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Damascus, urbs.
Early view of Damascus, a bird's eye view from the greatest publication in this genre ! The Civitates was compiled and written by George Braun, Canon of Cologne Cathedral...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1572
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2020
Malta.
Bird's-eye view of Malta "A schematic drawing shows Malta with a strongly fortified harbor. Fort St Elmo can be seen on the left, with Fort Sant'Angelo across the wa...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1572
Selling price: $111
Sold in 2021
(Cairo). Cairus Quae Olim Babilon Aegipti Maxima Urbs.
Descriptive Latin text to verso. The city of Cairo, made up of highly uniform cubic houses interspersed with minarets and gardens, is seen from the right bank of the Nile...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1572
Selling price: $260
Sold in 2023
Nurnberga Florentissimum Germaniae Emporium . . [on sheet with] Ulma Imperialis in Suevia [and] Saltzburg Urbis Salisburgensis Genvina Descriptio [and] Lindaw. . .
A fine antique 'map' with four bird's-eye views on one sheet: Nürnberg, Ulm, Salzburg and Lindau, all by Braun & Hogenberg, from the: Civitates Orbis Terrarum, ... P...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1572
Selling price: $270
Sold in 2020
Civitas Francofordiana ad Moe [FRANKFURT/MAIN].
A fine copper engraved birds-eye view of Frankfurt am Main from the first volume of Braun & Hogenberg's "Civitas Orbis Terrarum. " Latin text to verso. From...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1572
Selling price: $650
Sold in 2021
Lisbona. Olisipo ... vulgo Lisbona Florentissimum Portugalliae Emporiv. [on sheet with] Cascale Lusitaniae Opp..[LISBOA & CASCAIS].
Two copper engraved panoramic views of Lisbon and Cascais, which first appeared in Braun and Hogenburg's 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum'. Lisbon is shown as a great port city,...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1572
Selling price: $750
Sold in 2021
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: $925
Sold in 2021
Monasterium, Urbs in Media Westphalia Celeberrimi Nominis. . .Osnabrugum Elegans Saxoniae Opp. . .Wesalia Inferior.
A fine copper engraved sheet with panoramic views of Münster - Osnabrück - Wesel, by Braun and Hogenberg. From: 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum. - Urbium Praeciuarum Totius M...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1572
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2021
Treveris - Typus ac Situs antiquissimae. . .Cobolentz - Situs civitatis confluentinae, [and] Rotenburgum ad Tubarum. . .
A fine antique copper engraved sheet with three panoramic views by Braun and Hogenberg on one sheet: Trier, Koblenz and Rothenburg. From: 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum', ... ...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1572
Selling price: $240
Sold in 2021
Heidelberga - Florentissimae civitatis Heidelbergensis [on sheet with] Spira Celebris admodum Imperij & episcopalis in Germania civitas. . .Wormacia vetustissima Vangionum civitas. . .
A fine antique copper engraved sheet with three panoramic views by Braun and Hogenberg: Heidelberg, Speyer and Worms. From: 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum', Liber Primus. Köl...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1572
Selling price: $280
Sold in 2021
Monacum, nominatis sima Bavariae, Civitas [on sheet with] Ingolstadium [and] Frisingensis. . .Nordlinga. . .Ratispona. . .Straubinga. . .
A fine antique copper engraved sheet with six German/Bavarian panoramic views by Braun and Hogenberg: München, Ingolstadt, Freissing, Nördlingen, Regensburg and Straubi...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1572
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2021
Moguntia, Germaniae Metropolis . . .[on sheet with] Herbipolis, comuniter Wirtzburg . . .Sedunum, primaria & Metropolitica. . .
A fine antique sheet with three panoramic and bird's-eye views: Mainz, Würzburg and Sion/Sitten [Switzerland]. From: 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum', Liber Primus.MAINZ. TRAN...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1572
Selling price: $220
Sold in 2021
Wittenburga Saxoniae oppidum. . .[on sheet with] Civitas Francfordiensis In Marchionatu Brandeburgensi. . .Wismaria. . .Rostochium. . .
A fine antique copper engraved sheet with one map/plan and three panoramic views by Braun and Hogenberg: Wittenberg, Frankfurt an der Oder, Wismar and Rostock . From 'Civ...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1572
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2021
Decem et Tria Loca Confoederatorum Helvetiae.
A fine antique copper engraved sheet with 13 copper engraved views of the original 13 Cantons of the Swiss confederacy from the first volume of Braun & Hogenberg's &q...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1572
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2021
Weimaria [on sheet with] Iena [and] Erdfordia [and] Gotha [and] Fuldensis Civitatis.
A fine antique copper engraved sheet with five bird's-eye or panoramic views, plans on one sheet: Weimar, Jena, Erfurt, Gotha and Fulda. From 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum', ...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1572
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2021
Montpellier,Tours,Poitiers. - Monsiessulanus [on sheet with] Turo [and] Pictavis, sive Pictavia, Vernaculo Idiomate...
Fine antique copper engraved sheet with three bird's-eye views by Braun and Hogenberg: Montpellier, Tours and Poitiers from the first volume of Braun & Hogenberg's &q...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1572
Selling price: $280
Sold in 2021
Cairus, quae olim Babylon; Aegypti Maxima Urbs.
A highly attractive map by Braun and Hogenberg of the city of Cairo oriented to the South. Running down the right-hand side we see a range of mountains on which the pyram...
Place & Date: Köln, Bertram Buchholtz, 1572
Selling price: $515
Sold in 2022
Americae Sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descripto.
A finely engraved and beautiful map and one of the most recognised and influential maps of the Americas from the 16th century. This example is from an early state of the ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1573
Selling price: $1350
Sold in 2019
Basiliensis territorii descriptio nova./Circulus sue Liga. . .
Left hand map centered on Basle, east to top. With credit to Sebastian Münster in title cartouche.Right hand map with Boden See, Strasbourg and Augsburg. The map was pre...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1573
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2020
Flandria
Beautiful old colored copy of the Ortelius/Mercator map of Flanders, published in the 1573 Latin edition of ´Orbis Terrarum..´. Only 75 copies of these were printed! Ac...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1573
Selling price: $475
Sold in 2022
Scotiae Tabula.
Original old colored map of Scotland by A. Ortelius with north to the right of the plate. With one large cartouche, one sailing ship and a sea monster. From the 1573 Dutc...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1573
Selling price: $550
Sold in 2012
Tartariae sive Magni Chami Regni.
Beautiful old color example of Ortelius' map of Tartary, Japan and the West Coast of North America, from the early 1573 Latin edition Ortelius' Theatrum Orbis Terarrum, t...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1573
Selling price: $1550
Sold in 2014
Basiliensis territorii descriptio nova./Circulus sue Liga. . .
Left hand map centered on Basle, east to top. With credit to Sebastian Münster in title cartouche.Right hand map with Boden See, Strasbourg and Augsburg. The map was pre...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1573
Selling price: $122
Sold in 2014
Americae Sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio.
This is the second state of the first copperplate of Ortelius' map showing the western hemisphere, showing the prominent bulge in the South American coastline. An importa...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1573
Selling price: $3800
Sold in 2014
Africae Tabula Nova.
Very decorative first state map of Africa by Ortelius. The title is contained in an elaborated cartouche consisting of a panel flanked by caryatids and strap work. The se...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1573
Selling price: $1550
Sold in 2016
Typus Orbis Terrarum.
Striking example (first state) of this influential, and most famous World map, issued in the first regularly produced world atlas by Abraham Ortelius. The map is a carefu...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1573
Selling price: $5490
Sold in 2015
Angliae Regni flo: rentissimi nova descriptio, auctore Humfredo Lhuyd.
Stunning map of England and Wales compiled from Mercator's 1564 wall map of the British Isles and Lhuyd's manuscript map of 1568. The countryside is fully engraved with t...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1573
Selling price: $570
Sold in 2017
[Title Page] 1573 La Seconde part du Graund Abridgement Collect & escrie
Title page of second part of Robert Brooke's "La Graunde Abridgement, Collect & escrie per le Iudge tresreuerend Syr Robert Brooke, Chiualier, nadgairs chiefe Iu...
Place & Date: London, Richardi Totell, 1573
Selling price: $15
Sold in 2017
Salisburgensis Iurisdictio...
Fine Ortelius copperplate map of the Salzberg region of Austria. The cartography is based on Marcus Secznagel. This is the first of Ortelius' maps of the region surroundi...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1573
Selling price: $140
Sold in 2016
Regionis Biturigum Exactiss / Limaniae Topographia Gabriele.
Two detailed regional maps of France on one page by Ortelius; showing the regions of Berry and Limagne.The larger map covers the Loire region from Gian to Le Blang and Ar...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1573
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2018
Caletensium et Bononi Ensium Ditionis Accurata delineation / Veromandy Orum Eorum Que Confini.
Two fine Ortelius maps on one sheet. The left hand map shows the Opal Coast (Côte d'Opale) within Pas-de-Calais between Gravelines to Étaples, including Calais & Bo...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1573
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2018
Septentrionalium Regionum Descrip.
Early second state of this influential map of the Arctic, including Scandinavia, Iceland, Greenland and part of the North American continent, includes also the legendary ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1571/1573
Selling price: $1750
Sold in 2018
Cypri insulae nova descript.
A milestone in the history of cartography of Cyprus, based on a 1570 map by Giacomo Franco. The map is embellished by sailing ships and a sea monster, bearing a map of Le...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1573
Selling price: $1200
Sold in 2020
Venuxini Comitatus Nova Descr. / Gallia Narbonensis / Sabaudiae Ducat.
Interesting with three maps on one sheet. Upper left the coast of the Mediterranean Sea (with places like Narbonne, Aigues Mortes, Avignon, Arles etc. In the bottom left ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1573
Selling price: $57
Sold in 2018
Tartariae sive Magni Chami Regni typus. . .
An early edition of the famous and important map of Tartary, Japan, and the west coast of North America, from Ortelius'Theatrum Orbis Terarrum, the first modern atlas of ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, ca 1573
Selling price: $700
Sold in 2018
Presbiteri Iohannis Sive Abissinorum Imperii Descriptio.
"Despite the title this map extends far beyond Prester John's supposed kingdom. It covers Africa from the fabled ""mountains of the moon"" in the...
Place & Date: Antwerp1573
Selling price: $880
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Zelandicarvm Insularum exactissima..
One of the most attractive maps of Zeeland from the Hook of Holland to Vlissingen. The sea is dominated by numerous galleons and the impressive figure of Neptune bearing ...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1573
Selling price: $680
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Presbiteri Iohannis Sive Abissinorum Imperii Descriptio.
Despite the title this map extends far beyond Prester John's supposed kingdom. It covers Africa from the fabled mountains of the moon in the centre of the continent north...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1573
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2008
Regionis Biturigum Exactiss Descriptio per D. 10 Annem Calamaeum / Limaniae Topographia Gabriele Symeoneo Auct.
Two detailed regional maps of France by Ortelius showing the regions of Berry and Limagne. Accompanying Latin text is on verso.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1573
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2010
Basiliensis Territorii Descriptio Nova and Circulus Sveviae, Vulgo Schwafiue Ligabische Kraiss.
This page is comprised of two maps by Ortelius, with great original coloring. The left map is of the Basel, Switzerland, area, with Basel shown in the center, and is cred...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1573
Selling price: $85
Sold in 2010
Regionis Biturigum Exactiss Descriptio per D. 10 Annem Calamaeum / Limaniae Topographia Gabriele Symeoneo Auct.
Two detailed regional maps of France by Ortelius showing the regions of Berry and Limagne. Accompanying Latin text is on verso with hand-colored rubric letters. Striking,...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1573
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2010
Moraviae, qvae olim Marcomannorvm sedes, corographia,..
Early map of Slovakia prepared by Paul Fabritius in 1569. From Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. [Atlas of the Whole World] with Latin text on verso.
Place & Date: Antwerp 1574
Selling price: $82
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Austriae ducatvs chorographia, Wolfgango Lazio auctore.
Fine and early map of Austria after Wolfgang Lazius and used by A.Ortelius in his atlas Theatrum Orbis Terrarum.The Theatrum was re-issued in 42 editions with 5 supplemen...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1574
Selling price: $77
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1) Patavini Territorii .. 2) Apuliae Quae Olim Ia Pygia, ..
Two maps on one plate. From Theatrum Orbis Terrarum.
Place & Date: Antwerp 1574
Selling price: $115
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Palatinatus Bavariae descriptio.../ Wirtenbergensis Ducatus...
Two maps on one sheet. Covering the Danube and Regensburg. The map on the right hand side centered on Stuttgart.
Place & Date: Antwerp 1574
Selling price: $70
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Basiliensis territorii descriptio nova./Circulus sue Liga..
Left hand map centred on Basle, east to top. With credit to Sebastian Münster in title cartouche.Right hand map with Boden See, Strasbourg and Augsburg. The map was prep...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1574
Selling price: $50
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Thietmarsiae, Holsaticae regionis partis typus.
Fine map of Holstein.
Place & Date: Antwerp 1574
Selling price: $50
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Hungariae Descriptio ..
A very fine map of Hungary, centered on Budapest. The map was prepared by Wolfgang Lazius in 1556. Very decorative cartouche on the lower right corner.Abraham Ortelius (1...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1574
Selling price: $110
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Europae Tabula VII.
Map representing Sardinia and Sicily. Also showing Malta, southern part of Corsica, northern part of Africa and western part of Italy.From La Geografia Di Clavdio Tolomeo...
Place & Date: Venise 1574
Selling price: $130
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Cypri Insulae Nova descript. 1573.
This is a beautiful copy of a classic map of Cyprus. It is the earliest obtainable version of the best map of Cyprus made to date. Ortelius based his map upon that publis...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1574
Selling price: $2700
Sold in 2011
Oost ende West Vrieslandte beschryvinghe.
Prepared by Jacob van Deventer. A very decorative map of the Dutch provinces of Friesland, Groningen and Drente and of the German Province of Friesland. §
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1574
Selling price: $550
Sold in 2011
Title page a bible.
Printed in Frankfurt by Feuerabendt in 1574. Beautiful renaissance borders, with 5 biblical scenes, nice and clear impression
Place & Date: Frankfurt 1574
Selling price: $110
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Africae Tabula Nova.
The title is contained in a striking cartouche consisting of a panel flanked by caryatids and strap work. The sea is engraved in stipple-work, and features a sea-battle i...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1574
Selling price: $1200
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Moraviae, qvae olim Marcomannorvm sedes, corographia,..
Early map of Slovakia prepared by Paul Fabritius in 1569. From 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum [Atlas of the Whole World] with Latin text on verso.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1574
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2009
Tabula Asiae VI.
The ancient depiction of Arabia, based on Claudius Ptolemy's Geographia from the second century A.D. The region appears with many interior mountains and rivers: none of w...
Place & Date: Venice, 1561-1574
Selling price: $330
Sold in 2016
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, 1574
Selling price: $2300
Sold in 2017
Anglia et Hibernia Nova. . .
One of the earliest maps of Great Britain.Girolamo Ruscelli's edition of Ptolemy's Geographia included newly engraved copperplates by Giulio and Livio Sanuti. From the se...
Place & Date: Venice, 1574
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2009
Rochella munitissimum galliae opp :
Town-plan of La Rochelle, with a numbered key (1-16) in the upper left corner gives the locations of the important buildings and landmarks.From volume II of Braun and Hog...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca. 1574
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2011
Tabula Asiae III
The ancient depiction of the region between the Black Sea and Caspian Sea extending south to include all of Armenia Maior and part of Armenia Minoris, based on Claudius P...
Place & Date: Venice, 1561-1574
Selling price: $210
Sold in 2014
Constantinopoli.
Uncommon plan of Istanbul from Giovanni Francesco Camocio. In the lower right corner, "appresso Gioan Francesco Camocio." Oriented with north toward the upper r...
Place & Date: Venice, ca. 1574
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2010
Brabantiae Germaniae Inferioris.
Based on a map by Jacob van Deventer, by order of King Charles V. Jacob van Deventer was one of the first cartographers of the Southern Netherlands. He was famous for his...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1574
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2011
Byzantium nunc Constantinopolis.
One of the finest and most sought-after views of Istanbul. Viewed from the village of Scutari, the City is shown with all its fortifications, the original Genoese distric...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca 1574
Selling price: $1550
Sold in 2019
Palestinae sive totius terrae promissionis nova description (....)
A fine example of Ortelius' map of the Holy Land, published in his "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum", the first modern atlas. This famous map by Ortelius is based on th...
Place & Date: Antwerp, ca 1574
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2021
Weimaria [on sheet with] Iena [and] Erdfordia [and] Gotha [and] Fuldensis Civitatis. [Weimar, Jena, Erfurt, Gotha, and Fulda]
Five bird's-eye views on one sheet: Weimar, Jena, Erfurt, Gotha and Fulda. TRANSLATION OF CARTOUCHE TEXT: Weimar, a handsome town in Thuringia, the famous seat of the Duk...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1574
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2020
ISOLA CUBA NOVA.
One of the earliest separately published maps of Cuba. Also includes Jamaica and northwestern Hispaniola and the Cayman Islands. The map is elegantly designed and engrave...
Place & Date: Venice, 1574
Selling price: $1400
Sold in 2021
CARTA MARINA NUOVA TAVOLA.
One of the earliest published mariner’s world maps. The map is elegantly designed and engraved on copper with typical Italian taste and skill, with lots of rhumb lines....
Place & Date: Venice, 1574
Selling price: $875
Sold in 2020
TAVOLA PRIMA UNIVERSALE ANTICA.
A unique map compared to the other Ruscelli maps corrected by Malombra. For this particular map, Malombra returned tot he original conical projection of Ptolemy. The map ...
Place & Date: Venice, 1574
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2022
Orbis descriptio.
A separate double-hemispherical world map which was the first to appear in this format in an atlas. The map is elegantly designed and engraved on copper with typical Ital...
Place & Date: Venice, 1574
Selling price: $790
Sold in 2021
Teutschland mit seinem gantzen begriff und eingeschlossnen Landschaften
Early woodcut map from Munster's Cosmographey, one of the most influential geographical works of the 16th Century. It shows central Europe, Poland, Germany, Austria, S...
Place & Date: Basle, c1574
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2022
Amsterdam
This important early map of Amsterdam is from Braun and Hogenberg’s important work Civitates Orbis Terrarum, the first atlas of cities of the world.This particular map ...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1574
Selling price: $1200
Sold in 2023
Byzantium Nunc Constantinopolis
This marvelous engraving of Constantinople in original color is from an early edition of Braun & Hogenberg's Civitates Orbis Terrarum, the most prolific compilation o...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1574
Selling price: $1600
Sold in 2023
Regni Neapolitani verissima…
Very attractive antique Ortelius map of the Southern Italy. It shows the area with towns of Ascoli Piceno, Napels, Fogia, Bari, Catanzaro and Messina.The map comes from L...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1574
Selling price: $700
Sold in 2023
Septentrionalium Partium Nova Tabula
The map of Italy, Corsica and the Gulf of Venice.Comes from atlas “La geografia di Claudio Tolomeo Alessandrino, nuouamente tradotta di Greco in Italiano, da Girolamo R...
Place & Date: Venice, 1574
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2023
Daniae Tabula...
Striking map of Denmark, extending from the Mechlenberg, Pomerania and Prussian Coastlines to the Norwegian Coastline, and extending north to show Stockholm. from the 157...
Place & Date: Antwerp,1572/1574
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2012
Graeciae Universae Secundum Hodiernum Neoterica Descriptio.
Published in a French edition of the 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum'. Finely hand-colored in wash and outline. A fine map, showing Greece prominently with its neighbouring coun...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1572/1574
Selling price: $650
Sold in 2012
Eryn - Hiberniae, Britannicae Insulae, Nova Descriptio - Irelandt.
A beautiful map of Ireland from Ortelius' "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum." This map is significant as the first separate printed map of Ireland. It’s also one of th...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1574
Selling price: $900
Sold in 2012
Italiae Novissima Descriptio.
Original copper engraving, published 1572/74 in a French text edition of the Atlas 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum' at Christopher Platin in Antwerp. A highly decorative and ear...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1572/1574
Selling price: $950
Sold in 2012
Zarra et Contado citta principale della Dalmatia posta sul mare adriatico loco Ihr.me Sri. Venetiani al pnte molestata aa Turchi.
Uncommon map of the Dalmatian coast with the town of Zadar in Croatia, with Turkish and Venetian warships in the foreground, from Giovanni Francesco Camocio's rare "...
Place & Date: Venice, D.Bertelli, ca.1574
Selling price: $1200
Sold in 2012
[Greece]
Rare map of Greece. From Giovanni Francesco Camocio's rare " Isole Famose porti, fortezze, e terre maritime . . ." issued by Bertelli. The second state, which i...
Place & Date: Venice, D.Bertelli, ca.1574
Selling price: $900
Sold in 2019
(Greece)
Uncommon map of Greece with the western part of Turkey. From Giovanni Francesco Camocio's rare " Isole Famose porti, fortezze, e terre maritime . . ." issued by...
Place & Date: Venice, D.Bertelli, ca.1574
Selling price: $1200
Sold in 2012