Asia secunda pars terrae in forma Pegasi. [Asia is presented as the mythical winged horse Pegasus.]
An exceptional, most sought after symbolic map of Asia in the form of a Pegasus. In the seas, several sea monsters; many major cities are indicated and named.Bünting's f...
Place & Date: Magdeburg, ca. 1581
Selling price: $1600
Sold in 2016
Asia secunda pars terrae in forma Pegasi. [Asia is presented as the mythical winged horse Pegasus.]
Wood block map of Asia in the form of a Pegasus. The seas are adorned with sea monsters and many major cities are indicated and named. There are several states, of this m...
Place & Date: Magdeburg c. 1581
Deze tweede Caerte van Asia
Very rare early woodcut map of Asia; on of the earliest maps of the continent.Covers the area from Scandinavia/Egypt to Borneo/Japan. No separate title, only an indicatio...
Place & Date: Magdenburg, after 1581
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2023
Asia wie es Jetziger Zeit nach den Furnemesten Herrschafften Abgetheilet und Beschriben ist .
Nice full color example Sebastian Munster's second map of Asia, first published in 1588.It is filled with numerous small woodcut vignettes of towns and a lone sea monster...
Place & Date: Basle, S. H. Petrie, 1588
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2013
Asia wie es Jetziger Zeit nach den Furnemesten Herrschafften Abgetheilet und Beschriben ist.
Münster’s decorative final map of Asia, from a German edition of Münster’s "Cosmographia", one of the most influential geographical works of the 16th Cent...
Place & Date: Basle, 1588
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2018
Asia wie es Jetziger Zeit nach den Furnemesten. . .
Sebastian Münster (1489-1552) is one of the most renowned cartographers of the sixteenth century, Mercator and Ortelius are considered at the same level. Munster's two m...
Place & Date: Basle, 1588
Selling price: $490
Sold in 2020
Asiae Nova Descriptio.
Second state. Ortelius' fine map of Asia well represents the continent at a time when Europeans were expanding their power in the far east. The Indian subcontinent and Ma...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1580/1589
Selling price: $1400
Sold in 2020
Asiae Nova Descriptio.
Second state. Ortelius' fine map of Asia well represents the continent at a time when Europeans were expanding their power in the far east. The Indian subcontinent and Ma...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1580/1589
Selling price: $1500
Sold in 2018
Asia.
An attractive map of the Asian continent by Rosaccio who was an Italian cartographer and the author of several atlases which were re-issued in various Italian cities from...
Place & Date: ca. 1590
Selling price: $110
Sold in 2018
Asia is presented as the mythical winged horse Pegasus.
Copper engraved map of Asia in the form of a Pegasus. This is a very rare issue of the map from a Czech edition. The original woodcut map was re-engraved on copper with a...
Place & Date: Magdeburg, 1592
Selling price: $2500
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