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Madeburga [ Maagdenburg Folio CLXXX ]
Double page panoramic view of Magdeburg. A imaginary view, however the earliest obtainable view of this period.Two page from the richest illustrated Incunable, the famous...
Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
[Lot of 10 leaves] Catalogus doctorum…in Cosmographia Sebastiani…/ Index Cosmographicus.
Ten leaves with several wood blocks with index taken from the "Cosmographia". From the 1552 Latin text edition of Münster's Cosmographia, which is a short and ...
Date: Basel, 1552
[Sea monsters] De regni Settentrionali Monstri marini & terrestri…
Münster's plate of monsters of both land and sea, taken from an Italian text edition of Münster's Cosmographia, which is a short and complete summary of Renaissance kno...
Date: Basel, 1558
[Two plates on one sheet] Ordinanza Turchesa alla presa di Zigeth in Ongaria l’anno 1566 / Ordinanza Turchesca sotto Viena, contra lo Invictißimo Imperatore Carlo quinto l'anno 1550.
Ordinanza Turchesca sotto Viena, contra lo Invictißimo Imperatore Carlo quinto l'anno 1550". C. 1560. This extremely rare plate depicts the order of battle and for...
Date: Venice, 1550/ 1566
[Title page for] Theatrum Orbis Terrarum.
A decorative title page of the first atlas ever made shows five female figures as allegorical representatives of the continents, grouped around the title. According to P...
Date: Antwerp, after 1570
Title page from La Cosmographie Universelle..
In 1575 Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia was translated into French and published in Paris by François de Belle-Forest.
Date: Paris, 1575
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 ...
Date: Cologne, (1572) 1577
Spectandum dedit Ortelius mortalib..
This famous portrait, engraved by Galle, was included in Ortelius' atlases from 1579 onwards.The title translation is By looking, Ortelius gave to mortal beings the world...
- $550 / ≈ €468
Date: Antwerp, 1580
Tingis, Lusitanis, Tangiara. / Tzaffin. / Septa. / Arzilla/ Sala.
Views of the five northern and western African coastal town-view on one sheet: Latin text.From the greatest publication in this genre!. The Civitates was compiled and wri...
Date: Cologne, 1580
Slusa, Teutonicae Flandriae opp. . . (Sluis)
Bird'eye view of the town of Sluis.From the greatest publication in this genre!. The Civitates was compiled and written by George Braun, Canon of Cologne Cathedral. Braun...
Date: Cologne, 1580
[Title page] De Praecipuis, Totius Universi Urbibus, Liber Secundus.
Allegorical title page, from Volume 2 of Braun & Hogenberg's Civitatus Orbis Terrarum.At the top are figures representing Religion and Politics, placed on either side...
Date: Cologne, 1582
Hierosolymia, Clarissima totius Orientis civitas. . .
Two bird's eye perspectives on one sheet. The left plan shows ancient Jerusalem at the time of Christ.A contemporary view of Jerusalem appears to the right with an attrac...
- $1100 / ≈ €935
Date: Cologne, 1582
Hierosolymia, Clarissima totius Orientis civitas. . .
Two bird's eye perspectives on one sheet. The left plan shows ancient Jerusalem at the time of Christ. A contemporary view of Jerusalem appears to the right with an attra...
Date: Cologne, 1582
De custen van een deel van Denemarken en Swede. . .
A detailed chart of the coast Skane and Kalmar, with the island Öland. Decorated by a title and scale cartouche, a compass rose, several vessels and sea monsters, and de...
Date: Leiden, Plantijn, 1585
Caerte der Noordt cufte van Engelandt, beginnende van Robinhodes baij tot Coket Eijlandt. . . .
A very early Dutch text edition of this detailed chart of the northern coast of England. The mileage cartouche has no Latin captures. West to the top.Decorated by a color...
Date: Leiden, Plantijn, 1585
Beschrijvinge vande de zee Cuften va Vlanderen en Picardien. . .
A detailed description of the coast of Picardie and Normandy decorated by a large colored baroque title cartouche, and the coat of arms of Flanders with a colorful scale ...
- $1750 / ≈ €1488
Date: Amsterdam, 1585
Novus de Leone Belgico eiusq topographia atq. Historica descriptione liber (…). Rerumque in Belgio maxime gestarum, inde ab anno Christi M.D.LIX. Usque ad annum M.D.LXXXVII perpetua narratione continatus.
ENLARGED EDITION, with 207 (of 208) engravings of a famous eyewitness account of the Dutch Revolt, with the famous "Leo Belgicus" map, here in its second state...
Date: Cologne, Gerardus Campensis for Frans Hogenberg, 1588
(Portrait of Abraham Ortelius)
The famous head and shoulder portrait of Ortelius aged 50, engraved by Philippe Galle, included in his atlas. famous cartographer born in Antwerp and, after studying Gree...
- $700 / ≈ €595
Date: Antwerp, 1592
Dritter Theil Indiae Orientalis . . . [Title page]
A very attractive title page from the second part of de Bry's travel book. Theodore de Bry, a German engraver and book dealer, began a compilation of early voyages in 159...
- $250 / ≈ €213
Date: Frankfurt, 1594
ABRAHAMUS ORTELIUS ANTVERPIANUS Orteli dum proponis spectantibus Orbem, Quam tua delectant structa Theatra homines! . . .
Portrait of Abraham Ortelius (Abraham Ortel), famous cartographer born in Antwerp and after studying Greek, Latin and mathematics set up business there with his sister, a...
Date: Antwerp, c.1595
Joan Schonerus Mathematicus.
Very decorative portrait of Johannes Schöner (January 16, 1477 in Karlstadt am Main – January 16, 1547 in Nürnberg), engraved by Theodor de Bry (1528-1593) and publis...
- $300 / ≈ €255
Date: Frankfurt a.M. 1597 - 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
Wolgangus Lazius Historic Caesare.
Very decorative portrait of Wolfgang Lazius, engraved by Theodor de Bry (1528-1593) and published in Jean Jacques Boissard, "Icones Virorum Illustrium". Wolfgan...
- $300 / ≈ €255
Date: Frankfurt a.M. 1597 - 1599
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
[Title page] : Europae totius orbis terrarum partis praestantissimae ..
Quad's title page of his rare work Europae totius orbis terrarum partis praestantissimae..Engraved by Henricus Nagel. Latin text on verso.
- $400 / ≈ €340
Date: Cologne, 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
Sebastienus Munsterus.
Rare copper engraved portrait of Sebastian Münster (1488 – 1552) by Henricus Hondius (1573-1666) of The Hague. Published in Jacob Verheiden: "Praestantium aliquot...
- $350 / ≈ €298
Date: The Hague, 1602
[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
[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
Ambivi.. Victoria.. [The ship victoria of Magellean]
A rare print representing a the ship Victoria by Magellan, crossing the Pacific Ocean. First published in 1598 in his Caert-Thresoor, the plates were executed by the mos...
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
[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
Pascaarte van een deel der Oost Zee, tusschen Bornholm ende der Memel, vertonende de ware gelegentheijt der Zeecusten van Pruijssen. . .
This very rare chart of the Northern Coast of Poland with Gdansk, appeared in the rare English edition of Willem Blaeu's 'Het Licht der Zeevaert', an atlas of sea charts ...
- $4000 / ≈ €3402
Date: Amsterdam, 1608
[Navigational chart].
Two 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...
Date: Amsterdam, Cornille Nicolas, 1609
[Titlepage] Nomenclator Ptolemaicus..
Title page from a Ortelius Atlas part called: Nomenclator , containing a register of place names in antiquity. Letterpress with copper engraved print (60x60mm) of the eas...
- $150 / ≈ €128
Date: Antwerp, 1609
[Title page] Germaniae Tabule Geographicae ...
This is the title page to the volume of the atlas devoted to maps of Germany. According to Shirley the "early sectional parts of his "Atlas" each had Manne...
Date: Amsterdam, 1585-c.1610
(Title page) Principum Christianorum Stemmata.
Uncommon title page. From Antonio Albizzi, "Principum Christianorum Stemmata ab Antonio Albizio Nobili Florentino collecta: et Cum brevibus ejusdem notationibus ex A...
- $200 / ≈ €170
Date: Strasbourg, 1610
[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
[Titlepage] Galliae tabulae geographicae..
Decorative title page from the atlas by Mercator, surrounded with strapwork designs, garlands, fruit, birds and a portrait of a king.Read more about title pages. [+]
- $220 / ≈ €187
Date: Amsterdam, 1613
[Titlepage] Italiae, Sclavoniae, et Graeciae tabula geographice..
The text in this decorative title page from the atlas by Mercator is enclosed in an architectural framework engraved with cherubs, garlands and an eagle.Read more about t...
- $220 / ≈ €187
Date: Amsterdam, 1613
[Title page for] Galliae tabule geographicae . . .
Very fine title page by Gerard Mercator, composed of an elaborate strapwork design with the portrait of a King at the top.
Date: Amsterdam, 1613
Gallia. Nova Galliae descriptio . . .
Very rare and early map of France with figures on three sides with views of cities, portraits (Henri IV and Marie de Medicis) and costumes. The map was directly influence...
Date: Amsterdam, 1616
Polna vulgo Polm insign : Bohemia. . .
This is a view of Polna from the southwest, looking across the Bohemian-Moravian Highlands from a slightly elevated viewpoint. In addition to the parish church (D) in the...
Date: Cologne, 1617
[Title page] Theatre Geographique du Royaume de France. . . .
Title page by Nicolas de Clerc of ' Theatre Geographique du Royaume de France ". Joined page of " Table de toutes les cartes des provinces contenues", with...
Date: Paris, 1619
Asia recens summa cura delineata.
This is the rare early issue with decorative paneled borders of four sides. It is surrounded by elaborate borders incorporating twelve bird's eye views of cities and te...
Date: Amsterdam, H.Hondius,1623
Africae nova Tabula.
A second state of this very rare "carte à figures"- map. Decorated with the four decorative borders by Jodocus Hondius Jr.This remarkable map of Africa was fir...
Date: Amsterdam, 1623
[Title page] Thesauri Philo-Politci pars Secunda. . .
Very skillfully engraved title page from a rare work printed by Eberhard Kieser: Thesaurus Philo-Politicus. Das ist Politisches Schatzkästlein guter Herren und bestendig...
- $75 / ≈ €64
Date: Frankfurt, 1624
[Title page] Thesauri Philo-Politci Quinta pars. . .
Very skilfully engraved title page from a rare work printed by Eberhard Kieser: Thesaurus Philo-Politicus. Das ist Politisches Schatzkästlein guter Herren und bestendige...
- $75 / ≈ €64
Date: Frankfurt, 1624
[Title page] Thesauri Philo-Politci Quarta pars. . .
Very skillfully engraved title page from a rare work printed by Eberhard Kieser: Thesaurus Philo-Politicus. Das ist Politisches Schatzkästlein guter Herren und bestendig...
- $90 / ≈ €77
Date: Frankfurt, 1624
[Title page] Thesauri Philo-Politci Quarta pars. . .
Very skillfully engraved title page from a rare work printed by Eberhard Kieser: Thesaurus Philo-Politicus. Das ist Politisches Schatzkästlein guter Herren und bestendig...
- $90 / ≈ €77
Date: Frankfurt, 1624
Marchionatus Sacri Romani Imperii.
Plan of the city of Antwerp in Belgium, by Claes Janszoon Visscher and first published by his son. The map is surrounded by 3 city views and 10 building vignettes and inc...
Date: Amsterdam 1624
[Title page] Thesauri Philo-Politci Pars Sexta. . .
Very skillfully engraved title page from a rare work printed by Eberhard Kieser: Thesaurus Philo-Politicus. Das ist Politisches Schatzkästlein guter Herren und bestendig...
- $90 / ≈ €77
Date: Frankfurt, 1625
Daniel Meisnerus Comment. Boh. Poeta Laur. Caes.
Very skillfully engraved portrait of Daniel Meisner from a rare work printed by Eberhard Kieser: Thesaurus Philo-Politicus. Das ist Politisches Schatzkästlein guter Herr...
- $200 / ≈ €170
Date: Frankfurt, 1625
[Title page] Thesauri Philo Politci pars septima. . .
Very skillfully engraved title page from a rare work printed by Eberhard Kieser: Thesaurus Philo-Politicus. Das ist Politisches Schatzkästlein guter Herren und bestendig...
- $90 / ≈ €77
Date: Frankfurt, 1626
[Title page] Libellus Novus Politicus. . . Pars Spetima.
Very skilfully engraved title page from a rare work printed by Eberhard Kieser: Thesaurus Philo-Politicus. Das ist Politisches Schatzkästlein guter Herren und bestendige...
- $90 / ≈ €77
Date: Frankfurt, 1626
[Title page] Libellus Novus Politicus.. Pars Octava.
Very skillfully engraved title page from a rare work printed by Eberhard Kieser: Thesaurus Philo-Politicus. Das ist Politisches Schatzkästlein guter Herren und bestendig...
- $75 / ≈ €64
Date: Frankfurt, 1626
[Title page] Libellus Novus Politicus.. Pars Altra.
Very skillfully engraved title page from a rare work printed by Eberhard Kieser: Thesaurus Philo-Politicus. Das ist Politisches Schatzkästlein guter Herren und bestendig...
- $80 / ≈ €68
Date: Frankfurt, 1626
Nova Franconiae Descriptio.
In 1626 Abraham Goos engraved a single-sheet "carte à figures"- map of Franconia with decorative borders for Joannes Janssonius. In the center part of the top ...
- $2000 / ≈ €1701
Date: Amsterdam, 1626
[Title page] Libellus Novus Politicus.. Pars Tertia.
Very skillfully engraved title page from a rare work printed by Eberhard Kieser: Thesaurus Philo-Politicus. Das ist Politisches Schatzkästlein guter Herren und bestendig...
- $80 / ≈ €68
Date: Frankfurt, 1626
[Title page] Libellus Novus Politicus.. Pars Quarta.
Very skillfully engraved title page from a rare work printed by Eberhard Kieser: Thesaurus Philo-Politicus. Das ist Politisches Schatzkästlein guter Herren und bestendig...
- $80 / ≈ €68
Date: Frankfurt, 1626
[Title page] Libellus Novus Politicus.. Pars Tertia.
Very skilfully engraved title page from a rare work printed by Eberhard Kieser: Thesaurus Philo-Politicus. Das ist Politisches Schatzkästlein guter Herren und bestendige...
- $90 / ≈ €77
Date: Frankfurt, 1626
[Title page] Libellus Novus Politicus.. Pars Sexta.
Very skilfully engraved title page from a rare work printed by Eberhard Kieser: Thesaurus Philo-Politicus. Das ist Politisches Schatzkästlein guter Herren und bestendige...
- $90 / ≈ €77
Date: Frankfurt, 1626
[Title page] Libellus Novus Politicus.. Pars Sexta.
Very skilfully engraved title page from a rare work printed by Eberhard Kieser: Thesaurus Philo-Politicus. Das ist Politisches Schatzkästlein guter Herren und bestendige...
- $90 / ≈ €77
Date: Frankfurt, 1626
[Title page] Libellus Novus Politicus.. Pars Quarta.
Very skilfully engraved title page from a rare work printed by Eberhard Kieser: Thesaurus Philo-Politicus. Das ist Politisches Schatzkästlein guter Herren und bestendige...
- $80 / ≈ €68
Date: Frankfurt, 1626
[Title page] Libellus Novus Politicus.. Pars Spetima.
Very skilfully engraved title page from a rare work printed by Eberhard Kieser: Thesaurus Philo-Politicus. Das ist Politisches Schatzkästlein guter Herren und bestendige...
- $75 / ≈ €64
Date: Frankfurt, 1626
[Title page] Libellus Novus Politicus.. Pars Quinta.
Very skilfully engraved title page from a rare work printed by Eberhard Kieser: Thesaurus Philo-Politicus. Das ist Politisches Schatzkästlein guter Herren und bestendige...
- $90 / ≈ €77
Date: Frankfurt, 1626
[Title page] Libellus Novus Politicus.. Pars Octava.
Very skilfully engraved title page from a rare work printed by Eberhard Kieser: Thesaurus Philo-Politicus. Das ist Politisches Schatzkästlein guter Herren und bestendige...
- $90 / ≈ €77
Date: Frankfurt, 1626
[Title page] Libellus Novus Politicus.. Pars Spetima.
Very skillfully engraved title page from a rare work printed by Eberhard Kieser: Thesaurus Philo-Politicus. Das ist Politisches Schatzkästlein guter Herren und bestendig...
Date: Frankfurt, 1626
A Newe mape of Poland Done into English by I.Speede.
A wonderful map of Poland. Incorporated into Speed's 'Prospect Of The Most Famous Parts Of The World'. Includes birds-eye views of Cracow, Dantzick, Posna, Crossen, Sando...
Date: London, 1627
[Title page] Thesauri Philo Politici pars Prima ...
Very skillfully engraved title page from a rare work printed by Eberhard Kieser: "Thesaurus Philo-Politicus. Das ist Politisches Schatzkästlein guter Herren und bes...
- $80 / ≈ €68
Date: Frankfurt, 1630
Tabula electoratus Brandenburgici, Meckelenburgi, et maximae partis Pomeraniae, ex variis, famosissimisq[ue] auctoribus summo studio concinnata. . .
Uncommon "carte à figures"- map engraved by the master engraver Abraham Goos and published by Claes Jansz. Visscher (1587-1652). The map shows the part of west...
Date: Amsterdam, 1630
[Portrait of Gerard Mercator and Jodocus Hondius.]
Arguably the finest engraved portrait of early mapmakers. In the well-executed design, Gerard Mercator and Jodocus Hondius are seated within an architectural cartouche of...
Date: Amsterdam, 1630
[Titlepage] Germaniae tabule geographicae.
Decorative title page to the volume of the "Atlas, Sive Cosmographicae Meditationes De Fabrica Mundi" devoted to maps of Germany. The design in a typical Manner...
- $280 / ≈ €238
Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Tabula nova Poloniae et Silesiae.
Second state, dated 1630 underneath the title. A finely engraved carte á figures with cartouche representing in the four corners of the map : Kings ( on the left side Si...
Date: Amsterdam, 1630
[Title page] Thesauri Philo Politici pars Tertia ...
Very skillfully engraved title page from a rare work printed by Eberhard Kieser: "Thesaurus Philo-Politicus. Das ist Politisches Schatzkästlein guter Herren und bes...
Date: Frankfurt, 1630
[Title Page] Atlas Sive cosmographicae Meditationes . . .
Title page from the rare Cloppenburg edition slightly larger format and more scarce edition of the Mercator/Hondius "Atlas Minor". Engraved by Pieter Van Den Ke...
Date: Amsterdam, 1630
[Title page] Thesauri Philo Polithi Tertia pars..
Very skilfully engraved title page from a rare work printed by Eberhard Kieser: "Thesaurus Philo-Politicus. Das ist Politisches Schatzkästlein guter Herren und best...
- $80 / ≈ €68
Date: Frankfurt, 1630
[Title page] Thesauri Philo Polithi Tertia pars..
Very skillfully engraved title page from a rare work printed by Eberhard Kieser: "Thesaurus Philo-Politicus. Das ist Politisches Schatzkästlein guter Herren und bes...
- $80 / ≈ €68
Date: Frankfurt, 1630
Comitatus Flandria.
First published by the van Langrens c.1595, after his acquisition of the plate, Visscher heavily re-engraved the map, inserting panelled borders on three sides (the lower...
Date: Amsterdam, c. 1630