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(Krakow Castle near Krefeld)
Rare print of Krakow Castle near Krefeld, besieged from November 4 1605 and captured by Spinola by the troops under the Count of Bucquoy on November 7, 1605.The plates by...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1610
Selling price: $75
Sold in 2023
(Siege of the Rhine bridge by Duisburg)
Rare print of siege of the Rhine bridge by Duisburg captured by Spinola by the troops under the Count of Bucquoy on November, 1605.The plates by Hogenberg are dealing wit...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1610
Selling price: $105
Sold in 2018
Lovanium.
Striking early view of Louvain (Leuven), engraved by Jodocus (Josse or Joost) Vander Baren in 1610.Very rare. Jodocus (also Joost or Josse) Van der Baren was a painter wh...
Place & Date: Leuven, 1610
Selling price: $270
Sold in 2018
Nova Hispaniae descriptio.
Very rare second state of the Jodocus Hondius map, being the first carte-a-figures map of Spain and Portugal. With the imprint : Amsterdam Everardus Cloppenburghius excud...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1610
Selling price: $2200
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Merionethshire, Described 1610.
A beautiful Welsh county map of Merionethshire; part of the renowned “Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine” by English cartographer John Speed. The copper plates w...
Place & Date: London, 1610
Selling price: $48
Sold in 2020
The Countye of Monmouth. . .
A beautiful Welsh county map of Monmouth Shire; part of the renowned “Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine” by English cartographer John Speed. The copper plates w...
Place & Date: London, ca. 1610
Selling price: $145
Sold in 2019
Brandeburg et Pomerania.
A nice small map of Brandenburg and Pomerania, in northeastern Germany, with the western portion of Poland. Berlin is shown roughly in the center of the map. Many larger ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1610
Selling price: $17
Sold in 2021
L'Isle de France, Parisiesis Agri Descriptio Auctore.
This is a handsome and detailed map of the region of Paris and its vicinity, attributed to Francois de la Guillotiere. It is beautifully engraved with forests, rivers, ci...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca 1610
Selling price: $42
Sold in 2021
Middlesex. Midle-sex described With The Most Famous Cities Of London and Westminster.
Old outline color to map of the county delineating the hundreds. Double page. A wonderfully decorative map of Middlesex incorporating maps of London and Westminster to up...
Place & Date: London, Thomas Basset and Richard Chiswell. 1610
Selling price: $390
Sold in 2020
Bedford Comitatus olim pars Cathifuclanorum.
A beautiful early 17th century map of Befordshire, based on the first survey of England by Christopher Saxton, and published in Camden's Britannia (pub. London: 1607-1637...
Place & Date: London, 1610
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2021
Lithuania.
One of the earliest maps of Lithuania and Poland.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1610
Selling price: $300
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![[Lot of 6 maps of the Provence, Marseille, Cannes, Nice, France.] Provenciae, Regionis Galliae, vera exactissimiaqs descriptio. Petro Ionne Bompario auctore. / Provence / Baptista Doetecomius Sculp.](/uploads/cache/18218-(1)-250x250.jpg)
[Lot of 6 maps of the Provence, Marseille, Cannes, Nice, France.] Provenciae, Regionis Galliae, vera exactissimiaqs descriptio. Petro Ionne Bompario auctore. / Provence / Baptista Doetecomius Sculp.
An early and most decorative map of the Provence with the Riviera from the Rhone estuary, Marseille, Cannes, Nice to Vintimiglia. Engraved by Baptista Van Doetechum for...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c. 1610
Selling price: $180
Sold in 2023
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[Berkshire]. Bercheriae vulgo Barkshyre qui olim sedes A:Trebatum.
Original uncoloured engraved map of Berkshire trimmed to neatline and backed onto 18th century laid paper. Map dimensions 23 x 32 cm, overall backing-sheet size 32 x 40 c...
Place & Date: London: Impensis Georgii Bishop & Ioannis Norton, 1610
Selling price: $90
Sold in 2023
Cyprus Ins
From the "Gerardi Mercatoris Atlas sive Cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mundi et fabricati figura denuò auctus". Latin text on verso. An elegant map of ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c 1611
Selling price: $800
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Amstelodamum Emporium
One of the oldest maps and views of Amsterdam, elegantly engraved by Jodocus Hondius the elder in 1611. The map depicts the view of Amsterdam in the beginning of its expa...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1611
Selling price: $1700
Sold in 2014
Vera forma et fitus ... (Nova Zembla and the Russian Cross.)
The map depicts an island to the north of Nova Zembla and the Russian Cross found on that island with its eight extremities. Drawn by Jan Huygen van Linschoten in 1594 du...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1611
Selling price: $95
Sold in 2014
Vera Genuina, Island of Kilduyn.
Uncommon map of part of the coast along the Barents Sea with the island of Kilduyn, offshore of the river near the town of Cola (Murmansk). Made to illustrate Willem Bare...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1611
Selling price: $90
Sold in 2014
Fretum Vaygats.
The map depicts the southern part of Nova Zembla and the small passage called the Strait of Nassau, Straete van Nassau between Nova Zembla and the mainland of Russia. Dep...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1611
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2014
Vera delineatio insulae Ordinum quatuor circiter miliaribus a freto Nassovico distantis.
Map of the Strait of Nassau and Novaya Zemblya, here identified as Novae Zemblae Pars, in present-day Russia. We find the explorers attacked by a polar bear. The map inc...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1611
Selling price: $95
Sold in 2014
Nova Zembla & Fretum Waygats.
Map of Novaya Zemblya, here identified as Nova Zembla, in present-day Russia. Includes beautiful ships, seals, a whale, a cartouche, a fine compass rose, and icebergs. Ev...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1611
Selling price: $210
Sold in 2014
Limburgensis Ducatus Nova Descriptio.
An early and uncommon map of the former duchy of Limburg in what is today's Belgium and Holland, compiled by Agidio Martini in 1603.Martini, a mathematician in Antwerp, w...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c1611
Selling price: $35
Sold in 2016
The Bishoprick and Citie of Durham.
A beautiful first edition John Speed map of Co. Durham.Aesthetically, it is considered one of the most accomplished maps in the 'Theatre', noted for its clarity and featu...
Place & Date: London, 1611
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2023
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Kent with her Cities and Earls Described and Observed
A rare highly decorative and finely engraved early 17th-century map of Kent was published in John Speed's Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine. The inset plans of Cant...
Place & Date: London, 1611
Selling price: $750
Sold in 2022
Gelriae, Cliviae, Finitimorumque locorum verissima..
East to the top. Fine map of Geldria and Limburg, prepared by Christian s'Grooten. Very fine title cartouche lower right with painters utensils around cartouche.Page numb...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1570-1612
Selling price: $605
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Oostende.
Handcolored copper engraving of the city of Oostende from Guicciardini's publication "Beschrijving van alle de Nederlanden", edited by Blaeu in 1612.Nice colori...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1612
Selling price: $160
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Zutphen.
Copper engraved view of the old Dutch Merchant City of Zutphen along the river IJssel.From Guicciardini's publication "Beschryvinghe van alle de Nederlanden" ed...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, W.Blaeu 1612
Selling price: $275
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Inferioris Germaniae Provinciarum nova descriptio.
After 1600 Jan Baptist Vrients acquired the stock and the plates of Ortelius' Theatrum. In 1603 he published his first atlas of the Netherlands, compiled of the sheets of...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1608-1612
Selling price: $3175
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Gelriae, Cliviae, Finitimorumque locorum verissima descriptio.
"East to the top. Fine map of Geldria and Limburg, prepared by Christian s'Grooten. Very fine title cartouche lower right with painters utensils around cartouche.Pag...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1570-1612
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2022
Italiae Novissima descriptio..
"Very fine map of Italy after Giacomo Gastaldi. Copper engraving with Spanish text on verso. Abraham Ortelius (1527-1598) was a cartographer and publisher, who is bo...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1584-1612
Selling price: $710
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Deutschlanndt/ Germaniae typus ..
Rare map of western Europe prepared by Frans Hogenberg, who published this single sheet map in 1576. Only a few later editions of the Theatrum included this map.According...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1603-1612
Selling price: $1100
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Limburgensis Ducatus Tabula Nova..
Map of Limburg, prepared by the Antwerp expert in law and mathematics Aegidius Martini. After 1600 Jan Baptist Vrients acquired the stock and the plates of Ortelius' Thea...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1606-1612
Selling price: $1050
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Nobilis Hanoniae Comitatus descrip.
Including part of Belgium and northern part of France. Copper engraving with Spanish text on verso. From the last edition of Ortelius' Atlas in 1612, Spanish text.Prepare...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1584-1612
Selling price: $400
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Oost ende West Vrieslandte beschryvinghe.
Prepared by Jacob van Deventer. A very decorative map of the Dutch provinces of Friesland, Groningen and Drente and of the German Province of Friesland. Dated 1605.Very a...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1570-1612
Selling price: $800
Sold in 2011
Aeneae Troiani Navigatio.
From the famous historical Atlas Parergon. The map is ornated with four cartouches, on top in the middle the title cartouche, on the middle right, underneath a decorative...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1612
Selling price: $1200
Sold in 2013
Aken.
Nice bird's-eye plan of the city of Aken. Based on Braun & Hogenberg's 1572 plan, the map is filled with detail of the well-laid out city and the surrounding countrys...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1612
Selling price: $90
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Asiae Tabula VII Continet Hyrcaniam, Margianam, Bactrianam, Sogdianam
Map of central Asia based upon Ptolemy's Atlas.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1580-1612
Selling price: $410
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Illyricum
Very decorative map of Slovenia and Croatia, engraved in 1572 after Johann Sambucus.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1612
Selling price: $250
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Amstelredam
Nice bird's-eye view of the city of Amsterdam. First state copper engraving from Guicciardini's first dutch edition "Beschryvinghe van alle de Nederlanden" edit...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1612
Selling price: $475
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Cataloniae Principatus Novissima et Accurata Descriptio.
An attractive map of Catalonia, prepared by Vrients. According to Marcel van de Broecke this map comes from separately produced atlases after 1612.After taking over the O...
Place & Date: Antwerp c.1612
Selling price: $720
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Namurcum.
From Ludovico Guicciardini.'s description of the Netherlands ' Beschrijvinghe van alle de Nederlanden anderssins ghenoemt Neder-Duytslandt ', published by Willem Blaeu.A ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, W.Blaeu, 1612
Selling price: $200
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Flandria.
From Ludovico Guicciardini.'s description of the Netherlands ' Beschrijvinghe van alle de Nederlanden anderssins ghenoemt Neder-Duytslandt ', published by Willem Blaeu.A ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, W.Blaeu, 1612
Selling price: $300
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Hannonia.
From Ludovico Guicciardini.'s description of the Netherlands ' Beschrijvinghe van alle de Nederlanden anderssins ghenoemt Neder-Duytslandt ', published by Willem Blaeu.A ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, W.Blaeu, 1612
Selling price: $235
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Namurcum Comitatus.
Copper engraving with Spanish text on verso. From the last edition of Ortelius' Atlas in 1612, Spanish text.Prepared by Jacques Surhon in 1555. His manuscript map was for...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1612
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2017
Hennebergensis ditionis vera delineatio. / Hassiae descriptio..
Two maps on one sheet, also with Schweinfurt and Bamberg.
Place & Date: Antwerp 1612
Selling price: $80
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Situs Oppidi Graviae.
From Ludovico Guicciardini.'s description of the Netherlands ' Beschrijvinghe van alle de Nederlanden anderssins ghenoemt Neder-Duytslandt ', published by Willem Blaeu.A ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, W.Blaeu, 1612
Selling price: $100
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Mechelen.
From Ludovico Guicciardini.'s description of the Netherlands ' Beschrijvinghe van alle de Nederlanden anderssins ghenoemt Neder-Duytslandt ', published by Willem Blaeu.A ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, W.Blaeu, 1612
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2018
Grevelinge / Gravelinga, urbs maritima.
From Ludovico Guicciardini.'s description of the Netherlands ' Beschrijvinghe van alle de Nederlanden anderssins ghenoemt Neder-Duytslandt ', published by Willem Blaeu.A ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, W.Blaeu, 1612
Selling price: $160
Sold in 2008
Lille.
From Ludovico Guicciardini.'s description of the Netherlands ' Beschrijvinghe van alle de Nederlanden anderssins ghenoemt Neder-Duytslandt ', published by Willem Blaeu.A ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, W.Blaeu, 1612
Selling price: $125
Sold in 2010
Gelria.
From Ludovico Guicciardini.'s description of the Netherlands ' Beschrijvinghe van alle de Nederlanden anderssins ghenoemt Neder-Duytslandt ', published by Willem Blaeu.A ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, W.Blaeu, 1612
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2020
Den muel Wagen?.voor Lochum.
From Ludovico Guicciardini.'s description of the Netherlands ' Beschrijvinghe van alle de Nederlanden anderssins ghenoemt Neder-Duytslandt ', published by Willem Blaeu.A ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, W.Blaeu, 1612
Selling price: $190
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Alcmaer.
From Ludovico Guicciardini.'s description of the Netherlands ' Beschrijvinghe van alle de Nederlanden anderssins ghenoemt Neder-Duytslandt ', published by Willem Blaeu.A ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, W.Blaeu, 1612
Selling price: $75
Sold in 2019
Die Stadt Enchuijsen.
From Ludovico Guicciardini.'s description of the Netherlands ' Beschrijvinghe van alle de Nederlanden anderssins ghenoemt Neder-Duytslandt ', published by Willem Blaeu.A ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, W.Blaeu, 1612
Selling price: $140
Sold in 2009
Dordrecht.
From Ludovico Guicciardini.'s description of the Netherlands ' Beschrijvinghe van alle de Nederlanden anderssins ghenoemt Neder-Duytslandt ', published by Willem Blaeu.A ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, W.Blaeu, 1612
Selling price: $120
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Filissinga.
From Ludovico Guicciardini.'s description of the Netherlands ' Beschrijvinghe van alle de Nederlanden anderssins ghenoemt Neder-Duytslandt ', published by Willem Blaeu.A ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, W.Blaeu, 1612
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2009
Middelburch.
From Ludovico Guicciardini.'s description of the Netherlands ' Beschrijvinghe van alle de Nederlanden anderssins ghenoemt Neder-Duytslandt ', published by Willem Blaeu.A ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, W.Blaeu, 1612
Selling price: $170
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[Lot of 2 maps of Luxemburg]
Together 2 map of Luxembourg Abraham Ortelius (1527-98), Dutch cartographer and publisher of the first modern atlas, ' Theatrum Orbis Terrarum' in 1570. Editions till ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1612
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2021
Temple D. Virginis Mariae vera delineatio.
From Ludovico Guicciardini.'s description of the Netherlands ' Beschrijvinghe van alle de Nederlanden anderssins ghenoemt Neder-Duytslandt ', published by Willem Blaeu.A ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, W.Blaeu, 1612
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2020
Frisiae Occidentalis Typus.
From Ludovico Guicciardini.'s description of the Netherlands ' Beschrijvinghe van alle de Nederlanden anderssins ghenoemt Neder-Duytslandt ', published by Willem Blaeu.A ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, W.Blaeu, 1612
Selling price: $140
Sold in 2014
Poloniae, Lituaniaeq descriptio.
Fine general map of Poland. Rare; the second plate appearing in the post-1595 edition of the Theatrum. Only used until 1612.Based on the now-lost map of Waclaw Grodecki. ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1612
Selling price: $1400
Sold in 2024
Domus Senatoria Antwerpiensis.
From Ludovico Guicciardini' s description of the Netherlands Beschrijvinghe van alle de Nederlanden anderssins ghenoemt Neder-Duytslandt , published by Willem Blaeu.A pri...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1612
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2016
Oostende.
From Ludovico Guicciardini.'s description of the Netherlands 'Beschrijvinghe van alle de Nederlanden anderssins ghenoemt Neder-Duytslandt', published by Willem Blaeu.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, W.Blaeu, 1612
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2019
Lutzenbourg / Lutzenburgu,
From Ludovico Guicciardini.'s description of the Netherlands ' Beschrijvinghe van alle de Nederlanden anderssins ghenoemt Neder-Duytslandt ', published by Willem Blaeu.A ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, W.Blaeu, 1612
Selling price: $350
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Fori IV accurata descriptio.
Very fine map of part of Italy, including lower left the town of Venice, the Gulf of Venice, Istria, Udine, Dolomites and the Julian Alps. Prepared by Johannes Sambucus, ...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1573-1612
Selling price: $1000
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Patavini territorii../ Tarvisini agri typus.. (2 maps)
Two maps on one sheet. Map to the left is a detailed map including Venice and the area north of it including Padua and Vincenza. Very fine map after Giacomo Gastaldi. Th...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1595-1612
Selling price: $750
Sold in 2013
Thusciae..
Very fine map of Tuscany after Girolamo Bellarmati (1493-1555). In lower right hand corner Rome, includes Chianti wine region, Pisa, Florence, etc.Copper engraving with S...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1570-1612
Selling price: $900
Sold in 2012
Florentini Dominii Fidelissima et nova descriptio.
Very fine map including the towns of Pisa, Florence, Siena, etc. The map is based on Stefano Buonsignori's map.Copper engraving with Spanish text on verso. Abraham Orteli...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1595-1612
Selling price: $700
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Ducatus Ferrariensis..
Map of Ferrara area, including Venice, Ferrara, Comachio, Padua, etc. Copied after Giovanni Battista Aleotti (1546-1636) who made a single sheet map of the area in 1603. ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1608-1612
Selling price: $1800
Sold in 2009
Regni Neapolitani verissi..
Very fine map of Southern Italy, including the towns of Ascoli Piceno, Napels, Fogia, Bari, Catanzaro, most northern tip of Sicily with Messina. The map is based on Pirro...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1570-1612
Selling price: $800
Sold in 2008
Apuliae.. / Calabriae.. (Two maps on one sheet)
Two very fine maps on one sheet. Left hand side map of the peninsula of Apulia, including the towns of Taranto, Lecce, etc. The map is based on Jacobo Gastaldi's map.To t...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1595-1612
Selling price: $900
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Arras
Nice bird's-eye plan of the city of Arras. Based on Braun & Hogenberg's 1572 plan, the map is filled with detail of the well-laid out city and the surrounding country...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1612
Selling price: $100
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Mons.
From Ludovico Guicciardini.'s description of the Netherlands ' Beschrijvinghe van alle de Nederlanden anderssins ghenoemt Neder-Duytslandt ', published by Willem Blaeu.A ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, W.Blaeu, 1612
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2020
![[No title ] Parmae et Placentiae Ducatus.](/uploads/cache/05876-250x250.jpg)
[No title ] Parmae et Placentiae Ducatus.
Very rare early state of this map covering Parma area. This state has no title cartouche and scale. The map is based on the single sheet map of the Piacenze and Parma are...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1608-1612
Selling price: $2400
Sold in 2012
Russiae, Moscoviae et Tartariae Descriptio.
Engraved by Frans Hogenberg from an original of 1562 by Anthony Jenkinson of the English Muscovy Company. The many vignettes are based on the reports of Marco Polo's expl...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1570-1612
Selling price: $1600
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Romani Imperii Imago.
An attractive map of the second plate prepared (after 1592) of the Roman Empire, drawn by Ortelius and published in the 'Paregon' section. The medallion portraits are of ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1612
Selling price: $900
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Lutzenburgensis Ducatus Veriss. Descript.
Abraham Ortelius(1527-98), Dutch cartographer and publisher of the first modern atlas, ' Theatrum Orbis Terrarum' in 1570. Editions till 1612. Also an atlas of ancient ca...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1612
Selling price: $900
Sold in 2008
Lutzenbourg / Lutzenburgu,
From Ludovico Guicciardini.'s description of the Netherlands ' Beschrijvinghe van alle de Nederlanden anderssins ghenoemt Neder-Duytslandt ', published by Willem Blaeu.A ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, W.Blaeu, 1612
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2008
Belgicarum Provinciarum Nova Descriptio.
From Ludovico Guicciardini.'s description of the Netherlands ' Beschrijvinghe van alle de Nederlanden anderssins ghenoemt Neder-Duytslandt ', published by Willem Blaeu.Th...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, W.Blaeu, 1612
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2020
Maestricht / Traiectum ad Mosam.
From Ludovico Guicciardini.'s description of the Netherlands ' Beschrijvinghe van alle de Nederlanden anderssins ghenoemt Neder-Duytslandt ', published by Willem Blaeu.A ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, W.Blaeu, 1612
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2010
Italiae Novissima descriptio. . .
Very fine map of Italy after Giacomo Gastaldi. Embellished with a title cartouche, vessels, sea monsters ans sea gods. No text on verso.Abraham Ortelius (1527-1598) was a...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1584-1612
Selling price: $1300
Sold in 2008
Russiae, Moscoviae et Tartariae Descriptio.
Engraved by Frans Hogenberg from an original of 1562 by Anthony Jenkinson of the English Muscovy Company. The many vignettes are based on the reports of Marco Polo's expl...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1570 - 1612
Selling price: $1400
Sold in 2008