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Tabula octava Asiae continet.
Woodblock map illustrating the Ptolemaic concept of the region of ancient Schytia Extra in a trapezoidal projection. Title is on verso.Central Asia and China with the cou...
Place & Date: Vienne, 1541
Selling price: $180
Sold in 2009
Tabula IX Asia (title on verso).
Martin Waldseemüller (1470-1521) drew the maps for the 1513 and 1520 editions of Ptolemy's ' Geographia'. They were revised and reduced by Laurent Fries and used for the...
Place & Date: c. 1541
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2008
Tabula nova utriusque Indiae
This is the fourth and last edition of this map based on Waldseemüller's first "modern" map of Asia. It follows that cartography without change but adds an int...
Place & Date: Vienne, L.Fries, Servetus, 1541
Selling price: $1550
Sold in 2011
![[Tabula Sexta Asiae Complectitur Arabam felicem & Carmaniam].](/uploads/cache/97404-250x250.jpg)
[Tabula Sexta Asiae Complectitur Arabam felicem & Carmaniam].
A classic Ptolemaic map of Arabia after Waldseemüller. Arabia and the Persian Gulf are both oversized and distorted. With numerous place names, islands, rivers and mount...
Place & Date: Strasbourg, 1522-1541
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2016
Tabula sexta Asiae de Moribus Arabum, & prodigÿs arabiae.
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...
Place & Date: Vienna, Trechsel, G., 1525 -1541
Selling price: $5000
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Tabula Asiae XI.
Attractive early woodblock map of South East Asia, with inset panel of tiger, cockerels and parrot. Woodcut map with full hand-coloring as known to Ptolemy. From his Geog...
Place & Date: Basle, H. Petri, c. 1542
Selling price: $650
Sold in 2011
Tabula Asiae VII.
Attractive woodblock map, depicting to the left Persian Gulf and Caspian Sea according to Ptolemy. The mountain ranges are depicted in the manner of the early Ptolemaic f...
Place & Date: Basle, 1542
Selling price: $160
Sold in 2019
Terrae Sanctae Tabula
"Attractive woodblock map of the Holy Land drawn with west to the top of the sheet, the map shows the division of the country between the tribes of Israel according ...
Place & Date: Basle 1544
Selling price: $630
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[Map of the Palestine]
Page with an early representation of the Palestine. This text page with a fine wood block printed map is from the rare work "C. Iulii Solini Polyhistor, Rerum Toto O...
Place & Date: Basle, Michael Isengrin, 1544
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2011
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...
Place & Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1545
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2016
Tabula Asiae VIII (India & Central Asia with Monsters and Anthropomorphs)
The first edition of Munster's map of central Asia, based upon Claudius Ptolemy which appeared in his "Geographia Universalis", first published in 1540. This fa...
Place & Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1545
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2014
Tabula Asiae IX (Northern India and Pakistan)
The first edition of Munster's map of Northern India, present-day Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan, with the delta of the Indus River graphically depicted. Based upon Claud...
Place & Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1545
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2016
Tabula Asiae X (India)
The first edition of Münster's map of India and the Indian Ocean with the sources of the Indus and Ganges Rivers, based upon Claudius Ptolemy which appeared in his "...
Place & Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1545
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2016
Tabula Asiae XII (Sri Lanka, with Elephant)
The FIRST edition of Munster's first modern map of Sri Lanka, which appeared in his "Geographia Universalis", first published in 1540. The Geographia was a new ...
Place & Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1545
India extrema XXIIII Nova Tabula. (Asia)
One of the first European maps of Asia. Although quite crude, Münster's map does significantly improve upon the Ptolemaic model for the area. The coast of China begins t...
Place & Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1545
Selling price: $800
Sold in 2014
Tabula Asiae X (India)
The first edition of Munster's map of India and the Indian Ocean with the sources of the Indus and Ganges Rivers, based upon Claudius Ptolemy which appeared in his "...
Place & Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1545
Selling price: $180
Sold in 2017
![Tabula Asiae VI. [Arabia Felix]](/uploads/cache/39794-250x250.jpg)
Tabula Asiae VI. [Arabia Felix]
This fine woodcut is an early Ptolemaic map of the Arabian Peninsula here called 'Arabia Felix'. It is a fairly decent representation of the peninsula, although perhaps P...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1545
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2018
Tabula Asiae VI (Arabia).
Good example map of Arabia, the Red Sea and the Gulf, based upon Ptolemy, it includes a mermaid and a sea monster at the lower right corner.Giacomo Gastaldi's Atlas of 15...
Place & Date: Venice, 1548
Selling price: $240
Sold in 2017
India Tercera Nova Tabula.
Gastaldi's map of South East Asia from Giacomo Gastaldi's Atlas of 1548 which has been called the most comprehensive atlas, produced between Martin Waldseemüller's Geogr...
Place & Date: Venice, 1548
Selling price: $1850
Sold in 2021
![Tabula Asiae XI. [Southeast Asia]](/uploads/cache/47432-250x250.jpg)
Tabula Asiae XI. [Southeast Asia]
Gastaldi's map showing Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean based upon Ptolemy.It is one of the earliest obtainable maps of the region .From Giacomo Gastaldi's Atlas of 15...
Place & Date: Venice, 1548
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2023
![Von den Laendern Asie [Palestine]](/uploads/cache/18623-250x250.jpg)
Von den Laendern Asie [Palestine]
Sebastian Münster, 1489-1552, outstanding geographer of Basle. Editied Ptolemy's atlas ' Geographia Universalis', editions 1540,-42, -45, -51 and -52. Published his &quo...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550
Selling price: $200
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India extrema XIX Nova Tabula.
One of the first European maps of Asia. Although quite crude, Münster's map does significantly improve upon the Ptolemaic model for the area. The coast of China begins t...
Place & Date: Basle, c.1550
Selling price: $1400
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Sumatra ein grosse Insel so von den alten Geographen Taprobana genennt worden.
Sebastian Münster, 1489-1552, outstanding geographer of Basle. Edited Ptolemy's atlas Geographia Universalis, editions 1540,-42, -45, -51 and -52. Published his Cosmogra...
Place & Date: Basel, c. 1550
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2008
Die Heylige Statt Jerusalem
Decorative colored woodcut town-view of Jerusalem by Sebastian Münster. From a German edition of the "Cosmographey". Showing the city from birdeye perspective ...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2010
Tabula orientalis regionis, Asiae sciliset extremas complectens terras et regna.
This is one of the earliest maps of the whole continent of Asia, based on the recent geographical discoveries by Portuguese navigators.The outline of the Asian mainland i...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550
Selling price: $1600
Sold in 2013
Die lander Asie nach irer gelegenheit biss in Indiam werden in diser tafel verzeichnet.
One of the first European maps of Asia. Although quite crude, Münster's map does significantly improve upon the Ptolemaic model for the area. The coast of China begins t...
Place & Date: Basle, c.1550
Selling price: $1150
Sold in 2014
Die länder Asie nach irer gelegenheit biss in Indiam werden in diser tafel verzeichnet.
One of the first European maps of Asia. Although quite crude, Münster's map does significantly improve upon the Ptolemaic model for the area. The coast of China begins t...
Place & Date: Basle, c.1550
Selling price: $1500
Sold in 2016
Die länder Asie nach irer gelegenheit biss in Indiam werden in disser tafel verzeichnet
This is one of the earliest maps of the whole continent based on the recent geographical discoveries by Portuguese navigators..The outline of the Asian mainland is relati...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550
Selling price: $750
Sold in 2015
Die länder Asie nach irer gelegenheit biss in Indiam werden in diser tafel verzeichnet..
One of the first European maps of Asia. Although quite crude, Münster's map does significantly improve upon the Ptolemaic model for the area. The coast of China begins t...
Place & Date: Basle, c.1550
Selling price: $1700
Sold in 2017
Ierusalem ciuitas sancta, olim metropolis regni iudaici, hodie uero colonia Turcae.
A double page woodcut featuring a bird's eye view of Jerusalem, taken from Sebastian Münster's famous "Cosmographia". Engraved by Jakob Clauser, it shows an im...
Place & Date: Basle, c1550
Selling price: $125
Sold in 2016
Die Heylige Statt Jerusalem.
A very decorative colored woodcut of Jerusalem by Sebastian Münster. It shows the city from a birds-eye perspective. Mount Zion is in background.From a German edition of...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1550
Selling price: $115
Sold in 2020
Die Heylige Statt Jerusalem.
A very decorative colored woodcut of Jerusalem by Sebastian Münster.It Shows the city from a birds-eye perspective. Mount Zion is in background. From a German edition of...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550
Selling price: $180
Sold in 2016
Die länder Asie nach irer gelegenheit biss in Indiam werden in diser tafel verzeichnet.
One of the first European maps of Asia. Although quite crude, Münster's map does significantly improve upon the Ptolemaic model for the area. The coast of China begins t...
Place & Date: Basle, c.1550
Selling price: $1500
Sold in 2021
Constantinopel
A detailed bird's-eye view of the 'Golden Horn' of Istanbul (Constantinople). The city plan depicts the markets, homes, palaces and churches, including the famous Hagia S...
Place & Date: Basel, H.Petri, ca. 1550
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2019
Die Heylige Statt Jerusalem.
Decorative colored woodcut view of Jerusalem by Sebastian Münster. From a German edition of the "Cosmographey". Showing the city from birdeye perspective with ...
Place & Date: Basel, H.Petri, ca. 1550
Selling price: $245
Sold in 2019
Tabula orientalis regionis, Asiae scilicet extremas complectens terras et regna.
Very early woodcut printed map of the Asia, published in the monumental Cosmographia by Sebastian Münster. The maps shows all of Asia, parts of the Indian Ocean with Mad...
Place & Date: Basel, ca. 1550
Selling price: $650
Sold in 2019
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Cyprus, L'Isle de Cypre
Antique woodcut map of Cyprus by Sebastian Münster, [In letter-text above the map:] L'isle de Cypre.Probably the oldest obtainable map showing Cyprus only.On the back...
Place & Date: BASEL, ca 1550
Cyprus/Near East, & text on Cyprus. - Syrie avec les prouinces
Antique woodcut map of Cyprus + the Near East by Sebastian Münster, [In letter-text above the map:] Syrie avec les prouinces. Together one more text sheet on Cyprus ['...
Place & Date: BASEL, ca 1550
Die Länder Asie nach irer gelegenheit...
Münsters highly important map of Asia, one of the first European maps of the continent. Curious coast lines and geography, missing Japan for example. But with recent Por...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1550
![Tabula Asiae I [Asia Minor]](/uploads/cache/35960-250x250.jpg)
Tabula Asiae I [Asia Minor]
An attractive woodcut map of Asia Minor by the famous cartographer Sebastien Münster, published in his Ptolemy edition of Basle in 1552. Map has a lot of interesting and...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1552
Selling price: $75
Sold in 2017
Tabula Asiae XI.
Attractive early woodblock map of the Indian Ocean.
Place & Date: Basle, c. 1552
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2016
URBIS CONSTANTINOPOLITANAE descriptio, incerto autore.
An engraved map of Asia Minor, showing Pontus Euxinus, the Byzantine Empire, the Aegean Sea and a King Figure in a throne. Page from Notitia vtraqve cvm orientis tvm Occi...
Place & Date: Basle, 1552
Selling price: $71
Sold in 2019
![[Lot of 2 plates] Ierusalem civitas../ [map of Palestine + Cyprus].](/uploads/cache/48240-250x250.jpg)
[Lot of 2 plates] Ierusalem civitas../ [map of Palestine + Cyprus].
Early woodcut view of the city of Jerusalem surrounded by its ancient walls, featuring the temples and mosques. From the 1552 Latin text edition of Munster's Cosmographia...
Place & Date: Basel, 1552
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2023
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[Lot of 34 leaves relating to Greece and Turkey]
Thirty-four text pages with wood block illustrations about Greece and Turkey with small maps, views, animals.... From the 1552 Latin text edition of Münster's Cosmograph...
Place & Date: Basel, 1552
Selling price: $51
Sold in 2022
![[Lot of 2 leaves with map of Cyprus]](/uploads/cache/48277-250x250.jpg)
[Lot of 2 leaves with map of Cyprus]
Two printed text leaves relating to Cyprus with a map (10 x 15 cm). From the 1552 Latin text edition of Münster's Cosmographia, which is a short and complete summary of ...
Place & Date: Basel, 1552
Selling price: $58
Sold in 2022
![[Lot of 8 leaves relating to the Holy Land]](/uploads/cache/48279-250x250.jpg)
[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
Place & Date: Basel, 1552
![[Lot of 17 leaves with maps and views relating to India, Sri Lanka, China, Indonesia]](/uploads/cache/48280-250x250.jpg)
[Lot of 17 leaves with maps and views relating to India, Sri Lanka, China, Indonesia]
Seventeen text pages illustrated with wood block prints relating to India, Sri Lanka, China, Indonesia illustrated with animals : elephants, rhinoceros... From the 1552 L...
Place & Date: Basel, 1552
Selling price: $51
Sold in 2022
[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
Place & Date: Basel, 1552
De terris Asiae minoris.
Sebastian Münster, 1489-1552, outstanding geographer of Basle. Editied Ptolemy's atlas ' Geographia Universalis', editions 1540,-42, -45, -51 and -52. Published his &quo...
Place & Date: Basle, 1554
Selling price: $135
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Sumatra.
A superb example of "the first separate map of any Southeast Asian island to be based on actual observation" (Suarez). It is moreover highly unusual for a map t...
Place & Date: Venice, 1556
Selling price: $900
Sold in 2018
Aedificat Templum Sapientia per Solomonis.
Solomon directing the building of the temple. Rare print by Philips Galle, after Frans Floris and published by Hieronymus Cock, 1558.Solomon sits at right and converses w...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1558
Selling price: $475
Sold in 2020
Tauola della oriental regione dell' Asia. . .
One of the first European maps of Asia. Although quite crude, Münster's map does significantly improve upon the Ptolemaic model for the area. The coast of China begins t...
Place & Date: Basle, c.1560
Selling price: $900
Sold in 2013
Soria et Terra Santa nova tavola.
Uncommon first edition of this classical map of the Holy Land, including Cyprus. The map is an enlarged version of Giacomo Gastaldi's published in 1548Girolamo Ruscelli's...
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2016
Tabula Asiae I.
Uncommon first edition of this classical map of Turkey, prepared by Ptolemy.Girolamo Ruscelli's edition of Ptolemy's Geographia included newly engraved copperplates by Gi...
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
Selling price: $170
Sold in 2022
Tabula Asiae IIII.
Uncommon first edition of this classical map of the Holy Land, including Cyprus. The map is an enlarged version of Giacomo Gastaldi's published in 1548Girolamo Ruscelli's...
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
Selling price: $700
Sold in 2011
Tabvla Asiae XII.
An elegantly engraved early map of Sri Lanka, with left the image of an elephant. Ref.: Paranavitana, maps of Dutch Ceylon, p.7.
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
Selling price: $400
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Tabula Asiae XII. . .
Uncommon first edition of one of the earliest maps of Sumatra.Girolamo Ruscelli's edition of Ptolemy's Geographia included newly engraved copperplates by Giulio and Livio...
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
Selling price: $195
Sold in 2008
India Tercera Nuova Tavola.
Uncommon first edition of this early map of South East Asia.Girolamo Ruscelli's edition of Ptolemy's Geographia included newly engraved copperplates by Giulio and Livio S...
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
Selling price: $485
Sold in 2008
India Tercera Nuova Tavola.
Uncommon first edition of Ruscelli's map is one of the earliest modern maps of Southeast Asia. An enlarged version of Gastaldi's miniature map of 1548, the map is one of ...
Place & Date: Venice / 1561
Selling price: $425
Sold in 2013
Tabula Asiae VI. (Arabian Peninsular)
Scarce FIRST edition of this classical map depicting the Arabian Peninsula, here called Arabia Foelix, Persian Gulf and Red Sea. The map is based upon a map published by ...
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
Selling price: $360
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India Tercera Nuova Tavola.
Early edition of this modern map of South East Asia. Just to the west and south of Malacca one will notice ‘Camatra’ (Sumatra) and Java. Covers the region from the Gu...
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2017
Arabia Felice Nuova Tavola.
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...
Place & Date: Venice, Vincenzo Valgrisi, c.1561
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2017
Tabula Asiae VI.
Scarce FIRST edition of this classical map depicting the Arabian Peninsula.
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
Selling price: $110
Sold in 2018
Calecut Nuova Tavola.
Scarce FIRST edition of this early map of Indian peninsular, being one of the earliest modern maps of the region.Girolamo Ruscelli's edition of Ptolemy's Geographia inclu...
Place & Date: Venice, Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1561
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2021
India Tercera Nuova Tavola.
Uncommon first edition of this early map of South East Asia, showing the Bay of Bengal to southern China in the north, and down just below the Equator to the south. While...
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
Selling price: $800
Sold in 2021
INDIA TERCERA NUOVA TAVOLA.
Ruscelli's map is one of the earliest modern maps of Southeast Asia. An enlarged version of Gastaldi's miniature map of 1548, the map is one of the earliest to introduce ...
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2019
![Taprobana [Ceylon/Sri Lanka].](/uploads/cache/84457-250x250.jpg)
Taprobana [Ceylon/Sri Lanka].
Ptolemy's mythical island of Taprobana originally became associated with Sri Lanka. Later, as this theory was discredited, Sumatra became the next candidate. Almost a dec...
Place & Date: Basle, 1561
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2020
India.
A woodcut from P. Mela's "De Orbis Situ Libri tres". Published by Henric Perti. Almost a decade after the death of Sebastian Münster, his publisher and stepson...
Place & Date: Basle, 1561
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2020
Tabvla Asiae XII.
[Antique map of Sri Lanka] Tabvla Asiae XII. An elegantly engraved early map of Sri Lanka, (misshapen) with left the image of an elephant.
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
Selling price: $130
Sold in 2020
India Tercera Nuova Tavola
An early map of South East Asia after Gastaldi from "La Geographia: Descrittione dell' Asia", 3rd vol., p. 122; published by M. Sessa in Venezia, Italy, showi...
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2021
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
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
Tabula Asiae XII. (Taprobana)
Scarce FIRST edition of this map depicting the island of Ceylon (Taprobana), based on Gastaldi's 1548 map. An elephant with descriptive text next to the map.Ptolemy's myt...
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
Selling price: $160
Sold in 2023
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
Place & Date: Venice, Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1561
Constantinoble ( Constantinople )
This chorographical view of Constantinople is from Du Pinet's rare city atlas published in Lyon by Jean d'Ogerolles. It is taken from Sebastian Munster's plan and feature...
Place & Date: Lyon, 1564
Selling price: $650
Sold in 2013
![Sinus Persicus [Arabia]](/uploads/cache/39581-250x250.jpg)
Sinus Persicus [Arabia]
Rare wood block printed map of the Arabian Peninsular from "De orbis situ libri tres accuratissime emendati". Underneath the map a lettered key (A-E) in letter ...
Place & Date: Basle, Henri Petri, 1564
Selling price: $425
Sold in 2017
![Sinus Persicus [Arabia]](/uploads/cache/39586-250x250.jpg)
Sinus Persicus [Arabia]
Rare wood block printed map of the Holy Land, Syria, Cyprus, northern Arabia from "De orbis situ libri tres accuratissime emendati". Underneath the map a letter...
Place & Date: Basle, Henri Petri, 1564
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2017
De Terra Sancta (Jerusalem)
One Latin text page with on verso three illustrations of Salomon's Temple, View of Jerusalem and stairs to Mount Calvaria. On recto the Holy Sepulchre (Sacri sepulchri te...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1564
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2018
De Terris Asiae Maioris de India Ultra Gangem Fluvium Sita.
One text page with a woodcuts of a fanciful creatures along the River Ganges in India from Münster's Cosmographia Universalis.The Cosmographia by Sebastian Munster from ...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1564
Selling price: $10
Sold in 2018
Calecut Nova Tavola.
A fine early map of Indian peninsula,it being one of the earliest modern maps of the region, extending from west of the Gujarat peninsula eastward to Bengal and south as ...
Place & Date: Venice, 1564
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2020
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 ...
Place & Date: Venice, 1564
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2020