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Calechut Celeberrimum Indiae Emporium [on sheet with] Ormus [and] Canonor [and] S. Georgii Oppidum Mina.
Four very desirable and early town-plan of Kozhikode, Hormuz, Kannur and Almina. "KOZHIKODE (CALICUT) : "The city is viewed from the sea, just as it would have...
Place & Date: Cologne, (1572) 1577
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2022
Sumatra ein grosse Insel..
A nice impression of this great map of island of Tabrobana, which was variously thought to be Ceylon or Sumatra.This map depicts Ceylon with the typical misconceptions of...
Place & Date: Basle 1580
Selling price: $200
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Calechut Celeberri mum Indiae Emporium/ Ormus/ ..
Four panoramic 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 of In...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1580
Selling price: $610
Sold in 2018
Calechut Celeberri mum Indiae Emporium/ Ormus/ ..
Four panoramic 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 of In...
Place & Date: Cologne 1580
Selling price: $350
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ANFA. / AZAAMURUM. / DIU. / GOA.
Four fine coastal views of these fortified cities, which were important to European trade with Asia. Goa (130x465mm.) and Diu on the western coast of India, together with...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1580
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2011
ANFA. / AZAAMURUM. / DIU. / GOA.
Text on the back in Latin.Four fine coastal views of these fortified cities, which were important to European trade with Asia. Goa (130x465mm.) and Diu on the western coa...
Place & Date: Cologne 1580
Selling price: $230
Sold in 2009
![Tabula Asiae XII [Sri Lanka -- with Elephant]](/uploads/cache/00684-250x250.jpg)
Tabula Asiae XII [Sri Lanka -- with Elephant]
Attractive woodblock map, depicting Sri Lanka as known to Ptolemy. Left of the map a large elephant with descriptive text identifies the island of Taprobana with Sumatra ...
Place & Date: Basle, 1580
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2017
![[Dragons and Gryfons].](/uploads/cache/14197-250x250.jpg)
[Dragons and Gryfons].
On recto an early representation of a dragon from India and Ethiopia. VERSO : Snakes and scorpions (65x135 mm) and a griffon.From a French text edition of his Cosmographi...
Place & Date: Basle 1575 - 1580
Selling price: $5
Sold in 2016
Sumatra Ein Grosse Insel / So Von Den alten Geographen Taprobana...
A fine map of what is regarded as the island of Sri Lanka, by the early, important, and influential German cartographer, Sebastian Munster. The map title, in old German s...
Place & Date: Basle ca. 1550 - 1580
Selling price: $170
Sold in 2016
Sumatra Ein Grosse Insel / So Von Den alten Geographen Taprobana...
A fine map of what is regarded as the island of Sri Lanka, by the early, important, and influential German cartographer, Sebastian Münster. The map title, in old German ...
Place & Date: Basle ca. 1550 - 1580
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2018
Calechut Celeberri mum India Emporium.
A finely rendered presentation of three Indian Ocean port cities and one African, that formed part of the Portuguese maritime empire. The larger upper half plate (Calicut...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca. 1581
Selling price: $525
Sold in 2008
![Nova India, ut nostro tempore est explorata & cognita. [India]](/uploads/cache/32576-250x250.jpg)
Nova India, ut nostro tempore est explorata & cognita. [India]
On recto a wood block engraved map of India.From a Latin text edition of his Geographia , that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge.
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1590
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2013
Indo di Conditione.
Full portrait of a woman and two children from India, by Cesare Vecellio (1521–1601). From "De gli habiti antichi, e moderni di diverse parti del mondo libri du du...
Place & Date: Venice, Damian Zenaro, 1590
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2017
Indiana Di Conditione.
Full portrait of a woman and two children from India, by Cesare Vecellio (1521–1601). From "De gli habiti antichi, e moderni di diverse parti del mondo libri du du...
Place & Date: Venice, Damian Zenaro, 1590
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2017
Indiana Mediocre.
Full portrait of a woman and two children from India, by Cesare Vecellio (1521–1601). From "De gli habiti antichi, e moderni di diverse parti del mondo libri du du...
Place & Date: Venice, Damian Zenaro, 1590
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2017
![Taprobana. [Sri Lanka]](/uploads/cache/39986-250x250.jpg)
Taprobana. [Sri Lanka]
An attractive map of the island of Ceylon, or Sri Lanka, with north orientated to the right.Third edition from Porcacchi's L'isole piu famose.It features a pretty strap-w...
Place & Date: Venice, 1590
Selling price: $95
Sold in 2017
![Taprobana. [Sri Lanka]](/uploads/cache/47369-250x250.jpg)
Taprobana. [Sri Lanka]
An attractive map of the island of Ceylon, or Sri Lanka, with north orientated to the right. Third edition from Porcacchi's L'isole piu famose.It features a pretty strap-...
Place & Date: Venice, 1590
Selling price: $95
Sold in 2021
Cochini Rex elephante vectus, cum procerum comitatu, quos Nairos...
In this elegant copperplate engraving you see the King of Cochin, astride an Elephant leading his army, gathered below him. Linschoten was a Dutch Merchant, Trader and Hi...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, after 1596
Selling price: $63
Sold in 2016
Inquilini e Cananor Mahometani infectiss Lusitanorum hostes...
In this attractive copperplate engraving you see a Moslem from Cananor in Kerala, India, and the inhabitants of the Malabar coast between Goa and Cochin, with a rural sce...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, after 1596
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2016
Virginis Lusitane in India gestus et amictus...Der Portugeesen gehoude Vrouwen habyt en cyraet...
In this detailed copperplate engraving you seethe various costume and dress of Portuguese ladies and rank. Linschoten was a Dutch Merchant, Trader and Historian, who trav...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, after 1596
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2016
Gestus et habitus tam civium que militum Lusitanorum in oriente agentium...
In this charming copperplate engraving you see wealthy Portuguese citizens and soldiers of the East Indies, in all their finery, walking under umbrellas. Linschoten was a...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, after 1596
Selling price: $55
Sold in 2016
Mercador / Baniane / Bramene.
In this attractive copperplate engraving you see various peoples of the Indies, including a merchant and a Brahmin priest. In the background people pray before an idol se...
Place & Date: Amsterdam , after 1596
Selling price: $41
Sold in 2016
Nuptiarum ritus, et epule in Provincia Ballagate supra Goam.
In this charming copperplate engraving you see a Wedding ceremony in Goa, bride and groom, family and friends and musicians.Linschoten was a Dutch Merchant, Trader and Hi...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, after 1596
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2016
Tabula Asiae XII.
A very decorative copperplate map of Ceylon / Sri Lanka with a very elaborate cartouche and a charming engraving of an elephant.From the 1597 edition of Magini's "Ge...
Place & Date: Venice, 1597
Selling price: $140
Sold in 2018
Calecut Nova Tavola.
Fine early map of Indian peninsula, being one of the earliest modern maps of the region.Girolamo Ruscelli first published the map in his "La Geographi di Claudio Tol...
Place & Date: Venice, 1598
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2016
A ilhae cidade de Goa metropolitanada Indiae. . .
One of the earliest printed detailed plans of a European trading post in the Indies, this finely engraved and designed bird's-eye plan was made by Baptista a Doetecum and...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1598
Selling price: $2500
Sold in 2019
Calecut Nuova Tavola.
Fine 1598 edition of this early map of India. Girolamo Ruscelli first published the map in his "La Geographi di Claudio Tolomeo" (Venice, 1561), with the presen...
Place & Date: Venice, 1598
Selling price: $175
Sold in 2018
A picture of the Aloë, Maguey mexicanum & Sycomorg.
Here is the aloë, or semper vivum, which is as tall as a man and found in great numbers in Agua de Sanbras. Also the maguey, often called metl, grows here, but originate...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1598
Selling price: $75
Sold in 2021
The Indian coconut, fig-tree and others.
The Indians have many uses for the palm or coconut tree. Not only do they obtain food and drink from its fruit, they can also make clothing, ships’ sails, rope and othe...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1598
Selling price: $75
Sold in 2018
Tabula Asiae IX.
The third state of Ruscelli's map of part of Northern India, based upon Claudius Ptolemy. Showing India, Pakistan and the Indian Ocean. Girolamo Ruscelli first published ...
Place & Date: Venice, 1598
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2018
Tabula Asiae X.
The third state of Ruscelli's map of part of India and the Indian Ocean, based upon Claudius Ptolemy. Showing part of India and the Indian Ocean, extending north to the s...
Place & Date: Venice, 1598
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2018
Status Officiatorum Lusitanorum in India.
A scene of Portuguese officials in India from Linschoten's famous voyages to the East of 1583-1592 here published by De Bry the year after they first appeared as a separa...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1599
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2013
A Ilha e Cidade de Goa Metropolitana da India e Partes Orientais que esta em 15 Graos da Banda do Norte.
A bird's-eye town-plan of Goa, the capital of the Portuguese trading empire in Asia. This is a reduced version of Doetechum's view that illustrated editions of Jan Huygen...
Place & Date: Frankfurth, 1599
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2013
Regis in candt et Admiralis effigies. (The king of Candy meets the Dutch Admiral)
This shows the mighty king who received the name: Fimala Derura Suriada as a child in Colombo. He was also christened Don Lean d'Austria do Colombo. He is of royal blood ...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1599
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2016
XIV. Festum Poenitentiae Apud Populos, Qui. . . ( Strange ceremonies in the state of Silon.)
Strange ceremonies in the state of Silon. Among the Oriental Indians are several from Casta who, whenever a man dies, digs a large pit. Then the corpse is placed in the o...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1599
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2018
De foro Goae frequentao, Leylon. . . (The daily market at Goa).
This famous and desirable scene of the daily market of Goa, drawn after Jan Huijgen van Linschoten during his visit to the East of 1583-1592 here published by De Bry the ...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1599
Selling price: $220
Sold in 2020
XI. Insignia et Sigilla Regum in Celon.
Theodore de Bry, a German engraver and book dealer, began a compilation of early voyages in 1590 and had published six parts at the time of his death in 1598. His widow, ...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1599
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2018
Seconda Tavola.
Splendid map with south to the top.From Arabia over India towards Golf of Bengala, shows the way to the Spice islands. (Vado alla Moluche). And Mount Adam (paradise lost ...
Place & Date: Venice, Giunti, 1606
Selling price: $3100
Sold in 2016
Malabar.
Attractive little map of the southern part of the Indian subcontinent, focusing on the Malabar coast from Goa to Cape Comorin and its important trading posts. Also depict...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2023
Maldivae Insulae.
A miniature map of The Maldives islands, situated southwest of Ceylon situated in the Arabian Sea, located in the Indian Ocean. North is orientated to the left. The south...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2019