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[Creta].
Woodcut Ptolemaic-style map by Sebastian Münster figuring Crete Island, published in the edition of Strabo by Henri Petri in 1571."Strabonis rerum geographicarum&qu...
Place & Date: Basle, Henri Petri, 1571
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2018
[Cephaelenia].
Woodcut Ptolemaic-style map by Sebastian Münster figuring Cephalonia or Kefalonia Island, published in the edition of Strabo by Henri Petri in 1571."Strabonis rerum...
Place & Date: Basle, Henri Petri, 1571
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2018
[Title page of Theatrum Orbis Terrarum.]
Title page of "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum" verso text EPIGRAMMA DANIELIS ROGERII ALBIMONTANI, A decorative title page from Ortelius's first atlas. Latin Edition.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1571
Selling price: $275
Sold in 2020
[Creation of earth]
RECTO: A wood block print of visualizing the creation of earth.Text page taken from Sebastian Münster's encyclopedic work, the Cosmographia Universalis. The Cosmographia...
Place & Date: Basle, 1572
Selling price: $247
Sold in 2012
Pedemontanae Vicinorumque Regionum.
Fine map including the Italian coast from Monaco through Genoa to Rapallo, the map shows the Po River. Milan in the upper right-hand corner and Turin in the center of the...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1572
Selling price: $525
Sold in 2015
Graeciae Universae Secundum Hodiernum Situm Neoterica..
Ortelius' fine map of Greece, based on Jacobo Gastaldi's map of 1560. First state with the uncorrected scale bar numeral ( . . . 80-90-10.)
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1572
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2012
Turcici Imperii Descriptio.
This is Ortelius uncommon first map of the Turkish Empire only used from 1570 until 1579. This is the best known of all the sixteenth-century maps of the Middle East, ext...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1572
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2012
Provincia Di Albania.
An uncommon map of Albania, from Giovanni Francesco Camocio's rare " Isole Famose porti, fortezze, e terre maritime . . ." This plate was made by Giovanni Franc...
Place & Date: Venice, 1572
Selling price: $1200
Sold in 2012
Lutetia vulgari Nomine Paris, Urbs Galliae Maxima ...
Based on Sebastian Munster's map of 1569, this exceptional town plan of 16th Century Paris depicts in details the city as it evolved from a small settlement on an island ...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1572
Selling price: $800
Sold in 2012
ANVERPIA
Superb bird's-eye plan of Antwerp. Highly detailed plan showing the town with buildings, streets, places, churches and squares. The river and the harbour are filled with ...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca. 1572
Selling price: $550
Sold in 2014
Lutetia vulgari Nomine Paris, Urbs Galliae Maxima, ...
Based on Sebastian Munster's map of 1569, this exceptional town plan of 16th Century Paris depicts in details the city as it evolved from a small settlement on an island ...
Place & Date: Cologne, c.1572
Selling price: $3000
Sold in 2013
Nimes and Bordeaux.
Text in top frame: "Rotomagus, vulgo Roan, Normandiae Metropolis depingebat Georgius Hoefnagle, cum privilegio."Lower Left Frame - Text: "Nemausus; Nismes ...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca. 1572
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2013
Polna vulgo Polm insign : Bohemia.
RARE only included in part VI of his town book. Bird's-eye of Polna in Bohemia by G. Hoefnagel and son, 1617. Key to six locations.Frans Hogenberg (1535 Mechelen - Colog...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca. 1572
Selling price: $800
Sold in 2020
Mexico. & Cusco regni Peru in novo orbe caput.
From part one of the "Civitates", the only view in the entire work to depict cities of the New World. Shown here are the great cities of the Aztec and Inca cult...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca. 1572
Selling price: $775
Sold in 2013
Anverpia.
Superb bird's-eye plan of Antwerp. Highly detailed plan showing the city with buildings, streets, places, churches and squares. The river and the harbour are filled with ...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca. 1572
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2013
Descrittione del l'Isola di Taprobana.
Charming map of the island of Sri Lanka (Celon). The map is oriented with north to the right. Fancy strapwork cartouche with two faces and a unique compass rose. Printed ...
Place & Date: Venice, 1572
Selling price: $99
Sold in 2013
Poloniae finitimarumque locorum descriptio. Auctore Wenceslao Godreccio Polono.
Early map of Poland, Lithuania, parts of Belarus, and the Ukraine, first issued 1570 and replaced 1595. This map has been published in the "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum&...
Place & Date: Antwerp, c1572
Selling price: $650
Sold in 2013
Lutetia, vulgari nomine Paris, urbs Gallia...
Beautiful and early town-plan of Paris with title cartouche and figures in the foreground. The Bastille is shown at the upper center of the engraving and the Notre-Dame c...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca. 1572
Selling price: $1500
Sold in 2020
Mexico regia et celebris Hispaniae Novae civitas [with] Cusco regni Peru in novo orbe caput.
From part one of the "Civitates", the only view in the entire work to depict cities of the New World. Shown here are the great cities of the Aztec and Inca cult...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1572
Selling price: $1400
Sold in 2017
Flandria
A very decorative, unusual, egg-shaped map of Flanders. This is the early state with the farmer's wife and three ships in the North Sea. Nice colors, enhanced by gold.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1572
Selling price: $360
Sold in 2018
Ptolemeisch General Tafel, die Halbe Kugel der Welt Begreiffende​.
The second ancient map of the World, based upon the writings of Ptolemy. This map by Sebastian Münster features 12 wind heads and other classic pre-Columbian beliefs abo...
Place & Date: Basle, 1572
Selling price: $1300
Sold in 2018
Wahre abcontrasehtung der Loblichen und alten Statt Solothurn / gelegen in der Eydtgnoschaffe an der Uar
A double page bird’s-eye map of Solothurn, town on the Aar River in Switzerland. Solothurn is considered by many to be the most beautiful baroque city in Switzerland. T...
Place & Date: Basel, 1572
Selling price: $36
Sold in 2016
Beaumont en Hainaut.
A bird's-eye plan of Beaumont south of Charleroi, near Walcourt, in Belgium. Walls and a moat protect the city.It provides an excellent view of the city's defences, bridg...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1572
Selling price: $11
Sold in 2018
Bruxella...
A highly detailed 16th-century plan of Brussels with numerous buildings, streets, places, churches, and squares. Further with the city walls and bridges across the river,...
Place & Date: Cologne, c1572
Selling price: $230
Sold in 2017
Hypra Flandriarum Civitas Munitissima.
A very detailed, panoramic view of Leper, from Braun & Hogenberg’s “Civitates Orbis Terrarum." This town is located in Belgium, on the border with France. Po...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1572
Selling price: $130
Sold in 2020
Bende Statt Basel mit dem Furssiessenden Rhein.
Fine double page wood block bird's-eye view of the fortified city of Basel, Switzerland. An original wood engraved map from the “COSMOGRAPHIA UNIVERSALIS” by Sebastia...
Place & Date: Basel, 1572
Selling price: $290
Sold in 2018
Lovanium Brabanticarum Urbium Caput. . .
A lovely birds-eye view of Louvain with detail even of single buildings. Translated “Louvain, capital of Brabant, unrivalled site of the muses and the most distinguishe...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1572
Selling price: $135
Sold in 2018
Lutzenburgum Ducatus Eiusdem Nominus. . .
A lovely birds-eye view of Luxemburg with detail even of single buildings. Translated “Luxembourg, old capital of the duchy of the same name, it was once noteworthy on...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1572
Selling price: $210
Sold in 2018
Atrebatum Episcopa Lis et Metropolica Artesiae Vivitas.
An early city views of Arras, in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais, North of France, from an early edition of Braun & Hogenberg's Civitates Orbis Terrarum, the most prolific com...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1572
Selling price: $55
Sold in 2018
Mexico regia et celebris Hispaniae Novae civitas.
One of the earliest prints of Mexico City and taken from part one of the "Civitates", the only view in the entire work to depict cities of the New World. The vi...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1572
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2018
Traejectum [Utrecht].
An early plan of Utrecht depicting many structures dating back to the early Middle Ages, notably the centrally-located Dom Church, then known as the Cathedral of Saint Ma...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1572
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2018
Ancona civitas. (Port of Ancona in a first edition)
Fine first issue of one of this very attractive, early view of Ancona, one of the principal Italian ports on the Adriatic sea. The city’s distinctive harbor is shown te...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1572
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2018
Colonia Agrippina.
A bird's-eye view of the city of Cologne. With a strapwork title cartouche, and many figures.From the greatest publication in this genre!. The Civitates was compiled and ...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1572
Selling price: $750
Sold in 2020
Ptolemeisch General Tafel, die Halbe Kugel der Welt Begreiffende​.
The second ancient map of the World, based upon the writings of Ptolemy. This map by Sebastian Münster features 12 wind heads and other classic pre-Columbian beliefs abo...
Place & Date: Basle, 1572
Selling price: $900
Sold in 2019
Typus Orbis Terrarum.
Ortelius' Landmark World Map - 1st state, 1st Edition. French text on verso. One of the most famous world maps ever made, "Typus Orbis Terrarum" featured in the...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1572
Selling price: $5000
Sold in 2019
Anverpia, nobile in Brahantia . . .
A Very Early Plan of Antwerp - an Excellent Example. First issue. A beautiful, well-detailed glimpse of Antwerp, portrayed prior to the Spanish Fury when it was a great c...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1572
Selling price: $325
Sold in 2019
Liege. Leodium... Civitatis Leodiensis Genuina Delineatio.
A Very Early Plan of Liege - an Excellent Example. Earliest issue of the earliest acquirable, detailed view of Liege, showing the walled city in rich detail. With 64 spec...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1572
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2019
Africae Tabula Nova.
The title is contained in a striking cartouche consisting of a panel flanked by caryatids and strapwork. The sea is engraved in stipple-work, and features a sea-battle in...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1572
Selling price: $2025
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Asiae nova descriptio.
Ortelius' fine map of Asia well represents the continent at a time when Europeans were expanding their power in the far east. The Indian subcontinent and Malaysian penins...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1572
Selling price: $1500
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Palestinae sive totius terrae promissionis nova..
A new description of Palestine or the whole Promised Land. The shoreline runs from Berytus (Beirut) to the Nile Delta, reaching inland east of the Jordan and in the south...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1572
Selling price: $480
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Africae Tabula Nova.
The title is contained in a striking cartouche consisting of a panel flanked by caryatids and strapwork. The sea is engraved in stipple-work, and features a sea-battle in...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1572
Selling price: $1850
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Barbariae et Biledulgerid, nova descriptio.
North-West Africa. Koeman speculated: ''In view of the important trading relationship between Antwerp and Africa, it is not impossible that the original was a manuscript ...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1572
Selling price: $300
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Das hehlig Judisch land mit. . .
This is Sebastian Munster's interesting and detailed double-page map of the Holy Lands from his Cosmographia. The map shows from Sidon and the land of the Phoenicians in...
Place & Date: Basel, (1540) 1572
Selling price: $275
Sold in 2012
Mexico. & Cusco regni Peru in novo orbe caput.
From part one of the "Civitates", the only view in the entire work to depict cities of the New World. Shown here are the great cities of the Aztec and Inca cult...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1572
Selling price: $1800
Sold
[Descrittione del Mappamondo]
From : "L'Isole piu Famose Del Mondo...",Large landmass above the north of the American continent called Grvtlandia.
Place & Date: Venise, later than 1572
Selling price: $300
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Africae Descriptio...
Munster's smaller woodcut map of Africa, printed area 130 x 160mm, set in a large page of text. From an Italian edition of the Cosmography. One of the earliest obtainable...
Place & Date: Basle, 1572
Selling price: $200
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De Africae Regionibus
Munster's uncommon woodcut map of Southern Africa. Although numerous editions of the Cosmography were printed over the span of 50 years, this map appeared in only one edi...
Place & Date: Basle, 1572
Selling price: $400
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Tabula Terrae Canaan Abrahae tempore et ante adventum?
Map of Canaan at the times of Abraham and before the conquest by the Children of Israel, with the neighboring regions. Oriented to the east. The shore line runs from Turk...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1572
Selling price: $1050
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Dantzigt.
Copper engraving illustrating a general view of Gdansk (Danzig), from Civitates Orbis Terrarum.
Place & Date: Cologne 1572
Selling price: $690
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Alexandria vetustissimum AEgypti emporium
A superb image of Alexandria, the famous Egyptian center of learning. From Braun and Hogenberg's "Civitates Orbis Terrarum". An excellent example in fine period...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1572
Selling price: $750
Sold in 2008
MAIORCA.
One of the earliest separate maps of Majorca (Mallorca)! First issue from 1572. The map shows major cities and several sea monsters. A compass rose orients the map with s...
Place & Date: Venice, c1572
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2013
Anverpia, nobile in Barbantia oppidum, parrim maritimum...
This work is the smaller version of the two plans of Antwerp that were included in Braun & Hogenberg's great city atlas. The bird's-eye plan provides an excellent vie...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca. 1572
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2008
Augusta iuxta figuram quam his ce temporibus habet delineata
Attractive cityview of Augsburg. Beautiful colored. Latin text on verso.
Place & Date: Cologne, 1572
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2008
Damascus, urbs.
Early view of Damascus, a town-plan from the greatest publication in this genre !. The ,Civitates, was compiled and written by George Braun, Canon of Cologne Cathedral. B...
Place & Date: Cologne 1572
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2011
Aden, .../ Mambaza / Quilao / Cefala.
Four town-views of Middle Eastern and East African/Indian Ocean port cities once maintained by the Portuguese in the 16th century as strategic parts of the Lusitanian cro...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1572
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2011
Brilium, Hollandiae opp. [Briel]
One of the earliest bird's-eye views of Den Briel from the greatest publication in this genre !. The ,Civitates, was compiled and written by George Braun, Canon of Cologn...
Place & Date: Cologne 1572
Selling price: $275
Sold in 2009
Olissippo quae numc Lisboa...
A beautiful bird's-eye town-view of Lisbon as seen in the 16th century. From the famous CIVITATES ORBIS TERRARUM, the first atlas dedicated to town plans on a global scal...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca. 1572
Selling price: $1100
Sold in 2009
Lutetia, Vulgari Nomine Paris, Urbs Gallia Maxima, sequana navigabili flumine irrigatur. . . frequeta universitate excelenti, stupendi opera Tempso B. Maria..
Beautiful and early town-plan of Paris with title cartouche and figures in the foreground. The Bastille is shown at the upper center of the engraving and the Notre-Dame c...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca. 1572
Selling price: $2400
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Illyricum.
Finely colored map of of Istria, Slovenia and Croatia by Abraham Ortelius. As noted in the lower right cartouche, this map was by Johann Sambucus in1572. Accompanying La...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1572
Selling price: $405
Sold in 2010
Cusco, Regni Peru in Novo Orbe Caput.
According to George Braun : "The capital of Peru in the south of the New world is Cusco, a city so large, powerful and beautiful that it can easily rank alongside th...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1572
Selling price: $425
Sold in 2014
[ 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
Hierosolyma, Clarrisima Totius Orientis Civitas ludaee Metropolis... (Jerusalem)
A very fine, decorative map with a double-view of Jerusalem depicts Biblical Jerusalem and the modern city during the 16th century. Biblical Jerusalem appears on the left...
Place & Date: 1572
Selling price: $310
Sold in 2019
Olissippo quae numc Lisboa. . .
A beautiful bird's-eye town-view of Lisbon as seen in the 16th century. From the famous CIVITATES ORBIS TERRARUM, the first atlas dedicated to town plans on a global scal...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca 1572
Selling price: $700
Sold in 2020
CAIRUS QUAE OLIM BABYLON AEGYPTI MAXIMA URBS.
A striking, old colored view of Cairo from a hillside opposite the Nile, from Braun & Hogenberg's groundbreaking Civitatus Orbis Terrarum, the most important town boo...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1572
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2019
LEBRIJXA, SETTENIL (Lebrija, Setenil de las Bodegas).
An antique map with two views of the cities of Lebrija & Settenil de las Bodegas, engraved after Georg Hoefnagel who made the drawings in 1564. More about Braun and H...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1572
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2020
Hypra Flandriarum Civitas Munitissima.
A very detailed, panoramic view of Leper (Ypres), from Braun & Hogenberg’s “Civitates Orbis Terrarum." This town is located in Belgium, on the border with Fr...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1572
Selling price: $55
Sold in 2020
Roterodanum Hollandiae Opp. / Goude.
A bird's-eye view on the city of Rotterdam and a frontal view on the city of Gouda, in the Netherlands. Two early cityviews on one double page from Braun&Hogenberg &q...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1572
Selling price: $215
Sold in 2022
Augusta Iuxta Figuram. . .[Augsburg]
A bird's-eye view plan of Augsburg by Braun & Hogenberg, with a key to locations. TRANSLATION OF CARTOUCHE TEXT: Following the catastrophic defeat of Varus and the su...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1572
Selling price: $180
Sold in 2020
[Title Page] De Praecipuis, Totius Universi Urbibus.. Liber Secundus.
A highly decorative and attractive allegorical title page from volume two of the famous town book of Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg, the 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum', seco...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca. 1572
Selling price: $210
Sold in 2020
TREVERIS[TRIER] - Typus ac Situs antiquissimae. . . [on sheet with] COBOLENTZ - Situs civitatis confluentinae. . . [and] ROTENBURG Tubarum. . .
Trier A nice old decorative view that looks down upon the city from the left bank of the Moselle. Founded as Augusta Treverorum by Augustus in 16 BC. Trier is Germany's o...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1572
Selling price: $330
Sold in 2020
COLONIA AGRIPPINA.[COLOGNE/KOELLN]
A nice old color example of Braun & Hogenberg's view of Koln (Cologne). TRANSLATION OF CARTOUCHE TOP: Divitense Munimentum is today known in the corrupted form of Tui...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1572
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2020
MARPURG [on sheet with] CASSEL.
A decorative map showing the views of Marburg and Kassel in Germany. From Braun & Hogenberg's famous 'Civitatus Orbis Terrarum', the most important book of town plans...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1572
Selling price: $180
Sold in 2020
[KALKAR] Calcaria Ducatus Clivensis, Multis Dotibus, Nobile Opp:
A decorative bird's-eye view plan of Kalkar by Braun and Hogenberg. TRANSLATION OF CARTOUCHE TEXT: Kalkar, a town in the Duchy of Cleves, well known for its many excellen...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1572
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2020
DECEM ET TRIA LOCA CONFOEDERATORUM HELVETIAE. (13 views of Swiss cities)
A decorative, striking map with 13 bird's-eye views of Swiss cities by Georg Braun and Frans Hogenberg: Schwyz, Unterwalden, Zug, Glarus, Basel, Zurich, Bern, Lucerne, Ur...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1572
Selling price: $750
Sold in 2020
Gandavum, Amplissima Flandriae urbs. . . [Ghent (Gent)]
A bird's-eye view plan of Ghent, by Georg Braun and Frans Hogenberg. TRANSLATION OF CARTOUCHE TEXT: Ghent, the most splendid city in Flanders, was founded by Julius Caesa...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1572
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2020
Wittenburga Saxoniae oppidum, ... [on sheet with] Civitas Francfordiensis In Marchionatu Brandeburgensi, ... [and] Wismaria, ... [and] Rostochium, ...[LUTHERSTADT WITTENBERG, ROSTOCK,WISMAR,FRANKFURT/ODER]
Four bird's-eye views on one sheet:: Wittenberg, Frankfurt an der Oder, Wismar and **Rostock. CARTOUCHE: Wittenberg, the Saxon town, universally famous for its cultivatio...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1572
Selling price: $275
Sold in 2020
Monacum, nominatis sima Bavariae, Civitas [on sheet with] Ingolstadium [and] Frisingensis ... [and] Nordlinga ... [and] Ratispona ... [and] Straubinga .. [München, Ingolstadt, Freissing, Nördlingen, Regensburg and Straubing]
An old map with six German bird's-eye views by Braun and Hogenberg: München, Ingolstadt, Freissing, Nördlingen, Regensburg and Straubing. TRANSLATION OF CARTOUCHE TEXT:...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1572
Selling price: $435
Sold in 2020
Magdeburgum ... Metropolitica Saxoniae Urbs.[MAGDEBURG]
An old map - bird's-eye view plan of Magdeburg by Braun and Hogenberg. TRANSLATION OF CARTOUCHE TEXT: Magdeburg was called Parthenopolis (virgin city) after Venus, who wa...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1572
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2020
Dresden - Dresa Florentissimum Misniae Opp. Illust: Saxoniae Ducum Sedes [on sheet with] Leibzigk - Lipsia Litterarum Studiis et Mercatura Celebre Misniae Oppidum. [Dresden & Leipzig]
An antique map with two bird's-eye views by Braun and Hogenberg: Dresden and Leipzig. Zwei alte Gesamtansichten von Braun und Hogenberg: Dresden und Leipzig. TRANSLATION ...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1572
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2020
Moderna Europae Descriptio / Totius Africae tabula, & descriptio universalis ... /Tabula orientalis regionis, Asiae scilicet extremas ... / Novae Insulae (America) [4 sheets]
MODERNA EUROPAE Descriptio (First Map of the Continent of Europe!) Dimensions: 25,2 x 34 cm.Fine full color examples of the first printed map of the continent of Europe, ...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550 ca. - 1572
Selling price: $6200
Sold in 2020