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[Map of the central Europe with Switzerland]
Page with an early representation of Central Europe with Switzerland, Austria. South to the top. This text page with a fine wood block printed map is from the rare work &...
Place & Date: Basle, Michael Isengrin, 1544
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2014
Helvetiae moderna descriptio
Early woodcut map showing Switzerland, South Germany and the Lake Constance. From a Latin edition of Cosmographia from Sebastian Munster, published around 1550.
Place & Date: Basle, 1550
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2010
Helvetiae Moderna Descriptio.
Early woodcut map showing Switzerland, South Germany and the Lake Bodensee below right. Fine colored map of Switzerland and the Alps, with north oriented to the right. Th...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2014
Nouvelle Description du Pays de Souysse. . .
Interesting woodblock map of Switzerland. From a French edition of Munster's Cosmographia Universalis.
Place & Date: Basle, 1550
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2015
Die vierdt Landtafel haltet inn die alt Helvetiam Julii Cesaris. . .
A very early and rare wood engraved map of Switzerland orientated to the south. With many towns, lakes, rivers, and mountains named. Small boats are sailing on the lakes....
Place & Date: Zurich, ca 1550
Selling price: $165
Sold in 2018
Valesiae Altera et VII, Nova Tabula.
Sebastian Münster, 1489-1552, outstanding geographer of Basle. Editied Ptolemy's atlas ' Geographia Universalis', editions 1540,-42, -45, -51 and -52. Published his &quo...
Place & Date: Basle, 1545-1552
Selling price: $350
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IIII. Die ganz Eydgnoschafft.
Very early wood cut printed map of Switzerland.Originally engraved in 1548. The map was prepared by Johannes Stumpf (1500-1576) and engraved by Heinrich I. Vogtherr (1490...
Place & Date: Zurich, Christoffel Froschover, 1548,1552-1566
Selling price: $900
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Nouvelle Description du Pays de Suysse.
Interesting woodblock map of Switzerland. From a French edition of Munster's Cosmographia Universalis.
Place & Date: Basel 1552 - 1568
Selling price: $35
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[ Switzerland ]
Münster's map of Switzerland showing Basel and numerous other cities and villages of Switzerland.
Place & Date: Basle, 1572
Selling price: $243
Sold in 2011
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
Helvetiae Descriptio Aegidio Tschudo Auct.
Attractive early map of Switzerland. Includes parts of Italy as far south as Milan and Cremona, with the Lago Maggiore, Lago di Lugano, Lago di Como, and Lago d'Iseo. Nor...
Place & Date: Antwerp, ca. 1575
Selling price: $215
Sold in 2013
Helvetiae sev sviciae qvae mvltis confoederatorvm terra dicitvr primmae Germanorvm provinciae Galliae Italiae qvae contigvae chorographia vera et elegans avtore.
FIRST EDITION of this fine example of De Jode's rare map of Switzerland. From the first edition of De Jode's Speculum Orbis Terrarum, the second general atlas of the worl...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1578
Selling price: $1800
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Helvetiae descriptio.
A fine map based upon a map by the Swiss cartographer Aegidicus Tschudi of 1538.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1580
Selling price: $241
Sold in 2009
Helvetiae Descriptio, Aegidio Tschudo Auctore
This is the rare pocket edition of Abraham Ortelius maps, prepared and engraved by Philippe Galle in Antwerp in 1589. It depicts Switzerland, and. it has a neat title and...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1589
Selling price: $65
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Helvetiae seu Sviciae qvae mvltis confoederatvm..
A rare and beautifully engraved map from the second edition of De Jode's atlas Speculum Orbis Terrarum . Includes complete Switzerland.Engraved by Joan and Lucas van Deut...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1593
Selling price: $500
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Helvetiae descriptio.
A fine map based upon a map by the Swiss cartographer Aegidicus Tschudi of 1538.
Place & Date: Anvers, 1598
Selling price: $560
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Helvetiae descriptio.
A fine map based upon a map by the Swiss cartographer Aegidicus Tschudi of 1538.
Place & Date: Antwerp 1603
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2008
Helvetia.
Map of Switzerland, from the first French-text edition of Jodocus Hondius'' Atlas Minor.Shortly after the publication of the big folio-atlases the need was apparently fel...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1608
Selling price: $55
Sold in 2017
Helvetia.
A miniature map of the Switzerland, centered on Zurich. Title cartouche on the upper left side.First published in 1598 in his Caert-Thresoor, the plates were executed by ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam/Frankfurt, 1609
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2008
Burgundia superior sive liber comitatus
Beautiful colored engraved map the Burgundy (Bourgogne) with parts of Switzerland and France by G. Mercator. Showing the Lake Geneva or Lake Léman and the Lake Neuchâte...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1610
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2008
Das Wilflispurgergow / Per Gerardum Mercatore
A fine detailed early map of Central Switzerland with Lake Geneva, Bern, etc. by Gerard Mercator. Gerard Mercator (1512-1594) was one of the most famous geographers of hi...
Place & Date: Druisburg and then Amsterdam, (1585-95) 1613
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2012
Rhaetiae, Vindeliciae Norici et Pannoniarum descriptio.
Map of ancient Switzerland, part of Hungary and Croatia, prepared by Petrus Bertius (1565-1629). From "Commentariorum Rerum Germanicarum Libri Tres : Primus est Germ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, J.Janssonius, 1616
Selling price: $36
Sold in 2015
Nova Helvetiae Tabula.
A good example of the rare and beautiful map of Switzerland by Jodocus Hondius, printed in 1617. It is one of the most decorative single sheet maps of Switzerland publish...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1617
Selling price: $610
Sold in 2020
Helvetia.
Small map of Switzerland, surrounded by text in Dutch. Nicolaes de Clerck (de Klerc) was active as engraver and publisher in Delft from 1599-1621.Included in the rare boo...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cloppenburch, 1621
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2009
Helvetia.
Small map of Switzerland, surrounded by text in Dutch. Nicolaes de Clerck (de Klerc) was active as engraver and publisher in Delft from 1599-1621.Included in the rare boo...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cloppenburch, 1621
Selling price: $55
Sold in 2016
Argou (Argovia)
Striking map of the AAgau region of Switzerland. Interesting architectural name cartouche. Gerard Mercator (1512-1594) was the prime cartographer during the most importa...
Place & Date: Amsterdam - 1626
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2013
Helvetia cum finitimis regionibus confoederatis
Original old colored detailed engraved map of Switzerland by G. Mercator. With one cartouche and a mileage scale. Covering complete Switzerland with the Lake Constance an...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1628
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2009
De Zurichgow.
Striking map of Zurich , Switzerland. Part of the Cloppenburgh edition with French on verso. Engraved by Van der Keere. Gerard Mercator (1512-1594) was the prime cartogr...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1628
Selling price: $30
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Helvetia cum finitimis regionibus confederatis.
A great early 17th century map of Switzerland, that Includes also small areas of Austria, Italy, and France. Very detailed with many towns, rivers, lakes, mountains, etc....
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca 1628
Selling price: $52
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Helvetia cum finitimis regionibus confoederatis.
Detailed and finely engraved map of Switzerland.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Selling price: $150
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Helvetia cum finitimis regionibus confoederatis.
Detailed and finely engraved map of Switzerland.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2017
Argow
Nice early 17th century copper engraved map of central Switzerland of G. Mercator by Hondius in beautiful colors. With one cartouche. Covering the region around the Lake ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Selling price: $280
Sold in 2009
Nova Helvetiae Tabula.
One of the most decorative single sheet 17th Century Maps of Switzerland, including vignettes of Lucerne, St. Gallen, Bern, Solothurm, Schafhuysen, Zurich and Basel, as w...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca 1630
Selling price: $800
Sold in 2021
Nova Helvetiae Tabula.
A most decorative map with panoramic views of Lucerne, S.Gal, Bern, Solothurn, Schaffhausen in upper border and Basel and Zurich in lower left and right hand corner. In t...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1632
Selling price: $1200
Sold in 2016
Das Wiflispur Gergov.
This fine copperplate map of Switzerland features the region north east of Geneva. It is decorated by a fancy belted title cartouche and a ship. It is from "Atlas, d...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1633
Selling price: $125
Sold in 2013
Helvetia cum finitimis regionibus confoederatis.
Detailed and finely engraved map of Switzerland with a pair of fine cartouches.From early on Willem Jansz. Blaeu aimed of publishing an atlas to compete with the Hondius-...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1634
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2017
Helvetia cum finitimis regionibus confoederatis.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1635
Selling price: $200
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Helvetia, cum finitimis regionibus confoederatis.
Willem Blaeu, founder of the famous publishing firm. Originally publishing pilot-guides, he issued his first atlas, 'Atlantis Appendix', in 1630, followed by his "Th...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1635
Selling price: $450
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Helvetia cum finitimis regionibus confoederatis.
Detailed and finely engraved map of Switzerland.As Willem Blaeu died in 1638 most of his maps are actually published by his son Joan. This map carries his (engraved) sign...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1638
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2010
Das Wiflispurgergou
Nice early 17th century copper engraved map of south-western Switzerland of G. Mercator by Hondius in beautiful colors. Second state, with cartouche changed to the shape ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1639
Selling price: $280
Sold in 2009
Nova Helvetiae Tabula
Beautiful colored mid 17th century copper engraved map of Switzerland by J. Janssonius. With two cartouche and a mileage scale. Covering complete Switzerland with the Lak...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Selling price: $650
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Helvetia cum finitimis regionibus confoederatis.
A typically detailed and finely engraved map of Switzerland by Blaeu, including the cities of Basel, Zürich, Bern, Lucerne, Fribourg, etc. The map is embellished with tw...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1643
Selling price: $180
Sold in 2020
Helvetia cum finitimis regionibus confoederatis.
A typically detailed and finely engraved map of Switzerland by Blaeu, including the cities of Basel, Zürich, Bern, Lucerne, Fribourg, etc. The map is embellished with tw...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1643
Selling price: $265
Sold in 2021
Helvetia cum finitimis regionibus confoederatis.
Detailed and finely engraved map of Switzerland with a pair of fine cartouches.From early on Willem Jansz. Blaeu aimed of publishing an atlas to compete with the Hondius-...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1644
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2020
Helvetia cum finitimis regionibus confoederatis.
Detailed map of Switzerland, based on Gerard Mercator's map of the same title.Densely engraved to illustrate the mountainous topography with information including even th...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1645
Selling price: $65
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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
Carte generale des treze cantons de Suisses. Valley Ligues Grise, Maison Dieu et Valteline. 1654
Rare figured border map of Switzerland. In lower corners views of Basel and Zurich. In the top views of Luzern, St. Gallen, Bern, Solothurn and Schaffhausen. In the left ...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1654
Selling price: $850
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Les Suisses les Allies des Suisses et leurs Suiets. . .
Early imprint of this detailed map of Switzerland. This edition carries the date 1648 and was engraved by R.Cordier Abbauil.Nicolas Sanson was to bring about the rise of ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1648-1657
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2013
Sabaudiae descriptio.
Charming little map of south east France, including Basel, Genève, Lyon, etc. made by Gabriel Bucelin (1599-1681). South to the top. Bucelin was a Swiss genealogist and ...
Place & Date: Ulm, Johannes Görlin, 1658-1664
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2008
Les Suisses les Allies des Suisses et leurs Suiets..
Fine map of Switzerland. This edition carries the date 1667 and was engraved by R.Cordier Abbauil.Nicolas Sanson was to bring about the rise of French cartography, althou...
Place & Date: Paris, 1648-1667
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2009
Les XIII Cantons Suisses Suivant le temps de leur Ligue . . .
Detailed map of thirteen Swiss counties with title at top. Coats of arms to the left, right and bottom. In bottom a key and a scale in French and Swiss miles.Engraved by ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1667
Selling price: $500
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Novissima et Accuratissima Helvetiae, Rhaetiae, Valesiae et Partis Sabaudiae Tabula
Detailed map of Switzerland including South Germany with the Lake of Constance and Liechtenstein. Map from Jeremias Wolff by J. Danckerts.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1680
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2009
Exactissima Helvetiae..
Very detailed map of Switzerland graphically depicting the mountainous region. Hundreds of tiny villages are named. Decorated with two cartouches, a scale of miles, and a...
Place & Date: Amsterdam ca.1680
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2012
Helvetia (Switzerland) 1681
Copperplate map of Switzerland from Sir Jonas Moore's "New System of Mathematics" London, Printed by A. Godbid and J. Playford, for Robert Scott, 1681
Place & Date: London, 1681
Selling price: $182
Sold in 2017
L'Helvetia . . .
A uncommon late 17th century map of part of Switzerland, including the Savoie region of France, based on the reports of Giacomo Cantelli da Vignola and published in Roma ...
Place & Date: Rome, ca. 1689
Selling price: $100
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L'Helvetia . . .
A uncommon late 17th century map of part of Switzerland, including the Savoie region of France, based on the reports of Giacomo Cantelli da Vignola and published in Rome ...
Place & Date: Rome, ca. 1689
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2015
Exactissima Helvetiae Rhaetiae, Valesiae Cieterorumq, Confaederatorum ut et finitimorum Populorum Regionum Tabula.
Very detailed map of Switzerland graphically depicting the mountainous region. Hundreds of tiny villages are named. Decorated with two cartouches, a scale of miles, and a...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1690
Selling price: $800
Sold in 2009
Partie Meridionale de la Souabe.
Very detailed hand-colored, copperplate map of Swabia in Germany and Switzerland. Includes the Danube River and the cities of Nuremberg, Augsburg, Ulm, Marchdorf etc. Als...
Place & Date: Paris, 1704
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2016
La Suisse divisée en ses treze cantons.
Very large map of Switzerland, ornated with a rococo title cartouche. 24 coats of arms along the left and right margin and another 9 coats of arms in lower left. Boundari...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c.1705
Selling price: $900
Sold in 2009
Carte De Suisse.
Detailed map of Switzerland showing different cantons (administrative units) within the country extending to the borders of France, Italy and Germany. The map includes a ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1718
Selling price: $155
Sold in 2010
Exactissima Helvetiae, Rhaetiae, Valesia..
Engraved by A.Hogeboom. A re-issue of the map by Nicolaes Visscher. On verso a alphabetical table for locating cities in Switzerland.
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1720
Selling price: $495
Sold in 2011
Nova Helvetiae tabula geographica [Sheet 1 of 4]
Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (August 2, 1672 ? June 23, 1733) was a Swiss scholar born at Zürich. In 1712 he published, a map of Switzerland in four sheets (scale 1/290,000),...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1720
Selling price: $300
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Nouvelle carte de la Suisse. Divisée en ses treize cantons. . . [4 sheets]
Prepared by Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (1672-1733), physician and geographer of Zürich. In 1712 he published a map of Switzerland in four sheets (scale 1/290,000), of which...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Selling price: $4500
Sold in 2011
Carte ancienne de la Suisse avec des remarques . . .
An engraved text sheet with in top a map of Switzerland (18T x 190mm.) The sheet pays particular attention to the formation of the Swiss state and to the legend of the Sw...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2020
Nova Helvetiae tabula geographica . . .
Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (August 2, 1672 – June 23, 1733) was a Swiss scholar born at Zürich. In 1712 he published, a map of Switzerland in four sheets (scale 1/290,000...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Selling price: $200
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Carte d'une Partie des Cantons de Berne, de Fribourg du Pais d Veau et du Valais. . . [together with] Zug, Glarus, Basel, Freiburg, Solothurn, Schaffhausen. . .
An exceptionally scarce and decorative set of two out of four regional maps of Switzerland by the renowned Swiss polymath Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (1672-1733). The maps ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Selling price: $500
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A map of Switzerland.
Uncommon map which we could not identify. Published probably in London in the early 18th century. Subtitled "Switzerland, Helvetia, or the Swiss-Cantons, together wi...
Place & Date: London, c. 1723
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2013
Novissima Foederatorum Helvetiorum Tabula.
Uncommon map of Switzerland. The originally colored title cartouche is surrounded by mythological figures. From Atlas Portatif.
Place & Date: Nuremberg 1724
Selling price: $55
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La Suisse, suivant les nouvelles observations..
Detailed map of Switzerland, with decorative title cartouche upper right corner.This example is unusual in having the additional separately engraved decorative framework ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1728
Selling price: $150
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Carte generale des treize cantons Suisse et des differents etats de leur dependence . . .
Striking large format map of Switzerland, divided by Cantons and other dependent regions. Includes 13 large coats of arms and 22 smaller coats of arms for the various maj...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1728
Selling price: $50
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La Suisse. Suivant les nouvelles observations..
Decorative map, due to its fine border. The map itself is printed within a decorative border, printed from a different plate.
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1729
Selling price: $100
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Mappa geographica illustris Helvetiorum reipublicæ Bernensis: cum adjacentibus pagorum et dynastiarum confiniis accurate delineata.
Striking map of Switzerland by Matthew Seutter.
Place & Date: Augsburg, ca. 1730
Selling price: $230
Sold in 2010
The Countries of Vindelicia, Rhaetia & Noricum.
Finely copper engraved map of ancient Switzerland, Germany, Austria, italy and Hungary. Interesting drapery style title cartouche held in the air by a pair of putti. Chri...
Place & Date: London, 1732
Selling price: $24
Sold in 2015
Potentissimae Helvetorum Reipubliae Canones Tredecim cum Foederatis et Subjectis Provinciis.
A beautiful Homann map of Switzerland, showing the various religious enclaves. It features a large cartouche with the coats of arms of the cantons, four putti and flags. ...
Place & Date: Neurenberg, 1734
Selling price: $141
Sold in 2017
Nova Totius Helvetia cum Suis Surditis.
Matthaus Seutter map of Switzerland with vignettes of the Alps in the upper right and left corners and bottom right corner.
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1730-1740
Selling price: $125
Sold in 2010
Nova Totius Helvetia cum Suis Surditus ac Sociis.
Decorative map of Switzerland with vignettes of the Alps in the upper right and left corners and bottom right corner and a decorative cartouche in the lower left corner.
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1730-1740
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2010
Nova Helvetiae Foederatarumque..
General map of Switzerland divided into cantons with cartouches showing the coats of arms of 24 Cantons and additional notes. Relief shown pictorially.The map is from a D...
Place & Date: Amsterdam c. 1744
Selling price: $375
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Carte de Suisse.
A large, clear and detailed map of Switzerland and northern Italy, outlining the cantons, with their coats of arms at upper border alongside title. ‘Avertissement’ at...
Place & Date: Paris, 1745
Selling price: $38
Sold in 2016
Nuova Carta dei XIII Cantoni degli Svizzeri infieme coi loro Alleati e Sudditi.
Taken from Volume II of Albrizzi's "Atlante Novissimo" after Guillaume de L'Isle. Showing Switzerland divided into its various cantons, with major towns, cities...
Place & Date: Padua, 1750
Selling price: $21
Sold in 2016
Carte de la République des Suisses. . .
Detailed map of Switzerland from De Vaugondy's Atlas Universel.
Place & Date: Paris, 1751
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2014