, à magnifico eius regni Cancellaro à fundamentis exstructa.
Rare bird's-eye view of Zamosc in Poland. Key to 11 locations.
Place & Date: Cologne, 1618
Selling price: $525
Sold in 2013
![Nissa Silesior Sedes Episcopalis [on sheet with] Liginicium.](/uploads/cache/33394-250x250.jpg)
Nissa Silesior Sedes Episcopalis [on sheet with] Liginicium.
Bird's-eye of Nysa and Legnica (Poland)Frans Hogenberg (1535 Mechelen - Cologne 1590) was a copper engraver and etcher. Georg Braun (1541 - Cologne - 1622) was a geograp...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1618
Selling price: $675
Sold in 2013
![Sendomiria [with] Biecz](/uploads/cache/33395-250x250.jpg)
Sendomiria [with] Biecz
Bird's-eye views of Sandomierz and Biecz in Poland, each with a key to seven locations.
Place & Date: Cologne, 1618
Selling price: $675
Sold in 2013
Lovicensis Civitas
Bird's-eye view of Lowicz in Poland.
Place & Date: Cologne, 1618
Selling price: $725
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Mons Calvariae
Bird's-eye of Kalwarya Zebrzydowska (southeast of Krakow). With a cartouche upper left : "Pope Paul V found this place worthy of his blessing and rich favours."...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1618
Selling price: $525
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![Posnania elegans Poloniae in finibus Silesiae Civitatis [with] Crosno.](/uploads/cache/33398-250x250.jpg)
Posnania elegans Poloniae in finibus Silesiae Civitatis [with] Crosno.
Bird's-eye town-view of Poznan and Krosno. Krosno with a key to 5 locations.In the upper part the town of Poznan is shown from the north, the magnificent 14th -century to...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1618
Selling price: $900
Sold in 2013
Tipus Civitatis Lublinesi in Regno Poloniae. . .
Bird's-eye of Lublin looking towards the northwest over the marshy flats of the River Bystrzyca.
Place & Date: Cologne, 1618
Selling price: $725
Sold in 2013