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Aphricae Tabula II (Northern Africa and the Mediterranean showing parts of Sicily, Tunisia and Libya.)
The first edition of Munster's map of Northern Africa and the Mediterranean showing parts of Sicily, Tunisia and Libya, based upon Claudius Ptolemy which appeared in his ...
Place & Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1545
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2014
Aphricae Tabula III (Northern Africa and the Mediterranean, including Egypt.)
The first edition of Munster's map of Northern Africa and the Mediterranean, including Egypt, based upon Claudius Ptolemy which appeared in his "Geographia Universal...
Place & Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1545
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2020
Aphricae Tabula III (Northern Africa and the Mediterranean, including Egypt.)
The first edition of Munster's map of Northern Africa and the Mediterranean, including Egypt, based upon Claudius Ptolemy which appeared in his "Geographia Universal...
Place & Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1545
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2014
Tabula Asiae I (Turkey)
The first edition of Munster's map of Turkey, based upon Claudius Ptolemy which appeared in his "Geographia Universalis", first published in 1540. The Geographi...
Place & Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1545
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2016
Tabula Asiae VIII (India & Central Asia with Monsters and Anthropomorphs)
The first edition of Munster's map of central Asia, based upon Claudius Ptolemy which appeared in his "Geographia Universalis", first published in 1540. This fa...
Place & Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1545
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2014
Tabula Asiae IX (Northern India and Pakistan)
The first edition of Munster's map of Northern India, present-day Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan, with the delta of the Indus River graphically depicted. Based upon Claud...
Place & Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1545
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2016
Tabula Asiae X (India)
The first edition of Münster's map of India and the Indian Ocean with the sources of the Indus and Ganges Rivers, based upon Claudius Ptolemy which appeared in his "...
Place & Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1545
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2016
Tabula Nova Prima Europa. (Europe - 1st edition)
The FIRST edition of Munster's first modern map of Europe, with south oriented at the top which appeared in his "Geographia Universalis", first published in 154...
Place & Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1545
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2022
Anglia II Nova Tabula (British Isles)
The first edition of Munster's first printed separate map of England and Wales, with Scotland as far north as Edinburgh, the east coast of Ireland and north coast of Fran...
Place & Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1545
Selling price: $475
Sold in 2014
Hispania III Nova Tabula (Spain and Portugal)
The first edition of Munster's map of Spain and Portugal. Appeared in his "Geographia Universalis", first published in 1540. The Geographia was a new and import...
Place & Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1545
Selling price: $220
Sold in 2014
Gallia IIII Nova Tabula (France)
Sebastian Münster's map of France. Appeared in his "Geographia Universalis", first published in 1540. The Geographia was a new and important edition of Ptolemy...
Place & Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1545
Selling price: $240
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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
India extrema XXIIII Nova Tabula. (Asia)
One of the first European maps of Asia. Although quite crude, Münster's map does significantly improve upon the Ptolemaic model for the area. The coast of China begins t...
Place & Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1545
Selling price: $800
Sold in 2014
Tabula nova prima Europa.
This map comes from The first edition of Munster's "Geographia Universalis", first published in 1540. It is thus the first modern map of Europe, with south orie...
Place & Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1545
Selling price: $1090
Sold in 2014
Hispaniam dividunt à Gallia. . . (Spain and Portugal)
Fine map of Spain and Portugal by Sebastian Münster, with an additional title in the top "hispanicae regionis nova descriptio". Sebastian Münster (1448-1552) ...
Place & Date: Basel, ca 1545
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2016
Tabula Europae IX ( Greece & Turkey).
The first edition of Munster's map of Greece & Turkey, based upon Claudius Ptolemy which appeared in his "Geographia Universalis", first published in 1540. ...
Place & Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1545
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2021
Tabula Europae VIII ( Russia, Ukraine, Baltic, Scandinavia).
The first edition of Münster's map of the Russia, Ukraine, Baltic, Scandinavia, based upon Claudius Ptolemy which appeared in his "Geographia Universalis", fir...
Place & Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1545
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2019
Aphricae Tabula I (Mauritania - present-day Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia.)
The first edition of Münster's map of Mauritania - present-day Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia, based upon Claudius Ptolemy which appeared in his "Geographia Universa...
Place & Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1545
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2018
Tabula Africae III.
One of the earliest maps of Egypt, first published in the 1540 edition of Münster's Geographia and reprinted for subsequent editions of the Geographia and Cosmographia. ...
Place & Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1545
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2016
Tabula Africae IIII.
Uncommon first edition of one of the earliest maps of Egypt.Girolamo Ruscelli's edition of Ptolemy's Geographia included newly engraved copperplates by Giulio and Livio S...
Place & Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1545
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2016
Tabula Asiae X (India)
The first edition of Munster's map of India and the Indian Ocean with the sources of the Indus and Ganges Rivers, based upon Claudius Ptolemy which appeared in his "...
Place & Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1545
Selling price: $180
Sold in 2017
![Tabula Asiae VI. [Arabia Felix]](/uploads/cache/39794-250x250.jpg)
Tabula Asiae VI. [Arabia Felix]
This fine woodcut is an early Ptolemaic map of the Arabian Peninsula here called 'Arabia Felix'. It is a fairly decent representation of the peninsula, although perhaps P...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1545
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2018
Tabula Europae I (Great Britain).
Nice example of the rare third state of Ruscelli's map of the British Isles, based Claudius Ptolemy.The map first appeared in the 1561 edition of Ruscelli's edition of Pt...
Place & Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1545
Selling price: $170
Sold in 2017
![Tabula Europae IX [Greece and Turkey]](/uploads/cache/98813-250x250.jpg)
Tabula Europae IX [Greece and Turkey]
First edition of Münster's map of Greece & Turkey plus the region west of the Black Sea and north of the Aegean and Adriatic Seas.Based on Claudius Ptolemy which app...
Place & Date: Basel, 1545
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2019
Novae Insulae XXVI Nova Tabula (America)
Rare second state of Münster's map of America which is the earliest map to show both continents of America and the first to use Magellan’s name, Mare Pacificum (Pacifi...
Place & Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1545
Selling price: $3500
Sold in 2017
Tabula Asiae XII (Sri Lanka, with Elephant)
The FIRST edition of Munster's first modern map of Sri Lanka, which appeared in his "Geographia Universalis", first published in 1540. The Geographia was a new ...
Place & Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1545
Europa, das ein Drittheil der Erden, nach gelegenheit unsern zeiten
Attractive woodcut map showing the European continent with South on top. From a German edition of Cosmographia by Sebastian Munster printed from Petri in Basel around 154...
Place & Date: Basle, 1545
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2009
Universalis Cosmographia,
A very desirable cordiform (heart shaped) world map from Johann Honter's 'Rudimentum'. The map is a reduced version of Waldseemüller's and Apianus' earlier world maps. T...
Place & Date: Zurich, ca. 1546
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2020
(Balearic Islands: Majorca, Minorca, Ibiza, Formentera)
The first separate printed maps of the Balearics, and the first regional map to name "Catalunya" (Catalonia) on the Spanish mainland! A wood cut page with Ital...
Place & Date: Venice, 1528-1547
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2015
Tabula Asiae VI (Arabia).
Good example map of Arabia, the Red Sea and the Gulf, based upon Ptolemy, it includes a mermaid and a sea monster at the lower right corner.Giacomo Gastaldi's Atlas of 15...
Place & Date: Venice, 1548
Selling price: $240
Sold in 2017
An early map of 'modern' southern Africa: Africa Nova Tabula.
An uncommon map showing all of Africa from the Horn of Africa and the Bight of Benin southward to the Cape of Good Hope. The information to produce this map was based on...
Place & Date: Venice, 1548
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2011
Carta Marina Nova Tabula
Gastaldi's maritime world map. Europe and North America are connected via a long land bridge. The bridge passes from North American to Tierra Del Bacalaos, Tierra del Lab...
Place & Date: Venice, 1548
Selling price: $2500
Sold in 2021
Terra Nueva
Gastaldi's map of Eastern USA from Giacomo Gastaldi's Atlas of 1548 which has been called the most comprehensive atlas, produced between Martin Waldseemüller's Geographi...
Place & Date: Venice, 1548
Selling price: $3400
Sold in 2023
Nueva Hispania Tabula Nova.
Gastaldi's map of Mexico and Texas from Giacomo Gastaldi's Atlas of 1548 which has been called the most comprehensive atlas, produced between Martin Waldseemüller's Geog...
Place & Date: Venice, 1548
Selling price: $1800
Sold in 2021
Insula Cuba Nova.
One of the earliest separately published maps of Cuba, with the Yslas de Lagartos (Cayman Islands). The map includes early appearances of Iamayea (Jamaica), Isola Espanol...
Place & Date: Venice, 1548
Selling price: $900
Sold in 2021
Tierra Nova
Gastaldi's map of South America from Giacomo Gastaldi's Atlas of 1548 which has been called the most comprehensive atlas, produced between Martin Waldseemüller's Geograp...
Place & Date: Venice, 1548
Selling price: $700
Sold in 2022
India Tercera Nova Tabula.
Gastaldi's map of South East Asia from Giacomo Gastaldi's Atlas of 1548 which has been called the most comprehensive atlas, produced between Martin Waldseemüller's Geogr...
Place & Date: Venice, 1548
Selling price: $1850
Sold in 2021
Italia Nova Tavola.
Gastaldi's modern map of Italy. From Giacomo Gastaldi's Atlas of 1548 which has been called the most comprehensive atlas, produced between Martin Waldseemüller's Geograp...
Place & Date: Venice, 1548
Selling price: $230
Sold in 2021
Gallia Nova Tavola.
Gastaldi's modern map of France. From Giacomo Gastaldi's Atlas of 1548 which has been called the most comprehensive atlas, produced between Martin Waldseemüller's Geogra...
Place & Date: Venice, 1548
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2021
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
Sicilia Sardinia Nova Tabula.
Gastaldi's modern map of Sicily and Sardinia. From Giacomo Gastaldi's Atlas of 1548 which has been called the most comprehensive atlas, produced between Martin Waldseemü...
Place & Date: Venice, 1548
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2023
Sconladia Nova.
Gastaldi's modern map of Scandinavia, Iceland, and the Baltic According to Bill Ginsberg the map was "built upon previous publications, in particular, the representa...
Place & Date: Venice, 1548
Selling price: $1100
Sold in 2022
Anglia e Hibernia Nova
Gastaldi's modern map of the British Isles. It is one of the earliest obtainable modern maps of the British Isles.From Giacomo Gastaldi's Atlas of 1548 which has been cal...
Place & Date: Venice, 1548
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2021
Germania nova Tabula MDXXXXII.
Gastaldi's modern map of Germany, from the Low Countries to Poland in the North and covering Germany and part of Hungary in the South.It is one of the earliest obtainable...
Place & Date: Venice, 1548
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2021
Piamonte Nova Tav.
Gastaldi's modern map of Piemonte, Northern Italy. It is one of the earliest obtainable modern maps of the region.From Giacomo Gastaldi's Atlas of 1548 which has been cal...
Place & Date: Venice, 1548
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2022
Marcha de Ancona Nova.
Gastaldi's modern map of Ancona. It is one of the earliest obtainable modern maps of the region.From Giacomo Gastaldi's Atlas of 1548 which has been called the most compr...
Place & Date: Venice, 1548
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2021
Tabula Europae I. (British Isles)
Gastaldi's map of the British Isles based upon Ptolemy.It is one of the earliest obtainable maps of the region .From Giacomo Gastaldi's Atlas of 1548 which has been calle...
Place & Date: Venice, 1548
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2021
Tabula Aphricae II.
Gastaldi's map of North Africa and part of the Mediterranean, including Malta, Sardinia and Sicily. Embellished with two mythical birds and a ship wreck off the coast. Ba...
Place & Date: Venice, 1548
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2022
Tabula Aphricae I. (Morocco & Southeast Spain)
Gastaldi's map of North Africa with Morocco and the Balearic Islands to the Pillars of Hercules. Based upon Ptolemy.Embellished is a sailing ship, sea monster and several...
Place & Date: Venice, 1548
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2023
Tabula Europae VIII. (Russia, Ukraine, Baltic, Scandinavia)
Gastaldi's map showing the Baltic in the North and the Black Sea in the south. Based upon Ptolemy.Embellished is a sailing ship, sea monster and several curious animals.I...
Place & Date: Venice, 1548
Selling price: $325
Sold in 2022
Tabula Europae VII. (Sicily, Sardinia and Malta)
Gastaldi's map showing Sicily, Sardinia and Malta. Based upon Ptolemy.Embellished is a sailing ship, sea monster and several curious animals.It is one of the earliest obt...
Place & Date: Venice, 1548
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2023
![Tabula Asiae XI. [Southeast Asia]](/uploads/cache/47432-250x250.jpg)
Tabula Asiae XI. [Southeast Asia]
Gastaldi's map showing Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean based upon Ptolemy.It is one of the earliest obtainable maps of the region .From Giacomo Gastaldi's Atlas of 15...
Place & Date: Venice, 1548
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2023
Tabula orientalis regionis, Asiae scilicet extremas complectens terras et regna.
Very early woodcut printed map of the Asia, published in the monumental Cosmographia by Sebastian Münster. The maps shows all of Asia, parts of the Indian Ocean with Mad...
Place & Date: Basel, ca. 1550
Selling price: $650
Sold in 2019
Der Schönen und Weitberhümpten Statt Genua abcontrafactur.
A large, early woodcut view of Genoa (Genova) by Sebastian Münster on the full double sheet. Title and a description of the city on verso. The 'Cosmographia' is famous f...
Place & Date: Basel, H.Petri, ca. 1550
Selling price: $175
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LA FIGURE DU MONDE UNIVERSEL.
Beautiful example of Sebastian Münster's oval new world map, from the Cosmographia of 1550. Relief is shown pictorially. The map is embellished with fierce sea monsters ...
Place & Date: Basel, ca 1550
Selling price: $2000
Sold in 2020
SCLAVONIA ODER WINDISCH MARCK, BOSSEN, CRABATEN (Croatia, Dalmatia)
A beautifully colored, antique woodcut map of Dalmatia, Bosnia, Slovenia, Croatia.
Place & Date: Basle, 1550
Selling price: $130
Sold in 2021
Transilvania.
A beautifully colored map of the "Seven Cities" also known as 'Transsylvania', today western Romania.
Place & Date: Basle, 1550
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2021
Das gantz Franckreich..Belgica und Celtica. . .
This fine and beautifully hand colored original antique map of modern contemporary France in the mid 16th century was published by Sebastian Münster in the 1550's. Date ...
Place & Date: Basel, ca 1550
Selling price: $130
Sold in 2020
![Das Erst General, inhaltend die beschreibung und den Circkel des gantzen Erdtrichs und Moese.['Modern World' map]](/uploads/cache/84759-250x250.jpg)
Das Erst General, inhaltend die beschreibung und den Circkel des gantzen Erdtrichs und Moese.['Modern World' map]
Münster’s modern map of the world, on an oval projection, was first published in his ‘Geographia’ of 1540. The early issues are distinguished by the absence of ...
Place & Date: Basel, ca.1550
Selling price: $2000
Sold in 2020
![Ptolemaisch General Tafel / begreiffend die halbe Kugel der Welt. [World map after Ptolemy]](/uploads/cache/84755-250x250.jpg)
Ptolemaisch General Tafel / begreiffend die halbe Kugel der Welt. [World map after Ptolemy]
A nice full color example of Munster's first ancient map of the World, based upon the writings of Ptolemy. At the advent of printing in the 15th century, the geographical...
Place & Date: Basel, ca. 1550
Selling price: $1100
Sold in 2021
Das Engelland, mit dem anstossenden Reich Schottland. . . Britannia. . .
An antique map of England and Wales, with parts of Scottland and Ireland. Full title : Engellandt/ mit dem anstossenden Reich Schottlandt/ so vor zeiten Albion und Britan...
Place & Date: Basel ca 1550
Selling price: $325
Sold in 2020
Gemeine beschreibung aller Mitnaechtigen Laender, Schweden, Gothen, Nordwegien, Dennmarck, sc.
An early Sebastian Münster's woodcut map of Scandinavia, based on the 'Carta Marina' of Olaus Magnus, 1539. The map includes Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Iceland, S...
Place & Date: Basel, ca 1550
Selling price: $550
Sold in 2020
![Die dritte Tafel des Rheinstroms, inhaltendt das Nider Teutschlandt. [Course of the Rhine from approx. Remagen to the North Sea]](/uploads/cache/84789-250x250.jpg)
Die dritte Tafel des Rheinstroms, inhaltendt das Nider Teutschlandt. [Course of the Rhine from approx. Remagen to the North Sea]
Wood block printed map of mostly the Netherlands and Belgium - designed as third part of the course of the Rhine, by Sebastian Munster.One of the Earliest Modern Maps on ...
Place & Date: Basel, 1550
Selling price: $130
Sold in 2020
Beschreibung Engellandts und Schottlandts.
A full-page woodcut map of England, Scotland, Wales, and part of Ireland, published in Basel, circa 1550. This charming woodblock map of Britain is the base for the Merca...
Place & Date: Basel, ca 1550
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2021
![BEYDE STAETT GENFF. . .[Geneva]](/uploads/cache/85034-250x250.jpg)
BEYDE STAETT GENFF. . .[Geneva]
An uncommon and early woodblock panoramic view of Geneva as a medieval walled city on the shores of Lake Leman. The skyline is dominated by the Cathedral of St. Peter, wh...
Place & Date: Basel, ca 1550
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2021
Typus Orbis Universalis.
​Münster’s map of the World. It is one of the most recognised world maps of the 16th Century. This example is from the second woodblock, which includes the e...
Place & Date: Basel, 1550
Selling price: $2800
Sold in 2021
Würzburg. - Herbipolis Würtzpurg
A double-page woodcut view of Würzburg. From a French edition of Munster's 'Geographia', one of the most important 16th Century geographical books. Herbipolis Würtzpur...
Place & Date: Basel, ca 1550
Selling price: $160
Sold in 2021
COLOGNE/KÖLN. - La noble & ample ville de Coloigne Agrippine,
A double-page woodcut panoramic view of KÖLN. From a French edition of Munster's 'Geographia', one of the most important 16th-century geographical books. With a key to 2...
Place & Date: Basel, ca 1550
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2021
Basel. - Beyde Stett Basel mit dem fürfliessenden Rhein und allen fürnemmen Gebewen
A decorative map with a striking bird's-eye plan of Basel from Seb. Muenster, with key to locations. Maybe the first map of Basel , printed in Basel.Basle is shown here f...
Place & Date: Basel, ca. 1550
Selling price: $165
Sold in 2021
Der Statt Rom boden und circkel sampt thor vnnd porten, wie sie gestanden ist vor zeiten, do sie noch in ihrer herrlichkeit was.
Large format wood engraving by Sebastian Münster with a special map showing the underground of Rome: the hills, the water streams. The city is marked by the city walls a...
Place & Date: 1550
Selling price: $100
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Leaf on vellum from a printed Book of Hours with miniatures of the saints Apollonia and Barbara.
30 lines of printed text on both sides, with miniatures of the saints Apollonia and Barbara. Learn more about illuminated manuscripts [+]
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1550
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2023
Typus Orbis Universalis
The second edition of Münster’s map of the world is one of the most recognized and influential world maps of the sixteenth century. Today, it is one of the earliest ob...
Place & Date: Basel, 1550
Selling price: $1600
Sold in 2023
Die Neuwen Inseln so Hinder Hispanien Gegen Orient bey dem Land Indie Ligen
This is an authentic, antique map of the Western Hemisphere showing North and South America connected as true continents. It is the 5th state example published out of Bas...
Place & Date: Basel, 1550
Selling price: $4500
Sold in 2023
Das Erst General / inhaltend die beschreibung...
Famous Münster's map of the World, one of the most recognized world maps of the 16th Century. This example is from the first, 1550 German edition of the second block of ...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550
Selling price: $1900
Sold in 2023
Moderna Evropae descriptio.
This important map represents one of the first printed maps of the European continent as a whole. Printed initially around 1550 in the famous Cosmographia, it was then re...
Place & Date: Basel, ca. 1550
Selling price: $700
Sold in 2013
Hispanien nach aller seiner gelegenheit...
Early map of Spain and Portugal. Featuring vessels and a sea monster.
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1550
Selling price: $140
Sold in 2013
Bende Stett Genff Gross und Klein/mit Einer Brucken Zusammen Gehencht. (Geneva)
Detailed hand-colored woodcut engraving of Geneva. The plate shows buildings, gardens and town walls. Map is adorned with a large armorial and has German text on the vers...
Place & Date: Basle, c1550
Selling price: $55
Sold in 2013
Moscovia.
Important hand-colored, woodcut map of Russia with Moscow and the Ukraine and published in Munster's "Cosmography". this is from the German text edition from 15...
Place & Date: Basel, 1550
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2013
(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
Tabula novarum insularum, quas diversis respectibus Occidentalis et Indianas vocant.
The earliest separate map to show both North and South America. One of the first maps also to include Japan, and the first to refer to Mare Pacificum or the Pacific Ocean...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550
Selling price: $9100
Sold in 2013