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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...
Place & 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...
Place & 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...
Place & 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...
Place & 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...
Place & 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...
Place & 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. ...
Place & 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 ...
Place & 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 ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1638
Uplandia.
Covers the area of the modern Uppsala, the vicinity of Stockholm, and includes most of Aland.
Place & 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.
Place & 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.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1639
![[Title page] Theatri Europaei, oder historischer chronicken Beschreibung . . .](/uploads/cache/41394-250x250.jpg)
[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 / ≈ €89
Place & Date: Frankfurt, ca. 1639
Cyprus Insulae.
Janssonius' beautiful map of Cyprus embellished with a very decorative title cartouche.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Selling price: $1800
Sold in 2008
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...
Place & 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 / ≈ €222
Place & 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...
Place & 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 / ≈ €444
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 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...
- $1000 / ≈ €889
Place & Date: [Paris], 1640
![[Ritter Sundial Map of the World]](/uploads/cache/60731-250x250.jpg)
[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...
- $3500 / ≈ €3111
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 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 / ≈ €1244
Place & 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
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 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 / ≈ €667
Place & 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 / ≈ €356
Place & Date: Nuremberg 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 / ≈ €667
Place & Date: Nuremberg 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...
Place & Date: Nuremberg 1640
![[Horological diagrams surrounding a smaller world map]](/uploads/cache/45027-250x250.jpg)
[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 / ≈ €1778
Place & Date: Nuremberg 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 / ≈ €667
Place & 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 / ≈ €89
Place & 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 / ≈ €156
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 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 / ≈ €311
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Pecheli sive Peking imperii sinarum provincia prima.
The map of the province of Peking from Joan Blaeu's Novus Atlas Sinensis , the first atlas of China with maps by the hand of the Italian Jesuit Martino Martini. A beautif...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Waldeck Comitatus.
Map centered on Waldeck, Korbach, etc.
- $100 / ≈ €89
Place & 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...
Place & Date: Brunswick, 1640
![[A unique, made-to-order edition, of the Parergon, in quo Veteris geographiae aliquot tabulae.]](/uploads/cache/49049ZG-250x250.jpg)
[A unique, made-to-order edition, of the Parergon, in quo Veteris geographiae aliquot tabulae.]
This is a unique, made-to-order atlas of Ortelius's Atlas, "Parergon" or "Atlas of the ancient world." In 1579, Ortelius published his first Parergon ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, ca. 1601-1640
Regiones Sub Polo Arctico.
One of the many cases of duplication by the firms of Blaeu and Hondius/Jansson. In this case, Blaeu has copied Janssonius's map of 1637. It depicts rhumb lines radiating ...
- $850 / ≈ €755
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Insularum Moluccarum Nova descriptio.
Exquisite map of the famous Spice Islands based on the islands described by Jan Huyghen van Linschoten.This map was the first large scale map of the region and depicts th...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Selling price: $130
Sold in 2018
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 / ≈ €1511
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 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...
Place & 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...
Place & 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...
- $120 / ≈ €107
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1640
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.
- $750 / ≈ €667
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 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 / ≈ €178
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 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 / ≈ €356
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 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 / ≈ €400
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1640
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 / ≈ €1644
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 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...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1640
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 / ≈ €267
Place & 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 &...
- $120 / ≈ €107
Place & Date: Paris, ca.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 / ≈ €489
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 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 / ≈ €533
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1612-1641
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 / ≈ €1778
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1635-1641
![[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. .
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 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&...
- $500 / ≈ €444
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1609-1641
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...
Place & Date: The Hague, ca. 1642
Northumbria, Cumberlandia et Dunelmensis Episcopatus..
Showing the most northern part of England, including Sunderland.
- $400 / ≈ €356
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1642
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...
Place & Date: The Hague, ca. 1642
Warwicum Northamtonia Huntingdonia Cantabrigia..
Showing the south-eastern part of England.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1642
Weissensee.
Very decorative and rare panoramic town view of Weissensee in Thürigen, Bez. Erfurt.The engraver and publisher of prints, Mrs. Anna Beek of the Hague, enlarged the print...
Place & 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...
Place & 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...
Place & 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...
Place & Date: The Hague, 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...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 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...
Place & 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...
Place & Date: Rome, 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...
Place & 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...
Place & 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...
Place & 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...
Place & 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...
Place & Date: The Hague, ca. 1642
Strasborcs In der Vocker Marckt.
Very decorative and rare panoramic town view of Völckermarckt in Kärten.The engraver and publisher of prints, Mrs. Anna Beek of the Hague, enlarged the print and mounte...
Place & 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...
Place & Date: The Hague, ca. 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...
Place & Date: The Hague, ca. 1642
![[Title page] Figura Universale](/uploads/cache/48045-250x250.jpg)
[Title page] Figura Universale
Title page by N.Tassin.
Place & Date: Paris, 1643
Asiae Minoris nova descriptio. Geographische Beschryvinge aller Landen... ende sendbrieuen der Apostele...
Extremely rare map from a Dutch bible, published by Dancker Danckerts. This map was included in a Dutch bible including several maps signed by C.Danckerts and one dated 1...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1643
Title page : Topographia Sueviae dasist . . .
Title page from Casper Merian's Topographia Suevia..
- $50 / ≈ €44
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1643
![[Title page] Figura di tutta la francia.](/uploads/cache/48046-250x250.jpg)
[Title page] Figura di tutta la francia.
Title page by Tassin.
Place & Date: Paris, 1643
![[Title page] Provincia di Bertagna.](/uploads/cache/48049-250x250.jpg)
[Title page] Provincia di Bertagna.
Title page by Tassin.
Place & Date: Paris, 1643
(Title page) Topographia Sueviae dasist . . .
Title page from Casper Merian's Topographia Sueviae. . ..
- $50 / ≈ €44
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1643
![[Title page] Provincia di Bertagna.](/uploads/cache/48043-250x250.jpg)
[Title page] Provincia di Bertagna.
Title page by N.Tassin.
Place & Date: Paris, 1643