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Brabantia Ducatus.
A very decorative map by Willem Blaeu with west is at the top. On the lower left a magnificent cartouche with a sitting female figure carrying a globe and compasses and t...
Date: Amsterdam, 1645
Guiana sive Amazonum Regio.
Copper engraving, hand colored in outline when published. A highly decorative map showing Guiana extending westwards to Trinidad and Margarita Island, dominated by a huge...
Date: Amsterdam, 1645
Taurica Chersonesus, Nostra aetate Przecopsca, et Gazara dicitur.
Detailed map of the Ukraine, Russia with in the north Smolensk and Moscow and in the south the Black Sea. Shows ports, fortified cities and the mouths of the Danube. Mino...
- $750 / ≈ €651
Date: Amsterdam, 1645
Tartaria sive Magni Chami Imperium.
Detailed and decorative map of Tartary and Northern part of China. Northern tip of Korea included. The Chinese Great Wall is depicted, with Central Asia, extending from M...
- $550 / ≈ €477
Date: Amsterdam, 1645
Quarta pars Brabantiae cujus caput Sylvaducis.
The coat of arms of Brabant and 's-Hertogenbosch do appear on the map. But the municipal arms in the columns on right and left-hand side have not yet been filled in. The ...
Date: Amsterdam, 1645
Mappa Aestivarum Insularum, alias Barmudas..
Based closely on Blaeu's map of 1630 but with a simpler centered title piece. The map includes the arms of Bermuda and England, and lists proprietors of the various tribe...
Date: Amsterdam, 1645
Quarta pars Brabantiae cujus caput Sylvaducis.
A good and dark impression in strong original colors.The third state. The coat of arms of Brabant and 's-Hertogenbosch appears on the map. The municipal arms in the colum...
Date: Amsterdam, 1645
Asia.
This lovely rare miniature map of the continent of Asia is a single page with text on verso taken from John Speed's folio atlas, and is signed with Van den Keere's Latini...
- $275 / ≈ €239
Date: London, 1646
Carta terza Generale del' Asia.
Rare first state of this important chart showing part of the north coast of New Guinea and islands of the Pacific Ocean. To the north of Japan the landmass of Isola di Ie...
Date: Florence, 1646
Franconiae nova descriptio.
Second state of this early map of Franken, including Regensburg, Heidelberg, Marburg and Hof. In lower part decorative cartouches and upper right a dedication to Franz vo...
Date: Amsterdam, after 1646
![Ins. de Cerno a. Nostatibus Mauritius Nominata [on sheet with] Gunnanappi Labetacq [and] Civitas Gammelamme [and] Rex Tubatus.](/uploads/cache/48504-250x250.jpg)
Ins. de Cerno a. Nostatibus Mauritius Nominata [on sheet with] Gunnanappi Labetacq [and] Civitas Gammelamme [and] Rex Tubatus.
Three views and one map on one page: Shows natives on Mauritius fishing and building a boat, with a dodo and two turtles at right; The Banda islands; A procession for th...
Date: Amsterdam, c.1646
Eadem Aurantia Dimidiata.
Decorative engraving representing a citrus fruit. Taken from the book "Hesperides sive de malorum aureorum" by Giovan Battista Ferrari (Italian botanist, 1584-1...
Date: Rome, Scheus, 1646
Aliae Formae Citrati Limonis Alios Includentis.
Decorative engraving representing a citrus fruit. Taken from the book "Hesperides sive de malorum aureorum" by Giovan Battista Ferrari (Italian botanist, 1584-1...
Date: Rome, Scheus, 1646
Prussiae nova tabula.
Rare map of Prussia with nowadays Poland. The map features a bold title cartouche, a ship, compass rose, and a sea monster in the Baltic Sea. The map was prepared by the ...
- $550 / ≈ €477
Date: Amsterdam, 1647
Insulae Americanae in Oceanus Septentrionali cum Terris..
General map of the West Indies extending from Virginia to the mouth of the Orinoco, and destined to be copied in various shapes by many other publishers. Title cartouche ...
Date: Amsterdam, 1647
Colomna - Cassimogorod - Moruma.
Three panoramic views of Colomna - Cassimogorod - Moruma on one sheet. From the rare first edition "Offt begehrte Beschreibung der newen orientalischen Rejse, so dur...
- $300 / ≈ €260
Date: Schleßwig, Zur Glocken, 1647
Hollandia Comitatus.
Orientated west to the top of the sheet, this presents the County of Holland in the classical orientation for seventeenth century maps, with Amsterdam at the center. The ...
Date: Amsterdam, 1647
![De Bello Belgico, Decas PrimaDeces II. [with 2 Leo Belgicus maps]](/uploads/cache/21542-250x250.jpg)
De Bello Belgico, Decas PrimaDeces II. [with 2 Leo Belgicus maps]
Each volume contains an engraved title with a representation of the Netherlands and Belgium in the shape of a lion, with one paw resting on a shield bearing the title, a ...
Date: Rome, Franciscus Corbelletus, 1632-1647
Traduzida palabra por palabra de la verdad Hebrayca, por muy excelentes letrados.
Complete title : Traduzida palabra por palabra de la verdad Hebrayca, por muy excelentes letrados. Vista y examinad a per el officio de la Inquisicion. Con Privilegio del...
- $8500 / ≈ €7376
Date: Ampsterdam, Gillis Ioost, 1647
Brasilia.
Fine copy of this map by Krystof Arciszewski, a Polish general who worked for the Dutch West Indian Company. The map perpetuates various myths including the Parime Lago ,...
Date: Amsterdam, 1647
Die stadt Narva . . .
Two panoramic views of the city of Narva, on one sheet. Narva is the third largest city in Estonia. It is located at the eastern extreme point of Estonia, at the Russian...
- $250 / ≈ €217
Date: Schleßwig, Zur Glocken, 1647
Quartum Praelium Coniovian inter et Fluvium Rio Grande XVII Ian
Decorative engraving of the fourth sea battle with the Portuguese fleet offshore at the Rio Grande, in1640. Engraved by J. van Brosterhuyzen after a design by Frans J. Po...
Date: Joannes Blaeu, Amsterdam 1647
Tabula Bergarum ad Zomam Stenbergae et novorum ibi operum.
The map gives an outline of the Scheldt from Bergen op Zoom to Antwerp, with all the ramparts built between 1622 and 1627.
Date: Amsterdam, 1647
Asia carta di ciasete piu moderna. (Japan)
Rare FIRST STATE of this important map for Korea and Japan, a map of the Blancus/Moreira type, but adds a huge 'Jesso' filling the top of this old map. The map is of inte...
Date: Florence, 1646-1647
Tetus - Samara - Soratof - Zariza - Tzornogar - Kusmamedianski.
Panoramic views of Tetus, Samara, Soratof, Zariza, Tzornogar and Kusmamedianski on one sheet. From the rare first edition "Offt begehrte Beschreibung der newen orien...
- $300 / ≈ €260
Date: Schleßwig, Zur Glocken, 1647
Brasilia.
Striking old color example of Blaeu's second map of Brazil prepared by Krystof Arciszewski, a Polish general who worked for the Dutch West Indian Company. The map perpetu...
- $750 / ≈ €651
Date: Amsterdam, 1647
Isfahan.
An early of Isfahan in central Iran,. From the rare first edition "Offt begehrte Beschreibung der newen orientalischen Rejse, so durch Gelegenheit einer Holsteinisc...
- $250 / ≈ €217
Date: Schleßwig, Zur Glocken, 1647
Kom - Kaschan.
An early of Kom and Kaschan on one sheet. From the rare first edition "Offt begehrte Beschreibung der newen orientalischen Rejse, so durch Gelegenheit einer Holstei...
- $250 / ≈ €217
Date: Schleßwig, Zur Glocken, 1647
![[Two volumes, with two Leo maps] De Bello Belgico, Decas Prima / Decas Secunda.](/uploads/cache/48779-250x250.jpg)
[Two volumes, with two Leo maps] De Bello Belgico, Decas Prima / Decas Secunda.
With 2 engraved titles of the 'Leo Belgicus', with one paw resting on a shield bearing the title, large woodcut printer's device on the colophons, and 30 richly engraved ...
Date: Rome, Franciscus Corbelletus, 1632-1647
Profil de la renomée ville et port d'Emstredam cappitalle des estats de Hollande.
Extremely rare panoramic town-view of Amsterdam seen from the river IJ.Exceptional bright, sharp example.The print is skillful copy of the print of Matthieu Merian, now w...
Date: Paris, 1647
Russiae vulgo Moscovia dictae, Partes Septentrionalis et orientalis.
In the north the Murmansk Sea. Including the western coast of Nova Zembla. Title cartouche and two cartouches, the bottom right one showing two hunters, bears, stags etc....
Date: Amsterdam, 1647
Rerum per octennium in Brasilia Et alibi nuper gestarum, Sub Praefectura Illustrissimi Comitis I. Mauritii, Nassoviae, (...) Historia.
First edition. Commissioned by Johan Maurits van Nassau (governor of Brazil between 1636-1644 and founder of "Mauritsstad" (present-day Recife)) and illustrated...
Date: Amsterdam, J. Blaeu, 1647
Territorium Abbatiae Herefeldensis - 't Stift Hirszfeldt.
Detailed map centered on Hirschfelt. Title cartouche embellished with two cherubs.
- $250 / ≈ €217
Date: Amsterdam, 1647
Tarku.
An early of Tarku in the Republic of Dagestan. From the rare first edition "Offt begehrte Beschreibung der newen orientalischen Rejse, so durch Gelegenheit einer Ho...
- $250 / ≈ €217
Date: Schleßwig, Zur Glocken, 1647
Penbrochia Comitatus et Comitatus Caermaridunum.
Attractive map of the country of Pembroke shire in UK by J. Blaeu. From a Dutch edition of "Atlas Maior" in beautiful color. With 13 coats of arms, the feathere...
Date: Amsterdam, 1648
Royaume de Naples..
Fine map of the southern part of Italy.This edition carries the date 1648, engraved by AB. De la plaets. With the manuscript number in the upper right corner.Nicolas Sans...
Date: Paris, 1648
Ducatus Silesiae Glosani.
Charming map of the Silesia from the Mercator Hondius “Atlas Minor” published in Amsterdam in 1648 at Janssonius with German text on verso. Engraved by Petrus Kaerius...
- $200 / ≈ €174
Date: Amsterdam, 1648
Comitatus Flandria.
A highly decorative map with in the left and right top corners the pictures of archduke Albert of Austria and Isabella, queen of Spain. In the left and right borders cost...
Date: Amsterdam, 1648
Geographische Beschryvinge van de wandeling der Apostelen. . .
Finely engraved detailed map covering the whole of the eastern Mediterranean. Showing the travels of the apostles after the death of Christ, with episodes from the life o...
Date: Amsterdam, 1648
La ville archie-piscopale et primatiale de Vienne en Dauphiné.
View of Vienne, engraved by François de La Pointe.
- $600 / ≈ €521
Date: Paris, 1648
Itinerarium Sacrae Scripturae, dat is, Het Reysboeck der heyligher Schrift
This is a scarce 1648 Dutch edition of Büntings "Itinerarium Sacrae Scripturae" printed in Leeuwarden. The book includes 6 folding maps and 2 plates. The book ...
- $3000 / ≈ €2603
Date: Leeuwarden, de Vries, Jan Jansz., 1648
Antverpia, Gallis Anvers. Vernacule Antwerpen.
Detailed plan of the city of Antwerp with extensive key to principal buildings. Lower left title cartouche with two coats of arms and Mercurius.
Date: Amsterdam, 1649
Chorographica descriptio provinciarum, et conventum fratrum minorum S. Francisci Capucinorum...
All maps are good and dark impressions. Several maps with slight foxing and browning, the folding map with 2 splits (top right part 10 cm and lower left part 6 cm into en...
Date: Turin, 1649
Curia Hollandiae Interior. (Binnenhof)
The government center of the Netherlands is situated in and around the Binnenhof-Buitenhof in The Hague. In 1248 the Roman king Willem II built a castle here and named it...
Date: Amsterdam, 1649
Concepit Heua & peperit Cain fratremg eius Abel. . . . (Plate 8)
Very nice etching by Nicolas Chapron, after Raphaël's (Raffaello Sanzio) frescoes in the Vatican Loggia. Scene illustrating Cain and Abel, a scene from Genesis IV.From t...
- $50 / ≈ €43
Date: Paris, Petrus Mariette, 1649
![[ The repositioning of the Vatican obelisk ]](/uploads/cache/49045-250x250.jpg)
[ The repositioning of the Vatican obelisk ]
Joan Blaeu published The Repositioning of the Vatican Obelisk. This large engraving on multiple sheets and in beautiful original colors is based on Domenico Fontana’s d...
Date: Amsterdam, 1649
Cataractae coeli apertoe funt: Et aguae proealuerunt super terram comfumptag Est omnis caro . . . (Plate 13)
Very nice etching by Nicolas Chapron, and after Raphaël's (Raffaello Sanzio) frescoes in the Vatican Loggia. Scene illustrating the moment when God said to Noah "Go...
- $25 / ≈ €22
Date: Paris, Petrus Mariette, 1649
Arca Dni septies circuit Ciuitatem et clangentib tubis. Jericho corruerunt Moenia. Iosue. CVI. ( Plate 38)
Very nice etching by Nicolas Chapron, after Raphaël's (Raffaello Sanzio) frescoes in the Vatican Loggia. Scene illustrating the walls of Jericho crumbling.From the first...
- $25 / ≈ €22
Date: Paris, Petrus Mariette, 1649
Portantes Arcam sacerdotes . . . (Plate 37)
Very nice etching by Nicolas Chapron, after Raphaël's (Raffaello Sanzio) frescoes in the Vatican Loggia. Scene illustrating Priests carrying the Ark through the River Jo...
- $25 / ≈ €22
Date: Paris, Petrus Mariette, 1649
Cataractae coeli apertoe funt: Et aguae proealuerunt super terram comfumptag Est omnis caro . . . (Plate 10)
Very nice etching by Nicolas Chapron, and after Raphaël's (Raffaello Sanzio) frescoes in the Vatican Loggia. Scene illustrating the moment when God said to Noah "Go...
- $50 / ≈ €43
Date: Paris, Petrus Mariette, 1649
Eleazar sacerdos, et Iosue Rex sorte dividunt in Haereditatem Filiis Israel universam Terram ( Plate 49)
Fine etching by Nicolas Chapron, after Raphaël's (Raffaello Sanzio) frescoes in the Vatican Loggia. Scene illustrating Eleazar and Joshua to divide Canaan among the trib...
Date: Paris, Petrus Mariette, 1649
Svbacta Syria, tvlit David arma avrea, et detvlit ea in Jervsalem. ( Plate 43)
Fine etching by Nicolas Chapron, after Raphaël's (Raffaello Sanzio) frescoes in the Vatican Loggia. Scene illustrating David's conquest of Syria, during which he took th...
Date: Paris, Petrus Mariette, 1649
Vidit David de Solario Domus regiae Bethsabeam . . . ( Plate 44)
Fine etching by Nicolas Chapron, after Raphaël's (Raffaello Sanzio) frescoes in the Vatican Loggia. Scene illustrating King David looking at Bathsheba bathing.From the f...
Date: Paris, Petrus Mariette, 1649
Sacerdos cornu olei unxit Salomonem omnisque clamauit. . . . ( Plate 45)
Fine etching by Nicolas Chapron, after Raphaël's (Raffaello Sanzio) frescoes in the Vatican Loggia. Scene illustrating a priest anointing Solomon with oil.From the first...
Date: Paris, Petrus Mariette, 1649
Saba Aethiopum Regina venit ad Salomonem, cum magnis Opibus aromatum, Auri, ac Gemmarum. ( Plate 47)
Very nice etching by Nicolas Chapron, after Raphaël's (Raffaello Sanzio) frescoes in the Vatican Loggia. Scene illustrating the visit of the Queen of Sheba at her visit ...
Date: Paris, Petrus Mariette, 1649
Saba Aethiopum Regina venit ad Salomonem, cum magnis Opibus aromatum, Auri, ac Gemmarum. ( Plate 47)
Fine etching by Nicolas Chapron, after Raphaël's (Raffaello Sanzio) frescoes in the Vatican Loggia. Scene illustrating the visit of the Queen of Sheba.From the first Par...
Date: Paris, Petrus Mariette, 1649
Traiectum Wttrecht
Fine plan of Utrecht from the townbooks "Novum Ac Magnum Theatrum Urbium Belgicae Liberae Ac Foederatae".FRAMED : Additional shipping costs apply. The item is l...
Date: Amsterdam, 1649
Currus Veliferi Illmi. Pr. Mauritii Nassouvii. (Prince Maurits' sailing-carriage, designed by Simon Stevin. )
Prince Maurits' sailing carriages had been designed by Simon Stevin. The Prince, always accessible to new inventions of his old instructor, could not please the foreign a...
Date: Amsterdam, 1649
Wratislavia. Bresslaw.
Decorative town-plan of the Polish city of Wroclaw, once known as Breslau. The engraving is by the famed Swiss engraver Matthew Merian. A numbered key (1 - 38) the corner...
- $600 / ≈ €521
Date: Frankfurt, ca. 1649
La partie orientale de la Grande Aquitaine.
Map taken from "Geographique Theater de l'Europe …, a rare work by the Jesuit priest Briet.
Date: Paris, 1649
Regnum Galliae. . .
Map of France from the rare atlas of the Capucin order: "Chorographica descriptio provinciarum, et conventum fratrum minorum S. Francisci Capucinorum…".
Date: Turin, 1649
Gentille Femme Perotte Franque. (48)
Sought-after copper engraved plate of a woman from Pera, taken from Laonikos Chalcocondyle’s "L'histoire de la décadence de l'empire grec et establissement de cel...
- $100 / ≈ €87
Date: Paris, Mathieu Guillemot, 1650
(Grand dame Turque. 45)
Sought-after copper engraved plate of a woman from Turkey. Plate from Laonikos Chalcocondyle’s "L'histoire de la décadence de l'empire grec et establissement de c...
Date: Paris, Mathieu Guillemot, 1650
![[Title page] Theatrum orbis Terrarum sive Atlas Novus pars Tertia.](/uploads/cache/43695-250x250.jpg)
[Title page] Theatrum orbis Terrarum sive Atlas Novus pars Tertia.
Glorious mid-seventeenth century engraved frontispiece by Joan and Cornelis Blaeu from the third part of his 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum'. Finely decorated with a pair of te...
- $350 / ≈ €304
Date: Amsterdam, 1650
Delli de nation Parthique qui signifie Sol Harfy ou Enfant Perdu. (17)
Sought-after copper engraved plate taken from Laonikos Chalcocondyle’s "L'histoire de la décadence de l'empire grec et establissement de celuy des Turcs." by...
- $50 / ≈ €43
Date: Paris, Mathieu Guillemot, 1650
Les Yurongnes. (18)
Sought-after copper engraved plate taken from Laonikos Chalcocondyle’s "L'histoire de la décadence de l'empire grec et establissement de celuy des Turcs." by...
Date: Paris, Mathieu Guillemot, 1650
Cuisinier Turc. (19)
Sought-after copper engraved plate taken from Laonikos Chalcocondyle’s "L'histoire de la décadence de l'empire grec et establissement de celuy des Turcs." by...
Date: Paris, Mathieu Guillemot, 1650
Anglia Regnum.
Willem Blaeu was the first publisher to bring out a new map of England and Wales. The outline and place names are taken from Speed with county boundaries marked but no bo...
- $500 / ≈ €434
Date: Amsterdam, 1650
Japoniae Nova Descriptio.
The map is identical in cartographic detail to the Hondius map of 1606 but newly designed ornate cartouches have been added. The three main islands of Japan are shown wit...
Date: Amsterdam 1650
![[Title page from Theatrum orbis Terrarum, with past-on]](/uploads/cache/43860-250x250.jpg)
[Title page from Theatrum orbis Terrarum, with past-on]
The frontispiece of the third part of the 'Theatrum', by Johan Blaeu. Heightened with goldDecorated with terrestrial and celestial globes and to the left Ptolemy (with sp...
Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1650
Ducatus Silesiae Grotganus cum Districtu Episcopali Nissensi Delineatore Iona Sculteto, Silesio.
Attractive engraved map of Upper Silesia prepared by Joanus Scultetus, a Silesian cartographer (1603-1664) and published by J. Janssonius. Showing the area around Nysa an...
- $400 / ≈ €347
Date: Amsterdam, 1650
Esclave More. (38)
Sought-after copper engraved plate of a Moor slave from North Africa. Plate from Laonikos Chalcocondyle’s "L'histoire de la décadence de l'empire grec et establis...
- $75 / ≈ €65
Date: Paris, Mathieu Guillemot, 1650
Silesia Inferior..
Decorative map prepared by Jonas Scultetus, a Silesian cartographer (1603-1664).
- $400 / ≈ €347
Date: Amsterdam, 1650
Constantinopolitanae urbis effigies ad vivum expressa.
Extremely rare panoramic view of Istanbul published by Rombout van den Hoeye. With a numbered key (1-29) to principal places in town and a Latin, Dutch, and French poem. ...
Date: Amsterdam, 1650
Femme Turque de moyen estat En chambre. (42)
Sought-after copper engraved plate from Laonikos Chalcocondyle’s "L'histoire de la décadence de l'empire grec et establissement de celuy des Turcs." by Thoma...
Date: Paris, Mathieu Guillemot, 1650
Carte Générale de Lombardie.
Fine map of Northern and middle part of Italy, engraved by A Peyrouin. According to the credit in the cartouche the map has been prepared by Pierre Duval.
Date: Paris, ca. 1650
Religieux Turc. (26)
Sought-after copper engraved plate taken from Laonikos Chalcocondyle’s "L'histoire de la décadence de l'empire grec et establissement de celuy des Turcs." by...
Date: Paris, Mathieu Guillemot, 1650
Pellerins mores, reue nuns de la Mecque.
Sought-after copper engraved plate from Laonikos Chalcocondyle’s "L'histoire de la décadence de l'empire grec et establissement de celuy des Turcs." by Thoma...
Date: Paris, Mathieu Guillemot, 1650
Torlaqui Religieux Turc. ( 25 )
Sought-after copper engraved plate taken from Laonikos Chalcocondyle’s "L'histoire de la décadence de l'empire grec et establissement de celuy des Turcs." by...
Date: Paris, Mathieu Guillemot, 1650
Nova Zemla.
Decorative sea chart decorated with hunters, polar foxes, polar bears and a sea monster.The scalebar in the lower right is in the form of a skewed 'checker-board', to ref...
- $900 / ≈ €781
Date: Amsterdam, 1650