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Quita Etas Mundi. Folium. LXXXIIII (Mantova)

The Latin text page is illustrated with an imaginary of Mantova, Italy. VERSO are portraits of poets and teachers.Page from the richest illustrated Incunable, the famous...

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Sexta Etas Mundi. Constancia. [Constance CCXLI ]

A very fine town-view of Constance, in Germany, centered on the cathedral (198 x 520 mm).VERSO, seven insets of scientists, noblemen and Popes..Page from the richest illu...

BidAsk spread: $1000 - $1250

De Polonia Sarmatica - Lituania. CCLXXIX

An imaginary view of a Lithuanian or Polish City (190 x 223mm.) , however the earliest obtainable view of this period.Page from the richest illustrated Incunabula, the fa...

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[Page with imaginary towns in Hungary. CCLXVIII ].

Page with imaginary towns in Hungary (230x225mm.) This leaf is from an edition of Hartmann Schedel's Nuremberg Chronicle (Liber Chronicarum). The Chronicle was published ...

BidAsk spread: $150 - $500

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Sexta etas mudi CCXXXIX.

The Latin text page is describing the crusade against the Bohemian heretics in the time of emperor Sigismund Nuremberg Chronicle, published the year that Columbus returne...

BidAsk spread: $75 - $150

Sexta etas muidi Fo CCV.

The Latin text page is illustrating Baldwin (Baldvinus), the fourth of this name, seventh king of Jerusalem, and son of the aforesaid Amalric, reigned six years after his...

BidAsk spread: $50 - $75

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CCLXXV.

The Latin text page is illustrated with an imaginary view of a town in Macedonia (195 x 225mm.) The Nuremberg Chronicle, published the year that Columbus returned to Euro...

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Praga

First printed view of Prague, Czech Republic, by Hartmann Schedel from the Latin edition of the “Liber chronicarum” published in 1493. The woodcut is quiet realistic ...

BidAsk spread: $1300 - $1500

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Landtafel etlicher Gowen des Schwabenlands darinn die newen Nammen aller Stetten, Flaecken, Dorffern, Wassern.

A very rare map of Schwabenland, that was never part of the so-called foretext maps, and as a double page map published in just a few editions of the 'Cosmographia'. A bi...

BidAsk spread: $190 - $239

Von dem Europa, das zu unsern zeiten die Christenheit under im begreifft und etwas von der Türkey.

An attractive map of Europe from the famous 'Cosmographia' by Sebastian Münster, in very nice colors. Europe has almost already taken the shape of Regina Europa. On ve...

BidAsk spread: $120 - $149

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Tabula Asiae VII (Central Asia and Russia)

The first edition of Munster's map of the region north and east of the Black Sea and Caspian Sea, extending to the Imaus Mountains, based upon Claudius Ptolemy which appe...

BidAsk spread: $200 - $250

Flandria, Barbantia e Holanda Nov(a).

This is the oldest printed map of the Netherlands as a whole. Published in 'La Geografia', Venice, 1548. With a pictoresque view of cities and of woods. Part of England i...

BidAsk spread: $490 - $549

Europa Prima Nova Tabula

Very rare issue of one of the earliest printed maps of the European continent oriented to the south. Shows the continent from Constantinople and Greece to the east and Sp...

BidAsk spread: $2000 - $2500

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[Toscana / Tuscany] En, candidi lectores, elegantioris Italiae partis, Tusciae scilicet, topographiam. aenis nris formis excussam in hac Tabella vobis denuo damus. . .

A rare map of Tuscany, including the islands of Elba, Giglio, Giannutri and part of Corsica, and covering the whole of Tuscany, part of Liguria, Lombardy, Emilia, Umbria,...

BidAsk spread: $4000 - $6000

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Landtafel des Ungerlands / Polands / Reussen / Littaw / Walachei / Bulgarei.

Early woodcut map from Munster's Cosmographia, one of the most influential geographical works of the 16th Century. It shows the area from Prussia until Constantinople a...

BidAsk spread: $280 - $400

Liege.

Rare and charming woodcut of Liège, Luik, or Luyck. Extensive legend below the plan including forty letter press names of churches, palaces, monasteries, and more, and a...

BidAsk spread: $160 - $189

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[Euboe].

Woodcut Ptolemaic-style map by Sebastian Münster figuring Euboea Island, published in the edition of Strabo by Henri Petri in 1571."Strabonis rerum geographicarum&q...

BidAsk spread: $50 - $100

TAVOLA NUOVA DI GERMANIA.

A map of Germany and parts of the surrounding areas. In the northwest is Flanders and Brabant. In the southwest is Lake Geneva and Budapest is in the southeast. The Vistu...

BidAsk spread: $135 - $159

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Messana, Urbs est Sicilie maxima, situ, opulentia, & tuta navium statione.

Very desirable and early town-plan of Messina on Sicily, with a numbered key (1-167) in lower part. "Messina is shown from the east, in a view looking down upon the ...

BidAsk spread: $300 - $500

Die Statt Paris etlicher mass figuriert und contrafehtet nach jetziger Gelegenheit.

Published in the "Universal Cosmography" of S. Münster. Text in German. Under the legendary plan in German A to G. It is framed by a border composed of foliage...

BidAsk spread: $150 - $200

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Melita

One of the first delineations of the island of Malta.  

BidAsk spread: $140 - $280

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Brabantia.

Map of Brabant from Guicciardini's "Description de touts les Pais-Bais" edited by Plantin in 1582. The map drawn after Ortelius' map of Brabant, and after the l...

BidAsk spread: $200 - $275

Siege on Antwerp - Battle on the Kauwensteinse Dike.

Large anonymous engraving of a famous event on the 26th of March, 1585. On this day the battle on the Kauwensteinse Dike took place. Ships and the States army attacked th...

BidAsk spread: $120 - $169

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Hollandiae Antiquorum Catthorum Sedis Nova Descriptio.

One of the first maps of the County of Holland. Highly decorative and wonderfully coloured. Published by Abraham Ortelius. Title: Hollandiae Antiquorum Catthorum Sedis ...

BidAsk spread: $590 - $650

Bitvrigvm, provinciae que Berry.

A rare and beautifully engraved map from the second edition of De Jode's atlas "Speculum Orbis Terrarum". Includes the Loire Valley, centered on Bourges and Vie...

BidAsk spread: $50 - $200

[Spain and Portugal]

A rare map of Spain and Portugal engraved by Jan and Lucas van Deutecom and published by Gerard de Jode, Antwerp 1593. Latin text on verso.The map appeared in the second ...

BidAsk spread: $500 - $1000

Blaisois Blesiensis Territorii. . . [together with] - Lemovicum totius et confinium provinciarum. . .

The map on the left is centered on the Loire with the town of Blois. The right hand map is centered on Limoges.

BidAsk spread: $100 - $150

Nova et recens emendata totius Regni Ungariae una cum adiacentibus et finitimis regionisbus delineatio.

Engraved map by Jan van Deutecum, here the very rare first edition published by Cornelis Nicola in Asterdam in 1596. In very attractive original coloring.A re-issued was ...

BidAsk spread: $2500 - $3000

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[ Map of the island Nexos]

Very rare map of the island Naxos published in the first edition of "Viaggio da Venetia, a Costantinopoli. Per Mare, e per Terra, & infieme quello di Terra Santa...

BidAsk spread: $300 - $450

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Arbe Isola presso il Quarner.

Very rare view of Rab published in the first edition of "Viaggio da Venetia, a Costantinopoli. Per Mare, e per Terra, & infieme quello di Terra Santa. Da Giosepp...

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[ View of Isola Di Pago]

Very rare view of the island of Pag published in the first edition of "Viaggio da Venetia, a Costantinopoli. Per Mare, e per Terra, & infieme quello di Terra San...

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[ View of Zarra]

Very rare view of Zadar, one of the most important seaboard fortifications on the eastern Adriatic coast. Published in the first edition of "Viaggio da Venetia, a Co...

BidAsk spread: $200 - $300

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Sibenicho - Parte d' Dalmacia. ( Šibenik )

Very rare view of Šibenik published in the first edition of "Viaggio da Venetia, a Costantinopoli. Per Mare, e per Terra, & infieme quello di Terra Santa. Da Gi...

BidAsk spread: $300 - $450

Scardona. (Skradin)

Very rare view of Skradin, a picturesque little town on the river Krka. Published in the first edition of "Viaggio da Venetia, a Costantinopoli. Per Mare, e per Terr...

BidAsk spread: $250 - $400

Castel Novo

Very rare view of Herceg-Novi, an important fortress belonging to Venetian Dalmatia captured during the 16th century by the Turks. Published in the first edition of "...

BidAsk spread: $250 - $350

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Cataro

Very rare view of Kotor in Montenegro published in the first edition of "Viaggio da Venetia, a Costantinopoli. Per Mare, e per Terra, & infieme quello di Terra S...

BidAsk spread: $300 - $450

Lango.

Very rare map of Kos Island published in the first edition of "Viaggio da Venetia, a Costantinopoli. Per Mare, e per Terra, & infieme quello di Terra Santa. Da G...

BidAsk spread: $300 - $450

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Negroponte.

Very rare view of Euboea or Evia, the second-largest Greek island in area and population, after Crete. Published in the first edition of "Viaggio da Venetia, a Costa...

BidAsk spread: $500 - $750

Negroponte.

Very rare plan of Chalkis, capital of the island Euboea. Published in the first edition of "Viaggio da Venetia, a Costantinopoli. Per Mare, e per Terra, & infiem...

BidAsk spread: $300 - $450

Tine. (Tinoos)

Very rare map of Tinos published in the first edition of "Viaggio da Venetia, a Costantinopoli. Per Mare, e per Terra, & infieme quello di Terra Santa. Da Giosep...

BidAsk spread: $400 - $600

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