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Tabula Asiae VII.

Attractive woodblock map, depicting the Caspian Sea, Black Sea and the Persian Gulf, extending to the Imaus Mountains. according to Ptolemy. In the center of the map is...

$600 / ≈ €526
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basle, 1542

 


Tabula Asiae VII.

Attractive woodblock map, depicting the Caspian Sea, Black Sea and the Persian Gulf, extending to the Imaus Mountains. according to Ptolemy. In the center of the map is...

$500 / ≈ €438
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basle, 1542

 


[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 / ≈ €241
Maker / Publisher: MELA, P. / SOLINUS, G.J.
Place & Date: Basle, Michael Isengrin, 1544

 


Tabula Asiae II (Black Sea and Caspian Sea)

The first edition of Munster's map of Ukraine and the region north of the Black Sea, based upon Claudius Ptolemy which appeared in his "Geographia Universalis",...

$500 / ≈ €438
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1545

 


Tabula Asiae II (Black Sea and Caspian Sea).

The first edition of Münster's map of Ukraine and the region north of the Black Sea, based upon Claudius Ptolemy which appeared in his "Geographia Universalis"...

$400 / ≈ €350
Maker / Publisher: MUNSTER, 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 / ≈ €263
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 / ≈ €438
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 / ≈ €166
Maker / Publisher: HONTER, J.
Place & Date: Zürich, 1546

 


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

 


Tabula Africae IIII.

Gastaldi's map of the Northern Africa, based on Ptolemy. Showing all of the Mediterranean, Ethiopian Interior, the Red Sea, Egypt, the source of the Nile, Red Sea, Dead S...

$400 / ≈ €350
Maker / Publisher: GASTALDI, G.
Place & Date: Venice, 1548

 


Tabula Europae II. (Spain and Portugal)

Gastaldi's map showing Spain and Portugal, based upon Ptolemy.It is one of the earliest obtainable maps of the region.From Giacomo Gastaldi's Atlas of 1548 which has been...

$375 / ≈ €329
Maker / Publisher: GASTALDI, G.
Place & Date: Venice, 1548

 


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 / ≈ €307
Maker / Publisher: GASTALDI, G.
Place & Date: Venice, 1548

 


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 Russia collections.Sigismund von Herberstein made two visits to Russia. In 1517-18 he travelled as a ...

$3000 / ≈ €2628
Maker / Publisher: HALBERSTEIN, S.
Place & Date: Vienna, 1549

 


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

The forst modern plan of Moscow. A rare and important cornerstone map for Russia collections.Sigismund von Herberstein made two visits to Russia. In 1517-18 he travelled ...

$3000 / ≈ €2628
Maker / Publisher: HALBERSTEIN, S.
Place & Date: Vienna, 1549

 


Della Graecia Ritratto di Costantinopoli hora stanza del Turco.

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

$600 / ≈ €526
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basle, 1550

 


Typus Universalis Terrae, Iuxta Modernorum Distinctionem Et Extensionem Per Regna Et Provincias.

Rare world map from Gregor Reisch's Magarita Philisophica published in Basle in 1583.In 1544, Peter Apian incorporated a world map into his Cosmographia, based upon Gemma...

$3000 / ≈ €2628
Maker / Publisher: APIANUS, P.
Place & Date: Antwerp c.1550

 


[Lot of 7 leaves] Curiensis civitas, Rhetorum…/Valesia/Solothurensis/Clarissimae civitatis/Genevensis/Basiliensis/Ursina…Bernensis/Sedunensis/Designatio …Badensis.

Seven text leaves illustrated with wood block bird's-eye views of Chur, Solothurn, Geneva, Basel, Bern, Sitten, Baden and one single sheet map of the Valais. From the 155...

$400 / ≈ €350
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basel, 1552

 


[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 / ≈ €88
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 / ≈ €44
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 / ≈ €88
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 / ≈ €526
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basle, H. Petri, c. 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 / ≈ €88
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basel, 1552

 


Dell Germania Egrana.

Early woodcut view of the city of Egra (Cheb) in the Czech Republic. From the 1552 Latin text edition of Münster's Cosmographia, which is a short and complete summary of...

$100 / ≈ €88
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basel, 1552

 


Colonia Agrippina civitas…

A wood block printed early panoramic view of Cologne (Germany). A lettered key A-Z beneath the view. The 1552 Latin text edition of Münster's Cosmographia is a short and...

$70 / ≈ €61
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basel, 1552

 


Lindoiae civitas insularis, undique aqua lacunari circunsusa.…

A wood block printed early bird's-eye view of Lindau on Lake Constance (Germany). A lettered key A-O in the plate. From the 1552 Latin text edition of Münster's Cosmogra...

$70 / ≈ €61
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basel, 1552

 


[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,...

$5000 / ≈ €4380
Maker / Publisher: BELLARMATO, G. / SALAMANCA, A.
Place & Date: Rome, ca 1557

 


Amphitheatri Veronen[sis] diligens et accurata delineatio…

The print features the Amphitheater of Verona, it comes from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae" (The Mirror of Roman Magnificence). Example of the first state of...

$900 / ≈ €788
Maker / Publisher: LAFRERI, Antonio.
Place & Date: Rome, Antonio Lafreri, ca. 1560

 


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 / ≈ €350
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 / ≈ €657
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 / ≈ €350
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 / ≈ €482
Maker / Publisher: RUSCELLI, G.
Place & Date: Venice, Vincenzo Valgrisi, 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...

$800 / ≈ €701
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 / ≈ €876
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 / ≈ €175
Maker / Publisher: RUSCELLI, Girolamo.
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 / ≈ €788
Maker / Publisher: RUSCELLI, G.
Place & Date: Venice, Vincenzo Valgrisi, c.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 / ≈ €263
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 / ≈ €263
Maker / Publisher: RUSCELLI, G.
Place & Date: Venice, 1561

 


Fiandra Brabantia et Holanda nvova

Fiandra Brabantia et Holanda nvovaDella Fiandra Brabantia, et Olanda quinta nvova tavola d’EuropaThis map is the first known map of the Netherlands as a whole. It comes...

$625 / ≈ €548
Maker / Publisher: Girolamo Ruscelli (1504-1566)
Place & Date: Venetië, 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 / ≈ €394
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 / ≈ €329
Maker / Publisher: RUSCELLI, G.
Place & Date: Venice, 1561

 


[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 / ≈ €70
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER,S.
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1564

 


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...

$60 / ≈ €53
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...

$110 / ≈ €96
Maker / Publisher: DU PINET, A.
Place & Date: Lyon, 1564

 


[No title] 'Daniel's Dream Map' or 'Wittenberg World Map'.

Wood block print engraved by the famous engravers Jost Amman and Virgil Solis - with their initials in lower bottom of the map. This somewhat curious map of Europe, Afric...

$1200 / ≈ €1051
Maker / Publisher: AMMAN, J. / SOLIS, V. / LUFFT, H.
Place & Date: Cologne, 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 / ≈ €307
Maker / Publisher: RUSCELLI, G.
Place & Date: Venice, 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 / ≈ €44
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1564

 


[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

 


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 / ≈ €350
Maker / Publisher: STUMPF, J.
Place & Date: Zurich, Christoffel Froschover, 1548,1552-1566

 


La descrittione di Belgica con le sve frontiere (maps of the Seventeen Provinces)

La descrittione di Belgica con le sve frontiere Omnis Belgica intra Rhenum, marronam, Sequana[m] ac Oceanum, ... This is one of the earliest printed maps of the Sev...

$3125 / ≈ €2738
Maker / Publisher: Cornelis d’Hooghe
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1567

 


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 / ≈ €3942
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. Ottoman forces from Vienna / Venice to Budapest/B...

$1250 / ≈ €1095
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 / ≈ €88
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 / ≈ €88
Maker / Publisher: STRABO / MUNSTER, 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 / ≈ €2190
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 / ≈ €657
Maker / Publisher: BRAUN, G. / HOGENBERG, F.
Place & Date: Cologne, 1572

 


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 / ≈ €1752
Maker / Publisher: BRAUN, G. / HOGENBERG, F.
Place & Date: Cologne, ca. 1572

 


Basiliensis territorii descriptio nova.

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

$200 / ≈ €175
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1573

 


Americae Sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio.

This is the second state of the first copperplate of Ortelius' map showing the western hemisphere, showing the prominent bulge in the South American coastline. The first,...

$4700 / ≈ €4118
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1573

 


Illyricum.

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

$400 / ≈ €350
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 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 / ≈ €1314
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 / ≈ €876
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 / ≈ €66
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S
Place & Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 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 / ≈ €876
Maker / Publisher: CAMOCIO, G.F.
Place & Date: Venice, D.Bertelli, ca.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 / ≈ €1051
Maker / Publisher: CAMOCIO, G.F.
Place & Date: Venice, D.Bertelli, ca.1574

 


Illyricum.

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

$500 / ≈ €438
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1574

 


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 / ≈ €219
Maker / Publisher: BRAUN,G. / HOGENBERG, F.
Place & Date: Cologne, 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 / ≈ €526
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 / ≈ €657
Maker / Publisher: BELLEFOREST, F. de.
Place & Date: Paris, 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 / ≈ €657
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 / ≈ €175
Maker / Publisher: BRAUN,G. / HOGENBERG, F.
Place & Date: Cologne, 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 / ≈ €1051
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 / ≈ €66
Maker / Publisher: DE BELLE-FOREST, F.
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 / ≈ €657
Maker / Publisher: BELLEFOREST, F. de.
Place & Date: Paris, 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 / ≈ €219
Maker / Publisher: DE BRUIJN, A.
Place & Date: Cologne, c.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 / ≈ €263
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 desirable and early town plans of Kozhikode, Hormuz, Kannur, and Almina. "KOZHIKODE (CALICUT) : "The city is viewed from the sea, just as it would have ap...

$800 / ≈ €701
Maker / Publisher: BRAUN,G. / HOGENBERG, F.
Place & Date: Cologne, (1572) 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 / ≈ €438
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 / ≈ €438
Maker / Publisher: BRAUN,G. / HOGENBERG, F.
Place & Date: Cologne, (1572) 1577

 


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 / ≈ €657
Maker / Publisher: DE JODE, G.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1578

 


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 / ≈ €175
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Bâle, H. Petri, 1578