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Destruccio Iherosolime.

The view shows the destruction of Jerusalem. Major points in the city are identified with Latin notations. Of interest, in the upper left of the image are two figures...

$2000 / ≈ €1871
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493

 


Tercia Etas Mundi. Damascus. / Folio. XXIII

An imaginary presentation of the city of Damascus, the capital of Syria and one of the most ancient cities in the world. An imaginary view: however, the earliest obtainab...

$600 / ≈ €561
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493

 


Sexta Etas Mudi. (With view of Sabatz.) Folio CCLIII

A imaginary view of Sabatz, Turkey: however the earliest obtainable view of this period.Further including presentations of the popes Sixtus IV and Innocentius VIII.  Pag...

$200 / ≈ €187
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493

 


Quinta Etas Mundi. Folium. LXVI. (Visionary Temple of Ezekiel.)

The Latin text page is illustrated with recto and verso depictions of the visionary Temple of Ezekiel. Kings.Page from the richest illustrated Incunable, the famous: Chro...

$200 / ≈ €187
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493

 


Quinta Etas Mundi. Folium. LXVI. (Visionary Temple of Ezekiel.)

The Latin text page is illustrated with on recto and verso depictions of the visionary Temple of Ezekiel. Kings.Page from the richest illustrated Incunable, the famous: N...

$200 / ≈ €187
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493

 


Quarta etas mundi Folium L. ( Jericho, The Prophet Elijah Ascending to Heaven...)

Panoramic view of Jericho. An imaginary view: however, the earliest obtainable view of this period. Underneath The Prophet Elijah Ascending to Heaven in a Fiery Chariot, ...

$350 / ≈ €328
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493

 


Quinta Etas Mudi. Folium. LXV (With view of Babylon)

The Latin text page is illustrated with an imaginary of the Ancient City of Babylon (Dim. H : 138 mm W : 223 mm).Babylon was the capital of Babylonia, the alluvial plain...

$150 / ≈ €140
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493

 


Constatinopolis. [Istanbul]

Panoramic town-view of Constantinople (Istanbul). Woodcut published in the so-called pirate edition of the "small Schedel" in Augsburg, 1497, Latin edition. Ori...

Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Augsburg, Johann Schönsperger, 1497
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2009

 


Septima Asie Tabvla.

Trapezoidal woodcut map showing the area around the Caspian Sea from Martin Waldseemüller's most important 1513 edition of Ptolemy, which was a landmark work that contri...

$6000 / ≈ €5614
Maker / Publisher: PTOLEMY, C. / WALDSEEMÜLLER, M.
Place & Date: Strasburg, J. Schott, 1513

 


Tabula Sexta Asia (Arabian Peninsula)

This is a very desirable  early Ptolemaic woodblock map of the Arabian Peninsula, here called Arabia Felix. The map is presented on a trapezoidal projection with paralle...

$2200 / ≈ €2059
Maker / Publisher: WALDSEEMULLER, M. / FRIES, L.
Place & Date: Strassburg, 1525

 


Tabula X. Asiae hae sunt e cognitis totius orbis.

The earliest printed representation of India west of the Ganges River in Ptolemy's time. Considerable detail of river systems and mountain ranges.The first issue of this...

$1000 / ≈ €936
Maker / Publisher: PTOLEMY,C.
Place & Date: Lyons, M. Servetus, 1525

 


Tabula I Asiae.

Ptolemaic map of Turkey.From Lorenz Fries' edition of Ptolemy's Geographia, largely based on the 1513 map by Waldseemuller. "The elaborate Renaissance woodcut panels...

$750 / ≈ €702
Maker / Publisher: PTOLEMY / FRIES, L.
Place & Date: Vienna, 1490, 1535

 


Tabula XII - Asiae [Taprobana Ins]

Map of Taprobana (Sri Lanka) which depicts the typical misconceptions of Ptolemy showing the island greatly enlarged, surrounded by imaginary islands, and with a small pa...

$1000 / ≈ €936
Maker / Publisher: PTOLEMY,C. / FRIES, L.
Place & Date: Vienne, 1541

 


[Arabian Peninsula]

Wood block printed map and one of earliest printed representation of the Arabian Peninsula prepared by Martin Waldseemüller. Based on the slightly larger map from 1513 p...

$2200 / ≈ €2059
Maker / Publisher: FRIES, L. / WALDSEEMÜLLER, M.
Place & Date: Vienna, Trechsel, G., 1525 -1541

 


[Map of Turkey]

Page with an early representation of Turkey with Cyprus and Syria. This text page with a fine wood block printed map is from the rare work "C. Iulii Solini Polyhisto...

$275 / ≈ €257
Maker / Publisher: MELA, P. / SOLINUS, G.J.
Place & Date: Basle, Michael Isengrin, 1544

 


Tabula Asiae V. (Persia)

The first edition of Munster's map between the Persian Gulf and the Caspian Sea, extending from Armenia and Mesopotamia eastward, based upon Claudius Ptolemy which appear...

$300 / ≈ €281
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1545

 


Tabula Asiae V (Persia)

The first edition of Munster's map between the Persian Gulf and the Caspian Sea, extending from Armenia and Mesopotamia eastward, based upon Claudius Ptolemy which appear...

$300 / ≈ €281
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1545

 


Tabula Asiae I (Turkey)

The first edition of Munster's map of Turkey, based upon Claudius Ptolemy which appeared in his "Geographia Universalis", first published in 1540. The Geographi...

$500 / ≈ €468
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1545

 


Scythia.

Woodblock engraved map covering the region between the Caspian and the Sea of China, much of which is Terra Incognita in the North and East. In 1546 Honter’s Cosmograph...

$190 / ≈ €178
Maker / Publisher: HONTER, J.
Place & Date: Zürich, 1546

 


Tabula Asiae IIII. (Cyprus, Holy Land, Syria, Jordan, Iraq)

Gastaldi's map showing Cyprus, the Holy Land, Syria, Jordan and Iraq, based upon Ptolemy's map It is one of the earliest obtainable maps of the region.From Giacomo Gastal...

$350 / ≈ €328
Maker / Publisher: GASTALDI, G.
Place & Date: Venice, 1548

 


Tabula Asiae XII. (Sri Lanka)

Gastaldi's map showing Sri Lanka, based upon Ptolemy's twelfth map of Asia depicting Taprobana. With a decorative scene with elephant and descriptive text next to the map...

$350 / ≈ €328
Maker / Publisher: GASTALDI, G.
Place & Date: Venice, 1548

 


Tabula Asiae I.

Gastaldi's map of Asia Minor and the Bosporus Straits, based upon Ptolemy.It is one of the earliest obtainable maps of the region .From Giacomo Gastaldi's Atlas of 1548 w...

$400 / ≈ €374
Maker / Publisher: GASTALDI, G.
Place & Date: Venice, 1548

 


[Lot of 9 leaves with maps and views of Persia and Arabia).

Nineteen text leaves with wood block illustrations relating to Persia and Arabia. From the 1552 Latin text edition of Münster's Cosmographia, which is a short and comple...

$100 / ≈ €94
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basel, 1552

 


[Lot of 8 leaves relating to the Holy Land]

Eight printed text leaves with maps and views relating to the Holy Land. From the 1552 Latin text edition of Münster's Cosmographia, which is a short and complete summar...

$100 / ≈ €94
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basel, 1552

 


Tabula Asiae XI.

Attractive early woodblock map of the Indian Ocean, extending from Southeast Asia to the Ganges River and north to the Himalayas.In upper left inset panel of tiger, cocke...

$600 / ≈ €561
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basle, H. Petri, c. 1552

 


Sumatra.

Gastaldi prepared this map and it was the first separate map of any Southeast Asian island based on actual observation. The general contour of Sumatra is remarkably good ...

$1250 / ≈ €1170
Maker / Publisher: GASTALDI, G./ RAMUSIO, J. B.
Place & Date: Venice, 1556

 


Arabia Felice Nuova Tavola.

Uncommon first edition of this modern map of Saudi Arabia, the Persian Gulf and Red Sea, for the first time it "clearly shows the island of Bahrain and Qatar".T...

$1000 / ≈ €936
Maker / Publisher: RUSCELLI, G.
Place & Date: Venice, Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1561

 


Arabia Felice Nuova Tavola. [Arabian Peninsular]

Fine early map of this modern depiction of the Arabian peninsula, being one of the earliest modern maps of the region. The map extends from the Arabian Desert south as fa...

$900 / ≈ €842
Maker / Publisher: RUSCELLI, G.
Place & Date: Venice, Vincenzo Valgrisi, c.1561

 


Tabula Asiae VI. (Arabian Peninsular)

Scarce FIRST edition of this classical map depicting the Arabian Peninsula, here called Arabia Foelix, the Persian Gulf and Red Sea. The map is based upon a map published...

$300 / ≈ €281
Maker / Publisher: RUSCELLI, G.
Place & Date: Venice, 1561

 


Tavola nuova di Prussia et di Livonia.

Uncommon first edition of this early map of the region from Pomerania to Livonia, includes a portion of Estonia, and coastal detail on the Baltic Sea with a small section...

$400 / ≈ €374
Maker / Publisher: RUSCELLI, G.
Place & Date: Venice, Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1561

 


Tabula Asiae VI.

Uncommon first edition of this classical map of the Arabian Peninsular, is an enlarged version of Giacomo Gastaldi's published in 1548Girolamo Ruscelli's edition of Ptole...

$750 / ≈ €702
Maker / Publisher: RUSCELLI, G.
Place & Date: Venice, 1561

 


Natolia nuova tavola.

Uncommon first edition of this early map of Turkey.Girolamo Ruscelli's edition of Ptolemy's Geographia included newly engraved copperplates by Giulio and Livio Sanuto. Th...

$375 / ≈ €351
Maker / Publisher: RUSCELLI, G.
Place & Date: Venice, 1561

 


Meche.

Panoramic view of Mecca from Antoine du Pinet's "Plantz, Pourtraitz, Et descriptions De Plusieurs Villes". Woodblock print in text leaf with an interesting desc...

$150 / ≈ €140
Maker / Publisher: DU PINET, A.
Place & Date: Lyon, 1564

 


Calecut Nuova Tavola.

Early map of India, extending from west of the Gujarat peninsula eastward to Bengal and south as far as northern Ceylon (“Ceilam”). Girolamo Ruscelli first published ...

$350 / ≈ €328
Maker / Publisher: RUSCELLI, G.
Place & Date: Venice, 1564

 


[Tartaria].

One text page with a woodcut map of Tartary. On verso, a woodcut of a horse and a figure holding a wipe, from Münster's Cosmographia Universalis.The Cosmographia by Seba...

$80 / ≈ €75
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER,S.
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1564

 


Novae Urbis Hierosolymitanae topographica delineatio . . .

A very rare plan of modern Jerusalem oriented to the east, according to a note on the map the map was drawn after a map by Peter Laicstain. A lettered key to the right.Up...

$2500 / ≈ €2339
Maker / Publisher: DE JODE, G.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1571

 


Damascus, urbs.

Early view of Damascus, a bird's eye view from the greatest publication in this genre ! The Civitates was compiled and written by George Braun, Canon of Cologne Cathedral...

$750 / ≈ €702
Maker / Publisher: BRAUN, G. / HOGENBERG, F.
Place & Date: Cologne, 1572

 


Cyprus Insula / Candia, Olim Creta.

Two maps on one sheet. Copper engraving illustrating Cyprus and Crete, with Latin text on verso. From 1584 onwards editions of the Ortelius atlas no longer included this ...

$1750 / ≈ €1638
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1575

 


Goa fortissima Indiae urbs in Christianorum potestatem anno Salutis 1509. devenit.

A rare and early woodcut view of Goa in India. Decorated with one ship. This woodcut was published in La Cosmographie Universelle de tout le monde, printed 1575 in two vo...

$750 / ≈ €702
Maker / Publisher: BELLEFOREST, F. de.
Place & Date: Paris, 1575

 


Plan, et figure de la riche cité de Calecut en la premiere Inde.

A rare and early woodcut view of Calcutta in India. Decorated with several ships on the sea, shipbuilding, fishermen and elephants.This woodcut was published in La Cosmog...

$750 / ≈ €702
Maker / Publisher: BELLEFOREST, F. de.
Place & Date: Paris, 1575

 


Hierosolymia, Clarissima totius Orientis civitas. . .

Two bird's eye perspectives on one sheet. The left plan shows ancient Jerusalem at the time of Christ. The view on the left also portrays the procession of Jesus to Golgo...

$1200 / ≈ €1123
Maker / Publisher: BRAUN,G. / HOGENBERG, F.
Place & Date: Cologne, 1575

 


Calechut / Ormus / Canonor.

Four panoramic town-view on one sheet: the upper approximately two-thirds of this double page sheet contains a fine panoramic view of Calicut which is on the west coast o...

$875 / ≈ €819
Maker / Publisher: BRAUN, G. / HOGENBERG, F.
Place & Date: Cologne, 1575

 


Femina indica Orientalis - Indus Africanus - Singava vulgo dicta sive erratica femina Ori.

Beautiful engraving by Abraham de Bruyn showing inhabitants of Asian and African people with captions in Latin, French and German.Abraham de Bruyn, a Flemish engraver and...

$250 / ≈ €234
Maker / Publisher: DE BRUIJN, A.
Place & Date: Cologne, c.1577

 


Calechut Celeberrimum Indiae Emporium [on sheet with] Ormus [and] Canonor [and] S. Georgii Oppidum Mina.

Four very desirable and early town-plans of Kozhikode, Hormuz, Kannur and Almina. "KOZHIKODE (CALICUT) : "The city is viewed from the sea, just as it would hav...

$800 / ≈ €749
Maker / Publisher: BRAUN,G. / HOGENBERG, F.
Place & Date: Cologne, (1572) 1577

 


Primae Partis Asiae.

The Very Rare First State. Turkey/ Holy Land/ Iran/ Iraq/ Arabia/ Afghanistan. A superb example of the rare 1578 edition of this fine map of the Middle East, spanning fro...

$4500 / ≈ €4211
Maker / Publisher: DE JODE, C.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1578

 


Calechut Celeberri mum Indiae Emporium/ Ormus/ Canonor, St.Georgii.

Four panoramic town-views on one sheet: The upper approximately two-thirds of this double page sheet contains a fine panoramic view of Calicut which is on the west coast ...

$750 / ≈ €702
Maker / Publisher: BRAUN, G. / HOGENBERG, F.
Place & Date: Cologne, 1580

 


Constantinopel . . .

Early bird's eye view of Constantinople. From a German text edition of S. Münster's Cosmographia, which is a short and complete summary of Renaissance knowledge.Sebasti...

$300 / ≈ €281
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1580

 


Jerusalem.

On verso an early representation of Jerusalem (102x79mm) and underneath a temple and a church.From a German text edition of his Cosmographia , that great compendium of Re...

$500 / ≈ €468
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1580

 


Constantinopel des Griechischen Keijserthumbs Hauptstatt im Lande Thracia am Meere gelegen.

Detailed town view of the Golden Horn of Constantinople. The city plan depicts the markets, homes, palaces and churches, including the famous Hagia Sophia, shown prior to...

Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1580
Selling price: $550
Sold in 2015

 


Hierosolymia, Clarissima totius Orientis civitas. . .

Two bird's eye perspectives on one sheet. The left plan shows ancient Jerusalem at the time of Christ. A contemporary view of Jerusalem appears to the right with an attra...

$950 / ≈ €889
Maker / Publisher: BRAUN,G. / HOGENBERG, F.
Place & Date: Cologne, 1582

 


Hierosolymia, Clarissima totius Orientis civitas. . .

Two bird's eye perspectives on one sheet. The left plan shows ancient Jerusalem at the time of Christ.A contemporary view of Jerusalem appears to the right with an attrac...

$900 / ≈ €842
Maker / Publisher: BRAUN,G. / HOGENBERG, F.
Place & Date: Cologne, 1582

 


Turcici imperii descriptio.

Fine map of the Middle East, extending from Greece to Arabia and covering the Cradle of Civilisation region.Abraham Ortelius (1527-1598) was a cartographer and publisher ...

$550 / ≈ €515
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A. / GALLE, Ph.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1583

 


[Asia Minor]

Early, attractive woodcut map of Turkey, with Cyprus shown in the lower right corner. On the full sheet with German text beneath and verso. From the German edition of Seb...

$50 / ≈ €47
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basle, 1584

 


Peregrinationis Divi Pauli Typus..

A splendid map depicting the travels of Paulus. With two fine scenes in top. Showing the countries along the Mediterranean, including Cyprus and Italy. A first edition wi...

$1500 / ≈ €1404
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1584

 


Indiae Orientalis, Insularumque Adiacentium Typus.

Map of Indonesia. From a French text edition of this illustrated treatise of geography, which is considered as the first modern pocket-atlas.Map engraved by Philip Galle....

$750 / ≈ €702
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A. / GALLE, Ph.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1585

 


Natoliae.. Aegypti recentior.. Carthaginis ( 3 maps on 1 sheet)

Three maps on one 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 "...

$750 / ≈ €702
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1587

 


[Asia Minor]

Sebastien Münster's small map of Asia Minor, complete with a sea monster, bold rivers, mountains, forests and prominent cities of the region. German text below and to ve...

$75 / ≈ €70
Maker / Publisher: MUNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basle, 1588

 


Arabs Nobilis.

Costume plate published by Pietro Bertelli in his "Diversarum nationum habitus", a sixteenth-century Italian costume book. The work was published with fold-out ...

$70 / ≈ €66
Maker / Publisher: BERTELLI, P.
Place & Date: Padua, 1589

 


Bolucha Bassa Centurio Ianizerorum.

Costume plate published by Pietro Bertelli in his "Diversarum nationum habitus", a sixteenth-century Italian costume book. The work was published with fold-out ...

$60 / ≈ €56
Maker / Publisher: BERTELLI, P.
Place & Date: Padua, 1589

 


Ianizer excubias agens constantinapo lipro Aulu Imperatoris.

Costume plate published by Pietro Bertelli in his "Diversarum nationum habitus", a sixteenth-century Italian costume book. The work was published with fold-out ...

$60 / ≈ €56
Maker / Publisher: BERTELLI, P.
Place & Date: Padua, 1589

 


Tartarus gentili more Armatus.

Costume plate published by Pietro Bertelli in his "Diversarum nationum habitus", a sixteenth-century Italian costume book. The work was published with fold-out ...

$60 / ≈ €56
Maker / Publisher: BERTELLI, P.
Place & Date: Padua, 1589

 


Monachi habitus guem Geruisium nominant.

Costume plate published by Pietro Bertelli in his "Diversarum nationum habitus", a sixteenth-century Italian costume book. The work was published with fold-out ...

$50 / ≈ €47
Maker / Publisher: BERTELLI, P.
Place & Date: Padua, 1589

 


Arabs habitu Gentili.

Costume plate published by Pietro Bertelli in his "Diversarum nationum habitus", a sixteenth-century Italian costume book. The work was published with fold-out ...

$50 / ≈ €47
Maker / Publisher: BERTELLI, P.
Place & Date: Padua, 1589

 


[De terra sancta.]

On verso a map of the Middle East with Syria, Israel and Cyprus (123x158mm.). From a Latin text edition of his Geographia , that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge...

$50 / ≈ €47
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1590

 


Tartariae sive Magni Chami Imperium.

This is a very early depiction of the northern Pacific, with the first mapping of Northwest Coast of America and probably the first map to name California 'C. Califormio'...

$1750 / ≈ €1638
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, c. 1590

 


Chinae, olim Sinarum Regionis, nova descriptio. Auctore Ludovico Georgio.

The first map of China ever to appear in a Western atlas, west to the top. The second state with "Las Philipinas" somewhere in 1587 added to the plate. When thi...

$6000 / ≈ €5614
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1592

 


Sacri in tabernaculo apparatus partes ex descriptione Mosis. . .

Fine engraving of the brazen altar, bronze altar, or altar of sacrifice among other ritual objects such as the candelabrum. From Benedictus Arias Montanus' Antiquitatum I...

$200 / ≈ €187
Maker / Publisher: ARIAS MONTANUS, B.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1572 / Leiden, 1593

 


Cyprus - Insular Aliquot Aegaei maris antiqua descrip.

Ten maps on one sheet. With large map of Cyprus. Provenance: This map is from the personal collection of dr. Marcel van den Broecke, author of Ortelius Atlas Maps An...

$1650 / ≈ €1544
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1595

 


Peregrinatie Jesu Christu Een ordentliche beschrijvinge des Heijligen landts....

Very rare separately map of the Holy Land engraved by Joannes van Doetecum Jr. Oriented to the east. The shoreline runs from "Antaradus" in Syria to "Rhino...

$4000 / ≈ €3743
Maker / Publisher: VAN DOECTECUM Jr. , J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1595

 


Calecuty Regnum

A rare and unusual depiction of the Indian Ocean between Madagascar, Ethiopia, southern Arabia, and south India and Ceylon.The calligraphy is florid and decorative. The e...

$2000 / ≈ €1871
Maker / Publisher: BOTERO, G.
Place & Date: Cologne, 1596

 


The bird called 'Eeme' and other creatures of India.

Especially on the island of Java and in India, is found a strange bird, called an 'Eeme'. It is almost as large as an ostrich with strong and sturdy legs but it has no to...

$90 / ≈ €84
Maker / Publisher: DE BRY, Th.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1598

 


Illustrations of Lancuas, Fagaras, Lacca and Cuci fructa.

Common in Bali, Java and Sunda is a plant known as the great Galanga or Galigam. The natives, however, call it Lancuas. The fagaras, particularly found in Sunda, looks li...

$80 / ≈ €75
Maker / Publisher: DE BRY, Th.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1598

 


Chinae, olim Sinarum regionis. . .

The first printed map of China. It is signed by Ludovico Georgio, whose real name was Luis Jorge de Barbuda. He was a Portuguese Jesuit cartographer and besides that a sp...

$5000 / ≈ €4679
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1598

 


A picture of various trees including the palm tree.

The Jacca fruit grows only on the trunk of the tree, not on its branches, rather like the fruit of the palmates. Then there is a fruit that grows in abundance in Bali, wh...

$80 / ≈ €75
Maker / Publisher: DE BRY, Th.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1598

 


Soria et Terra Santa nuova tavola.

Early map of this classical map of the Holy Land, including Cyprus, prepared by Giovanni Botero. The copper plate was however later used by Giuseppe Rosaccio's expended e...

$500 / ≈ €468
Maker / Publisher: RUSCELLI, G.
Place & Date: Venice, 1598

 


Pineapple, Bettel, palma dactylifera, Samaca & Mango.

These are all Indian fruits, of which the pineapple has the best flavour and aroma. The Bettel plant is also shown here climbing up long rods and canes, just as the peppe...

$100 / ≈ €94
Maker / Publisher: DE BRY, Th.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1598

 


India Tercera Nuova Tavola.

Fine 1598 edition of this early map of South East Asia. Just to the west and south of Malacca, one will notice ‘Camatra’ (Sumatra) and Java. China with Canton in the ...

$1000 / ≈ €936
Maker / Publisher: RUSCELLI, G.
Place & Date: Venice, 1598

 


The extraordinary 'Abore Triste' tree of India.

In India there is an extraordinary tree, known as the 'Abore Triste', which is regarded as one of God's miracles. This tree flowers for a whole year but only at night tim...

$80 / ≈ €75
Maker / Publisher: DE BRY, Th.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1598

 


Some of the animals that are found in India.

Although most elephants are found in Ethiopia, there are also many in India too. They are called 'Caffres' by the inhabitants and are slaughtered for their tusks, which t...

$100 / ≈ €94
Maker / Publisher: DE BRY, Th.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1598

 


Birds and fish seen during the voyage to India.

During their voyage to India many strange birds were seen, for example, the 'Garayos' that were the size of a chicken, the 'Rabos de Juncos' that are white and about the ...

$100 / ≈ €94
Maker / Publisher: DE BRY, Th.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1598