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Moderna Evropa descriptio.
At the time Sebastian Münster published this map, it was not yet conventional to orient the North at the top. The uncommon orientation to the South for this map was deri...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550
Selling price: $1650
Sold in 2013
Totius Africae tabula & descriptio universalis etiam ultra Ptolemaei extensa.
A wonderfully decorative and extremely interesting map of the continent of Africa by Sebastian Munster. The map features a galleon, mountains, rivers, assorted kings crow...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550
Selling price: $2100
Sold in 2013
Tabula orientalis regionis, Asiae sciliset extremas complectens terras et regna.
This is one of the earliest maps of the whole continent of Asia, based on the recent geographical discoveries by Portuguese navigators.The outline of the Asian mainland i...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550
Selling price: $1600
Sold in 2013
Typus Orbis Universalis
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: Basle, 1550
Selling price: $1700
Sold in 2014
Altera generalis tab. Secundum Ptol.
Lovely full color example Sebastian Münster's Ptolemaic world map, from the Cosmographia of 1550. Relief is shown pictorially. The Ptolemaic map shows the known world b...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550
Selling price: $1650
Sold in 2014
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Missal.
Missal fragment with two wonderful decorated initials "P" and "D".
Place & Date: France, ca. 1550
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2014
![[Sea monsters] De regnis Septentrion. Monstra marina & terrestria. . .](/uploads/cache/34722-250x250.jpg)
[Sea monsters] De regnis Septentrion. Monstra marina & terrestria. . .
Münster's plate of monsters of both land and sea, taken from Olaus Magnus' 'Carta Marina' of 1539, with abundant tusks, horns and twin-spouts. One vignette shows a galle...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1550
Selling price: $1520
Sold in 2015
Bohemiae descriptio iuxta insigniores eius civitates & oppida
This particular woodblock map displays the Czech Republic centred on Prague and the Elb River. Cities, towns, rivers and mountains are shown along with a key at lower rig...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2014
Galliae Regionis Nova Descriptio.
Sebastian Münster's handsome and fascinating 1550 map of France and Belgium from the Pyrenees to Holland, also showing the south coast of England and the Channel Islands...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550
Selling price: $170
Sold in 2014
Poloniae Et Ungariae XV Nova Descriptio.
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, 1550
Selling price: $180
Sold in 2014
Germanicae Nationis Descriptio.
This charming map was published in the 1550-edition of Sebastian Münster’s Cosmographia. This edition is considered to be Münster’s Magnum Opus. Early Munster's ma...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2014
Noua Graecia, secundum omneseius regiones & prouincias citra & ultra Hellespontum.
A fine graphic example of Munster's map of Greece, Turkey, and adjoining regions, from the 1550-Latin edition of Munster's Cosmographia. It extends to Just north of the D...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550
Selling price: $230
Sold in 2015
Sveviae et Bavariae Descriptio.
An attractive early woodcut map Bavaria in Southern Germany. The map extends from the source of the Danube through Ulm, Ingolstad, Regensberg and Passau on the Danube, th...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2020
Hispaniae Regionis Nova Descriptio.
One of the earliest obtainable maps of Spain & Portugal. Woodcut map featuring the mountain ranges, rivers, roads, and major cities. Fully engraved seas. Text block a...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2014
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
Typus Orbis Universalis.
Münster's map of the World is one of the most recognized world maps of the 16th Century. This example is from the second woodblock, which includes the engraver David Kan...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1550
Selling price: $1150
Sold in 2015
Die länder Asie nach irer gelegenheit biss in Indiam werden in diser tafel verzeichnet.
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: Basle, c.1550
Selling price: $1500
Sold in 2016
Moderna Evropae Descriptio.
One of the first printed maps of the European continent as a whole. Initially, it appeared in the famous Cosmographia (CIRCA 1550) and then re-issued several times before...
Place & Date: Basel, circa 1550
Selling price: $2100
Sold in 2015
Die länder Asie nach irer gelegenheit biss in Indiam werden in disser tafel verzeichnet
This is one of the earliest maps of the whole continent based on the recent geographical discoveries by Portuguese navigators..The outline of the Asian mainland is relati...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550
Selling price: $750
Sold in 2015
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
Warhaffte abcontrafactur der namhafften Statt St. Quintin sampt aller Laegerstatt und umbligenden Ort wie sie von Konigs Philippi Heer im jar 1557 belagert worden
Rare and charming woodcut of St. Quentin. A bird's eye view of the siege of St. Quentin in Aisne (France) by the forces of King Philip II of Spain, in 1557. It shows the ...
Place & Date: Basel, H.Petri, ca. 1550
Selling price: $90
Sold in 2020
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
Don Gallia.
A detailed vieGravelines, from an early edition of Sebastian Münster's 'Cosmography'.Münster's 'Cosmography' was one of the most influential geographical works of the 1...
Place & Date: Basil, c 1550
Selling price: $35
Sold in 2016
Die länder Asie nach irer gelegenheit biss in Indiam werden in diser tafel verzeichnet..
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: Basle, c.1550
Selling price: $1700
Sold in 2017
Typus Universalis.
A famous wood block map, cut by David Kandel. His initials identify this block as the second version of the modern world map to be used in the Cosmographia , that great c...
Place & Date: Basle 1550
Selling price: $2200
Sold in 2016
![[Europe personified as a woman.]](/uploads/cache/36207-250x250.jpg)
[Europe personified as a woman.]
Among the most striking of early cartographic curiosities is this woodcut of Europe regina or Queen of the world. This is a simplified version of Johannes Bucius' represe...
Place & Date: Basle c.1550
Selling price: $1250
Sold in 2016
Ierusalem ciuitas sancta, olim metropolis regni iudaici, hodie uero colonia Turcae.
A double page woodcut featuring a bird's eye view of Jerusalem, taken from Sebastian Münster's famous "Cosmographia". Engraved by Jakob Clauser, it shows an im...
Place & Date: Basle, c1550
Selling price: $125
Sold in 2016
Die Heylige Statt Jerusalem.
A very decorative colored woodcut of Jerusalem by Sebastian Münster. It shows the city from a birds-eye perspective. Mount Zion is in background.From a German edition of...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1550
Selling price: $115
Sold in 2020
![[Moscovia].](/uploads/cache/36716-250x250.jpg)
[Moscovia].
Woodcut map of Russia centered on Moscow and including Ukraine and published in Münster's "Cosmography", this is from the German text edition from 1550 and is ...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1550
Selling price: $18
Sold in 2023
![[Moscouia].](/uploads/cache/37463-250x250.jpg)
[Moscouia].
Very early and detailed map centred on Moscow.
Place & Date: Basle, 1550
Selling price: $75
Sold in 2016
Die Heylige Statt Jerusalem.
A very decorative colored woodcut of Jerusalem by Sebastian Münster.It Shows the city from a birds-eye perspective. Mount Zion is in background. From a German edition of...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550
Selling price: $180
Sold in 2016
Riga.
One of the first printed views of Riga, from the famous 'Cosmographia' of Sebastian Münster.
Place & Date: Basle, 1550
Selling price: $90
Sold in 2021
Charta cosmographica, cum ventorum propria natura et operatione..
The map is one of the earliest obtainable world maps not based upon the works of Ptolemy. The second wood block cut of the cordiform world map after Gemma Frisius in Apia...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1544 - 1550
Selling price: $2400
Sold in 2016
Meerwunder und Seltzame Thier/Wie Die In Den Mitnacßtigen Landern Gefunden Werden
Sebastian Münster's famous wood cut printed plate of monsters of both land and sea, as it appeared in his "Cosmographia". Derived from Olaus Magnus' "Cart...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550
Selling price: $1200
Sold in 2016
Die länder Asie nach irer gelegenheit biss in Indiam werden in diser tafel verzeichnet.
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: Basle, c.1550
Selling price: $1500
Sold in 2021
![[Two Putti wrestling, while two putti try to stop them]](/uploads/cache/24000-250x250.jpg)
[Two Putti wrestling, while two putti try to stop them]
Fine print made by Bernardo Daddi (1512 - 1570) and published by Antonio Lafreri. Two Putti wrestling, while two putti try to stop them, and a small dog bites one on the ...
Place & Date: Venice, 1550
Selling price: $750
Sold in 2023
Gallia oder Franckrych / Die Landtafel des dritten Buchs.
One of the earliest available maps of France. The wood cut printed map also shows small parts of Italy, Germany, and England. Filled with place names, rivers, mountains, ...
Place & Date: Zurich, ca 1550
Selling price: $235
Sold in 2018
Germania Teutschland/die ander Landtafel des anderen Buchs.
An early woodcut printed map. The fantastic map shows the area between Lübeck, Preßburg, Brixen and Gent. Oriented to the south.Filled with place names, rivers, mountai...
Place & Date: Zurich, ca 1550
Selling price: $160
Sold in 2018
Cosmographiae universalis lib. VI.
Rare first Latin edition illustrated with a title-page within woodcut border, woodcut portrait of Munster on verso; 14 woodcut double-page maps, including 2 world maps (t...
Place & Date: Basle, H. Petri, 1550
Selling price: $12500
Sold in 2019
Das erst General, inhaltend die beschreibung und den Circkel des gantzen Erderichs und Möres.
Münster's map of the World is one of the most recognized world maps of the 16th Century. This example is from the second woodblock, which includes the engraver David Kan...
Place & Date: Basle, ca 1550
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2019
Die Statt Paris etlicher mass figuriert und contrafehtet nach ietziger gelegenheit.
A remarkable cityscape, because unlike most cityscapes in the Cosmographia, where the bird's-eye perspective or the profile view on cities is used, here we find what come...
Place & Date: Basel, H.Petri, ca. 1550
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2020
Contrafehtung der fürnemmen Statt Venedig, sampt den umbligenden Inseln.
A large, early woodcut view of Venice (Venezia) and the surrounding islands by Sebastian Munster on the full double sheet. Two text cartouches providing additional inform...
Place & Date: Basel, H.Petri, ca. 1550
Selling price: $230
Sold in 2019
Constantinopel
A detailed bird's-eye view of the 'Golden Horn' of Istanbul (Constantinople). The city plan depicts the markets, homes, palaces and churches, including the famous Hagia S...
Place & Date: Basel, H.Petri, ca. 1550
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2019
Der Koenigliche Statt Neapels abcontrafehtung.
A large, early woodcut view of the fortified city of Naples (Napoli) by Sebastian Munster on the full double sheet. The castle of San Martino is shown on the hill, as wel...
Place & Date: Basel, H.Petri, ca. 1550
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2020
Beschreibung der Herzlichen und weitberhümten Statt Mirandula.
A large, early woodcut view of Mirandola by Sebastian Munster on the full double sheet. Title and a description of the city on verso. Interesting bird's-eye view of the f...
Place & Date: Basel, H.Petri, ca. 1550
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2021
Der Statt Cusco / so die fuernembste im Land Peru / Il Cuscho Citta Principale della Provincia del Peru.
An early woodcut view of Cusco (Cuzco) in Peru by Sebastian Munster on a full double sheet. One of the earliest views of a city in the 'New World'. Verso an early woodcut...
Place & Date: Basel, H.Petri, ca. 1550
Selling price: $145
Sold in 2019
Figur und gelegenheit der edlen und hoch berhümpten Statt Florentz.
An attractive woodblock view of the city of Florence surrounded in an elaborate Gothic border. The city is situated on both sides of the river Arno connected by four ston...
Place & Date: Basel, H.Petri, ca. 1550
Selling price: $195
Sold in 2019
Bern in der Eydgnoschafft an dem Wasser Aar gelegen, figuriert nach ihrer gelegenheit.
This well rendered bird's-eye view depicts the fortified Swiss city of Bern. The detailed plan shows the Arola Fl or Aare River wrapping around the city with scores of in...
Place & Date: Basel, H.Petri, ca. 1550
Selling price: $125
Sold in 2020
Der Schönen und Weitberhümpten Statt Genua abcontrafactur.
A large, early woodcut view of Genoa (Genova) by Sebastian Munster on the full double sheet. Title and a description of the city on verso. The 'Cosmographia' is famous fo...
Place & Date: Basel, H.Petri, ca. 1550
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2019
Die Heylige Statt Jerusalem.
Decorative colored woodcut view of Jerusalem by Sebastian Münster. From a German edition of the "Cosmographey". Showing the city from birdeye perspective with ...
Place & Date: Basel, H.Petri, ca. 1550
Selling price: $245
Sold in 2019
Der Statt Rom in aller Welt bekant contrafehtung nach ietziger gelegenheit.
A large, early woodcut view of Rome (Roma) by Sebastian Munster on the full double sheet. On verso is a beautiful woodcut of the Sibylline Oracles (lat. Oracula Sibyllina...
Place & Date: Basel, H.Petri, ca. 1550
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2019
Der Statt Rom boden und circkel sampt thor vnnd porten, wie sie gestanden ist vor zeiten, do sie noch in ihrer herrlichkeit was.
An early woodcut map of ancient Rome and its vicinity by Sebastian Münster. To the left of the map, a detailed explanation of the most important buildings seen on the ma...
Place & Date: Basel, H.Petri, ca. 1550
Selling price: $85
Sold in 2021
Beyde Stett Basel mit dem fürfliessenden Rhein und allen fürnemmen gebeüwen.
A double-page wood block bird's-eye view of the fortified Swiss city of Basel. Filled with detail, down to individual streets and buildings, bridges, towers and churches....
Place & Date: Basel, H.Petri, ca. 1550
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2019
Wien, die Hauptstatt im Ertzhertzogthumb Oestereich aller Welt wol bekant des gewaltigen widerstandshalb so wie zu unsern Zeiten hat wieder den grimmigen Feind der Christenzeit gethan.
"Anno Domini 1548. Viena Austriæ Hunc Habuait Situm." "Civitas Vienensis, Urbs metropolitana..."Decorative 2-full folio panoramic view of Vienna from...
Place & Date: Basel, H.Petri, ca. 1550
Selling price: $490
Sold in 2021
Die erst Tafel, innhaltend das Schweytzerlandt, mit den anstossenden Ländern / Die ander Tafel des Rheinstroms, begreiffend die Pfaltz, Westereich, Eyfel ec. . .
A monumental map of the course of the Rhine river. The three-sheet woodcut map showing the Rhine from the headwaters in Switzerland to its mouth in the North Sea. The map...
Place & Date: Basel, H.Petri, ca. 1550
Selling price: $325
Sold in 2020
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Missal.
Missel fragment with wonderful decorated initials.
Place & Date: France, ca. 1550
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2014
![[Sea monsters] De regnis Septentrion. Monstra marina & terrestria.](/uploads/cache/36206-250x250.jpg)
[Sea monsters] De regnis Septentrion. Monstra marina & terrestria.
Münster's plate of monsters of both land and sea, taken from Olaus Magnus' 'Carta Marina' of 1539, with abundant tusks, horns and twin-spouts. One vignette shows a galle...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1550
Selling price: $1600
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Large leaf from an early 16-th century antiphoner.
RECTO: 6 lines of of 5-stave music. Two large initials. "A"lleluya... in yellow and green, the initial endingin a dragon?s head. "M"agnus... in yellow...
Place & Date: Northern France, 1520-1550
Selling price: $225
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The mocking of Christ.
The mocking of Christ. by A. Duerer.(1471-1528) From the "passion" series. B.No.8. 2nd state.Monogrammed at centrebottom AD.On the back is text in 16th.century...
Place & Date: Germany c. 1550
Selling price: $500
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Hispanien nach aller gelegenheit?
Early map of Spain and Portugal.
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1550
Selling price: $200
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Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
RECTO: Seven 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds and five line fillers in same.VERSO: Five 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds and one 2-lines...
Place & Date: France, 1520-1550
Selling price: $120
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King David.
RECTO: An engraving showing king David, who is receiving the messenger telling him king Saul is killed in a battle, and bringing him Saul's crown. Text in Dutch. VERSO: 4...
Place & Date: The Netherlands 1550
Selling price: $10
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![In Somnium Scipionis Libri II.. [With world map]](/uploads/cache/12820-250x250.jpg)
In Somnium Scipionis Libri II.. [With world map]
With 5 schematic woodcuts and a fine woodcut map of the world (80 x 80 mm). The famous map of the world appears in the different printing in the 15th. and 16th Century in...
Place & Date: Leyden 1550
Selling price: $1500
Sold in 2010
Bohemia Praha Budweiss Cheb.
Fine wood block engraved map of Bohemia or The Czech Republic by Sebastian Münster. Published in "COSMOGRAPHIA". The page includes copper engravings of a royal...
Place & Date: Basel, ca. 1550
Selling price: $26
Sold in 2016
![Von den Laendern Asie [Palestine]](/uploads/cache/18623-250x250.jpg)
Von den Laendern Asie [Palestine]
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, 1550
Selling price: $200
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India extrema XIX Nova Tabula.
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: Basle, c.1550
Selling price: $1400
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Hispanien nach aller seiner gelegenheit?
Early map of Spain and Portugal. Featuring vessels and a sea monster.
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1550
Selling price: $120
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Die erst Tafel, innhaltend das Schweytzerlandt, mit den anstossenden Ländern / Die ander Tafel des Rheinstroms, begreiffend die Pfaltz, Westereich, Eyfel ec. . .
A monumental map of the course of the Rhine river. This is a three-sheet woodcut map showing the Rhine from the headwaters in Switzerland to its mouth in the North Sea. T...
Place & Date: Basel, H.Petri, ca. 1550
Selling price: $375
Sold in 2020
![[No title] Daniel's Dream Map.](/uploads/cache/30206-250x250.jpg)
[No title] Daniel's Dream Map.
A somewhat curious map of Europe, Africa, and Asia is to be found in apocalyptic literature originally emanating from Wittenberg in 1530 or even 1529. The map was used by...
Place & Date: Hans Walther, Magdeburg 1545, 1550
Selling price: $1350
Sold in 2011
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
Justification: 102x70mm. RECTO: One 2-line initial and 1-line initial, both in liquid gold on colored grounds.VERSO: Five lines of text and two line-fillers in liquid gol...
Place & Date: France, c.1550
Selling price: $160
Sold in 2008
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
RECTO: Panel border of acanthus leaves and flowers on a partly liquid gold and dark red ground, one 2-line initial in liquid gold on colored grounds.VERSO: Same panel bor...
Place & Date: France, 1550
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2008
Quarta Rhein et IX Nova Tabula.
Sebastian Münster, 1489-1552, outstanding geographer of Basle. Edited Ptolemy's atlas 'Geographia Universalis', editions 1540,-42, -45, -51 and -52. Published his 'Cosmo...
Place & Date: Basle, c. 1550
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2008
Universelle livre IIII.
An attractive map of southern Russia and the Caucasus from Sebastian Munster's 'Cosmographia'.
Place & Date: Basel, c. 1550
Selling price: $175
Sold in 2008
Sumatra ein grosse Insel so von den alten Geographen Taprobana genennt worden.
Sebastian Münster, 1489-1552, outstanding geographer of Basle. Edited Ptolemy's atlas Geographia Universalis, editions 1540,-42, -45, -51 and -52. Published his Cosmogra...
Place & Date: Basel, c. 1550
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2008
![Europa Virgo [Europe personified as a woman.]](/uploads/cache/90554-250x250.jpg)
Europa Virgo [Europe personified as a woman.]
From Cosmographia and showing the continent (west at the top) with the Iberian peninsula as the head with crown, Italy and Denmark as the arms, carrying an orb and sceptr...
Place & Date: Basle, c.1550
Selling price: $700
Sold in 2008
Landtafel des Ungerlands / Polands / Reussen / Littaw / Walachey und Bulgarey
Early, attractive colored woodcut map showing the area between Poland, Austria and Croatia in the West and from Moscow to Istanbul (Constantinople)in the East. From a Ger...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2008
Hispanien nach aller seiner Gelegenheit, in Bergen, Stetten, Volckern, Konigreichen, Wassern und Inseln
Early, attractive woodcut map of Spain and Portugal in beautiful handcolor.From a German edition of Cosmographia from Sebastian Munster.
Place & Date: Basle, 1550
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2009
![Genff [Geneva]](/uploads/cache/26197-250x250.jpg)
Genff [Geneva]
Early wood block print of Geneva. From his Geographia , that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge.The Cosmographia was one of the most successful and popular books o...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1550
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2008
![Die Stadt Florentz. [Florence].](/uploads/cache/26198-250x250.jpg)
Die Stadt Florentz. [Florence].
Early wood block print of Florence. From his Geographia , that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge.The Cosmographia was one of the most successful and popular books...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1550
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2008
Die Siebenburg, so man sunst auch Transsylvaniam nennt
Early, attractive colored woodcut map showing Transylvania today part of Romania. From a German edition of Cosmographia from Sebastian Munster.
Place & Date: Basle, 1550
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2008