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[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...
Place & Date: Lyon: Jean Du Pré, 20-23 August 1491
Selling price: $37100
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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...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 23 Decembre, 1493
Selling price: $32750
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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-...
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...
Place & Date: Basel, 1540
Selling price: $45000
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(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...
Place & Date: Basel, 1544
Selling price: $425
Sold in 2020
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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...
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...
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...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1583
Selling price: $13000
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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...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1588
Selling price: $3500
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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 ...
Place & Date: Magdeburg, 1591
Selling price: $30000
Sold in 2013
Itinerarium Sacrae Scripturae. Das ist: Ein Reisebuch uber die gantze heilige Schrifft. Zuvor gemehret mit einem Büchlein De monetis et mensuris. . .
The book includes a world map in the form of a clover leaf (Shirley 142). The three principal continents, Europe, Asia and Africa, are arranged in the form of a clover le...
Place & Date: Magdeburg, P. Donat for A. Kirchner, 1592
Selling price: $18000
Sold in 2009
Geografia cioe Descrittione Universale della Terra ... Nuovamente ... Rincontrati, & Corretti ... Gio. Ant. Magini ... Opera ... Tradotta dal R.D. Leonardo Cernoti
The first edition of Leonardo Cernoti's Italian translation of Ptolemy's Geografia based on the 1596 Latin edition of Magini published by G. B. & G. Galignani in 1597...
Place & Date: Venice, 1597
Selling price: $11500
Sold in 2011
Geografia di Claudio Tolomeo Alessandrino Tradotta di Greco nell'Idioma Volgare Italiano da Girolamo Ruscelli
Sixth edition of Ruscelli's translation of Ptolemy's Geografia edited and extended by Giuseppe Rosaccio published by the Hires of M. Sessa in 1598 and 1599.Illustrated wi...
Place & Date: Venice, 1598
Selling price: $11250
Sold in 2010
Geografia cioe Descrittione Universale della Terra ... Nuovamente ... Rincontrati, & Corretti ... Gio. Ant. Magini ... Opera ... Tradotta dal R.D. Leonardo Cernoti
The first edition of Leonardo Cernoti's Italian translation of Ptolemy's Geografia based on the 1596 Latin edition of Magini published by G. B. & G. Galignani in 1597...
Place & Date: Venice, 1598
Selling price: $5000
Sold in 2015
Epitome Theatri Orteliani, praecipuarum orbis regionum delineationes...
Latin pocket-size atlas of Ortelius' "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum", published for those who could not afford the expensive large atlases of the time. "A new se...
Place & Date: Antwerp J.B., Vrients, 1601
Selling price: $6200
Sold in 2020
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Atlas - Tabularum geographicorum contractum libri quinque. [with 148 maps]
Uncommon French text edition, published by Christoffle Goyot, in Leiden for Cornelis Claes. The Caert-Thresoor of 1598 set a new standard for minor atlases. Scholars like...
Place & Date: Leiden, Christoffle Goyot, 1602
Selling price: $2200
Sold in 2019
Thresor de Chartes, contenant les Tableaux de tous les Pays du Monde...
French text edition of the "Caert-Thresoor" first published in 1598, printed by Mattheaus BeckerII in Frankfurt am Main for Hendrick Laurensz, who succeeded his...
Place & Date: Frankfurt am main, Matthias Becker for Hanry Laurentz, c. 1609
Selling price: $6000
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Atlas sive Cosmographicae Meditationes...
Latin text edition. With the Mercator-Hondius double portrait, inserted from 1613 in the various editions of the Atlas. "In the first decade of the seventeenth centu...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1613
Selling price: $35025
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Atlas Minor. . .
Uncommon early French text-edition of this influential pocket atlas, published by Johannes Janssonius. The plates were executed by two of Holland's finest engravers, Abra...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1613
Selling price: $6000
Sold in 2012
Omnium Belgii, sive Inferioris Germaniae, Regionum Descriptio.
First edition in Latin of the oblong edition. Illustrated with 105 maps and views featuring Belgium, the Netherlands and the north of France. Variant without the genera...
Place & Date: Arnhem, J. Jansson, 1616
Selling price: $3350
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Tabularum Geographicarum Contractarum
Third edition of this rare and influential pocket atlas. All maps are fine and dark impressions. World map engraved by J.Hondius (signed) is appearing twice; celestial ch...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, J.Hondius, 1618
Selling price: $14600
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Atlas Minor [Dutch edition]
Uncommon DUTCH text-edition of this influential pocket atlas, published by Johannes Janssonius. The plates were executed by two of Holland's finest engravers, Abraham Goo...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, (1628) 1630
Selling price: $10250
Sold in 2012
Archontologia Cosmica..
A first edition of this cosmographia by one of Germany most important publishers. The Archontologia Cosmica.. it was prepared by L.Gottfried.Illustrated with 65 copper en...
Place & Date: Frankfurt 1638
Selling price: $4800
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Histoire de la navigation.. aux Indes Orientales..
Incomplete copy of the last and most complete edition in French of this work that may be called the most important travel book of all periods. Unfortunately only 2 maps (...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1638
Selling price: $4800
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Histoire de la Navigation.
A fine example of Linschoten's classic illustrated travelogue to the East and West Indies, termed by Lach “the most important of the firsthand accounts published indepe...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Evert Cloppenburgh, 1638
Britannia, sive Florentiss. regnorum Angliae, Scotiae, Hiberniae, insularumq. adiacentium ex .
This miniature atlas is an abridged version of Camden's Brittania published by the Blaeu family in Amsterdam. It contains a total of 19 maps, with county maps taken from ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1639
Selling price: $550
Sold in 2018
Vierde Stuck der Aerdrycks-Beschryving, welck vervat Engelandt, i.e. Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. vol 4, England & Wales.
>An outstanding example of Joannes Blaeu's "Vierde Stuck der Aerdrycks-Beschryving, welck vervat Engelandt, i.e. Theatrum Orbis Terrarum": being volume 4, En...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1648
Selling price: $30000
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Historiae Universalis cum Sacraetum prophanae nucleus. . .
Charming universal history book with 15 charming wood cut engraved maps. The main copper engraved title page records Ulm under the title. This is the rare FIRST EDITION ...
Place & Date: Ulm, Johannem Görlinum, 1650
Selling price: $1050
Sold in 2008
L'Asie En Plusieurs Cartes Nouvelles. . .
Apparently an unknown variant, maybe a state between 1652 and 1662. The title-page bears the date of the first edition (1652), the address of the second edition (B) missp...
Place & Date: Paris, l'Autheur, 1652
Selling price: $2400
Sold in 2017
Theatre Geographiqiue de L'Europe. . .
Atlas illustrated with 57 double-page maps (of 60). Maps 24 (Bourgogne), 25 (Bresse) and 49 (Allemagne) are missing. The maps are numbered in ink in the upper right-hand ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1653
Selling price: $10500
Sold in 2019
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[Atlas]
>Early edition of Sanson’s atlas Cartes générales de toutes les parties du monde, before title page. Illustrated with 74 double page maps in original outline color...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1655
Selling price: $6900
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L'Asie en plusievers cartes nouvelles, et exactes, &c
17 copper-engraved double-page maps, outlined in contemp. color. Sheets measure: 27.3 x 36.5 cm. Plate images measure: approx. 20.0 x 26.0 cm., each map varying by a cm. ...
Place & Date: Paris, Chez L'Autheur, rue S. Jacques, 1658
Selling price: $2800
Sold in 2016
BIBLIA, dat is de gantsche H. Schrifture, vervattende alle de canonijcke boecken des Ouden en des Nieuwen Testaments.
Richly bound copy of the official Dutch 'Staten-Bijbel' after the Synod from Dordrecht. With engraved general title, 2 separate titles, 6 double-page engraved maps by Nic...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1660
Selling price: $3000
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L'Affrique En Plusieurs Cartes Nouvelles, et exactes, &c.
Edition illustrated with 18 maps in original outline colors dated 1656. No date and title page and maps not numbered (according to Pastoureau 1 C, maps are numbered).Nico...
Place & Date: Paris, l'Auteur, after 1662
Tractatus de Globis coelesti et terrestri eorumque usu. Primum conscriptus a Roberto Hues Anglo atque iterum a Iudoce Hondio excusus?opera et studio J.I.Pontani?Adjicitur Brevarium totius orbis Terrarum Petri Bertii.
Small 8vo, 18 unnumb. leaves, 231 pp, old calf (rebacked). With 4 fold. engr. plates.First published in London in 1594 to accompany Emery Molyneux' globes. The text was r...
Place & Date: Oxford, 1663
Selling price: $2200
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Douziéme volume de la Geographie Blavariane.. (America)
In 1662 Joan Blaeu published the most famous of his atlases, the 11-volume Atlas Major in Latin. In the following year editions in French , Dutch , Spanish and German edi...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1667
Selling price: $20025
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A Prospect of the Most Famous Parts of the World.
John Speed's miniature atlas, published in 1668, 3rd Edition. A rare edition that does not include the maps of British Isles. List of maps include: World map, Asia, Afric...
Place & Date: Roger Rea, London, 1668
Selling price: $4400
Sold in 2016
Cartes generales de la geographie ancienne et nouvelle ou les empires, monarchies, royaumes? Par les Sr. SANSON Geographes ordinaires de sa Majestè. TOME I. & II
The atlas has two printed title pages and two index sheets (the contents of the atlas does not correspond with the contents of the index sheets)Cartes generales de la geo...
Place & Date: Paris Pierre Mariette, 1675
Selling price: $28100
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Het eerste deel van het Brandende Veen. . .
The text body of the extremely rare sea atlas by Arent Roggeveen, describing the American waters. The text pages have numerous figures of coastlines, plans, small town vi...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Pieter Goos, n.d. 1675 Amsterdam, Pieter Goos, n.d. 1675
Selling price: $5100
Sold in 2008
Le Grand & Nouveau Miroir ou Flambeau de la Mer.
Unrecorded french text edition. Engraved title-page, 32 double-page charts, 1 engraved text-chart of St.MALO, numerous woodcuts of astronomical diagrams, compass, geometr...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1676
Selling price: $37000
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