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Alpinae seu Foederatae Rhaetiae . . .
Extremely rare first edition of this beautiful map of Graubünden Canton in Switzerland. Including Chur, Davos, St.Moritz, etc.Jodocus Hondius Jr. planned to produce a ne...
- $750 / ≈ €667
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1629
Westphalia Ducatus.
Elegantly engraved map of Westphalia including Hamm and Lippstadt. The mountainous topography is graphically depicted and several small coats of arms dot the map. Strapwo...
- $100 / ≈ €89
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1629-1630
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...
- $2000 / ≈ €1778
Place & 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 / ≈ €267
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
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[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.
- $200 / ≈ €178
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 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...
- $100 / ≈ €89
Place & 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 / ≈ €400
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Warwicum Northamtonia Huntingdonia Cantabrigia..
Showing the south-eastern part of England.
- $350 / ≈ €311
Place & 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...
- $675 / ≈ €600
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
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[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...
- $80 / ≈ €71
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1630
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[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...
- $300 / ≈ €267
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
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[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 / ≈ €71
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1630
Africa ex magna orbis terre descriptione Gerardi Mercator. . .
Map of Africa. Much of the interior of Africa defers to the traditions of Ptolemy. The Nile river is shown with the two lakes and the Mountains of the Moon across souther...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Selling price: $1500
Sold in 2015
Udrone Irlandiae in Catherlagh Baronia.
A detailed map of the Barony of Udrone (modern Idrone) in County Carlow, Ireland The title is surrounded by a strapwork design cartouche topped with calipers & a mile...
- $200 / ≈ €178
Place & 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 / ≈ €311
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1630
Episcopatus Paderbornensis
Detailed map centered on Paderborn. Prepared by Joannes Michael Gigas (1580-1650+), a doctor, mathematician and geographer who made also maps of Osnabrug, Westphalia, Mun...
- $100 / ≈ €89
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1629-1630
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[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 / ≈ €53
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1630
Venezuela, atque Occidentalis Pars Novæ Andalusiae.
Coastline of Venezuela with little interior development. Including Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao, etc. Scarce map prepared by Hessel Gerritsz (1581-1632), former apprentice of...
- $600 / ≈ €533
Place & Date: Leiden, Elzevier, 1630
Anglesey. / Iarsay. / Carnesay. / Wight Vectis Olim.
Four maps on one sheet depicting the English islands Jersey, Guernsey, Wright and Alderney.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
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[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 / ≈ €71
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 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 / ≈ €196
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 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 / ≈ €2666
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Osnabrugensis episcopatus. . .
A beautiful map of Munster centered on the city of Osnabruck. Prepared by Joannes Michael Gigas (1580-1650+), a doctor, mathematician and geographer. Showing an inset wit...
- $200 / ≈ €178
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1629-1630
Fionia.
Early map, including Odense and the island Langeland .
- $200 / ≈ €178
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Marca Brandeburgensis & Pomerania.
Centered on the towns of Brandenburg and Berlin. Based on the map by Elias Cameriarus (abt.1530-1581).RARE second state, with both the signatures of Gerard Mercator and H...
- $75 / ≈ €67
Place & 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...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Tabula Islandiae. . .
With a very decorative cartouche, and a very fine imprint. No text on verso; included in the rare "Appendix" of 1630. VERY RARE. This handsome map of Iceland wa...
- $1200 / ≈ €1067
Place & 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...
- $80 / ≈ €71
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 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 ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Taurica Chersonesus . . .
An attractive, detailed and early map of the Ukraine, Russia and surrounding regions between the northern coast of the Black Sea and Moscow.Shows ports, fortified cities ...
- $300 / ≈ €267
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 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 / ≈ €133
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1600-1630
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[Title page] Thesauri Philo Politici pars Prima ...
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 / ≈ €71
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 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 / ≈ €178
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1600-1630
Portugallia et Algarbia quae olim Lusitania. . .
Rare map of Portugal with decorative title cartouche. Oriented to the west. Prepared by Fernando Alvares Seco.
Place & Date: Paris, c.1630
Helvetia cum finitimis regionibus confoederatis.
Detailed and finely engraved map of Switzerland.
- $350 / ≈ €311
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
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[Titlepage] Germaniae tabule geographicae.
Decorative title page to the volume of the "Atlas, Sive Cosmographicae Meditationes De Fabrica Mundi" devoted to maps of Germany. The design in a typical Manner...
- $280 / ≈ €249
Place & 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...
Place & 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...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 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...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Ducatus Geldriae novissima. . .
Early map of Gelderland, but also including Utrecht, and parts of Brabant. Shows many cities (like Nijmegen, Eindhoven, Zutphen, Zwolle, etc), roads, rivers, woods, regio...
- $350 / ≈ €311
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1629-1630
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 / ≈ €1955
Place & 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 / ≈ €800
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Fionia.
Early map, including Odense and the island Langeland .
- $200 / ≈ €178
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1630
Prussia.
An attractive, detailed and early map of present-day Poland and Lithuania. From the Cloppenburg edition slightly larger format and more scarce edition of the Mercator/Hon...
- $450 / ≈ €400
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Typus Frisiae Orientalis.
Decorative map of east Frisia in Germany with the Watten islands. With inset map of the area south of Emden. Prepared by Ubbo Emmius (1547-1625). Two very decorative coat...
- $350 / ≈ €311
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1629-1630
Palatinatus Rheni.
Map depicting part of Germany provinces.
Place & 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 / ≈ €200
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
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[Title page] Thesauri Philo-Politci Pars Sexta. . .
Very skillfully engraved title page from a rare work printed by Eberhard Kieser: Thesaurus Philo-Politicus. Das ist Politisches Schatzkästlein guter Herren und bestendig...
- $90 / ≈ €80
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1630
Sclavonia, Croatia, Bosnia cum Dalmatiae parte.
Nice map of the Eastern Balkans with the political divisions of Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Dalmatia.Mercator was born in Rupelmonde in Flanders and studied in Louvain ...
- $300 / ≈ €267
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1630
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[Title page for] : Atlas Minor ou Briefve, & vive description de tout le Monde. . .".
Title page from a French 1630 edition of Atlas Minor (352:11). Engraved title page, pasted-on title and imprint (over the original Latin title and imprint 1628). Read mor...
- $250 / ≈ €222
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Sudseite des Landts Terza del Fuoco, abgezeichnet durch Iohan von Walbeck.
Map showing Cap Horn and the Terra del Fuego.From a German text edition of Theodor de Bry's travel book. The original copper plate is now shortened at the left side and h...
- $550 / ≈ €489
Place & Date: Frankfurt am Main, 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...
Place & 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.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1629-1630
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...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1629-1630
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 / ≈ €711
Place & 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 / ≈ €489
Place & 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 / ≈ €267
Place & 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 / ≈ €667
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Warwicum Northampton, Huntingdon Cantabr etc.
Showing the south-eastern part of England. From his Atlas Minor. French text on verso.
- $100 / ≈ €89
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c.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...
- $500 / ≈ €444
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1630
Fessae et Marocchi Regna.
One of the new maps added by Hondius, when he took over publication of the Atlas, a finely engraved and decorative map of north-west Africa, with the Canaries. With an in...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
(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 / ≈ €933
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 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 / ≈ €133
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 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 / ≈ €89
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1631
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 / ≈ €133
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 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 / ≈ €1333
Place & 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 / ≈ €67
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M. Merian, 1631
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[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 / ≈ €133
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 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 / ≈ €133
Place & 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 / ≈ €222
Place & 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 / ≈ €44
Place & 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 / ≈ €67
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 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...
Place & 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 / ≈ €267
Place & Date: Paris, 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 / ≈ €222
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1632
Pere Grinatie. De Reijse der Kinderen Israels so zij wt Egip . . . Africa - SW coast Table Bay surveyed by Mr F Skead Master RN assisted by Mr Charles Watermeyer 1858-60
Very rare separately map of the Holy Land engraved by Joannes van Doetecum Jr.In lower right corner inset with title cartouche surrounded by Aaron, the encampment of the ...
- $3500 / ≈ €3111
Place & 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 / ≈ €267
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1632
Solor.
Scarce print on German text sheet showing the Island of Solor. From "Petits Voyages". The island Solar, to the north of Timor, has a high mountain and has a ver...
- $100 / ≈ €89
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
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[Title page] Cartes particulières des costes de France de la mer mediterrannée . . .
Title page by Tassin for the atlas " Cartes particulières des costes de France de la mer mediterrannée. . .".
Place & Date: Paris, 1633
Freti Magellanici ac novi Freti vulgo Le Maire. . .
A fine map of Tierra del Fuego. With an explanatory text of the passage by Barent Jansz. Potgieter who accompanied captain Sebald de Weert to the Straits in 1599/1600, be...
- $750 / ≈ €667
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1633