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Sclavonia, Croatia cum Dalmatiae Parte.
Excellent map with coat-of-arms focusing specifically on the embattled nations of the former Yugoslavia.
Date: Amsterdam, 1638
India quae Orientalis dicitur, et Insulae Adiacentes.
Map of South East Asia, noteworthy for being one of the first maps to include, albeit incompletely, the discoveries made by the Dutch vessel Duyfken in 1605-1606 in the G...
- $1750 / ≈ €1507
Date: Amsterdam, 1638
Carte du siège présidial Dax et seneschaucee des Lannes et des sieges de Bayonne sainct sever et Tartas qui en dependent Nouvellement dessignee Par le Sr de Classun.
Very rare map including Bayonne and Dax in the south west of France. With inset plan of "Plan de la ville Dax.". Engraved by Henri le Roy. With the address &quo...
Date: Paris, 1638
Histoire de la Navigation.
A fine example of Linschoten's classic illustrated travelogue to the East and West Indies, termed by Lach “the most important of the firsthand accounts published indepe...
Date: Amsterdam, Evert Cloppenburgh, 1638
Bravnswyck et Meydburg. . .
As Willem Blaeu died in 1638 most of his maps are actually published by his son Joan. This maps carries his (engraved) signature and was actually published in volume II o...
Date: Amsterdam, 1638
Monasteriensis Episcopatus.
A very detailed map of Germany centered on Munster and Linge. Also showing Wessel to the top of the map and Oldenburg to the right. North to the right. The map is adorned...
Date: Amsterdam, 1638
Mansfeldia Comitatus. . .
Centered on Mansfield and prepared by Telemann Stella (1527-1589) a German cartographer who made maps of Germany and the Holy Land.As Willem Blaeu died in 1638 most of hi...
Date: Amsterdam, 1638
Saxonia Superior, cum Lusatia et Misnia.
Finely engraved and detailed map of Saxony including Halle, Leipzig, Meissen, and Dresden. Filled with forests and tiny villages. It presents Prague close to the centre o...
Date: Amsterdam, 1638
Rugia Insula ac ducatus. . .
Willem Blaeu's highly decorative map of the island of Rugen in the Baltic Sea from a map by Eihard Lubin. Embellished with a title-cartouches, and 30 coats-of-arms in the...
- $300 / ≈ €258
Date: Amsterdam, 1638
Guiana sive Amazonum Regio.
Willem Blaeu’s decorative map of the Guianas, Lake Parima (Parime Lacus), and the route to El Dorado was initially issued in 1630 (with some variants were published wel...
- $400 / ≈ €345
Date: Amsterdam, 1638
Insulae Americanae in Oceano Septentrionali cum Terris adiacentibus.
General map of the West Indies extending from Virginia to the mouth of the Orinoco, and destined to be copied in various shapes by many other publishers.Title cartouche t...
- $1800 / ≈ €1550
Date: Amsterdam, 1638
Guinea.
An attractive map covered with intersecting rhumb lines and decorated with monkeys, lions, elephants and native figures. With a dedication to Dr. Nicolas Tulp.As Willem B...
- $750 / ≈ €646
Date: Amsterdam, 1638
Tartaria sive Magni Chami imperium.
Detailed and decorative map of Tartary and Northern part of China. Northern tip of Korea included. The Chinese Great Wall is depicted, with Central Asia, extending from M...
- $500 / ≈ €431
Date: Amsterdam, 1638
Mediolanum Ducatus.
Very fine map centered on Milan Including Lake Como, Lake Garda, Lake Majore, Parma, etc.As Willem Blaeu died in 1638 most of his maps are actually published by his son J...
Date: Amsterdam, 1638
Mantua ducatus.
Centered at the town of Mantua.As Willem Blaeu died in 1638 most of his maps are actually published by his son Joan. This map carries his (engraved) signature and was act...
Date: Amsterdam, 1638
Dominio Veneto nell' Italia.
With the Gulf of Venice. Including the towns of Cremona, Brescia, Venice, etc.As Willem Blaeu died in 1638 most of his maps are actually published by his son Joan. This m...
Date: Amsterdam, 1638
Karstia, Camiola, Histria et Windorum Marchia.
Including the Gulf of Trieste, Venice and the northern part of former Yugoslavia. Prepared by Gerard Mercator.As Willem Blaeu died in 1638 most of his maps are actually p...
Date: Amsterdam, 1638
Walachia, Servia, Bulgaria, Romania.
Striking map of the region centered on the Lower Danube, Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia and Macedonia. Includes decorative cartouche, coat of arms, etc. Latin text on verso.Th...
Date: Amsterdam, 1638
Stiria Steyermarck.
Covering the eastern part of Austria, Styria and Carinthia, centered on the town of Graz.As Willem Blaeu died in 1638 most of his maps are actually published by his son J...
Date: Amsterdam, 1638
Taurica Chersonesus, Nostra aetate Przecopsca, et Gazara dicitur.
Part of Russia with in the north Smolensk and Moscow and in the south the Black Sea.As Willem Blaeu died in 1638 most of his maps are actually published by his son Joan. ...
Date: Amsterdam, 1638
Danubius Fluvius Europae Maximus, a Fontibus ad Ostia..
Depicts the course of the Danube River, from its sources in the Alps to the Black Sea..Because of the dimensions the map was printed from two copper plates.With two very ...
Date: Amsterdam, 1638
Saltzburg Archiepiscopatus, et Carinthia Ducatus
Handsome map of the archbishopric of Salzburg and the Duchy of Carinthia.Title in banner form with two coats of arms and three cherubs decorating the map.As Willem Blaeu ...
Date: Amsterdam, 1638
Uplandia.
Covers the area of the modern Uppsala, the vicinity of Stockholm, and includes most of Aland.
Date: Amsterdam, 1639
Ducatus Limburg.
In 1616 prepared by Aegidio Martini. Includes the towns of Maastricht as well as of Aachen. A very large title cartouche with two putti.
Date: Amsterdam 1639
Argow .
Centered on the Bernese and Lucerne. Including the towns of Lucerne, Bern and Thuner- and Lucerner See. Prepared by Gerard Mercator.
Date: Amsterdam, 1639
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[Title page] Theatri Europaei, oder historischer chronicken Beschreibung . . .
Title page, lavishly decorated with in the middle Fama who blows trumpets on a fortress tower, with another trumpet held in the other hand. Fama can proclaim war glory, b...
- $100 / ≈ €86
Date: Frankfurt, ca. 1639
India quae Orientalis dicitur, et Insulae adiacentes.
A fine map of South East Asia, extending from India to Tibet to Japan to New Guinea. Formosa appears on this map, and even parts of Japan and Australia are seen. A handso...
- $1850 / ≈ €1593
Date: Amsterdam, 1640
![[Title page from] Le Theatre du Monde ou Nouvel Atlas.](/uploads/cache/06754-250x250.jpg)
[Title page from] Le Theatre du Monde ou Nouvel Atlas.
Architectural frontage without the usual title and imprint printed on paste-on slips.More about title pages [+]
- $250 / ≈ €215
Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Venezuela cum parte Australi novae Andalusiae.
RARE. A finely engraved, decorative map with no text on the verso. The islands Trinidad, Margarita, Aruba and Curaçao are shown as well.
Date: Amsterdam, c. 1640
Peregrinations divi Pauli Tyrus Corographicus. . .
A beautifully executed and very rare map showing the peregrinations of St. Paul in the Eastern Mediterranean. The Mediterranean is ornated with two ships and two sea mons...
Date: Paris, ca. 1640
Comitatus Glatz.
Handsome map of the Silesia region with Glatz (Klodzko) at center. The forested region was renowned for its wild game and the map includes tiny illustrations of the wildl...
- $450 / ≈ €388
Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Virginiae Partis Australis, et Floridae Partis Orientalis.
Blaeu based this map on the Mercator-Hondius of 1606. A number of geographical improvements, however were incorporated, although two large fictions lakes accompanied by e...
- $1400 / ≈ €1206
Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Guiana sive Amazonum Regio.
Nice map extending from the Isla Margarita in the northwest to the coast of northern Brazil near Sao Luis east of the Amazon delta. The map locates at its center a large ...
- $500 / ≈ €431
Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Virginiae Partis Australis, et Floridae Partis Orientalis.
Blaeu based this map on the Mercator-Hondius of 1606. A number of geographical improvements, however were incorporated, although two large fictions lakes accompanied by e...
Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Asia secunda pars terrae in forma Pegasi.
Asia is depicted as the flying horse Pegasus. This cartographical curiosity, double-page copper engraved map, was published in Heinrich Bünting's “Itinerarium Sacrae S...
Date: Brunswick, 1640
Carte de l'Asie, corrigée et augmentée, dessus toutes les aultres Faict L année 1640.
Map of Asia with a dedication to Pierre Petit. The map bears a very close resemblance to the Asia maps of the Hondius family. Michael Van Lochom (1601-1647) was a Calvini...
Date: [Paris], 1640
China Veteribus Sinarum Regio.
Based on Jesuit surveys, the map represents the next major revision in the cartography of China after Ortelius' 1584 map. Korea, however, is still an island, and Japan co...
Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Aethiopia Inferior vel Exterior.
The standard map of South Africa throughout the 17th century. The lake out of which the 'Zambere' -the Zambesi- flows is probably based on reports of Lake Ngami, undiscov...
- $750 / ≈ €646
Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Nova Virginiae Tabula.
A fine example of Blaeu's map of Virginia and the Chesapeake region is based on the first state of Smith's map, 1612, and is slightly larger and more expertly engraved.Th...
Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Tabulae Italiae, Corsicae, Sardiniae, et adjacentium..
A decorative map by this famous Dutch mapmaker. The border contains views of the main cities, largely inspired by the Civitates Orbis Terrarum by Braun & Hogenberg: R...
Date: Amsterdam, 1628,1640
![[Title page] Theatrum orbis Terrarum sive Atlas Novus pars Secunda.](/uploads/cache/47922-250x250.jpg)
[Title page] Theatrum orbis Terrarum sive Atlas Novus pars Secunda.
Glorious mid-seventeenth century engraved frontispiece by Joan and Cornelis Blaeu from the second part of his 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum'.Read more about decorative atlas ...
- $350 / ≈ €301
Date: Amsterdam, 1640
![[Title page] Le Theatre du Monde ou Nouvel Atlas.](/uploads/cache/06812-250x250.jpg)
[Title page] Le Theatre du Monde ou Nouvel Atlas.
Architectural frontage with the title and imprint printed on paste-on slips.Parts of the item are heightened in gold. Read more about maps heightened in gold
Date: Amsterdam, 1640
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[Ritter Sundial Map of the World]
This highly unusual map projects the world from the north pole as though it were the table of a sundial, with the land masses drawn to scale in proportion to their distan...
Date: Nuremberg, 1640
N°2. Horologium Horizontale Paralle los Horizontis cum Hor: a meridie numeratis ostendens.
This beautiful engraving is a horological diagram with at bottom a 32-point wind rose and signed underneath "Franciscus Ritter N fac:".Remarkable for the elabor...
- $750 / ≈ €646
Date: Nuremberg 1640
N°5. Horologium Horizontale signa zodiaci ascendentia : ec.cotinens ad latitud XLVIIII : GR: XXIIII: SCR ee.
This beautiful engraving is a horological diagram with at bottom a 32-point wind rose and signed underneath "M:Franciscus Ritter N fac A° 1640".Remarkable for ...
- $400 / ≈ €345
Date: Nuremberg 1640
Terra Firma et Novum regnum Granatense et Propayan.
Fine copy, with wide margins of this handsome map of the Isthmus of Panama and northwestern South America including most of present day Columbia and part of Venezuela. Te...
- $400 / ≈ €345
Date: Amsterdam, 1640
N°7. Horologium Horizontale parallelos Horizontis Exhibens ad Poliarctici elevationem XLVIIII Grad XXIIII Scrupul Ec.
This beautiful engraving is a horological diagram with at bottom a 32-point wind rose and signed underneath "M:Franciscus Ritter N fac A° 1640".Remarkable for ...
- $750 / ≈ €646
Date: Nuremberg 1640
![[Title page] Le Theatre du Monde ou Nouvel Atlas . . .](/uploads/cache/27212-250x250.jpg)
[Title page] Le Theatre du Monde ou Nouvel Atlas . . .
Architectural frontage with the title and imprint printed on paste-on slips decorated by a heraldic shield, with crown and garters.
- $200 / ≈ €172
Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Mappa Aestivarum Insularum, alias Barmudas...
This magnificent map is based on the famous survey by John Norwood of the Bermuda Company in 1618. The map shows the division into the original Tribes and shows the vario...
- $1700 / ≈ €1464
Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Guinea.
An attractive map covered with intersecting rhumb lines and decorated with monkeys, lions, elephants and native figures. A coat of arms and a dedicatory cartouche in the...
Date: Amsterdam, 1640
N°3. Horologium Horizontale Horas a meridie et media nocte Numeratas continens ad latitudinem XLIX GR XXIII Minut ec.
This beautiful engraving is a horological diagram with a 32-point wind rose at the bottom, signed underneath "M:Franciscus Ritter N fac A° 1640."It is remarkab...
Date: Nuremberg 1640
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[Horological diagrams surrounding a smaller world map]
This beautiful engraving has nine (of ten) horological diagrams surrounding a smaller map, which omits any delineation of the British Isles. Projected from the North Pole...
- $2000 / ≈ €1723
Date: Nuremberg 1640
Waldeck Comitatus.
Map centered on Waldeck, Korbach, etc.
- $100 / ≈ €86
Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Bituricum Ducatus. Duche de Berri.
A very decorative map with beautiful cartouches of a province of France by one of the most famous map publishers. Berry is a region located in the center of France. It wa...
Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Paderbornensis Episscopatus Descriptio Nova.
Detailed map by Willem Blaeu., centered on Paderborn. Embellished with several coats of arms. Prepared by Joannes Michael Gigas (1580-1650+), a doctor, mathematician and ...
- $175 / ≈ €151
Date: Amsterdam, 1640
![[Title page from ] Le Theatre du Monde ou le nouvel atlas mis en lumière par Guillaume et Jean Blaeu. Troisieme partie.](/uploads/cache/47942-250x250.jpg)
[Title page from ] Le Theatre du Monde ou le nouvel atlas mis en lumière par Guillaume et Jean Blaeu. Troisieme partie.
Frontispiece of " Le Theatre du Monde ou le nouvel atlas mis en lumière par Guillaume et Jean Blaeu. Troisieme partie." Very clear print with nice cartouches a...
Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Mansfeldia Comitatus..
Centered on Mansfeld and prepared by Tilemano Stella (1527-1589) a German cartographer who made maps of Germany and the Holy Land.
- $100 / ≈ €86
Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Serenissimae Reipublicae Genuensis Ducatus et Dominii.
Includes the coast of the Riviera from Nice to La Spezia. A most decorative and rare map because it was only included in the Vrients' editions of the Ortelius Theatrum . ...
Date: Antwerp, 1609-1641
Barbaria. / Egypt / Tunesia.
Three maps on one sheet. Upper part, it shows the coast of Barbaria from Morocco to Egypt: the map on the left corner of Tunis includes a plan of Goletiae, and the right ...
- $300 / ≈ €258
Date: Amsterdam, 1641
Antiquorum Galliae episcopatuum geographica descriptio. . . / Antiqui magnae Britaniae Episcopatus.
Detailed map of France during Ancient times. In lower left corner inset map of England "Antiqui magnae Britaniae Episcopatus." (160x146mm.) First published in &...
Date: Paris, ca.1641
Natoliae.. Aegypti recentior.. Carthaginis (3 maps on 1 sheet)
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&...
Date: Antwerp, 1609-1641
Ducatus silasiae Wolanus. . .
An engraved 17th-century map of the Duchy of Wohlau in Poland with four cartouches in the corners. Orientated with east at the top. The decorative cartouche displaying th...
- $550 / ≈ €474
Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1641
Scaldis Antverpia - Locorum Insignium ac viae triumphalis qua ser.mus princeps, Ferdinandus Austriacus, Hispaniar, Infans. etc. Antverpiam est ingressus, designatio . . .
Bird's-eye view of the city of Antwerp and the River Schelde, numbered (1-59 ) with important sites along the entry of the Cardinal Infant Ferdinand of Austria into Antwe...
- $2000 / ≈ €1723
Date: Antwerp, 1635-1641
Nobilis Hannoniae Comitatus Descrip.
Fine map of Hannonia (Hainaut), with ornate cartouches, two coats of arms, etc. Showing the cities of Charleroi, Mons, Ath, Tournay, Valenciennes, Maubeuge, etc. in Belgi...
- $600 / ≈ €517
Date: Antwerp, 1612-1641
![[Title page] Le Nouveau Theatre du Monde Nouvel Atlas Tome Troisieme.](/uploads/cache/47946-250x250.jpg)
[Title page] Le Nouveau Theatre du Monde Nouvel Atlas Tome Troisieme.
A very attractive title page from Le Nouveau Theatre du Monde Nouvel Atlas Tome Troisieme. .
Date: Amsterdam, 1641
Das Wiesen oder Hiobs Badt.
Very decorative and rare panoramic town view of Wiensenbad near Annaberg im Erzgebirge.The engraver and publisher of prints, Mrs. Anna Beek of the Hague, enlarged the pri...
Date: The Hague, ca. 1642
Venise (Venetia).
Scarce and detailed bird's-eye view of the town of Venice by Giacomo Lauro (active about 1584-1637), taken from "Heroico Splendore delle Città del Mondo", a ra...
Date: Rome, ca. 1642
Anglia Regnum.
Janssonius' map of England and Wales was one of the new maps prepared by him in 1636. His map closely copies the similar map issued two years earlier by Willem Blaeu.. Th...
Date: Amsterdam, 1642
Statt Talbe an der Saal.
Very decorative and rare panoramic town view of Calbe a.d. Saale, Bez Magdeburg.The engraver and publisher of prints, Mrs. Anna Beek of the Hague, enlarged the print and ...
Date: The Hague, ca. 1642
Wittstocs.
Very decorative and rare panoramic of Wittstock, Bez. Potsdam.The engraver and publisher of prints, Mrs. Anna Beek of the Hague, enlarged the print and mounted it on larg...
Date: The Hague, ca. 1642
Schweet.
Very decorative and rare panoramic town view of Schwedt a.d Oder, Bez. Frankfurt a.d. Oder.The engraver and publisher of prints, Mrs. Anna Beek of the Hague, enlarged the...
Date: The Hague, ca. 1642
Czaslaw.
Very decorative and rare panoramic of Czaslaw, Caslav, Tschslau in Böhmen.The engraver and publisher of prints, Mrs. Anna Beek of the Hague, enlarged the print and moun...
Date: The Hague, ca. 1642
Werben.
Very decorative and rare panoramic town view of Werben a.d. Elbe, Bez. Magdeburg.The engraver and publisher of prints, Mrs. Anna Beek of the Hague, enlarged the print and...
Date: The Hague, ca. 1642
Greüssen.
Very decorative and rare panoramic town view of Greussen (Thür.),Bez. Erfurt .The engraver and publisher of prints, Mrs. Anna Beek of the Hague, enlarged the print and m...
Date: The Hague, ca. 1642
Bützom.
Very decorative and rare panoramic town view of Bützom.The engraver and publisher of prints, Mrs. Anna Beek of the Hague, enlarged the print and mounted it on larger pap...
Date: The Hague, ca. 1642
Leisnig.
Very decorative and rare panoramic town view of Leisnig a.d. Freiberger Mulde.The engraver and publisher of prints, Mrs. Anna Beek of the Hague, enlarged the print and m...
Date: The Hague, ca. 1642
Haus trebnits an der saale.
Very decorative and rare panoramic of Trebnitz a.d Saale , Bez. Halle.The engraver and publisher of prints, Mrs. Anna Beek of the Hague, enlarged the print and mounted i...
Date: The Hague, ca. 1642
Hertzberg.
Very decorative and rare panoramic town view of Herzberg a.d. Schwarzen Elster, Bez. Cootbus.The engraver and publisher of prints, Mrs. Anna Beek of the Hague, enlarged t...
Date: The Hague, ca. 1642
Newstatt an der Orla.
Very decorative and rare panoramic of Neustadt a.d. Donau, Kr. Kelheim, Ndb.The engraver and publisher of prints, Mrs. Anna Beek of the Hague, enlarged the print and mou...
Date: The Hague, ca. 1642
Statt und Ambtt Wantzleben.
Very decorative and rare panoramic town view of Wanzleben, Bez. Magdeburg.The engraver and publisher of prints, Mrs. Anna Beek of the Hague, enlarged the print and mounte...
Date: The Hague, ca. 1642