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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
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
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
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
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 / ≈ €1722
Date: Amsterdam, 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
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
Nova Helvetiae Tabula.
A most decorative "carte à figures" map with panoramic views of Lucern, S.Gal, Bern, Solothurn, Schafhausen in upper border and Basel and Zurich in lower left ...
Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Nova Europae descriptio.
Rare early issue of the map of Europe with the lower border removed and without text on the reverse. Variant: The map no longer has a lower border, no text on the reverse...
Date: Amsterdam, after 1630
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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
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
Nova Germaniae Descriptio..
A finely engraved carte à figures, with the side borders depicting emperors, while the upper and lower panels contain finely engraved miniature town prospects, among the...
Date: Amsterdam, 1632
Asia recens summa cura delineata.
This is the rare early issue with decorative paneled borders. In upper border views and plans of Famagusta, Rhodos, Damascus, Jerusalem, Aden and Ormus. Originally engrav...
Date: Amsterdam, 1632
Nova et accurata Tabula Hispaniae. . .
Second state. This "carte à figures"- map of Spain and Portugal shows the geographical image introduced by Hessel Gerritsz's 1612 wall map of Spain. The map is...
Date: Amsterdam, 1633
Brabantia Ducatus.
Second state of this scarce Carte-a-Figures map of Brabant, published by Peter Verbiest in Antwerp, decorated with three-sided panels. This is the variant without a botto...
Date: Antwerp, 1637
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
Europa recens descripta à Guilielmo Blaeuw.
On either side, columns depicting the manner of dress in the major countries of Europe, surmounted by nine city views and plans.For European mapmakers their own continent...
Date: Amsterdam, 1644
Europa recens descripta à Guilielmo Blaeuw.
On either side columns depicting the manner of dress in the major countries of Europe, surmounted by nine city views and plans.For European mapmakers their own continent ...
Date: Amsterdam, 1644
Americae Nova Descriptio.
Final state. According to Philip Burden, "this scarce map is America's first single-sheet map with decorative borders." A re-issue of the 1614 plate by Pieter v...
Date: Amsterdam, 1652
Nova Haec tabula Galliae. . .
Dated 1653. This handsome map of France is dedicated to Louis XIV, interesting in light of the nearly constant warfare between Louis and the Netherlands in the ensuing ye...
Date: Amsterdam, 1653
Carte generale des treze cantons de Suisses. Valley Ligues Grise, Maison Dieu et Valteline. 1654
Rare figured border map of Switzerland. In lower corners views of Basel and Zurich. In the top views of Luzern, St. Gallen, Bern, Solothurn and Schaffhausen. In the left ...
Date: Paris, ca. 1654
Fluviorum Rheni Mosae Mosellae Moeni Neccaris aliorumque minorum in eosdem se exonerantium et regionum circumjacentium descriptio
Fluviorum Rheni Mosae Mosellae Moeni Neccaris aliorumque minorum in eosdem se exonerantium et regionum circumjacentium descriptio Decorative map with 18 vignettes on thr...
- $750 / ≈ €646
Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1660
Nova Africa descriptio.
A beautifully engraved and most attractive "carte à figures"- map of the African continent. Bordered, above, by panels showing panorama's of Cairo, Alexandria,...
Date: Amsterdam, after 1660
Nova XVII Provinciarum Inferioris Germaniae descriptio .
Extremely rare map of the Benelux by Frederick de Widt. Originally engraved and published by P.Kaerius in 1607. In 1662 the plate came in the possession of Frederick de W...
Date: Amsterdam, 1662
A new mape of Ye XVII Provinces of Low Germanie.
Showing all 17 Provinces of the Netherlands before the split between Spain and the Protestant Provinces under the House of Orange.The map was first published. At the same...
Date: London, 1676
The mape of Hungari newly augmented by John Speede.
A wonderful carte-a-figures map of ‘Hungari’, comprising modern-day Hungary and parts of Slovakia. Showing two sets of four costumed figures on each side of the map a...
Date: Londres, Bassett and Chiswell, 1626 / 1676
EUROP, and the cheife Cities contayned therin described. . .
A good impression from an early edition of this famous and decorative "carte à figures"- map from the first world atlas produced by an Englishman - John Speed'...
Date: London, 1627 - 1676
Novissima et Accuratissima Totius Americae descriptio..
Third state of one of the classic Dutch maps of the Americas and one of the most often copied.Lower right hand corner F. de Wit excudit. Longitudinal lines numbered to th...
Date: Amsterdam, [1678
