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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
Europa Virgo.
Allegorical map showing Europe in the shape of a woman. The representation of Europa Regina was first drawn by Jonannes Bucius in 1537. This simplified version appeared i...
Place & Date: Basel, ca. 1550
Selling price: $700
Sold in 2009
Noua Graecia secundum omnes eius regiones & prouincias citra ultra & Hellespontum
Nice colored woodcut map of Greece with the western part of Turkey. From an edition of "Cosmographiae Universalis" by Sebastian Münster.
Place & Date: Basle, 1550
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2009
Die Heylige Statt Jerusalem
Decorative colored woodcut town-view of Jerusalem by Sebastian Münster. From a German edition of the "Cosmographey". Showing the city from birdeye perspective ...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2010
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
Mostri marini & terrestri, che si trouano in ogni luogo nelle parti d' aquilone.
One of the most famous charts of mythical sea monsters by Sebastian Munster. The monsters are derivative from the 'Carta Marina' of 1539 by Olaus Magnus and have been use...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550
Selling price: $1100
Sold in 2010
![Tabula Asiae VII. [Central Asia and Russia]](/uploads/cache/29552-250x250.jpg)
Tabula Asiae VII. [Central Asia and Russia]
Wood block printed map with letter press on verso. A Ptolemaic map of the region north and east of the Black Sea and Caspian Sea, extending to the Imaus Mountains.Münste...
Place & Date: Basle, c.1550
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2010
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 and five 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored grou...
Place & Date: France, 1550
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2010
New Griechenlande/mit andern anstossenden Ländern/wie es zu unsern zeiten beschriben ist . . .
Map of Greece with the Peloponnese an all islands, partly showing Crete.
Place & Date: Basel, 1550
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2014
Italia mit zeijnen furnemesten Inseln Corsica Sardinia und Sicilia.
In general a fine impression of this early wood block print of Italy including Sardinia and Corsica.
Place & Date: Basle 1540-1551
Selling price: $320
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Sicilia.
In general a fine impression of this early wood block print of Sicily from a French text edition.
Place & Date: Basle 1540-1551
Selling price: $130
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Sicilia.
In general a fine impression of this early wood block print of Sicily, taken from a French edition of Sebastian Münster's encyclopedic work, the "Cosmographia Unive...
Place & Date: Basle, 1540-1551
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2011
Imaginesconstellationum Australium / Imagines constellationum Boreallum.
An important pair of woodblock celestial charts of the northern and southern skies showing the "stars as seen from earth" (Warner). The maps were first publishe...
Place & Date: Basle, 1541 / 1551
Selling price: $3100
Sold in 2020
URBIS CONSTANTINOPOLITANAE descriptio, incerto autore.
An engraved map of Asia Minor, showing Pontus Euxinus, the Byzantine Empire, the Aegean Sea and a King Figure in a throne. Page from Notitia vtraqve cvm orientis tvm Occi...
Place & Date: Basle, 1552
Selling price: $71
Sold in 2019
Della Region Spagnola Nuova Discrizzione (Spain)
Beautiful colored woodcut map of Spain. From the second Italian edition of Münster's Cosmographia universale. Burmeister Sebastian Münster 101.
Place & Date: Basle, 1552
Selling price: $210
Sold in 2020
De terris Asiae minoris.
A woodblock printed map of the region between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea with parts of Tartary and Kazakhstan, also neighboring Armenia in the south. From the 1552...
Place & Date: Basel, 1552
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2022
Franckofordianae civitatis situs…
A wood block printed early bird's-eye view of Frankfurt/Main (Germany). From the 1552 Latin text edition of Münster's Cosmographia, which is a short and complete summary...
Place & Date: Basel, 1552
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2022
![Hollàd [Holland].](/uploads/cache/48281-250x250.jpg)
Hollàd [Holland].
A wood block printed early map of Holland. From the 1552 Latin text edition of Munster's Cosmographia, which is a short and complete summary of Renaissance knowledge.Seba...
Place & Date: Basel, 1552
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2022
![[Lot of 2 plates] Ierusalem civitas../ [map of Palestine + Cyprus].](/uploads/cache/48240-250x250.jpg)
[Lot of 2 plates] Ierusalem civitas../ [map of Palestine + Cyprus].
Early woodcut view of the city of Jerusalem surrounded by its ancient walls, featuring the temples and mosques. From the 1552 Latin text edition of Munster's Cosmographia...
Place & Date: Basel, 1552
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2023
Egrana civitas olim imperio Romanorum…
Early woodcut view of the city of Egra (Cheb) in the Czech Republic. From the 1552 Latin text edition of Münster's Cosmographia, which is a short and complete summary of...
Place & Date: Basel, 1552
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2022
![[Lot of 31 leaves] Solothurensis civitatis effigies…](/uploads/cache/48272-250x250.jpg)
[Lot of 31 leaves] Solothurensis civitatis effigies…
Thirty-one text pages with several wood block prints with maps and views relating to Hungary, Serbia, Bulgaria, Poland and Russia. Taken from the 1552 Latin text edition ...
Place & Date: Basel, 1552
Selling price: $55
Sold in 2022
![[Lot of 34 leaves relating to Greece and Turkey]](/uploads/cache/48274-250x250.jpg)
[Lot of 34 leaves relating to Greece and Turkey]
Thirty-four text pages with wood block illustrations about Greece and Turkey with small maps, views, animals.... From the 1552 Latin text edition of Münster's Cosmograph...
Place & Date: Basel, 1552
Selling price: $51
Sold in 2022
![[Lot of 2 leaves with map of Cyprus]](/uploads/cache/48277-250x250.jpg)
[Lot of 2 leaves with map of Cyprus]
Two printed text leaves relating to Cyprus with a map (10 x 15 cm). From the 1552 Latin text edition of Münster's Cosmographia, which is a short and complete summary of ...
Place & Date: Basel, 1552
Selling price: $58
Sold in 2022
![[Lot of 17 leaves with maps and views relating to India, Sri Lanka, China, Indonesia]](/uploads/cache/48280-250x250.jpg)
[Lot of 17 leaves with maps and views relating to India, Sri Lanka, China, Indonesia]
Seventeen text pages illustrated with wood block prints relating to India, Sri Lanka, China, Indonesia illustrated with animals : elephants, rhinoceros... From the 1552 L...
Place & Date: Basel, 1552
Selling price: $51
Sold in 2022
![Figura theatri Veronensis.… [Verona]](/uploads/cache/48282-250x250.jpg)
Figura theatri Veronensis.… [Verona]
A wood block printed early view of Verona Theatre. From the 1552 Latin text edition of Münster's Cosmographia, which is a short and complete summary of Renaissance knowl...
Place & Date: Basel, 1552
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2022
![[Lot of 10 leaves] Catalogus doctorum…in Cosmographia Sebastiani…/ Index Cosmographicus.](/uploads/cache/48294-250x250.jpg)
[Lot of 10 leaves] Catalogus doctorum…in Cosmographia Sebastiani…/ Index Cosmographicus.
Ten leaves with several wood blocks with index taken from the "Cosmographia". From the 1552 Latin text edition of Münster's Cosmographia, which is a short and ...
Place & Date: Basel, 1552
Selling price: $3
Sold in 2022
![[Lot of 45 leaves of Italy]](/uploads/cache/48295-250x250.jpg)
[Lot of 45 leaves of Italy]
Forty-five leaves illustrated with wood block prints relating to Italy. From the 1552 Latin text edition of Münster's Cosmographia, which is a short and complete summary...
Place & Date: Basel, 1552
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2022
![[Lot of 10 leaves of Bohemia, Moravia]](/uploads/cache/48296-250x250.jpg)
[Lot of 10 leaves of Bohemia, Moravia]
Ten text leaves illustrated with wood block prints relating to Bohemia and Moravia. From the 1552 Latin text edition of Münster's Cosmographia, which is a short and com...
Place & Date: Basel, 1552
Selling price: $26
Sold in 2022
![[Lot of 7 leaves of Prussia, Gdansk and Riga]](/uploads/cache/48297-250x250.jpg)
[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
![[Lot of 19 leaves of Scandinavia, Greenland, Island]](/uploads/cache/48298-250x250.jpg)
[Lot of 19 leaves of Scandinavia, Greenland, Island]
Nineteen text leaves illustrated with wood block prints and maps relating to Scandinavia, Greenland and Island. From the 1552 Latin text edition of Münster's Cosmographi...
Place & Date: Basel, 1552
Selling price: $155
Sold in 2022
![[Lot of 7 leaves of American interest]](/uploads/cache/48299-250x250.jpg)
[Lot of 7 leaves of American interest]
Seven text leaves illustrated with wood block prints relating to America and explorers. From the 1552 Latin text edition of Münster's Cosmographia, which is a short and ...
Place & Date: Basel, 1552
Selling price: $51
Sold in 2022
![[Lot of 10 leaves of Spain, Balearic Islands]](/uploads/cache/48266-250x250.jpg)
[Lot of 10 leaves of Spain, Balearic Islands]
Ten text leaves with wood block illustrations relating to Spain and the Balearic Islands. From the 1552 Latin text edition of Münster's Cosmographia, which is a short an...
Place & Date: Basel, 1552
Selling price: $56
Sold in 2022
Italia XIX Nova Tabula
Very rare issue and the first Münster’s map of Italy, based on Ptolemy’s writings. It shows the area from Marseille to Albania, including the Adriatic Sea, also the ...
Place & Date: Basel, 1552
Selling price: $700
Sold in 2023
Nova Graecia secundum omnes eius regiones & provincias citra ultra & Hellespontum.
Early map of Greece, Turkey and adjoining regions from the 1552 Latin text edition of Münster's Cosmographia, which is a short and complete summary of Renaissance knowl...
Place & Date: Basel, 1552
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2023
Totius Africae tabula, & descrptio…
This is the first collectible map to show the entire continent of Africa. Prior maps by Waldseemüller, Fries, and Gastaldi showed either the northern or southern portio...
Place & Date: Basle, ca 1552
Selling price: $1050
Sold in 2023
Venetiarum amplissima & maritima urbs cum multis circumiacentibus insulis.
Early bird's-eye view of Venice from the 1552 Latin text edition of Münster's Cosmographia, which is a short and complete summary of Renaissance knowledge.Sebastian Mü...
Place & Date: Basel, 1552
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2023
Tabula novarum insularum, quas diversis respectibus Occidentales & Indianas vocant.
The earliest separate map of the western hemisphere. State 5 of the Latin text edition incorporating the words 'Die Nüw Welt' in South America. It was first published in...
Place & Date: Basel, 1552
Selling price: $4000
Sold in 2023
DE la duché de Brabant, & des principales villes d'icelle.
A woodcut map and one of the oldest maps of Brabant, covering the area from Antwerp in the west to Muenster in the east, from Utrecht in the north to Namur in the south.T...
Place & Date: Basle 1552
Selling price: $110
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La table et description universelle de toute l'Afrique..
This is the first collectible map to show the entire continent of Africa. Prior maps by Waldseemüller, Fries, and Gastaldi showed either the northern or southern portion...
Place & Date: Basel 1552
Selling price: $460
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HOLLAND.
One of the oldest (woodcut)maps of the county of Holland, also partly covering areas of Zeeland,Frisia, Gelre and Brabant. North orientated to the top. It shows the main ...
Place & Date: Basle 1552
Selling price: $180
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Biblische Figuren.
Titlepage of a so-called "Printbible". Woodcut renaissance borders. Text in German.Initial V and S in bottom border
Place & Date: Nurnberg 1552
Selling price: $14
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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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Helvetia Prima Rheni et VIII, 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, 1542-1552
Selling price: $400
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Germania VI 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, 1540-1552
Selling price: $360
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Description nouvelle d'Europe.
Sebastian Münster's (1488–1552) modern map of Europe from a French text edition.Sebastian Münster (Ingelheim, c.1489-1552, Basel), originally a Franciscan friar, beca...
Place & Date: Basle, 1552
Selling price: $1550
Sold in 2010
Nouvelle description de Poloigne & Hongrie.
Munster's map of Poland, Lithuania, the Ukraine, Muscovy and the Balkans, extending from Prussia, Vilna and Smolensk in the north to Bosnia, Bulgaria, Constantinople and ...
Place & Date: Basle, 1552
Selling price: $700
Sold in 2010
Novae Insulae XXVI Nova Tabula.
The earliest separate map of the western hemisphere, first published in the 1540 edition of Münster's "Geographia" and reprinted for subsequent editions of the...
Place & Date: Basel, 1552
Selling price: $4200
Sold in 2011
![Tabula Asiae I [Asia Minor]](/uploads/cache/35960-250x250.jpg)
Tabula Asiae I [Asia Minor]
An attractive woodcut map of Asia Minor by the famous cartographer Sebastien Münster, published in his Ptolemy edition of Basle in 1552. Map has a lot of interesting and...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1552
Selling price: $75
Sold in 2017
Tabula Asiae XI.
Attractive early woodblock map of the Indian Ocean.
Place & Date: Basle, c. 1552
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2016
LA SECONDE TABLE GENERALE SELON PTOL.
A beautiful, full color example of Sebastian Münster's first map of the ancient World, based on Ptolemy's work. Showing 12 wind-heads and other classic pre-Columbian bel...
Place & Date: Basel, ca 1552
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2020
Seb. Munst. Ayant 60. Ans.
This is a portrait of Sebastian Munster at age 60. On a full sheet of French text.Sebastian Münster (1489 - 1552) was one of the three most renowned cartographers of the...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1552
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2019
Description Nouvelle d'Europe.
The first map of the continent of Europe! The map is oriented with south at the top and includes a large sailing ship off the coast of Spain and France. Latin text on ver...
Place & Date: Basle, 1552
Selling price: $950
Sold in 2017
La table des Isles neufves, lequelles on appelle isles d'occident & d'Indie pour divers regardz
The rare 1552 edition of Münster's map showing all of North and South America. Münster's map is the earliest map to show all of the continent of America and the first t...
Place & Date: Basel, 1552
Selling price: $2800
Sold in 2018
Die Stat Landaw.
Attractive bird's-eye view of the city Landau in Germany. Latin text on the verso.
Place & Date: Basel, ca. 1554
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2023
Descriptio Graeciae.
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, 1554
Selling price: $100
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De terris Asiae minoris.
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, 1554
Selling price: $135
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![[Amsterdam]](/uploads/cache/25711-250x250.jpg)
[Amsterdam]
Attractive bird's-eye view of the city Amsterdam. One of the oldest plans of the town. From a French text edition of Münster's Cosmographia, with text and portrait of Er...
Place & Date: Basel, ca. 1554
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2009
Il Cuscho citta principale della provincia del Peru.
A very desirable item of this decorative and early bid's-eye view of the Inca city of Cuzco, based on Antoine du Pinet's depiction of the city. Several figures shown insi...
Place & Date: Basle 1555
Selling price: $130
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Missal.
After the invention of bookprinting, the art of illuminating books with painted miniatures, as was done in luxurious manuscripts in the middle ages, was continued for a l...
Place & Date: Germany 1555
Selling price: $125
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Missal.
After the invention of bookprinting, the art of illuminating books with painted miniatures, as was done in luxurious manuscripts in the middle ages, was continued for a l...
Place & Date: Germany, 1555
Selling price: $110
Sold in 2011
Il Cuscho citta principale della provincia del Peru.
A very desirable item of this decorative and early bid's-eye view of the Inca city of Cuzco, based on Braun & Hogenberg's depiction of the city. Several figures shown...
Place & Date: Basle, 1555
Selling price: $160
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Tabula nova Graeciae, Sclavoniae, & Bulgariae
Woodcut map of the Greek mainland and islands, including Crete. Also shown are parts of Italy, Croatia, Albania, Serbia, Northern Macedonia, Bulgaria and Turkey. After Pr...
Place & Date: Basel, ca. 1555
Selling price: $240
Sold in 2023
MISSAL
Large leaf from a German missal. Printed on vellum. After the invention of bookprinting, the art of illuminating books with painted miniatures, as was done in luxurious ...
Place & Date: Germany, 1555
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2012
(MONTREAL). La Terra de Hochelaga nella Nova Francia.
The first printed plan of Montreal, from Delle navigationi et viaggi, and prepared Jacques Cartier, the great French explorer. visited the village of Hochelaga on the isl...
Place & Date: Venice, 1556
Selling price: $2250
Sold in 2014
![[West Africa]](/uploads/cache/34461-250x250.jpg)
[West Africa]
Rare first edition. West Africa, from the Tropic of Cancer south to St Thomas. The interior is filled with lions, elephants, monkeys and camels, with a fenced native vill...
Place & Date: Venice, 1556
Selling price: $472
Sold in 2014
La ville de Berne L'an 1549.
Attractive hand colored woodcut by Sebastian Münster. Fine bird's-eye view of Berne, Switzerland on the river Aare. The engraving shows city walls, churches, castles and...
Place & Date: Paris, 1556
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2016
Sumatra.
A superb example of "the first separate map of any Southeast Asian island to be based on actual observation" (Suarez). It is moreover highly unusual for a map t...
Place & Date: Venice, 1556
Selling price: $900
Sold in 2018
Afrika
A woodcut map of the African continent from an early German edition of Cosmographia by Sebastian Münster. The map shows most of Africa including the supposed source of t...
Place & Date: Basle 1556
Selling price: $385
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Brasil.
A fantastic pictorial map of Brazil, shown north to the right. This graphic woodblock map, prepared by the great Venetian cartographer Giacomo Gastaldi and is filled with...
Place & Date: Venice about 1556
Selling price: $650
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Delle navigationi et viaggi.
Wood block map by the Arabic geographer Leo Africanus, from his work Description de l'Afrique published in Lyons in 1556.It is strongly reminiscent of the map appearing i...
Place & Date: Lyons 1556
Selling price: $2025
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Nova Francia.
RARE FIRST STATE of the woodcut map of the Atlantic coastline from New York to Labrador. Manhattan as the peninsula "Angouleme", named after King Francis I, Duk...
Place & Date: Venice 1556
Selling price: $5100
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Brasil.
A fantastic pictorial map of Brazil, shown north to the right. This graphic woodblock map, prepared by the great Venetian cartographer Giacomo Gastaldi and is filled with...
Place & Date: Venice ca. 1556
Selling price: $1000
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Niche in the form of a cartouche.
A lavishly decorated etching by the famous brother's Joannes and Lucas van Doetecum, after Cornelis II de Vriendt or better known as Cornelis FLORIS (1514 - 1572 or 1575)...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1556
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2022
MOSCOVIA, QUATENUS MOENIBUS INCLUDITUR ARX VOCATUR EXTRA MOENIA INGENS LIGNEA-rum aedium numerus, civitas dicitur
One of the earliest obtainable town-plans of Moscow from the first authentic account of Russia written by a western traveler: "Rerum Moscoviticarum commentarii Sigis...
Place & Date: Basel, 1556
Selling price: $1250
Sold in 2010
MOSCOVIA, QUATENUS MOENIBUS INCLUDITUR ARX VOCATUR EXTRA MOENIA INGENS
One of the earliest obtainable town-plans of Moscow from the first authentic account of Russia written by a western traveler: "Rerum Moscoviticarum commentarii Sigi...
Place & Date: Basel, 1556
Selling price: $1050
Sold in 2011
Mosqua so vil mit der Maur eingefangen / Ist das Schlos genent / Ausserhalb ist die Stat gross und weit mit Hulzen heusern.
One of the earliest obtainable town-plan of the Kremlin fortress and Moscow from the German edition of the first authentic account of Russia written by a western traveler...
Place & Date: Vienna, 1557
Selling price: $1150
Sold in 2009
Patientia (Patience)
Engraving after a design by Pieter Bruegel the Elder and engraved by Pieter van der Heyden. From the series "The Seven Virtues".Published in Antwerp by Hieronym...
Place & Date: Antwerp, Hieronymus Cock, 1557
Selling price: $30250
Sold in 2021
Aedificat Templum Sapientia per Solomonis.
Solomon directing the building of the temple. Rare print by Philips Galle, after Frans Floris and published by Hieronymus Cock, 1558.Solomon sits at right and converses w...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1558
Selling price: $475
Sold in 2020
De Africae Regionibus.
A very early Münster wood cut view of Algiers, showing its attempted storming during the Algiers Expedition.Sebastian Münster (1488-1552), was a famous German cartograp...
Place & Date: Basel, 1558
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2018
![[Central Africa]](/uploads/cache/46530-250x250.jpg)
[Central Africa]
Wood block map of Central Africa. Extending south to the Tropic of Capricorn and Madagascar. South to the top and centered on the course of the Nile, which has its primar...
Place & Date: Venice, 1559
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2020