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![Candia [Map of the island Crete]](/uploads/cache/45233-250x250.jpg)
Candia [Map of the island Crete]
Very rare map of the island Crete published in the first edition of "Viaggio da Venetia, a Costantinopoli. Per Mare, e per Terra, & infieme quello di Terra Santa...
Date: Venice, Giacomo Franco, 1598
![[Map of Corfu. View of the city of Corfu on the foreground. ]](/uploads/cache/45221-250x250.jpg)
[Map of Corfu. View of the city of Corfu on the foreground. ]
Very rare map of Corfu with a view of the city of Corfu on the foreground. Published in the first edition of "Viaggio da Venetia, a Costantinopoli. Per Mare, e per T...
Date: Venice, Giacomo Franco, 1598
![[View of Gulf of Trieste].](/uploads/cache/45191-250x250.jpg)
[View of Gulf of Trieste].
Very rare view of Gulf of Trieste published in the first edition of "Viaggio da Venetia, a Costantinopoli. Per Mare, e per Terra, & infieme quello di Terra Santa...
Date: Venice, Giacomo Franco, 1598
![[ Map of the island Nexos]](/uploads/cache/45289-250x250.jpg)
[ 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...
Date: Venice, Giacomo Franco, 1598
Silesiae typus..
Fine and early map of Silesia after Martin Helwig (1516-1574) and used by A.Ortelius in his atlas 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum [Atlas of the Whole World].Only included in the...
Date: Antwerp, 1598
Florentini Dominii Fidelissima et nova descriptio.
The map is centered on the city of Florence and extends to Liguria, the Apennine Mountains, the Adriatic Coast, Siena and Lago di Perugia. The map is based upon Stefano B...
Date: Anvers, 1598
![Larii Lacus Vulgo Comensis Descriptio . . . [and] Terretorii Romani Descrip. [and] Fori Iulii Vulgo Frivli Typus. . .](/uploads/cache/41008-250x250.jpg)
Larii Lacus Vulgo Comensis Descriptio . . . [and] Terretorii Romani Descrip. [and] Fori Iulii Vulgo Frivli Typus. . .
Set of 3 maps on one sheet of Lake Como, the region around Rome and the region around the Upper Adriatic, centered on Udinese from 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum [Atlas of the ...
Date: Antwerp, 1598
Plants, including the canior, diringuo, pucho and chiabe.
In the Indies there are many delightful plants, which include the ‘costus indicus’ (named by the Malays 'pucho') that has a wonderful aroma. Then there is the ‘cala...
Date: Frankfurt, 1598
The bird called 'Eeme' and other creatures of India.
Especially on the island of Java and in India, a strange bird called an 'Eeme' is found. It is almost as large as an ostrich with strong and sturdy legs, but it has no to...
Date: Frankfurt, 1598
Some of the animals that are found in India.
Although most elephants are found in Ethiopia, there are also many in India too. They are called 'Caffres' by the inhabitants and are slaughtered for their tusks, which t...
Date: Frankfurt, 1598
The Dutch are attacked by giant crabs.
During their return voyage, the Portuguese were wrecked on a sandbank (the Seychelles?) From the debris they began building a smaller ship in which they hoped to return t...
Date: Frankfurt, 1598
Hispaniae novae sive magnae recens et vera descriptio. 1579
This was the standard map of the area for a generation, copied by De Bry, Quad and Hondius. Even though Herrera (Spain's Royal Cosmographer) and Wytfliet worked 20 years ...
Date: Antwerp, 1598
India Tercera Nuova Tavola.
The 1598 edition of this early map of South East Asia. Just to the west and south of Malacca one will notice ‘Camatra’ (Sumatra) and Java. China with Canton in the up...
Date: Venice, 1598
Funeral in China.
A scene of a funeral in China from Linschoten's famous voyages to the East of 1583-92, here published by De Bry the year after they first appeared as a separate book. Fro...
Date: Frankfurt, 1599
Feast of China.
A scene of a Chinese dinner feast from Linschoten's famous voyages to the East of 1583-92, here published by De Bry the year after they first appeared as a separate book....
Date: Frankfurt, 1599
Punishment of a criminal in China.
Punishment of a criminal in China from Linschoten's famous voyages to the East of 1583-92, here published by De Bry the year after they first appeared as a separate book....
Date: Frankfurt, 1599
Punishment of China.
The Chinese way of a punishment from Linschoten's famous voyages to the East of 1583-92 here published by De Bry the year after they first appeared as a separate book. Fr...
Date: Frankfurt, 1599
A Parade of Noblemen in China.
This famous and desirable scene from Linschoten's famous voyages to the East of 1583-92 is here published by De Bry the year after they first appeared as a separate book....
Date: Frankfurt, 1599
![[A Chinese vessel ] Naves Chinensibus usitatae velis arundineis & anchoris ligneis.](/uploads/cache/29498-250x250.jpg)
[A Chinese vessel ] Naves Chinensibus usitatae velis arundineis & anchoris ligneis.
Showing a Chinese vessel, print taken from Linschoten's famous voyages to the East of 1583-92, here published by De Bry the year after they first appeared as a separate b...
Date: Frankfurt, 1599
![XIX. Venatio Elephantum in Pegu. [How elephants are caught in Pegu]](/uploads/cache/29795-250x250.jpg)
XIX. Venatio Elephantum in Pegu. [How elephants are caught in Pegu]
How elephants are caught in Pegu. The king of Pegu had a particular method of transporting elephants. He had a great enclosure built of strong wooden posts, with a trap d...
Date: Frankfurt, 1599
XV. Ratio Homines Ex Uno Loco In alium gestandi.
Scene in the kingdom of Pegu, now Myanmar, showing elephant, ships and locals.Theodore de Bry, a German engraver and book dealer, began a compilation of early voyages in ...
Date: Frankfurt, 1599
Christophorus Columus Ligur Indiarum Prim invet A°1492
Very decorative portrait of Christopher Columbus (c. 31 October 1451 – 20 May 1506), engraved by Theodor de Bry (1528-1593) and published in Jean Jacques Boissard, &quo...
Date: Frankfurt a.M. 1597 - 1599
![FIORENZA [FLORENCE].](/uploads/cache/49141-250x250.jpg)
FIORENZA [FLORENCE].
State 2 of this bird's-eye view of Florence. In the center, under the upper border, the engraved title "Fiorenza". At the top left, a compass rose is represente...
Date: Siena, Pietro Petrucci, ca. 1600
Le Nouveau miroir des voiages marins de la navigation de la mer occidentale & orientale.
A second and final French edition of this important sea atlas. Two engraved frontispieces, figure with volvelle, full-page figure, 48 double-page charts (one numbered 19....
Date: Antwerp, Chez Iean Bellere, a l’Aigle d’or, l’An M.CCCCCC (1600
Geometria, from The Seven Liberal Arts.
A female figure with a castle on her head measures a globe with a compass; representing geometry. Engraving by Johann Sadeler I after M. de Vos.
Date: Antwerp, 1570 - 1600
Palermo.
Rare bird's-eye view of Palermo, the plan showing the city and harbor within the city walls, with the surrounding countryside, title and dedicatory verse set in elaborate...
Date: Seina, ca. 1600
![Le Roy de Navarra venant à Paris recheut le coup de cousteau au visaige par ung Pierre Chastel, lequel par quatre chevaulx fut tiré en pièces, faict le 27 de Decemb[re] l'an 1594.](/uploads/cache/38548-250x250.jpg)
Le Roy de Navarra venant à Paris recheut le coup de cousteau au visaige par ung Pierre Chastel, lequel par quatre chevaulx fut tiré en pièces, faict le 27 de Decemb[re] l'an 1594.
Engraved news-sheet with text in German and French. Pictorial reportage on the failed assassination attempt on King Henri IV of France by Jean Châtel (here identified as...
Date: Cologne, ca. 1600
Antiquae urbis perfecta et Nova delineatio. [ Ancient Rome)
First state before imprint of Jacobus de Rubeis. A rare view of Ancient Rome from the Lafreri-School in the style of Ambrogio Brambilla's view of about 1575. A unique opp...
Date: Rome, ca. 1600
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...
Date: Antwerp, 1592/1601
![Ornithon sive Aviarum M. Varronis Pyrro.Ligorio.Neap.inv. [The reconstruction by Pirro Ligorio of the aviary of Marcus Varro].](/uploads/cache/49261-250x250.jpg)
Ornithon sive Aviarum M. Varronis Pyrro.Ligorio.Neap.inv. [The reconstruction by Pirro Ligorio of the aviary of Marcus Varro].
The print, depicting the reconstruction by Pirro Ligorio of the aviary of Marcus Varro in Rome, was printed by Giovanni Orlandi in 1602 from a copperplate originally eng...
Date: Rome, 1581-1602
Insula Tiberina.
View of the Tiber Island depicted as a ship, showing the Temple of Aesculapius, the obelisk and other monuments. Printed by Giovanni Orlandi in1602 from a copperplate or...
Date: Rome, 1585-1602
Il vero ritratto di Nettvno al presente oaupato da gl'imperiali.
Rare and early town-plan of Nettuno, in the province of Rome, which is nowadays a touristic harbor.Issued by Joannes Orlandi who acquired many Lafreri plates, which he re...
Date: Rome, 1557 / 1602
![[Naval battle].](/uploads/cache/49259-250x250.jpg)
[Naval battle].
The engraving was printed by Giovanni Orlandi in1602 from a copperplate originally engraved for the "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae", with the imprints of Duc...
Date: Rome, 1585-1602
Capitolii sciographia ex ipso exemplari Michaelis Angeli Bonaroti a Stephano Duperac Parisiensi accurate delineata…
View of the Roman Capitol as re-designed by Michelangelo, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae", first published in 1569, this example edited by Giovanni Orlan...
Date: Rome, Orlandi, 1602
![Palatii farnesii Romae… duarum Herculis statuarum icones [Farnese Palace Interior].](/uploads/cache/49258-250x250.jpg)
Palatii farnesii Romae… duarum Herculis statuarum icones [Farnese Palace Interior].
The print, depicting the interior of the Palazzo Farnese in Rome, was printed by Giovanni Orlandi in1602 from a copperplate originally engraved for the "Speculum Ro...
Date: Rome, 1585-1602
Islandia.
Perhaps the most famous map of Iceland. On the south side of the island a collection of all possible sea monsters is depicted. Polar bears on ice flows and volcanoes in t...
Date: Antwerp, 1603
![[Title page] Perspective die hooch-gheroemde conste..](/uploads/cache/25554-250x250.jpg)
[Title page] Perspective die hooch-gheroemde conste..
Title page from Perspective, Dat is, de hooch-gheroemde conste eens schijnende in oft door-siende ooghen-ghesichtespunt ... (&c.) by Hans, or Johannes Vredeman de Vri...
Date: Leiden, 1604
La marca d'Ancona. Marchia Anconitana Picaenum olim dicta. . . Romae apud Joannem Orlandini formis Rome 1604.
A re-issue of the plate by Vicentium Luchinù of 1564 now with the address of Orlandini and the dates 1602 / 1604.A unique opportunity to acquire a fine example of a map ...
Date: Rome, 1604
Perspective print by Vredeman de Vries. 38.
Engraving from Perspective, c'est a dire, le tresrenomme art du poinct oculaire d'une veue dedans ou travers regardante, estant sur une muraille unie, sur un tableau, ou ...
Date: The Hague, 1604 - 1605
Perspective print by Vredeman de Vries. 5
Engraving from Perspective, c'est a dire, le tresrenomme art du poinct oculaire d'une veue dedans ou travers regardante, estant sur une muraille unie, sur un tableau, ou ...
Date: The Hague, 1604 - 1605
Perspective print by Vredeman de Vries. 12
Engraving from Perspective, c'est a dire, le tresrenomme art du poinct oculaire d'une veue dedans ou travers regardante, estant sur une muraille unie, sur un tableau, ou ...
Date: The Hague, 1604 - 1605
Perspective print by Vredeman de Vries. 15.
Engraving from Perspective, c'est a dire, le tresrenomme art du poinct oculaire d'une veue dedans ou travers regardante, estant sur une muraille unie, sur un tableau, ou ...
Date: The Hague, 1604 - 1605
Perspective print by Vredeman de Vries. 19.
Engraving from Perspective, c'est a dire, le tresrenomme art du poinct oculaire d'une veue dedans ou travers regardante, estant sur une muraille unie, sur un tableau, ou ...
Date: The Hague, 1604 - 1605
![[Title page] Geographiae libri octo Graeco-Latini . . .](/uploads/cache/47936-250x250.jpg)
[Title page] Geographiae libri octo Graeco-Latini . . .
Fine decorative titlepage from the 1605 edition of Ptolemy. The plate is adorned with allegorical figures, fruits and architectural motifs. This 1605 edition was based on...
Date: Amsterdam, 1605
Perspective print by Vredeman de Vries. 43.
Engraving from Perspective, c'est a dire, le tresrenomme art du poinct oculaire d'une veue dedans ou travers regardante, estant sur une muraille unie, sur un tableau, ou ...
Date: The Hague, 1604 - 1605
Perspective print by Vredeman de Vries. 40.
Engraving from Perspective, c'est a dire, le tresrenomme art du poinct oculaire d'une veue dedans ou travers regardante, estant sur une muraille unie, sur un tableau, ou ...
Date: The Hague, 1604 - 1605
Ormus (Straits of Hormus)
A lovely miniature map of the Kingdom of Ormus, published by Petrus Bertius, and published in Amsterdam at the beginning of the seventeenth century. With an attractive st...
Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Iava Maior.
Very fine miniature map of Java, engraved by Benjamin Wright (1575-1613). This early map contains detailed geography and nomenclature around the northern coastline of the...
Date: Amsterdam, Cornelis Claes, 1606
Arabia
A lovely miniature map the Arabian Peninsular, published by Petrus Bertius, and published in Amsterdam at the beginning of the seventeenth century. With an attractive s...
Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Aracam.
A rare miniature map of Thailand and Burma. Title cartouche on the upper left corner. First published in 1598 in his 'Caert-Thresoor', the plates were executed by the mos...
Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Perspective print by Vredeman de Vries.
Engraving from Les cinq rangs de l'architecture, a savoir, Tuscane, dorique, ionique, corinthiaque et composée avec l'instruction fondamentale. by Paul Vredeman de Vries...
Date: The Hague, 1606
Perspective print by Vredeman de Vries.
Engraving from Les cinq rangs de l'architecture, a savoir, Tuscane, dorique, ionique, corinthiaque et composée avec l'instruction fondamentale. by Paul Vredeman de Vries...
Date: The Hague, 1606
![[Perspective print after J. Vredeman de Vries. ]](/uploads/cache/26445-250x250.jpg)
[Perspective print after J. Vredeman de Vries. ]
Engraving depicting the use of the vanishing point. From Les cinq rangs de l'architecture, a savoir, Tuscane, dorique, ionique, corinthiaque et composée avec l'instructi...
Date: The Hague, 1606
Ultrajectum.
An original early 17th century copper engraved miniature antique map of the Dutch province of Utrecht by Petrus Bertius, that was published in Amsterdam at the beginning ...
Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Inferior Germania.
A rare miniature map of present-day The Netherlands and Belgium. Strap-work title cartouche in the lower right corner with scale. Expertly engraved by Petrus Kaerius, the...
Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Christophorus Clavius Bambergensis e societate iesu aetatis suae anno LXIX.
Rare portrait of Christopher Clavius or Clau (March 25, 1538 – February 12, 1612) was a German Jesuit mathematician and astronomer who was the main architect of the mod...
Date: Rome, 1606
Germania.
Second state of this rare "carte à figures"- map of Germany, The Netherlands, Poland and central Europe. Bordered on three sides with portraits and views. In t...
Date: Amsterdam, 1607
(Sea-chart of Catalunia, Languedoc, Provence, Cote d'Azur, Riviera, Corsica with Marseille, Cannes, Nice, Monaco.)
This very rare chart is important as the first printed sea chart of France's Mediterranean coast, also depicting Catalunya's northern coast, the Italian Cote d'Azur till ...
Date: Amsterdam, 1607
![[Title page for] Atlas Minor de Guerard Mercator. . .](/uploads/cache/47933-250x250.jpg)
[Title page for] Atlas Minor de Guerard Mercator. . .
Title page from a 1608 French edition of the Atlas Minor (351:11). The title page is similar to that in the Latin edition of 1607, but a slip of paper with the engraved t...
Date: Amsterdam, 1608
Polus Arcticus cum vicinis regionibus.
Map of the North Pole regions from the 1608 second edition of Jodocus Hondius' Atlas Minor.A reduction of the 1606 Mercator-Hondius folio map (which is a later state of t...
Date: Amsterdam, 1608
Biturigum.
A miniature map of the Berry. Fine cartouche in the upper left corner.First published in 1598 in his Caert-Thresoor, the plates were executed by the most famous engravers...
Date: Amsterdam/Frankfurt 1609
Die Zyp / La Zype.
A miniature map showing the polder of De Zype. Title cartouche in the upper side.First published in 1598 in his Caert-Thresoor, the plates were executed by the most famou...
Date: Amsterdam / Frankfurt, 1609
![[Bantam].](/uploads/cache/37970-250x250.jpg)
[Bantam].
Text engravings from "Premier livre de l'histoire de la navigation aux Indes Orientales, par les hollandois, et des choses a eux advenues . . . ", being the cla...
Date: Amsterdam, Cornille Nicolas, 1609
Delineatio Duorum Oppidorum, Ortat.
Early map of the Banda Islands.Theodore de Bry, a German engraver and book dealer, began a compilation of early voyages in 1590 and had published six parts at the time of...
Date: Frankfurt, 1609
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Delineatio Civitatis et Castelli Amboinae.
Early view of Ambon, with 6 Dutch vessels offshore.Theodore de Bry, a German engraver and book dealer, began a compilation of early voyages in 1590 and had published six ...
Date: Frankfurt, 1609
1) Natoliae,.. 2) Aegypti recentior.. 3) Carthaginis..
To the left a map of Turkey. Oriented with west at bottom. Right side of sheet contains a map of northern Egypt showing the Nile River delta, and a map the vicinity of Tu...
Date: Antwerp, 1570-1609
Lutzenburgensis Ducatus veriss descript.
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. ...
Date: Antwerp, 1609
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...
Date: Amsterdam, 1595-1609
Sumatra Insula.
A miniature map of Sumatra and the Malay Peninsula, including Singapore and the various islands directly south of it. Containing detailed geography and nomenclature aroun...
Date: Amsterdam, 1609
Maldivae Insulae.
Very fine early miniature map of Maldives Islands. East is at the top. Title cartouche on the lower right corner. A dolphin and two ships are depicted.First published in ...
Date: Amsterdam / Frankfurt, 1609
Hydrograhica descriptio
This very rare chart is important as the first printed sea chart of the Mediterranean coast of Spain, Gibraltar, also depicting the northern coast of Marocco.Willem Bar...
Date: Amsterdam, W.Blaeu, 1612
Limburgensis Ducatus Tabula Nova.
Map of Limburg, prepared by the Antwerp expert in law and mathematics Aegidius Martini. After 1600 Jan Baptist Vrients acquired the stock and the plates of Ortelius' Thea...
Date: Antwerp, 1606-1612
DELFT. Delphium urbs Hollandiae cultissima. . .
A bird's-eye view of the town of Delft. From the first Dutch translation of Guicciardini's description of the Netherlands. In this town-plan, three buildings, still domin...
Date: Amsterdam, 1612
Cruydt-Boeck van Remberus Dodonaeus. . .
Scarce, the last edition of Dodoens' Cruydt-Boeck, one of the most influential and important botanical works of the 16th and 17th centuries. With richly engraved frontisp...
Date: Leyden, 1612
Ruremunda Gelriae opp.
A bird's eye town-plan of the town of Roermond. From the first Dutch translation of Guicciardini's description of the Netherlands.
Date: Amsterdam, 1612
![[Title page colored by Georg Mack Jr. to : Hortus Eystettensis, Sive Diligens et Accurata Omnium Plantarum, Florum, Stirpium,. . .]](/uploads/cache/39343-250x250.jpg)
[Title page colored by Georg Mack Jr. to : Hortus Eystettensis, Sive Diligens et Accurata Omnium Plantarum, Florum, Stirpium,. . .]
Title page to the first edition, one of about 300 copies printed, from one of the largest and most magnificent of the great flower books, depicting more than 1000 flowers...
Date: Nuremberg, ca 1613
De Christiana expeditione apud Sinas suscepta ab Societate Jesu, ex P. Matthaei Ricci.
Very rare first edition of the most influential Western description of China since the 13th-century account by Marco Polo. Printed in Latin with an engraved title page in...
Date: Augustæ Vind. (Augsburg), C. Mangium, 1615
Nieuw Nederlandtsch Caertboeck. Waer in volkomentlijcker als oyt te voren vertoont werden de XVII. Nederlanden.
Rare first edition of this atlas of the provinces of the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxemburg. Engraved title page, with : "Gedruckt t' Amsterdam by Abraham Goos Plaet...
Date: Amsterdam, 1616
Arabia.
FIRST IMPRINT FROM THE NEWLY ENGRAVED PLATES IN 1616. - A rare miniature map of the Arabian Peninsular. Title cartouche on the lower left corner.First published in 1598 i...
Date: Amsterdam, J. Hondius, 1616
Deliciae Batavicae.
It is a charming book illustrated with portraits of Willem of Orange and Prince Maurits and eight engraved armorial plates. Followed by 30 engraved views or scenes of ...
Date: Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius, 1618