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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...

$4000 / ≈ €3743
Maker / Publisher: BLAEU, W.
Place & 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...

$2900 / ≈ €2714
Maker / Publisher: JANSSONIUS, J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1616

 


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 / ≈ €1871
Maker / Publisher: JANSSONIUS, J.
Place & 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...

$3400 / ≈ €3181
Maker / Publisher: SPEED, J. / HUMBLE, G.
Place & 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...

$4000 / ≈ €3743
Maker / Publisher: VISSCHER, C.J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c. 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...

$2000 / ≈ €1871
Maker / Publisher: VISSCHER, N. J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630

 


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...

$4000 / ≈ €3743
Maker / Publisher: JANSSONIUS, J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1632

 


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...

$2700 / ≈ €2526
Maker / Publisher: JANSSONIUS, J.
Place & 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...

$3500 / ≈ €3275
Maker / Publisher: VISSCHER, C.J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1633

 


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 ...

$3500 / ≈ €3275
Maker / Publisher: BLAEU, W.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1644

 


Americae Nova Tabula.

The delineation of the coast and the nomenclature on both the Pacific and Atlantic coasts are basically Spanish in origin and follow the maps of Ortelius and Wytfliet. To...

$6000 / ≈ €5614
Maker / Publisher: BLAEU, W.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1645

 


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...

$2000 / ≈ €1871
Maker / Publisher: VISSCHER, N.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1653

 


Asia recens Summa cura delineata.

Rare map of Asia published in Pierre d'Avity's "Les Estats Empires, Royaumes, Et Principautez Du Monde". Derivative map of Hondius' rare separately issued map o...

$3000 / ≈ €2807
Maker / Publisher: HONDIUS, J. / d'AVITY, Pierre.
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1659

 


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,...

$2500 / ≈ €2339
Maker / Publisher: DE WIT, F.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, after 1660

 


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 / ≈ €702
Maker / Publisher: WIT, F. de.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 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...

$9000 / ≈ €8421
Maker / Publisher: JACOBSZ.,Th. / DE WIDT, F.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1662

 


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'...

$3000 / ≈ €2807
Maker / Publisher: SPEED, J. / BASSET, T. / CHISWELL, R.
Place & Date: London, 1627 - 1676

 


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...

$1750 / ≈ €1638
Maker / Publisher: SPEED, J.
Place & Date: London, 1676

 


Carte D'Amerique Divisée en ses Principaux Pays. . .

Rare. Uncommon and decorative wall map of America, prepared by Clouet. With superb decorative borders, 170mm wide at the sides and 150mm at the bottom, containing twenty ...

$10000 / ≈ €9357
Maker / Publisher: CLOUET, J. B. L. abbé / MONDHARE, L.
Place & Date: Paris, Cadiz, 1785

 


A New and Correct Map of Asia Laid down from the latest and best Observations Humbly Inscribed to his Royal Highness George, Prince of Wales. . . [2 subtitles:] Several Representations of the Customs Manners etc. of Divers Parts of Asia. . .

A large, attractive and rare, separately issued map of Asia with figured side borders. With large decorative title cartouche ad address "By Thomas Kitchin. London, p...

$6000 / ≈ €5614
Maker / Publisher: SAYER, R.
Place & Date: London, 1787