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WALDSEEMULLER, M., Octava Asie Tabvla., antique map, old maps

WALDSEEMULLER, M. - Octava Asie Tabvla.
Strasbourg, J. Schott,1513, In attractive strong original colours.. 365x435mm. Mint condition.
Wood block map of Central Asia and China from Martin Waldseemüller's 1513 edition of Ptolemy, who was a landmark work that contributed to major advances in both Renaissance geography and map printing. Published by Johann Schott in Strassburg, and in very fine contemp. colours.
In the center of th... (Go to Item Page)

$ 9,000
Approx. Euro 7,200

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WALDSEEMULLER, M., Quinta Asie Tabvla., antique map, old maps

WALDSEEMULLER, M. - Quinta Asie Tabvla.
Strasbourg, J. Schott,1513, In attractive strong original colours.. 365x535mm. Mint condition.
Wood block map of Persia from Martin Waldseemüller's 1513 edition of Ptolemy, who was a landmark work that contributed to major advances in both Renaissance geography and map printing. Published by Johann Schott in Strassburg, and in very fine contemp. colours. ¤ ... (Go to Item Page)

$ 7,500
Approx. Euro 6,000

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WALDSEEMULLER, M., Septima Asie Tabvla., antique map, old maps

WALDSEEMULLER, M. - Septima Asie Tabvla.
Strasburg, J. Schott,1513, In attractive strong original colours.. 365x535mm. Mint condition. Printed on heavy paper. No text on verso.
Trapezoidal woodcut map showing the area around Caspian Sea from Martin Waldseemüller's most important 1513 edition of Ptolemy, who was a landmark work that contributed to major advances in both Renaissance geography and map printing.
The Caspian Sea is shown instead of having its longest diame... (Go to Item Page)

$ 9,000
Approx. Euro 7,200

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FRIES, L., Tabula IIII Asiae. [Holy Land, Syria, Cyprus, Arabia.], antique map, old maps

FRIES, L. - Tabula IIII Asiae. [Holy Land, Syria, Cyprus, Arabia.]
Strassburg, 1535, Uncoloured.. 320x455mm. Very slight discolouration along center fold. Hardly notable. Good condition. Nice decorative wood cut borders on verso.
One of the earliest maps available to a collector of Cyprus, Syria, Mesopotamia,. Babylonia, Arabia Petraea, Armenia Minor and the Holy Land, based upon the Georgraphy of Claudius Ptolemy.

Lorenz (Laurent) Fries was born in Alsace in c1490. He studied medicine at university, and establis... (Go to Item Page)

$ 2,200
Approx. Euro 1,760

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PTOLEMY, C., Tabula III Asiae. [Caucass and Armenia.], antique map, old maps

PTOLEMY, C. - Tabula III Asiae. [Caucass and Armenia.]
Lyons, M. Servetus, 1535, In attractive strong colours.. 312x430mm. In very good condition, with wide margins.
Ptolemaic map of the region south of the Caucasus Mountains and between the Caspian Sea as far south as the headwaters of the Tigris River in the south and the Black Sea, including Armenia Maior, Iberia, Albania, Colchis, Porte Albania, the Euphrates River, the Tigris, Assyria, and many other place ... (Go to Item Page)

$ 1,800
Approx. Euro 1,440

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PTOLEMY, C., Tabu nova partis Aphri., antique map, old maps

PTOLEMY, C. - Tabu nova partis Aphri.
Lyons, M. Servetus, 1535, In attractive strong colours.. 312x430mm. In very good condition, with wide margins.
Based on Waldseemuller's map. Border and ornament are by Hans Holbein and Graf. The reissued map includes three kings on their thrones, an elephant, a cockatrice and two serpents, while the King of Portugal rides a bridled sea monster.

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$ 2,000
Approx. Euro 1,600

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PTOLEMY, C., Taprobana Ins. Tabula XII Asiae. [Sri Lanka.], antique map, old maps

PTOLEMY, C. - Taprobana Ins. Tabula XII Asiae. [Sri Lanka.]
Lyons, M. Servetus, 1535, In attractive strong colours.. 312x430mm. In very good condition, with wide margins.
Ptolemy's mythical island of Taprobana originally became associated with Sri Lanka although it was sometimes confused with Sumatra. Taprobana, as it was called on most early maps, was an important post for trade between the east and the west, and was drawn too large on many maps because of its impor... (Go to Item Page)

$ 3,000
Approx. Euro 2,400

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PTOLEMY, C. - Tabu nova partis aphri.
Lyons, M. Servetus, 1535, In attractive strong colours.. 338x425mm. In very good condition, with wide margins.
Ptolemy's double-page wood-engraved map of southern Africa. The map is a derivative of the Waldseemüller map of 1513, with the addition of 3 seated kings and more topographical elements.
The line across the lower part of the island represents the equator.

Taprobana was the historic... (Go to Item Page)

$ 5,300
Approx. Euro 4,240

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MÜNSTER, S., Geographia universalis, vetus et nova, complectens.., antique map, old maps

MÜNSTER, S. - Geographia universalis, vetus et nova, complectens..
Basel, 1540, Uncoloured.. 315x205mm. Folio. Letterpress title (with manuscript marginal exlibris), 3, Liber I -17,6 pp index, 196pp - Liber II, Letterpress title, 27 maps of the ancient world and 21 of the modern world.
The rare FIRST EDITION of Sebastian Münster’s Geographia Universalis, published in 1540. This was a new and important edition of Ptolemy, with redesigned maps and the text revised by Münster based on the Willibald Pirckheimer Latin translation with corrections of 1535 by Servetus.
The Geographi... (Go to Item Page)

$ 50,000
Approx. Euro 40,000

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ORTELIUS, A., Theatrum orbis terrarum., antique map, old maps

ORTELIUS, A. - Theatrum orbis terrarum.
Antwerp, 1598, Uncoloured.. 450x305mm. Contemp. gilt stamped vellum., (10) ff. and 119 maps, title page and portrait of Ortelius. With "Parergon Theatri" maps 117 till 119.

Last French edition of the Theatrum with 119 maps. The present atlas has broad ... (Go to Item Page)

$ 100,000
Approx. Euro 80,000

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MERCATOR, G./ HONDIUS, J., Africa ex magna orbis terre descriptione Gerardi Mercator. . ., antique map, old maps

MERCATOR, G./ HONDIUS, J. - Africa ex magna orbis terre descriptione Gerardi Mercator. . .
Amsterdam, 1628, In attractive strong original colours.. 378x470mm. A good and strong impression. In mint condition. The cartouche is highlighted with gold dots !
Map of Africa, based on Gerard Mercator's twenty-one sheet wall map of the World, first published in 1569. Much of the interior of Africa defers to the traditions of Ptolemy, the Nile river is shown with the two lakes and the Mountains of the Moon across southern Africa.
A seated legendary prie... (Go to Item Page)

$ 3,000
Approx. Euro 2,400

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WELLS, E., Ancient Asia., antique map, old maps

WELLS, E. - Ancient Asia.
Oxford, 1700, Coloured.. 500x305mm. Browning along centre fold. A god and dark impression, wide margins.
Map of ancient Asia engraved by Michael Burghers of Oxford University. Dedicated to the Duke of Gloucester.
With several interesting legends, a legend in the vicinity of the Philippines states that The eastern coast of Asia as well as the more southern coast of Africa, was unknown to Ptolemy,<... (Go to Item Page)

$ 1,000
Approx. Euro 800

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ALLARD, C., Nouvelle carte de la sphere pour faire connoitre les diver mouvemens des planetes et leurs diverses revolutions.., antique map, old maps

ALLARD, C. - Nouvelle carte de la sphere pour faire connoitre les diver mouvemens des planetes et leurs diverses revolutions..
Amsterdam, 1706, In attractive strong original colours.. 518x598mm. Very good, in decorative original colours. Upper margin underlaid on 2 unimportant places due to paper thinness.
A rare print showing an armillary globe with smaller circular diagrams illustrating the theories of Ptolemy, Copernicus, Brahe and Descartes.
The tables along the sides identify and describe the constellations on the chart., published in Allard's Atlas Coelestis.
A visually striking exampl... (Go to Item Page)

$ 2,200
Approx. Euro 1,760

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SEUTTER, M., Planisphaerium Coeleste., antique map, old maps

SEUTTER, M. - Planisphaerium Coeleste.
Augsburg, 1730, Coloured.. 500x580mm. Good and dark impression on sound paper. Slight discolouration along center fold. Very good condition.
Magnificent double hemisphere celestial chart showing the northern and southern sky with constellations in allegorical form derived from Hevelius.
A diagram in the upper left corner represents day and night on the earth with quotations from Genesis. The diagram at upper right shows the monthly or... (Go to Item Page)

$ 3,500
Approx. Euro 2,800

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MONATH, P. C., Sieben und dreysig Kupffer-Tabellen sehens-und merckwurdiger sachen in des heil. Röm. Reichss-Stadt Nurnberg., antique map, old maps

MONATH, P. C. - Sieben und dreysig Kupffer-Tabellen sehens-und merckwurdiger sachen in des heil. Röm. Reichss-Stadt Nurnberg.
Nürnberg , after 1730, Uncoloured.. 400x240mm. in-folio, title page, index and 36 plates (of 37) of which 2 double page, contemp. half vellum (binding used.
Among the engraved plates there is a double-page world map in two hemispheres with a portrait of Martin Behaim (1459-1507) and the Bohemian coat of arms.
Behaim's globe of 1492 is the "oldest known terrestrial globe" (V.d. Krogt & Dekker, Globes, p. 26), made in Nuremberg just before the disco... (Go to Item Page)

$ 5,500
Approx. Euro 4,400

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BASSET, Introduction a la géographie carte des diverses positions de la sphere.., antique map, old maps

BASSET - Introduction a la géographie carte des diverses positions de la sphere..
Paris, 1750, Coloured.. 503x722mm. Good and dark impression on sound paper. Good margins. Very good condition.
A charming and large print showing a terrestrial, celestial and an armillary globe with smaller circular diagrams illustrating the theories of Ptolemy, Copernicus, Brahe and Descartes.... (Go to Item Page)

$ 2,300
Approx. Euro 1,840

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BASSET - Introduction a la géographie carte des diverses positions de la sphere..
Paris 1750, Coloured.. 505x722mm. Repair of a small tear in lower part center fold. Paper slightly age-toned. Overall in good condition.
A charming and large print showing a terrestrial, celestial and an armillary globe with smaller circular diagrams illustrating the theories of Ptolemy, Copernicus, Brahe and Descartes.... (Go to Item Page)

$ 1,150
Approx. Euro 920

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SEUTTER, M., Diversi Globi Terr-Aquei Statione Variante et Visu Intercedente per Coluros Tropicorum. . ., antique map, old maps

SEUTTER, M. - Diversi Globi Terr-Aquei Statione Variante et Visu Intercedente per Coluros Tropicorum. . .
Augsburg, J.M.Will, 1778, Original colours.. 195x257mm. Paper slightly age-toned, and with mainly marginal spotting. Good impression.
Map of the world in two hemispheres, with smaller celestial spheres and diagrams of the solar system according to Ptolemy, Tycho Brahe, Copernicus and Descartes.
From Atlas Minor, here published by Johann Martin Will, with his address in bottom center of the map. Engraved by Andreas Silber... (Go to Item Page)

$ 500
Approx. Euro 400

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DE LAPORTE, L'Abbé., La Sphère Artificielle, ou Armilaire Oblique., antique map, old maps

DE LAPORTE, L'Abbé. - La Sphère Artificielle, ou Armilaire Oblique.
Paris, Prudhomme, Levrault, Debray, 1806, In original o/l colours.. 175x222mm. In very good condition.
Decorative print showing a celestial hemisphere, surrounded by projections of Brahe, Copernicus and Ptolemy, from Atlas moderne portatif composé de vingt-huit cartes sur toutes les parties du globe terrestre .. A l'usage des Colléges, des Pensions & des Maisons Religieuses, etc..
First p... (Go to Item Page)

$ 250
Approx. Euro 200

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DELISLE, G . / BUACHE, Ph. / DEZAUCHE, J., Carte d'Afrique Dressée pour l'instruction par Guillaume DeLisle. . ., antique map, old maps

DELISLE, G . / BUACHE, Ph. / DEZAUCHE, J. - Carte d'Afrique Dressée pour l'instruction par Guillaume DeLisle. . .
Paris, J.Dezauche, 1819, In original o/l colours.. 487x628mm. A very good copy.
The map is a rare re-issue of the Delisle map of 1722. In his first map of the continent in 1700, Delisle re-measured the Mediterranean, being the first to establish its correct longitude, and thus to give a correct picture of Africa's northern coast. He was the first to discard Lake Zaire and Zafla... (Go to Item Page)

$ 750
Approx. Euro 600

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