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[Lot of 25 leaves of France, Brabant, Netherlands, Luxemburg]

Twenty-five text leaves with wood block illustrations relating to France, Brabant, the Netherlands, Luxemburg. From the 1552 Latin text edition of Münster's Cosmographia...

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

 


[Lot of 2 leaves] Vienna Austriae metropolis, urbs…

A wood block printed early panoramic view of Vienna (Austria). From the 1552 Latin text edition of Münster's Cosmographia, which is a short and complete summary of Renai...

$50 / ≈ €47
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basel, 1552

 


[Lot of 2 leaves] Rubeaquum cum arce Isenburgo…/ Wyssenburg…

Two wood block printed early bird's-eye views of Rouffach (lies along the Alsatian wine route) and Wissembourg (Alsace). From the 1552 Latin text edition of Münster's Co...

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

 


[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

 


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

 


Moscovia Sigismundi Liberi Baronis In Herberstein, Neiperg et Gutehnag Anno M.D XLIX

First Modern Map of Russia. A rare and important cornerstone map for any Russian collection.One of two maps of Russia compiled by Herberstein, who was ambassador from the...

$2500 / ≈ €2339
Maker / Publisher: HALBERSTEIN, S.
Place & Date: Basle, 1556

 


[Toscana / Tuscany] En, candidi lectores, elegantioris Italiae partis, Tusciae scilicet, topographiam. aenis nris formis excussam in hac Tabella vobis denuo damus. . .

A rare map of Tuscany, including the islands of Elba, Giglio, Giannutri and part of Corsica, and covering the whole of Tuscany, part of Liguria, Lombardy, Emilia, Umbria,...

$6000 / ≈ €5614
Maker / Publisher: BELLARMATO, G. / SALAMANCA, A.
Place & Date: Rome, ca 1557

 


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

 


Egitto nuova tavola.

Fine early map of Egypt and the Nile delta. Extends east to the Upper Red Sea and West to "Deserto De Marmarica". Nice detail in the lower Nile regions. Page ta...

$200 / ≈ €187
Maker / Publisher: RUSCELLI, Girolamo.
Place & Date: Venice, 1561

 


Tabula Asiae II.

Scarce FIRST edition of this map of the ancient region of Asiatic Sarmatia - now Southern Russia and part of Ukraine, around the Azov seaGirolamo Ruscelli's edition of Pt...

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

 


Moschovia nuova tavola.

Scarce FIRST edition of this map centered on Moscow. In the lower left Crimea and the Sea of Azov. The map is filled with small tents to represent Tartar camps.Girolamo R...

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

 


Tabula Europae IIII.

The scarce FIRST edition of this classical map depicting Northern Europe, Denmark and the Baltic. Includes engravings of a number of interesting animals in the right-hand...

$450 / ≈ €421
Maker / Publisher: RUSCELLI, G.
Place & Date: Venice, 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

 


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

 


Africa nuova tavola.

Uncommon first edition of this early map of South Africa. Madagascar is called Isola de S. Lorenzo and is oddly shaped.The origin of the Nile conforms to the Ptolemaic co...

$550 / ≈ €515
Maker / Publisher: RUSCELLI, G.
Place & Date: Venice, Vincenzo Valgrisi, 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. (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

 


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

 


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

 


Tierra Nueva.

Uncommon first edition of this early map of the east coast is an enlarged version of Giacomo Gastaldi map published in 1548. Nomenclature and cartography are unchanged, w...

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

 


Groeninga MDLXXIII. [Groningen]

RECTO: A panoramic view of the city of Groningen dated 1573.VERSO: a woodcut of a cow, a bull and their calf.Taken from Sebastian Munster's encyclopedic work, the "C...

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

 


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

 


[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

 


De Lucerna Helvetiorum Civitate. (Luzern)

One Latin text page with a wood cut bird's-eye view of Luzern (147x157mm). From Münster's Cosmographia Universalis. The Cosmographia by Sebastian Münster from 1544 is t...

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

 


VIII. Das Wiflispurgergow.

Very early wood cut printed regional map of Switzerland with Lake Geneva.Originally engraved in 1548. The map was prepared by Johannes Stumpf (1500-1576). Included in &qu...

$400 / ≈ €374
Maker / Publisher: STUMPF, J.
Place & Date: Zurich, Christoffel Froschover, 1548,1552-1566

 


[Title page to 'Landtaflen. Hierinn findst du lieber Läser schöner recht und wolgemachter Landtaflen XII...']

Title page with wood cut device to "Landtaflen. Hierinn findst du lieber Läser schöner recht und wolgemachter Landtaflen XII namlich ein Allgemeine Europae demnach...

Maker / Publisher: STUMPF, J.
Place & Date: Zurich, Christoffel Froschover, 1566
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2016

 


DESCRIPTION DE TOUT LE PAIS BAS Autrement dict La Germanie Inferieure, ou Basse-Allemaigne…

First French edition. Illustrated with a coat of arms and portrait of Philips II, with a folding map of The Netherlands and maps and views of Brabant, Louvain, Brussel, A...

$4500 / ≈ €4211
Maker / Publisher: GUICCIARDINI, L.
Place & Date: Anvers. Guillaume Silvius, 1567

 


Descritione dell Austria, et Ongheria, Transsilvania. . .

Rare war map showing Austria, Hungaria, Croatia, Slovakia, Venice, etc., being the battlefield of Christian Imperial vs. Islamic Ottoman forces from Vienna / Venice to Bu...

$1000 / ≈ €936
Maker / Publisher: FORLANI, P. / BALLINO, G.
Place & Date: Venice, Zaltieri, (1567) 1568

 


Orleans assiegé au mois de Janvier. 1563.

Rare copper engraved view of the siege of Orleans in January 1563, engraved by Jean Jacques Perrissin, (1536 - before 1611).Print from the suite "The Wars, Massacres...

$100 / ≈ €94
Maker / Publisher: PERRISSIN, J.J.
Place & Date: Geneva, ca. 1570

 


[Euboe].

Woodcut Ptolemaic-style map by Sebastian Münster figuring Euboea Island, published in the edition of Strabo by Henri Petri in 1571."Strabonis rerum geographicarum&q...

$100 / ≈ €94
Maker / Publisher: STRABO / MUNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basle, Henri Petri, 1571

 


Strabonis nobilissimi et doctissimi philosophi ac geographi Rervm geographicarum commentarij libris XVII contenti, Latini facti Gvilielmo Xylandro Augustano interprete. . .

A few marginal annotations (pp. 109-111), in a 19th c. hand. Latin translation with a commentary by Wilhelm Holtzmann, also called Guglielmus Xylander. (1532-1576), libra...

$15000 / ≈ €14036
Maker / Publisher: STRABO / MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basle, Henri Petri, 1571

 


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

 


Lutetia, vulgari nomine Paris, urbs Gallia. . .

Beautiful and early town-plan of Paris with title cartouche and figures in the foreground. The Bastille is shown at the upper center of the engraving and the Notre-Dame c...

$2000 / ≈ €1871
Maker / Publisher: BRAUN, G. / HOGENBERG, F.
Place & Date: Cologne, ca. 1572

 


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

 


Basiliensis territorii descriptio nova.

Left hand map centered on Basle, east to top. With credit to Sebastian Münster in title cartouche.

$200 / ≈ €187
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1573

 


Illyricum.

Early map of Istria and Slovenia. Prepared by Johann Sambucus 1572.

$500 / ≈ €468
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1574

 


Illyricum.

Early map of Istria and Slovenia. Prepared by Johann Sambucus 1572.The map is in a strictly contemporary coloring.Read more about coloring.

$600 / ≈ €561
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1574

 


Provincia Di Albania.

Uncommon map of Albania, from Giovanni Francesco Camocio's rare " Isole Famose porti, fortezze, e terre maritime . . ." The second state,  includes the plate n...

$1200 / ≈ €1123
Maker / Publisher: CAMOCIO, G.F.
Place & Date: Venice, D.Bertelli, ca.1574

 


Trau citta nella Dalmacia vicino al Spaleto. . .

Uncommon map of the Dalmatian coast with the town of Trau (Trogir) in Croatia, from Giovanni Francesco Camocio's rare " Isole Famose porti, fortezze, e terre maritim...

$1000 / ≈ €936
Maker / Publisher: CAMOCIO, G.F.
Place & Date: Venice, D.Bertelli, ca.1574

 


[Citta Di Ragusi]-[Citta Di Cataro]

Uncommon map of the coast of Montenegro with the bay and town of Kotor (citta di Cataro) and Dubrovnik (cita di Ragusi) with Venetian war ships in the foreground. From Gi...

$1250 / ≈ €1170
Maker / Publisher: CAMOCIO, G.F.
Place & Date: Venice, D.Bertelli, ca.1574

 


Sebenico antiquam.e Sico detto Citta nobile nella prouincia della Dalmacia. . .

Uncommon map of the coast of Croatia with the bay and town of Šibenik (Sebenico) with Venetian war ships in the foreground. From Giovanni Francesco Camocio's rare "...

$1000 / ≈ €936
Maker / Publisher: CAMOCIO, G.F.
Place & Date: Venice, D.Bertelli, ca.1574

 


Golfo de Lodrin con parte di Albania.

Rare map of the northern coast of Albania, Serbia and Montenegro, extending from Malonta and Castel Novo and Bocca del Colfo di Cattaro to Durrës. Venetian war ships in ...

$1500 / ≈ €1404
Maker / Publisher: CAMOCIO, G.F.
Place & Date: Venice, D.Bertelli, ca.1574

 


Die statt Montpellier . . .

Panoramic view of Montpellier by Sebastian Münster. Below the engraving a letterpress key. From the German edition of Sebastian Munster's Cosmography, "Cosmographey...

$75 / ≈ €70
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S
Place & Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1574

 


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

 


Thusciae Descriptio Auctore Hieronimo Bellarmato.

Decorative and detailed map of Tuscany, from the 1574 or 1575 Latin text edition of Ortelius' Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first modern atlas of the world. The map is bas...

$900 / ≈ €842
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1574-1575

 


Le vray portraict de la Ville de Marseille.

Fine wood cut bird's-eye view of Marseille. Decorated with several ship in the harbour and on the sea. To the left two keys describing the main buildings and places. Publ...

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

 


Dordrecht.

Very desirable and early town-plan of Dordrecht.From volume one of the greatest publication in this genre!. The Civitates was compiled and written by George Braun, Canon ...

$200 / ≈ €187
Maker / Publisher: BRAUN,G. / HOGENBERG, F.
Place & Date: Cologne, 1575

 


Lympurch. (Limburg)

Very desirable and early town-plan of the city of Limburg in Belgium with its fortifications at the end of the 16th century.From volume one of the greatest publication in...

$250 / ≈ €234
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

 


Page from La Cosmographie Universelle with map of France. (Page 160)

Text page with woodblock map of ancient France (122 x 163 mm.) In 1575 Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia was translated into French and published in Paris by François d...

$75 / ≈ €70
Maker / Publisher: DE BELLE-FOREST, F.
Place & Date: Paris, 1575

 


Pedemontanae Vicinorumque Regionum.

Fine map including the Italian coast from Monaco till Genoa. Milan in the upper righthand corner and Turin in the center of the map.

$600 / ≈ €561
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1574-1575

 


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

 


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

 


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

 


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

 


Sevilla, Hispalis ... [on sheet with] Cadiz [and] Malaga.

Very desirable and early view of Sevilla, Cadiz and Malaga, with the Roman and Moorish citadels on the hills in the background. "In the upper part Sevilla, showing ...

$500 / ≈ €468
Maker / Publisher: BRAUN,G. / HOGENBERG, F.
Place & Date: Cologne, (1572) 1577

 


Messana, Urbs est Sicilie maxima, situ, opulentia, & tuta navium statione.

Very desirable and early town-plan of Messina on Sicily, with a numbered key (1-167) in lower part. "Messina is shown from the east, in a view looking down upon the ...

$500 / ≈ €468
Maker / Publisher: BRAUN,G. / HOGENBERG, F.
Place & Date: Cologne, (1572) 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

 


Leodium. (Luik or Liège)

Very desirable and early town-view of Liège, which shows the city with the Meuse flowing in its favorable location amongst gentle hills, sturdy trees and fertile fields....

$300 / ≈ €281
Maker / Publisher: BRAUN,G. / HOGENBERG, F.
Place & Date: Cologne, (1572) 1577

 


Die Statt Paris etlicher mass figuriert und contrafehtet nach jetziger Gelegenheit.

Published in the "Universal Cosmography" of S. Münster. Text in German. Under the legendary plan in German A to G. It is framed by a border composed of foliage...

$200 / ≈ €187
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Bâle, H. Petri, 1578

 


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

 


Exacta novaqve descriptio dvcatvs Andegravensis qvem vvlgari nomine Le Duche d'Aniou Indigitant.

Centered on the town of Angiers. From the first edition of De Jode's Speculum Orbis Terrarum, the second general atlas of the world, after Ortelius. Engraved by Ioannes V...

$750 / ≈ €702
Maker / Publisher: DE JODE, G.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1578

 


Schlavoniae, Croatiae, Carniale.. Bosniae. . .

First state. Fine and early map of former Yugoslavia after a map of Hirschvogel (1552-1565) and used by A.Ortelius in his atlas 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum [Atlas of the Who...

$400 / ≈ €374
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1579

 


Moscavw. Moscovia, Urbs regionis eiusde nominis metropolitica, duplo maior. . .

Showing Moscow within the walled city and figures in the foreground. Title cartouche in the lower right corner Moscovia, Urbs. Regionis ciusde nominis metropolitica, dup...

Maker / Publisher: BRAUN, G. / HOGENBERG, F.
Place & Date: Cologne, 1580
Selling price: $2600
Sold in 2009

 


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 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

 


Sarmatia Asie.

The map is showing the area of Armenia and Kazakhstan. From his Cosmographia, that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge. Sebastian Münster was born in Nierder-Ingel...

$90 / ≈ €84
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1580

 


Spectandum dedit Ortelius mortalib..

This famous portrait, engraved by Galle, was included in Ortelius' atlases from 1579 onwards.The title translation is By looking, Ortelius gave to mortal beings the world...

$550 / ≈ €515
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1580

 


Lutetia Parisiorum urbs, toto orbe celeberrima notissimaque, caput regni Franciae.

Early bird's eye view of Paris, called at the time Lutetia. From a French text edition of S. Münster's Cosmographia, which is a short and complete summary of Renaissance...

$400 / ≈ €374
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

 


Tingis, Lusitanis, Tangiara. / Tzaffin. / Septa. / Arzilla/ Sala.

Views of the five northern and western African coastal town-view on one sheet: Latin text.From the greatest publication in this genre!. The Civitates was compiled and wri...

$600 / ≈ €561
Maker / Publisher: BRAUN, G. / HOGENBERG, F.
Place & Date: Cologne, 1580

 


Tingis, Lusitanis, Tangiara. / Tzaffin. / Septa. / Arzilla/ Sala.

Views of the five northern and western African coastal town-view on one sheet: Latin text.From the greatest publication in this genre!. The Civitates was compiled and wri...

$600 / ≈ €561
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

 


Meerwunder und Seltzame Thier.

A fine detailed woodcut depicting a superb variety of fantastic sea-monsters, such as might be encountered by a sailor in northern waters. Including monsters with abundan...

$1950 / ≈ €1825
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER,S.
Place & Date: Basel, 1580

 


1) Caletensivm et Bononiensivm..2) Veromandvorvm eorvmque..

Prepared by Jean Surhon, cartographer, goldsmith and engraver. From 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum [Atlas of the Whole World]': published in Antwerp.

$200 / ≈ €187
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1580

 


Roterodamum.. (Rotterdam) / Gouda.

One of the oldest panoramic views of the cities of Gouda and Rotterdam.From the greatest publication in this genre !. The ,Civitates, was compiled and written by George B...

$500 / ≈ €468
Maker / Publisher: BRAUN, G./ HOGENBERG, F.
Place & Date: Cologne 1580

 


Brabantia.

Map of Brabant from Guicciardini's "Description de touts les Pais-Bais" edited by Plantin in 1582. The map drawn after Ortelius' map of Brabant, and after the l...

$275 / ≈ €257
Maker / Publisher: GUICCIARDINI, L.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 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

 


[Title page] De Praecipuis, Totius Universi Urbibus, Liber Secundus.

Allegorical title page, from Volume 2 of Braun & Hogenberg's Civitatus Orbis Terrarum.At the top are figures representing Religion and Politics, placed on either side...

$400 / ≈ €374
Maker / Publisher: BRAUN,G. / HOGENBERG, F.
Place & Date: Cologne, 1582