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Portugallia et Algarbia quae olim Lusitania. . .
Rare map of Portugal with decorative title cartouche. Oriented to the west. Prepared by Fernando Alvares Seco.
Date: Paris, c.1630
Nova Africae Tabula.
An attractive map of the continent, added by Hondius when he took over publication of Mercator's Atlas. Although it is based on Mercator's map, Hondius improved the outli...
Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Fionia.
Early map, including Odense and the island Langeland .
- $200 / ≈ €174
Date: Amsterdam 1630
Helvetia cum finitimis regionibus confoederatis.
Detailed and finely engraved map of Switzerland.
- $350 / ≈ €304
Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Palatinatus Rheni.
Map depicting part of Germany provinces.
Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Meklenburg Ducatus.
Very detailed map of the northern part of Germany decorated with a coat of arms, a windrose and two saling ships.From the rare atlas Appendix, published in a very small n...
Date: Amsterdam, 1629-1630
Ducatus Luneburgensis
Very detailed map centered on Albis river and the cities of Hamburg and Lunburg to the north. Also showing Bremen.
Date: Amsterdam, 1629-1630
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 has no longer the lower border, doesn't have text o...
Date: Amsterdam, after 1630
![[Portrait of Gerard Mercator and Jodocus Hondius.]](/uploads/cache/49107-250x250.jpg)
[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
Oldenburg Comitatus
A map of the northern part of Germany centered on Oldenburg. Also showing Bremen. North to the right. The decoration consists with a windrose and a title cartouche surmou...
Date: Amsterdam, 1629-1630
Champagne Comitatus Campania.
Map of French region of Champagne, including part of Lorraine. North to the east. The second state with the signature of J.Janssonius.
- $220 / ≈ €191
Date: Amsterdam, 1630
![Tabula electoratus Brandenburgici, Meckelenburgi, et maximae partis Pomeraniae, ex variis, famosissimisq[ue] auctoribus summo studio concinnata. . .](/uploads/cache/29543-250x250.jpg)
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). Showing the area of Brandenbur...
Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Das Wiflispurgergov.
In lower right Geneva and Lake Geneva with Lausanne. In center of map the cantons of Fribourg and Bern.
- $350 / ≈ €304
Date: Amsterdam 1630
Terra Sancta que in Sacris Terra Promissionis ol: Palestina.
This map of Palestine extending from the Lebanon mountains to the Dead Sea is based on the large map by P.Laicksteen and Chr.'s-Grooten in the latter part of the sixteent...
Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Guineae Nova Descriptio.
The map shows the West African coast from Senegal (the 'Rio Senega' is the Senegal River) to Cape Lopez on the Gulf of Guinea just below the equator. The island of St. Th...
- $450 / ≈ €390
Date: Amsterdam, 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
![[Title page] Thesauri Philo Politici pars Tertia ...](/uploads/cache/38449-250x250.jpg)
[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
Warwicum Northampton, Huntingdon Cantabr etc.
Showing the south-eastern part of England. From his Atlas Minor. French text on verso.
- $100 / ≈ €87
Date: Amsterdam, c.1630
![[Title Page] Atlas Sive cosmographicae Meditationes . . .](/uploads/cache/39451-250x250.jpg)
[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
Description des Isles Bermudas.
Map of Bermuda from the rare Cloppenburg edition slightly larger format and more scarce edition of the Mercator/Hondius "Atlas Minor". Engraved by Pieter Van De...
- $800 / ≈ €694
Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Fionia.
Early map, including Odense and the island Langeland .
- $200 / ≈ €174
Date: Amsterdam, 1630
India Orientalis.
Published in Hondius' editions of the Mercator Atlas from 1606 onwards, showing the Indian subcontinent, the Malay Peninsula, Siam and Cambodia, China and the Philippines...
Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Jerusalem die vernaamste van alle steden... / Jerusalem die Heijlighe Stadt van God. . .
Very rare separately published plan of Jerusalem, engraved by Joannes van Doetecum Jr., Variant to Poortman, Kaarten in Bijbels, map 64. In the lower part, the copper pla...
Date: Amsterdam, 1598-1630
Polonia et Silesia.
Map of Poland and Silesia from the rare Cloppenburg edition slightly larger format and more scarce edition of the Mercator/Hondius "Atlas Minor". Engraved by Pi...
Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Russia.
Russia map 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
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
Terra Sancta que in Sacris Terra Promissionis ol: Palestina
This map of Palestine extending from the Lebanon mountains to the Dead Sea is based on the large map by P.Laicksteen and Chr.'s-Grooten in the latter part of the sixteent...
- $900 / ≈ €781
Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Prussia.
An attractive, detailed and early map of present-day Poland and Lithuania from the rare Cloppenburg edition slightly larger format and more scarce edition of the Mercator...
Date: Amsterdam, 1630
![[Title page] Thesauri Philo Polithi Tertia pars..](/uploads/cache/36816-250x250.jpg)
[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 / ≈ €69
Date: Frankfurt, 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
Pomeraniae Ducatus.
Pomerania map from the rare Cloppenburg edition slightly larger format and more scarce edition of the Mercator/Hondius "Atlas Minor". Small and detailed map of ...
Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Asia.
Asia map from the rare Cloppenburg edition slightly larger format and more scarce edition of the Mercator/Hondius "Atlas Minor". Engraved by Pieter Van Den Keer...
Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Henricus Kornmannus I.U. Doc. ex Kyrchayna cat.
Very skillfully engraved half-length portrait of Heinrich Kornmann, in frontal view, underneath an arch and with a view of Kirchhain in background and coats-of-arms in up...
Date: Frankfurt, 1630
Landschaft mit Wasserfall und Schublade.
Etching by Isaak Major and published by Jeremias Wolff depecting a wide landscape with mountains ,rocks and a waterfall. Several people among withc a drawer at right. Lar...
- $150 / ≈ €130
Date: Augsburg, 1600-1630
America sive India Nova.
This map was created by Michael Mercator, grandson of the great Gerard Mercator. It is the only map attributed to him. The map first appeared in 1595, one year after the ...
- $3000 / ≈ €2603
Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Blick auf eine Waldlandschaft mit reisenden Männern und einem Dorf in der Ferne.
Etching by Isaak Major and published by Jeremias Wolff depecting a view of a forest landscape with men traveling and a village in the distance. Large print edited by Jere...
- $200 / ≈ €174
Date: Augsburg, 1600-1630
Virginiae item et Floridae. . .
Cummings describes it as one of the most beautifully executed maps ever made of the Southeast. In detail and in general conception it surpasses all earlier maps of the re...
- $2200 / ≈ €1909
Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Pas-Caert vande ghelegetheyt vande Schans te Santvliet, Vertoonede de verdroncken overwaeterde Landen, nieuw aengewasse gorsingen,. . .
Showing the surrounding countryside of the cities of Antwerp, Santvliet, Lillo, Bergen op zoom, etc. The map is ponctuated by several fortifications to indicate the main ...
Date: Amsterdam, 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
![[Title page] Thesauri Philo Polithi Tertia pars..](/uploads/cache/38445-250x250.jpg)
[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 / ≈ €69
Date: Frankfurt, 1630
![[Title page] Thesauri Philo-Politci Pars Sexta. . .](/uploads/cache/38446-250x250.jpg)
[Title page] Thesauri Philo-Politci 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...
- $60 / ≈ €52
Date: Frankfurt, 1630
![[Title page] Galliae tabule geographicae . . .](/uploads/cache/37779-250x250.jpg)
[Title page] Galliae tabule geographicae . . .
Very fine title page by Gerard Mercator, composed of an elaborate strapwork design with the portrait of a king at top.
Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Virginiae item et Floridae . . .
Map of Virginia from the rare Cloppenburg edition slightly larger format and more scarce edition of the Mercator/Hondius "Atlas Minor". Engraved by Pieter Van D...
- $750 / ≈ €651
Date: Amsterdam, 1630
India Orientalis.
Map covering India, Thailand, Philippines, Northern Borneo and the coast of Southern China. From the rare Cloppenburg edition "Atlas Sive Cosmographicae Meditationes...
- $550 / ≈ €477
Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Livonia. 1627
Detailed map of the northern Baltic region. The map is centered on Riga and extends south to Memel, west to Poland and part of Russia and north to the Strait between Finl...
Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1630
Westfaliae.
A nice map showing the province of Westphalia.Mercator was born in Rupelmonde in Flanders and studied in Louvain under Gemma Frisius, Dutch writer, astronomer and mathema...
Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Palatinatus Rheni Nova et Accurata Descriptio.
Early state (1630) of Visscher's "carte à figures"- map of the German Rhine River Valley. Inset views of Frankfurt am Main, Mainz, Speyer, Worms and Heidelberg...
Date: Amsterdam, 1630
A More Particular Description of some Provinces of Moscovia.
From the English edition of the popular Mercator - Hondius atlas. English text to verso. This map elegantly depicts the Muscovy region of western Russia, with Moscow in t...
- $225 / ≈ €195
Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Zelandia Comitatus.
Based on the map by Van Deventer. For the first time a road connection between Flushing, Middelburg and Arnemuiden is shown. Mercator pays much attention to the area of s...
Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Corsse et Sardaigne.
Maps of Corsica and Sardinia from the rare Cloppenburg edition slightly larger format and more scarce edition of the Mercator/Hondius "Atlas Minor". Engraved by...
- $300 / ≈ €260
Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Morea olim Peloponnesus.
Gerard Mercator's map of the Greece's Peloponnesus peninsula called and labeled Morea. A few of the other smaller islands appear included the larger Cerigo (today's Cythe...
- $300 / ≈ €260
Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Bresse.
Early map of Eastern France with Lyon to the lower left corner and part of Switzerland. Geneva in upper right corner. Engraved by Hondius. From a French composite atlas.R...
- $150 / ≈ €130
Date: Amsterdam, 1631
![[The attack by Schouten and his men on a waka.]](/uploads/cache/39754-250x250.jpg)
[The attack by Schouten and his men on a waka.]
Scarce print (145x210mm.) on a German text sheet showing the attack by Schouten and his men on a waka.The page is taken from a first edition of Johann Ludwig Gottfried's ...
- $150 / ≈ €130
Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1631
Description du Gouvernement de la CAPPELLE. Par P. Petit Bourbon.
RARE without text on verso. Decorative map of Cappellein the region of the Nord-Pas-de-Calais in France with three decorative cartouches.The map of Cappelle is by Pierre ...
- $150 / ≈ €130
Date: Amsterdam, 1631
Zeelandiae Comitatus.
Rare map of Zeeland, with inset view of the town of Middelburg topped with costumed figures. This is the second edition published by Claes Jansz. Visscher. The first edit...
Date: Amsterdam, 1617-1631
Description du Gouvernement de la CAPPELLE. Par P. Petit Bourbon.
Decorative map of Cappellein the region of the Nord-Pas-de-Calais in France with three decorative cartouches.The map of Cappelle is by Pierre Petit Bourbon (1598-1667), m...
- $100 / ≈ €87
Date: Amsterdam, 1631
(Zeeland)
Rare map of Zeeland, first issued by Petrus Kaerius, than by Claes Jansz. Visscher. The copper plate was previously made by an anonymous engraver, and than came into the ...
- $1050 / ≈ €911
Date: Amsterdam, 1631
Belgium sive Inferior Germania post omnes..
Early map of the Low Countries, engraved by Abraham Goos and published for the first time in 1618. In the top border town-views of Amsterdam, Dordrecht, Antwerp, Brussels...
Date: Amsterdam, 1618/1631
Description de nouveau pasage vers le zud.... together with an untitled map of Port Desire (today's Puerto Deseado, Argentina)
Rare double hemispherical world map showing the track round the world by Le Maire and Schouten in 1615-1617. Continents are marked in outline and no southern regions are ...
- $1500 / ≈ €1302
Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1631
Belgii sive Germaniae Inferioris accuratissima tabula.
Very rare and very decorative map with in the right and left borders costumed figures and town plans alternately. In top and bottom border town plans and views.Separate p...
Date: Amsterdam, 1631
Cocos Insel Cocos Insula / Verräter Insel Insula proditorum.
Scarce print (148x204mm.) on a German text sheet showing the landing of Le Maire and Schouten at Cocos Island in May 1616 (today’s Tafahi in the Tonga Islands). Named b...
- $150 / ≈ €130
Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1631
Vligen Insel.
Scarce print (168x200mm.) on a German text sheet showing the attack of mosquitos on Schouten's ship.The page is taken from a first edition of Johann Ludwig Gottfried's &q...
- $75 / ≈ €65
Date: Frankfurt, M. Merian, 1631
Sclavonia, Croatia, Bosnia cum Dalmatiae parte.
Nice map of the Eastern Balkans with the geographical & political divisions of Dalmatia, Croatia, Slavonia, Bosnia, Serbia, etc.Mercator was born in Rupelmonde in Fla...
- $250 / ≈ €217
Date: Amsterdam, 1632
Bresse.
Early map of Eastern France and part of Switzerland. Geneva in upper right corner. With Latin text on verso. Engraved by Petrus Kaerius. Shortly after the publication of ...
- $50 / ≈ €43
Date: Amsterdam, 1632
Belovacium comitatus.
Early map centered north of Paris. With Latin text on verso. Engraved by Petrus Kaerius. Shortly after the publication of big folio-atlases the need was apparently felt f...
- $75 / ≈ €65
Date: Amsterdam, 1632
Ducatus Iuliacensis, Cliviensis, Montensis. et Comitatus Marciae et Rapens-Bergae finitimaeque eis Regiones de novo accurate in lucem editae. per Nicolaum I. Piscatorem. t'Amsterdam Gedruckt bij Claes Ianß. Visscher. Anno 1633.': .
Claes Visscher map of the German Duchies Jülich, Cleves, Berg with the County of Mark. - Bottom right is an inset map the country around Ravensberg. Top left is a pretty...
- $250 / ≈ €217
Date: Amsterdam, 1632
Description du pais de Valois.
Rare map published by Jean Le Clerc (1560-1621) and prepared by Damien de Templeux map of the region to the northeast of Paris, between the Oise River in the west and the...
- $300 / ≈ €260
Date: Paris, 1632
Episcop. Ultraiectinus.
A very detailed map based on Utrecht. Scale cartouche held by a surveyor. Based on the map by B.F.van Berckenrode (1620-21) and engraved by the master engraver Evert Sijm...
Date: Amsterdam, 1630-1632
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 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.
Early map of Asia, including Korea as in peninsular.
Date: Amsterdam, 1632
Pere Grinatie. De Reijse der Kinderen Israels so zij wt Egip . . .
Scarce separately engraved map of the Holy Land by Joannes van Doetecum Jr.In the lower right corner, inset with a title cartouche surrounded by Aaron, the encampment of ...
Date: Amsterdam, 1598, The Hague, 1632
Totius Rheni, ab eius Capitibus ad Oceanu usque Germanicum in quem se Exonerat Novissima Descriptio.
The course of the Rhine river by Henricus Hondius. Originally engraved as two parts on one sheet. Here separated and joined to one large map. The map is showing the compl...
- $300 / ≈ €260
Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1632
![[English attack Praia.]](/uploads/cache/39900-250x250.jpg)
[English attack Praia.]
Scarce print with German text sheet showing the English attack on Praia. On 16 November, 1585, during Francis Drake’s round-the-world voyage, his fleet anchored off San...
- $150 / ≈ €130
Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
![[Collective suicide under Spanish rule.]](/uploads/cache/40480-250x250.jpg)
[Collective suicide under Spanish rule.]
The natives of Hispaniola, who saw no end to the fearful oppression of Spanish rule, preferred death. So many, devoid of all hope, went into the woods to kill their child...
- $80 / ≈ €69
Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
![[Atahualpa captured by Spanish.]](/uploads/cache/40352-250x250.jpg)
[Atahualpa captured by Spanish.]
Accompanying Pizarro was a monk called Valverde, who confronted Atahualpa with a crucifix and breviary. The interpreter said the Spanish had been sent by their emperor to...
- $80 / ≈ €69
Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
![[Diego de Almagro is killed.]](/uploads/cache/40354-250x250.jpg)
[Diego de Almagro is killed.]
Almagro returned to Cuzco, disillusioned and embittered from his long and fruitless journey south into Chile, where he had been searching for further wealth. This led to ...
- $80 / ≈ €69
Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Turcici Imperii Imago.
A very decorative map. On top of title cartouche the portrait of Sultan Mahumet Turcorum Imperat .More about Mapping of Arabia [+]
- $1000 / ≈ €868
Date: Amsterdam, 1633
![[Columbus lands on the Island of San Salvador.]](/uploads/cache/40479-250x250.jpg)
[Columbus lands on the Island of San Salvador.]
On 12th October 1492, after 33 days at sea, Columbus sighted land. His three ships made their way round the south-west point of an island Columbus named San Salvador - be...
- $100 / ≈ €87
Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
![Les Petit Voyages [Solor].](/uploads/cache/37958-250x250.jpg)
Les Petit Voyages [Solor].
This work by de Bry comprises probably the greatest single collection of material on early voyages to the East Indies, and are unique in their extraordinary wealth of car...
- $100 / ≈ €87
Date: Frankfurt, 1601 - 1633