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| ORTELIUS, A. - Hollandiae Antiquorum. Antwerp, 1570, Coloured.. 354x482mm. Some very light paper thinness in center fold. Paper has been slightly washed and centerfold has been flattened. Some very minor paper reinforcements in lower margin. Generally in good condition. A first state of this mile stone map published by Ortelius on the basis of the map drawn by Jacob van Deventer in abt. 1550. Here from the very first 1570 edition of the atlas, with the North Sea filled with decorative waves, in 1572 replaced by stipple motif. On verso a Latin text where Orteli... (Go to Item Page) |
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| ORTELIUS, A. - Helvetiae descriptio. Aegidio Tschudo auct. Antwerp, 1570, Coloured.. 338x450mm. A good and dark impression. Latin text on verso. A fine map of Switzerland based upon a map by the Swiss cartographer Aegidicus Tschudi of 1538. the decoration consists of mounts, trees, towns. 
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| ORTELIUS, A. - Scotiae Tabula Abraham ORTELIUS 1573. First edition.
German Text page 6A Antwerp, 1573, Uncpoloured. 355x480mm. Uncoloured good strong impression small repair to bottom margin at centerfold. Ortelius' very rare original First edition. Scotland is shown with north to the right of the sheet, the scale is about 20 Scots miles to the inch and geographically it follows the influential maps of George Lily and Gerard Mercator. An impressive title cartouche to the right. From Ortelius' at... (Go to Item Page) |
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| ORTELIUS, A. - Eryn. HIBERNIAE, BRITANNICAE INSVLÆ, NOVA DESCRIPTIO. Irlandt. Antwerp, 1573, Old hand colouring.. 350x485mm. Extremely good condition. Strong impression with attractive colouring. A beautiful map of Ireland from Ortelius' "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum" or Atlas of the whole world. This is one of the earliest maps of Ireland to present it with any significant detail.It was based on Mercator's famous 1564 wall map of the British Isles. The map is divided into counties and shows town... (Go to Item Page) |
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| ORTELIUS, A. - Tartariae sive Magni Chami Regni. Antwerp, 1573, Old colour.. 350x470mm. Good condition heavy paper with some minor soil in the blank margins. 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, the first modern atlas of the World. This edition is very rare, with only 40 examples of the map printed, per Van Den Broecke (15... (Go to Item Page) |
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| ORTELIUS, A. - Flandria. Antwerp, 1573, Coloured.. 382x500mm. Repair of split lower half of centerfold, hardly notable. Good and dark impression. Very decorative, egg-shaped map. This is the early state with the farmer's wife and three ships in the North Sea.  ...
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| ORTELIUS, A. - Basiliensis territorii descriptio nova./Circulus sue Liga. . . Antwerp, 1573, Coloured.. 320x495mm. Two maps on one sheet. Age toning and slight marginal foxing. Latin text on verso. 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 prepared by David Seltzlin. Very decorative and a masterpiece in the sense of engraving and composition. (Go to Item Page) |
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| ORTELIUS, A. - EUROPAE.ABRAHAM ORTELIUS 1579 Latin Text page 2 Antwerp, 1579, Uncoloured as issue. 340x460mm. Good strong impression. Paper colour off white. Page signature: 2. Europe map from the 1595 Latin edition of "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum", with not many copies in circulation. Latin text on verso of one half of the sheet. 1579L(A)2 (250 copies printed) (last line of thee indented lines, left aligned: lielmus Gratarolus fecit in calce libri, qui inscribitur : "De Re... (Go to Item Page) |
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| ORTELIUS, A. - Hungariae descriptio. Antwerpen, 1580, Original colours.. 353x495mm. Paper slightly age toned, margins with dis colouration due to former matting and framing. Famous map of Hungary, by Ortelius, centered on Budapest. Prepared by Wolfgang Lazius in 1556. Very decorative cartouche. ... (Go to Item Page) |
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| ORTELIUS, A. - Poloniae, Lituaniaeq descriptio. Antwerp, 1584, In attractive original colours.. 369x481mm. Good and dark impression. Some very minor age-toning, repair of a split lower part center fold. Latin text on verso. Fine general map of Poland, the first plate. Based on the now lost map of Waclaw Grodecki (1588). Shows the Polish kingdom near its greatest territorial limits, stretching south to the borders of the Black Sea and well into present-day Moldova and Ukraine. The line of the Dneiper River at the extrem... (Go to Item Page) |
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| ORTELIUS, A. - Veronae Urbis Territorium. Antwerp, 1584, In attractive strong original colours.. 327x467mm. A strong impression. Paper slightly age-toned. Some minor browning along center fold. In good condition, early impression. Very fine map of part of Italy centered on Verona, Vizenza and Lake Garda. Prepared by Bernardino Brugnoli, which first was published in 1574 by Forlani. Ortelius' map is a close copy of it. Abraham Ortelius (1527-1598) was a cartographer and publisher, who is born and died in Antwerp. He pub... (Go to Item Page) |
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| ORTELIUS, A. - Italiae Veteris Specimen. Antwerp, 1584, In attractive strong original colours.. 346x488mm. Paper slightly age toned with some light discolouration along center fold. A good and dark impression. Ortelius' map of Ancient Italy which appeared in his beginning in 1584. The map is based upon Gastaldi's map of Italy, supplemented with classical sources. Signed and dated 1584. A rare map, occurring in 3 editions only, succeeded by Ort 205.... (Go to Item Page) |
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| ORTELIUS, A. - Europae. Antwerp, 1584, Coloured.. 342x468mm. Good and dark impression. Paper slightly age toned. Repair of split lower part center fold, 15mm. into the image. Somewhat distorted land masses: vignette of Europe being carried off by the bull (Zeus). The first plate with title AFRICAE PARS in normal lettering. Fine impression. The map is based upon several important maps of Europe, including Gerard Mercator's 1554 map of Europe. Scandinavia is... (Go to Item Page) |
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| ORTELIUS, A. - Lutzenburgensis Ducatus veriss descript. Antwerp, 1584, Coloured.. 365x491mm. Nice color. In good condition. Wrinkling towards margins. Wide margins. Prepared by Jacob Surhon who made a manuscript map of Luxembourg for which he received 500 Livres from Charles V in 1551. For security reasons the map was not published. Only in 1579, when Antwerp was independent for a short time, Ortelius used the map for publication in his atlas. (Go to Item Page) |
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| ORTELIUS, A. - Angliae, scotiae, et Hiberniae, sive Britannicar insularum. Antwerp, after 1584, Coloured.. 343x495mm. Discolouration in lower margin, with some minor paper loss reinstalled and missing area carefully redrawn. A state 3 of this classic, handsome and decorative map of ancient British Isles with north orientated to the east. Latin text on verso. Based on Mercator's 1564 map of the British isles and improved by Saxton's 1579 map and the writings of the ancient classical writers. Embellishments include ... (Go to Item Page) |
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| ORTELIUS, A. - Lutzenburgensis Ducatus veriss descript. Antwerp 1587, Coloured.. 364x493mm. Paper slightly age-toned. Minor marginal water stains on top of the sheet. Faint marginal discolouration on lower part central fold. Good condition. Prepared by Jacob Surhon who made a manuscript map of Luxembourg for which he received 500 Livres from Charles V in 1551. For security reasons the map was not published. Only in 1579, when Antwerp was independent for a short time, Ortelius used the map for publication in his atlas.... (Go to Item Page) |
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| ORTELIUS, A. - Prussiae vera descriptio. Antwerpen, 1590, original colours. 365x465mm. Age toned, marginal imperfection, good. Slightly browned due to previous framing. Latin text on verso. Map of Poland, oriented to the North. Prepared by the cartographer Caspar Henneberger. From "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum Abrahami Ortelii Antverp". ... (Go to Item Page) |
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| ORTELIUS, A. - ANGLIAE, SCOTIAE ET HIBERNIAE, SIVE | BRITANNICAR: INSVLARVM DESCRIPTIO. Antwerp, 1592, Uncoloured.. 348x505mm. Very good condition. A beautiful map of the British Isles, north to the right. The map is based on Mercator's earlier map of the British Isles of 1564. Title in strapwork cartouche at top right, text in Latin, in its own cartouche at lower right, scale and royal arms; ships at sea. From Ortelius' atlas. Publi... (Go to Item Page) |
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| DE JODE,C. - Comitatus Venayscinensis Nova Discriptio. Antwerp, 1593, Uncoloured.. 300x242mm. Very good and dark impression. Left margin cut close to plate mark. Professional repair of tear in the lower right side, 8,5 cm into the engraved area. Rare map depicting part of Provence with Avignon, Cavaillon, Orange, Carpentras, etc. Gerard De Jode was the great rival of Ortelius, both made a living out of selling maps, and it seems not always on good terms. It is probable that Ortelius was responsible for a delay in the publication o... (Go to Item Page) |
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| DE JODE, C. - Comitatus Venayscinensis Nova Discriptio. Antwerp, 1593, Uncoloured.. 300x242mm. Very good and dark impression. Left margin cut close to plate mark. Professional repair of tear in the lower right side, 8,5 cm into the engraved area. Rare map depicting part of Provence with Avignon, Cavaillon, Orange, Carpentras, etc. Gerard De Jode was the great rival of Ortelius, both made a living out of selling maps, and it seems not always on good terms. It is probable that Ortelius was responsible for a delay in the publication... (Go to Item Page) |
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| ORTELIUS, A. - Maris Pacifici. Antwerp, 1595, Coloured.. 345x497mm. Minor discolouration on the extremities of the center fold. Repair of split lower part center fold, 4cm. Into engraved area. Good margins. Very good condition. This was the first printed map to be devoted solely to the Pacific, and the first to name North and South America separately. Lower right a large presentation of Ferdinand Magellan's ship "Victoria" sailing westward on the first voyage around the world. This was the first well documented arriva... (Go to Item Page) |
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| ORTELIUS, A. - Aegyptus Antiqua. Antwerp, 1595, Coloured.. 359x512mm. Left and right hand margin contemp. added margins, for protective reason. A splendid map of ancient Egypt, which appeared in Ortelius' Parergon. The map is based on his separately published map of Egypt, published in 1565, but with differences in the delineation. Dedicated to the humanist and medical doctor Scipio Fabio from Bologna, which appeared in 1565, and for wh... (Go to Item Page) |
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| ORTELIUS, A. - Americae sive novi orbis, nova descriptio. Antwerp, 1595, Coloured.. 418x555mm. Excellent condition. Excellent example of latin edition Western hemisphere by Abraham Ortelius. From a corrected plate, that had a bulge in the area of Chile removed. One of the first depictions of Chesapeake bay. |
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| ORTELIUS, A. - Terra Sancta. Antwerp, 1595, Coloured.. 370x510mm. Very fine condition. This is the most modern of Ortelius' maps of the Holy Land. It focuses specifically on the Holy Land and is oriented with east of the top. Ortelius used as a model the wall map of Peter Laicksteen who had actually visited the Holy Land in 1566. However, Ortelius introduced several revi... (Go to Item Page) |
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| ORTELIUS, A. - Hispaniae Veteris descriptio. Antwerp, 1595, original colours. 380x490mm. Paper age toned. Some marginal imperfections. Good margins. Based on Clusius' six-sheet map of Spain appeared in 1571 and knowledge from Strabo, Appianus, Bongarius, Livius, Valerius Maximus, and Suetonius. This map belongs to the set of historical maps known contained in the Parergon Theatri which appeared from 1579. ... (Go to Item Page) |
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| ORTELIUS,A./ GALLE,T. - Poloniae descriptio. Antwerp, 1577-1595, Coloured.. 384x439mm. Dark impression. Early miniature map of Poland from Ortelius' Epitome Theatri Ortelianai. Engraved and published by Philip Galle in Antwerp. Based on Ortelius folio map of Poland. The Epitome was the first pocket world atlas.... (Go to Item Page) |
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| ORTELIUS, A. - Descriptio Germaniae Inferioris. Antwerp, 1595, Coloured.. 386x508mm. Paper slightly age toned. Center fold strengthened on verso for protective reason. The oval map is surrounded by a strapwork frame and the title, adorned with ribbons, is held aloft by two winged cherubs. According to P. Meurer based on de Jode's 12 sheet map of 1566, itself based primarily on Jacob van Deventer's province maps.... (Go to Item Page) |
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| ORTELIUS, A. - Schlavoniae, Croatiae, Carniale.. Bosniae. . . Antwerp, 1598, Uncoloured.. 339x464mm. Dutch text on verso. Outer marginal water staining. First state. Fine and early map of former Yugoslavia after a map of Hirschvogel (1552-1565) and used by A.Ortelius in his atlas 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum [Atlas of the Whole World]. With French text on verso. The Theatrum was re-issued in 42 editions with 5 supplements with text in Latin, Dutch,... (Go to Item Page) |
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| ORTELIUS, A. - Japoniae Insulae Descriptio. Antwerp, 1598, Coloured.. 354x482mm. A repaired split all along the left border of the engraving and a small repaired splt on the lower part of the centerfold, 2cm into the engraving. Otherwise in very good condition. The first printed map of Japan to appear in an atlas. It was drawn by the Portuguese Jesuit Luiz Teixeira and depicts Korea as an island. Japan was probably identified with the island Zipangu, described by Marco Polo in the 13th century. Milestone map of Japan, It retained its influence un... (Go to Item Page) |
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| METELLUS, J. - Maris Pacifici vulgo Mar del Zur. Cologne, c. 1602, Uncoloured.. 195x276mm. Some marginal age-toning and spotting. Slight discoloration along center fold. A few brown spots. Large margins. Very good condition. Only the second printed map devoted to the Pacific. Reduced version of the map by Ortelius, it lacks latitude and longitude markings. Published in Metellus America sive Novus Orbis. First published in 1598 by Acosta who was a Spanish Jesuit missionary, historian and cosmographer. The in... (Go to Item Page) |
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| ORTELIUS, A. - Africae Tabula Nova. Antwerp, 1603, In attractive strong original colours.. 375x505mm. Some minor age-toning. Very good. Latin text on verso. Dated 1570. Ortelius' depiction of Africa is based on Gastaldi's rare wall map of 1564, though with modifications such as the more pointed southern tip of the continent. The Ptolemaic notion of two lakes in central Africa as the source of the Nile is maintained. Allthrough the typical oxidation... (Go to Item Page) |
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| ORTELIUS, A. - Natoliae..Aegypti recentior..Carthaginis(3 maps on 1 sheet) Antwerp, 1570-1612, In fine original colours.. 320x490mm. Some marginal paper discolouration. A few places underlaid due to oxidation of paper. No real damage to the map. From a rare Spanish text edition. Map to the left east to the top. Detailed map Turkey, including Cyprus and Crete. Also map of the Nile delta and another map of Tunis. From "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum". Very attractive original colours.... (Go to Item Page) |
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| ORTELIUS, A. - Perusini agri, exactissima .. Antwerp, 1584-1612, In attractive original colours.. 334x470mm. Paper slightly age toned. Two marginal brown stains. From a rare Spanish text edition. Very fine map centered on the town of Perugia. The map is based on Egnatio Danti's 1580 map of Perugia. Copper engraving with Spanish text on verso. Abraham Ortelius (1527-1598) was a cartographer and publisher, who is born and died in Antwerp. Published first modern uniform Atlas, Th... (Go to Item Page) |
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| ORTELIUS, A. - Regni Neapolitani verissima.. Antwerp, 1570-1612, Coloured.. 365x499mm. Paper slightly age toned. Professional restoration of a 19cm long tear in the upper right quarter of the map. Minor marginal water stain, right part lower border. Very fine map of Southern Italy, including the towns of Ascoli Piceno, Naples, Foggia, Bari, Catanzaro, most northern tip of Sicily with Messina. The map is based on Pirro Ligoruio's map. Ligorio (1513-1583) was best known as an architect and was involved in the building of St.Peter's in Rome. Co... (Go to Item Page) |
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| ORTELIUS, A. - Chinae, olim Sinarum Regionis, nova descriptio. auctore Ludovico Georgio. Antwerp, (1584) 1612, In original colours.. 344x470mm. Some age toning of the paper. Light browning of paper. The first map of China ever to appear in a Western atlas, west to the top. When this map appeared, it was by far the most accurate one of China. Japan is shown on a curious curved projection reminiscent of Portuguese charts of the period with Honshu dissected along the line of Lake Biwa. The Grea... (Go to Item Page) |
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| ORTELIUS, A. - Sardinia / Sicilia.. / Corfu / Zerbi.. / Elba / Malta. . . Antwerp, 1570-1612, In attractive original colours.. 360x475mm. Paper slightly age toned. From a rare Spanish text edition. Six very fine and early maps on one sheet. Including the islands of Sicily, Corfu, Sardinia, Zerbi (Djerba), Elba and Malta. The map of Malta has a sinking ship at Cala di S.Paulo, where Saint Paul is supposed to have ship wreaked and landed. Copper engraving with Spanish text on verso. Ab... (Go to Item Page) |
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| ORTELIUS, A. - l'isle de France, Parisiensis Agri de Script Antwerp, 1641, Coloured. 340x450mm. With two minor margin tears at the centerfold professionally repaired. Paper agetoned. An attractive map that depicts the region surrounding Paris. There are strap-work title and scale cartouches and a beautiful interlocking border. The high detail depicts lakes, rivers, mountains, cities & towns. Abraham Ortelius (1527 - 1598) was one of the most important figures in the earl... (Go to Item Page) |
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| ORTELIUS, A. - Picardiae Belgicae Regio Nis Descriptio Antwerp, 1641, Coloured. 330x485mm. In good condtion with professional repairs to the center-fold. Map has been backed with Japan paper. A highly detailed copper engraved map of the Picardie region in Northwest France by Abraham Ortelius. This map is finely engraved with forests, cities, villages along the Somme River and features the Picardie Region from the sea in the west to Abbeville, San Quentin and Amiens in the east. It has fa... (Go to Item Page) |
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