Browse Listings in Atlases

180 listings found. Showing results 1 to 10

[Incunable] (Rudimentum novitiorum: French:) La mer des histoires.

One of the rarest of French illustrated incunables. The Mer des histoires (?A sea of stories?) is the French adaptation of the Latin Rudimentum novitiorum, an abridged h...

$37100 / ≈ €34715

Maker / Publisher: LE BRET,G.
Place & Date: Lyon: Jean Du Pré, 20-23 August 1491
Selling price: $37100
Sold

Register Des Buchs der Chronicken und geschichten mit figure...

FIRST EDITION IN GERMAN. The famous Nuremberg Chronicle, a history of the world, published the year that Columbus returned to Europe after discovering America. The text i...

$32750 / ≈ €30645

Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 23 Decembre, 1493
Selling price: $32750
Sold in 2017

Supplementum. Supplementi de la Chroniche vulgare novamante agionto & emendato al anno 1503.

Interesting Italian text edition of this important chronicle, first published in Latin in 1483.With large woodcut title-border, woodcut border on leaf A1 and 107 (2 full-...

$9800 / ≈ €9170

Maker / Publisher: JACOBUS PHILIPPUS DE BERGAMO.
Place & Date: Venise, Georgio de Rusconi, August 7th. 1508
Selling price: $9800
Sold in 2008

Geographia universalis, vetus et nova, complectens. . .

The rare FIRST EDITION of Sebastian Münster's Geographia Universalis, published in 1540. This was a new and important edition of Ptolemy, with redesigned maps and the te...

$45000 / ≈ €42107

Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basel, 1540
Selling price: $45000
Sold

(Fragment from the Cosmographia)

This fragment of the Cosmographia by Sebastian Münster covers the entire mathematical and geographical introductions given in Book I. In these twenty-two pages Münster...

$425 / ≈ €398

Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, Sebastian.
Place & Date: Basel, 1544
Selling price: $425
Sold in 2020

In Somnium Scipionis Libri II.. [With world map]

With 5 schematic woodcuts and a fine woodcut map of the world (80 x 80 mm). The famous map of the world appears in the different printing in the 15th. and 16th Century in...

$1500 / ≈ €1404

Maker / Publisher: MACROBIUS,A.
Place & Date: Leyden 1550
Selling price: $1500
Sold in 2010

Cosmographiae universalis lib. VI.

Rare first Latin edition illustrated with a title-page within woodcut border, woodcut portrait of Munster on verso; 14 woodcut double-page maps, including 2 world maps (t...

$12500 / ≈ €11696

Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basle, H. Petri, 1550
Selling price: $12500
Sold in 2019

Biblia Sacra.

Famous "Polyglot" Bible, printed by the famous Plantin firm and prepared under the direction of Philip II of Spain. Including a world map well-known for its sho...

$13000 / ≈ €12164

Maker / Publisher: ARIAS MONTANUS, B.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1583
Selling price: $13000
Sold

Epitome. Du Theatre du Monde d'Abraham Ortelius.

Third French text edition in an oblong format of this illustrated treatise of geography, which is considered as the first modern pocket-atlas. The atlas was printed by Pl...

$3500 / ≈ €3275

Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A. / GALLE, Ph.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1588
Selling price: $3500
Sold in 2020

Itinerarium sacrae scripturae. . .

A relatively early edition of this famous book includes a world map in a cloverleaf (Shirley 142). The three principal continents, Europe, Asia, and Africa, are arranged ...

$30000 / ≈ €28072

Maker / Publisher: BÜNTING, H.
Place & Date: Magdeburg, 1591
Selling price: $30000
Sold in 2013