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Die eigentliche warhafftige der Erden und des Meers. - Cosmographia Universalis. . .
Map of the old world showing a landmass remarkably like the west coast of Australia and roughly where Australia should be.Lower left an early representation of America, t...
Place & Date: Magdeburg, ca. 1581
Selling price: $1200
Sold in 2019
Die gantze Welt in ein Kleberblatt. . .
This extraordinary curiosity is referred to as the Clover-leaf, for obvious reasons. Heinrich Bünting's design was inspired by the trefoil form of the arms of Hanover, h...
Place & Date: Magdeburg, 1581
Selling price: $3100
Sold in 2019
Orbis terrarum hunc typum secundum Pomponii Melae traditionem ? Ab.Ortelius 1582.
From Pomponii Melae De Situ Orbis, miniature world map by Ortelius not showing the Americas and with a decorative border.Ortelius has included the whole of Africa with a ...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1582
Selling price: $400
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Typus Universalis Terrae, Iuxta Modernorum Distinctionem Et Extensionem Per Regna Et Provincias.
Rare world map from Gregor Reisch's Magarita Philisophica published in Basle in 1583.In 1544, Peter Apian incorporated a world map into his Cosmographia, based upon Gemma...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1583
Selling price: $2400
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Benedict Arias Montanus Sacrae Geographiae Tabulam Ex.
World map prepared for the famous "Polyglot" Bible, printed by the famous Plantin firm and prepared under the direction of Philip II of Spain. The world map is ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1583
Selling price: $3600
Sold in 2016
Typus Orbis Terrarum.
This important map of the world, first plate, appeared in the “Theatrum Orbis Terrarum” of Abraham Ortelius, the first regularly produced world atlas. Ortelius consul...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1584
Selling price: $5700
Sold in 2018
Descrittione del Mappa Mondo.
This miniature world map is a finely-executed reduction of Carmocio's large Gastaldi's prototype of 1546. However here in the rare 1586 edition of the L'Isole by Pietr' A...
Place & Date: Venice, 1586
Selling price: $750
Sold in 2014
Orbis Terrae Compendiosa Descriptio.
Separately issued. Gerard Mercator's great world map of 1569 was condensed into double hemispherical form by his son Rumold. It first appeared in 1587 and was incorporate...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1587
Selling price: $5500
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Typus Orbis Terrarum.
An state two (without date) of the second plate of this influential, and famous World map, issued in the first regularly produced world atlas. The map is a careful reduct...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1587
Selling price: $6100
Sold in 2009
Orbis Terrae Compendiosa Descriptio.
Gerard Mercator's great world map of 1569 was condensed into double hemispherical form by his son Rumold. It first appeared in 1587 and was incorporated into his long-liv...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1587
Selling price: $5100
Sold in 2019
Orbis Terrae Compendiosa Descriptio.
Full title on a bar above the map in two lines: 'Orbis Terrae Compendiosa Descriptio Quam ex Magna Universali Gerardi Mercatoris. Domino Richardo Gartho, Geographic ac ce...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1587
Selling price: $3000
Sold in 2020
Orbis Terrae Compendiosa Descriptio
Extremely decorative, double-hemisphere world map colored by a contemporary hand. It shows elaborate strapwork borders, an armillary sphere, a compass rose, a galleon and...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, after 1587
Selling price: $3200
Sold in 2023
World map: Die erste General Tafel.
The title is in gothic German and the corners are decorated by a florid vineleaf pattern. Modern world map after Ortelius.
Place & Date: Basle 1588
Selling price: $825
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[World map] General Taffel der gantzen Welt.
The title is in gothic German and the corners are decorated by a florid vine leaf pattern. Modern world map after Ortelius.
Place & Date: Basle 1588
Selling price: $1500
Sold in 2008
Typus Orbis Terrarum.
A state two (without date) of the second plate of this influential, and famous World map, issued in the first regularly produced world atlas. The map is a careful reducti...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1588
Selling price: $9100
Sold in 2010
Typus Orbis Terrarum.
An state two (without date) of the second plate of this influential, and famous World map, issued in the first regularly produced world atlas. The map is a careful reduct...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1588
Selling price: $6500
Sold in 2010
Die erst General Tafel, die Beschreibung und den Circkel des gantzen Erdreichs und meers innhaltende. . .
Lovely full color example Sebastian Münster's oval map of the World, first published in 1588. It is filled with small monsters, sailing ships and fishing boats in the se...
Place & Date: Basle, 1588
Selling price: $1150
Sold in 2014
Ptolemeisch General Tafel, die halbe Kugel der Welt begreissende. . .
Lovely full color example Sebastian Münster's Ptolemaic world map, a redrawn map published in 1588. Relief is shown pictorially. The woodcut technique with its insertio...
Place & Date: Basle, 1588
Selling price: $850
Sold in 2014
Die erste General Tafel.
The title is in gothic German and the corners are decorated by a florid vineleaf pattern. Modern world map after Ortelius.
Place & Date: Basle, 1588
Selling price: $800
Sold in 2014
Ptolemeisch General Tafel/die halbe Kugel der Welt begreissende.
A Ptolemaic world map by the German cartographer Sebastian Münster. Ptolemy wrote two major works in the 2nd century, one being the Geographia, the first world atlas. Re...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1588
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2019
Typus Orbis Terrarum.
Fine example of the extremely rare second state world map, issued in the first regularly produced world atlas. The map is a careful reduction of Mercator's landmark wall-...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1589
Selling price: $7000
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Universalis Orbis Descriptio.
Very scarce woodcut map of the world on an oval projection, published in Opusculum Geographicum Rarum. Myritius reverts to a style of map more reminiscent of the 1550s an...
Place & Date: Ingolstadt, 1590
Selling price: $1500
Sold in 2019
Printed leaf with woodcut globe.
Decorative page from a Dutch edition of Cosmographie, oft Beschrijuinge der geheelder Werelt. The author's first major work and one of the most popular texts of the 16th ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1592
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2011
Typus Orbis Terrarum
Ortelius' third world map, here an early latin edition from 1592 (1592L1 (525 copies printed) 3rd textline from the top ends: Africam; last line, in two columns: ANTONIVS...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1592
Selling price: $3500
Sold in 2015
Set of world & four continents.
An attractive set of these decorative and important maps published at Antwerp in Ortelius' Theatrum. The Theatrum was the first large modern atlas and was extremely influ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1592
Selling price: $11500
Sold in 2016
Figure delle Due Specie de Mappi Generali.
On the left hand map, an attractive world view from north pole: the right hand map shows the ancient world including Europe, Africa and Asia: the southern part is mention...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1593
Selling price: $360
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Indiarum Orientalum Occidentaliumoue Descriptio.
World map, with large unexplored ‘Terra Australis’ and westward bulge to South America. Stippled sea with ships and sea monsters. The engraver has copied Ortelius 157...
Place & Date: Cologne, Brickmann, 1593
Selling price: $2150
Sold in 2017
Orbis Terrae Compendiosa Descriptio.
The rare early edition with text underneath the map. Gerard Mercator's great world map of 1569 was condensed into double hemispherical form by his son Rumold. It first ap...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1595
Selling price: $3800
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Set of world & four continents in stunning original colors.
An attractive set of these decorative and important maps published at Antwerp in Ortelius' Theatrum. The Theatrum was the first large modern atlas and was extremely influ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1595
Selling price: $10250
Sold in 2023
Universi Orbis Descriptio ad usum navigantium.
Magini's mariner's map follows Gerard Mercator's large world map of 1569 on a much reduced scale and with the fanciful addition of chains of mountains across the southern...
Place & Date: Venise, 1596
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2008
Universi Orbis Descriptio.
Modern world map from Magini's atlas following the oval projection popularized by Ortelius. Porro has astutely reduced Ortelius' much larger map to octavo page size with ...
Place & Date: Venise 1596
Selling price: $400
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Universi Orbis Descriptio ad usum navigantium.
Magini's mariner's map follows Gerard Mercator's large world map of 1569 on a much reduced scale and with the fanciful addition of chains of mountains across the southern...
Place & Date: Venise 1596
Selling price: $700
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Orbis terrae compendiosa descriptio..
Very rare large double hemisphere world map, with the address of Joan Baptistum Vrients. A close copy of Plancius' 1594 world map. The map is engraved by Arnoldus and Hen...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1596
Selling price: $25000
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Orbis terrae compendiosa descriptio. . .
Very rare large double hemisphere world map, with the address of Joan Baptistum Vrients, made for the first edition of Linschoten's "Itinerario" (1596) publishe...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1596
Selling price: $27500
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Discorso intorno alla carta da navigare.
An early edition of Porcacchi's mariner's map follows Gerard Mercator's large world map of 1569 on a much reduced scale. From "L'Isole piu Famose del Mondo" (Th...
Place & Date: Venise, 1596
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2016
Dese Caerte van de beschrijvinghe der Wereldt.
Extremely rare world map by H. Bünting. Shows part of America and Australia. Printed by Reynder Wylicks in Utrecht. From the first Dutch edition of Henricus Bünting`s &...
Place & Date: Utrecht, 1596
Selling price: $1750
Sold in 2014
Ptolemaei Typus.
A very attractive Ptolemaic world map, following the standard classical format. Printed by Petrus Keschedt.
Place & Date: Cologne 1597
Selling price: $215
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Universi Orbis Descriptio.
Modern world map from Magini's atlas following the oval projection popularised by Ortelius.Porro has astutely reduced Ortelius' much larger map to octavo page size with v...
Place & Date: Cologne 1597
Selling price: $300
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Universi Orbis Descriptio Ad Usum Navigantium.
Magini's mariner's map follows Gerard Mercator's large world map of 1569 on a much reduced scale.The map comes from a scarce pirate edition published by Petrus Keschedt i...
Place & Date: Cologne 1597
Selling price: $650
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Ptolemaei Typus.
A very attractive Ptolemaic world map, following the standard classical format.On verso frontispiece from Geographiae Cl. Ptolemaei Pars secunda.. Avthore Io. Antonio Mag...
Place & Date: Cologne 1597
Selling price: $350
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Universi Orbis Descriptio.
Modern world map from Magini's atlas following the oval projection popularized by Ortelius.Porro has astutely reduced Ortelius' much larger map to octavo page size with v...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1597
Selling price: $450
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Die gantze Welt in ein Kleberblat.
The world is depicted as a trefoil cloverleaf with Jerusalem at the center. Woodcut map from Heinrich Buenting's "Itinerarium sacrae scripturae", printed by Pau...
Place & Date: Magdeburg, 1597
Selling price: $2250
Sold in 2011
Utriusque Hemispherii Delineatio
From "Descriptionis Ptolemaicae Augmentum, sive Occidentis Notitia" published in 1597. First edition, paper size 30 x 37 cm. This delicately engraved world map ...
Place & Date: 1597
Selling price: $1175
Sold in 2017
Typus Totius Orbis Terrarum, In Quo & Christiani militis certamen super terram.
The very rare so-called 'Christian Knight' world map, published by Jodocus Hondius. The first map on Mercator's projection to be produced after his death and also famous ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1597
Selling price: $93250
Sold in 2020
Orbis descriptio.
The map is elegantly designed and engraved on copper with typical Italian taste and skill. Separate double-hemispherical maps were no innovation but this is the first tim...
Place & Date: Venise 1561/1598
Selling price: $900
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Carta Marina nuova tavola.
Ruscelli's mariner's map is a slightly enlarged version of the map which appeared in Gastaldi's edition of Ptolemy thirteen years earlier. The only change seems to be the...
Place & Date: Venice, 1598
Selling price: $1300
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Typus orbis terrarum.
Very rare sixteenth century world map in Mercator projection.Published in the German edition of José de Acosta's De Natura Nova Orbis, first published in Salamanca, 1588...
Place & Date: Cologne 1598
Selling price: $850
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Typus orbis terrarum.
Very rare sixteenth century world map in Mercator projection.Published in the German edition of José de Acosta's De Natura Nova Orbis, first published in Salamanca, 1588...
Place & Date: Cologne 1598
Selling price: $1900
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Carta Marina nuova tavola.
Ruscelli's mariner's map is a slightly enlarged version of the map which appeared in Gastaldi's edition of Ptolemy thirteen years earlier. The only change seems to be the...
Place & Date: Venice, 1598
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2014
Chica sive Patagonica et Australis terra. 1598.
Two maps on a single sheet: The upper map shows the Strait of Magellan separating Patagonia from Terra Australis. Shows the ill-fated Spanish colony of Philippopolis.The ...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca 1598
Selling price: $1500
Sold in 2017
Typus Orbis Terrarum.
Ortelius' third and last world map is dated 1587 under the author's signature. The earlier border of clouds has been replaced by a more intricate and elegant lattice of s...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1598
Selling price: $6400
Sold in 2018
Ptolemaei Cognita.
Fine 1598 edition of this early world map. Girolamo Ruscelli first published the map in his "La Geographi di Claudio Tolomeo" (Venice, 1561), with the present e...
Place & Date: Venice, 1598
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2023
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[No Title] - This is the frontispiece of De Bry's work of America Parts VIII.
This is a very rare opportunity to collect a solo example of De Bry's famous master work's world map - title page of: Americae pars VIII. : Continens primo, Descriptionem...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1599
Selling price: $1150
Sold in 2020
Typus Orbis Terrarum..
Early worldmap, from: Geographisch Handtbuch. Cologne, Engraved by J. Bussemacher, reduced from Mercator's planispherical map of 1596, with the addition of the figure of ...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1600
Selling price: $1100
Sold in 2010
Discorso intorno alla carta da navigare.
An early edition of Porcacchi's mariner's map, which follows Gerard Mercator's large world map of 1569 on a much reduced scale.
Place & Date: Venise, ca 1600
Selling price: $295
Sold in 2016
Discorso intorno alla carta da navigare.
An early edition of Porcacchi's mariner's map, which follows Gerard Mercator's large world map of 1569 on a much reduced scale. From "L'Isole piu Famose del Mondo&qu...
Place & Date: Venise, ca 1600
Selling price: $275
Sold in 2020
Die gantze Welt in ein Kleberblatt. . .
This extraordinary curiosity is referred to as the Clover-leaf, for obvious reasons. Heinrich Bünting's design was inspired by the trefoil form of the arms of Hanover, h...
Place & Date: Magdeburg, 1581-1600
Selling price: $4000
Sold in 2018
Aevi Veteris, Typus geographicus.
Ancient world map depicting the area of the earth known in classic times. The map occupies the central section of a larger oval projection and extends as far east as Suma...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1601
Selling price: $500
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Typus Orbis Terrarum.
Ortelius' third and last world map is dated 1587 under the author's signature. The earlier border of clouds has been replaced by a more intricate and elegant lattice of s...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1601
Selling price: $7000
Sold in 2010
Nova Universi orbis descriptio.
Jodocus Hondius engraved this world map sometime around 1590, and it is only known via this publication by Jean le Clerc in 1602. According to Schilder : Hondius copied ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1590 / 1602
Selling price: $15500
Sold in 2010
Orbis Terrae Compendiosa Descriptio ex ... Rumoldus Mercator ... Hieron: Porro redact
Beautiful old hand colored world map based on Rumold Mercator's world map of 1587. The map shows the classical late 16th Century configuration of the world with a large &...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1604
Selling price: $3000
Sold in 2008
Discorso Intorno all Carta da Navigare.
An attractive early world map showing various navigational features of the globe. Published in Porcacchi's Isolario entiled "L'Isol Piu Famose Del Mondo'. This naut...
Place & Date: Venice, 1604
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2015
Orbis Terrarum Typus de Integro Multis in Locis Emendatus.
This attractive world map incorporates the improvements made by Ortelius with a re-shaped South America and inclusion of the Solomon Islands. Plancius introduced new info...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1604
Selling price: $2900
Sold in 2021
Typus Orbis Terrarum.
Third plate, first state. This edition has English text on verso. The English text edition of the Ortelius Atlas is very rare, and according to van den Broecke only 300 c...
Place & Date: London, John Norton and John Bill, 1606
Selling price: $6100
Sold in 2009
Typus Orbis Terrarum.
A superbly decorative miniature World map, published by Petrus Bertius, in Amsterdam at the beginning of the seventeenth century.This facinating map is littered with the ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2023
Nova totius terrarum orbis geographica ac hydrographica tabula. (Gul. Jansonius 1606)
One of the finest and most famous world maps to appear in an atlas during the Golden Age of Dutch cartography. State 1, does not include the signature "Ja. vanden En...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $10000
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UTRIUSQUE HEMISPHERII DELINEATIO.
Published in "Histoire Universelle des Indes Orientale et Occidentales". After the world map by Rumold Mercator, of 1587.A figure of Atlas supports the spheres ...
Place & Date: Douai, 1607
Selling price: $1200
Sold in 2020
Typus Orbis Terrarum.
Exquisite World map from the first French-text edition of Jodocus Hondius' Atlas Minor."It consists of twin hemispheres after Mercator with the title at the top and ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1607
Selling price: $540
Sold in 2016
Orbis Terrarum Typus de Integro Multis in Locis Emendatus Auctore Petro Kaerio Anno 1607.
A spectacular and extremely rare Petrus Kaerius double hemisphere World map. First published in 1604, this 2nd state differing from the 1st state only in the date. Engrav...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, (1604) 1607
Selling price: $23500
Sold in 2018
Typus Orbis Terrarum.
World map from the first French-text edition of Jodocus Hondius' Atlas Minor."It consists of twin hemispheres after Mercator with the title at the top and Hondius' f...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1608
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2014
Designatio Orbis Christiani.
A world map showing the different religions in the different parts of the World. Originating from pocket atlas by Mercator-Hondius "Atlas Minor" and one of the ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1608
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2011
Situs Partium Praecipuarum Totius Orbis Terrarum
World map from Augustino Torniello's ' Anales Sacri et Profani'. First state. The map, a simplified version of Ortelius' world map is on an oval projection with spandrel ...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, Jacobus Fischerus, 1609
Selling price: $2400
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Orbis Terrae Compendiosa Descriptio Quam ex Magna Vniuersali Gerardi Mercatoris ...
World map in two hemispheres from L'Atlas Ou Méditations Cosmographiques De La Fabrique Du Monde Et Figure D'Iceluy ... .Gerard Mercator's great world map of 1569 was co...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1609
Selling price: $5800
Sold in 2011
Orbis Terrae Compendiosa Descriptio.
Gerard Mercator's great world map of 1569 was condensed into double hemispherical form by his son Rumold. It first appeared in 1587 in Casaubon's edition of Strabo's Geog...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1595-1609
Tabula geograph in qua Europaeae, Africaeae, Asiae aeq et circujacentium insularum oraeae maritimaeae accurate describuntur et ad jntelligentia navigationum Indicaru accommodantur
A rare and decoratively engraved map extending from western Europe to Japan with all Africa, Arabia and southern Asia prominent. Engraved by Jodocus Hondius the Elder. Th...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1611
Selling price: $2600
Sold in 2013
Tabula Geograph.
A finely engraved map by Jodocus Hondius for Johannes Pontanus Renum et Urbis Amstelodamensium Historia... being a history of Amsterdam but also including reports of vari...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Gilles Joosten Saegman, 1611
Selling price: $2500
Sold in 2014
Orbis Terrae Compendiosa Descriptio.
Rumold Mercator's important world map with Latin text on the verso. This influential double-hemisphere world map was created by Rumold Mercator, based on the work of his ...
Place & Date: Duisberg, 1587-1611
Selling price: $3500
Sold in 2018
Geographia Sacra.
This map of Sacred Geography is based on holy writers in the Old and the New Testament, following the translation of the Septuaginta. For details, the reader is referred ...
Place & Date: Antwerp ca. 1603-1612
Selling price: $395
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Typus Orbis Terrarum.
Ortelius' third and last world map is dated 1587 under the author's signature. The earlier border of clouds has been replaced by a more intricate and elegant lattice of s...
Place & Date: Antwerp, c. 1592 -1612
Selling price: $10000
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Maris Pacifici.
This was the first printed map to be devoted solely to the Pacific, and the first to name North and South America separately. It includes most of North and South America,...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1590-1612
Selling price: $8600
Sold in 2012