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Die erst Tafel, innhaltend das Schweytzerlandt, mit den anstossenden Ländern / Die ander Tafel des Rheinstroms, begreiffend die Pfaltz, Westereich, Eyfel ec. . .
A monumental map of the course of the Rhine river. The three-sheet woodcut map showing the Rhine from the headwaters in Switzerland to its mouth in the North Sea. The map...
Place & Date: Basel, H.Petri, ca. 1550
Selling price: $325
Sold in 2020
Der Schönen und Weitberhümpten Statt Genua abcontrafactur.
A large, early woodcut view of Genoa (Genova) by Sebastian Münster on the full double sheet. Title and a description of the city on verso. The 'Cosmographia' is famous f...
Place & Date: Basel, H.Petri, ca. 1550
Selling price: $175
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SCLAVONIA ODER WINDISCH MARCK, BOSSEN, CRABATEN (Croatia, Dalmatia)
A beautifully colored, antique woodcut map of Dalmatia, Bosnia, Slovenia, Croatia.
Place & Date: Basle, 1550
Selling price: $130
Sold in 2021
Transilvania.
A beautifully colored map of the "Seven Cities" also known as 'Transsylvania', today western Romania.
Place & Date: Basle, 1550
Selling price: $150
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Das gantz Franckreich..Belgica und Celtica. . .
This fine and beautifully hand colored original antique map of modern contemporary France in the mid 16th century was published by Sebastian Münster in the 1550's. Date ...
Place & Date: Basel, ca 1550
Selling price: $130
Sold in 2020
Das Engelland, mit dem anstossenden Reich Schottland. . . Britannia. . .
An antique map of England and Wales, with parts of Scottland and Ireland. Full title : Engellandt/ mit dem anstossenden Reich Schottlandt/ so vor zeiten Albion und Britan...
Place & Date: Basel ca 1550
Selling price: $325
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Gemeine beschreibung aller Mitnaechtigen Laender, Schweden, Gothen, Nordwegien, Dennmarck, sc.
An early Sebastian Münster's woodcut map of Scandinavia, based on the 'Carta Marina' of Olaus Magnus, 1539. The map includes Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Iceland, S...
Place & Date: Basel, ca 1550
Selling price: $550
Sold in 2020
Die dritte Tafel des Rheinstroms, inhaltendt das Nider Teutschlandt. [Course of the Rhine from approx. Remagen to the North Sea]
Wood block printed map of mostly the Netherlands and Belgium - designed as third part of the course of the Rhine, by Sebastian Munster.One of the Earliest Modern Maps on ...
Place & Date: Basel, 1550
Selling price: $130
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Beschreibung Engellandts und Schottlandts.
A full-page woodcut map of England, Scotland, Wales, and part of Ireland, published in Basel, circa 1550. This charming woodblock map of Britain is the base for the Merca...
Place & Date: Basel, ca 1550
Selling price: $200
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BEYDE STAETT GENFF. . .[Geneva]
An uncommon and early woodblock panoramic view of Geneva as a medieval walled city on the shores of Lake Leman. The skyline is dominated by the Cathedral of St. Peter, wh...
Place & Date: Basel, ca 1550
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2021
Würzburg. - Herbipolis Würtzpurg
A double-page woodcut view of Würzburg. From a French edition of Munster's 'Geographia', one of the most important 16th Century geographical books. Herbipolis Würtzpur...
Place & Date: Basel, ca 1550
Selling price: $160
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COLOGNE/KÖLN. - La noble & ample ville de Coloigne Agrippine,
A double-page woodcut panoramic view of KÖLN. From a French edition of Munster's 'Geographia', one of the most important 16th-century geographical books. With a key to 2...
Place & Date: Basel, ca 1550
Selling price: $200
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Basel. - Beyde Stett Basel mit dem fürfliessenden Rhein und allen fürnemmen Gebewen
A decorative map with a striking bird's-eye plan of Basel from Seb. Muenster, with key to locations. Maybe the first map of Basel , printed in Basel.Basle is shown here f...
Place & Date: Basel, ca. 1550
Selling price: $165
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La table du pays de Pomeran. . .
An early woodblock map of the historic region of Pomerania on the shores of the Baltic Sea. The map covers from Rugen (present-day Germany) to Danzig (Gdansk, Poland). Th...
Place & Date: Basle, ca 1550
Frankfurt/M., -La situation & figure .. de Francford ... 1549
Nice example of Munster's large woodcut view of Frankfurt on the Main River and the opposite town of Sachsenhausen, with an impressive coat of arms of the Imperial City w...
Place & Date: BASEL, ca 1550
AMSTERDAM [w.o.title]
The oldest printed map of Amsterdam that is obtainable. This map later served as the prototype for Braun and Hogenberg's 1572 map of the city.Interesting plan of Amsterda...
Place & Date: BASEL, ca 1550
Der Statt Rom boden und circkel sampt thor vnnd porten, wie sie gestanden ist vor zeiten, do sie noch in ihrer herrlichkeit was.
Large format wood engraving by Sebastian Münster with a special map showing the underground of Rome: the hills, the water streams. The city is marked by the city walls a...
Place & Date: 1550
Selling price: $100
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Zürich, - De la ville de Zurich
Nice example of Munster's woodcut birds-eye view of Zuerich , within French textSebastian Münster, a German geographer, cartographer, Hebraist, and theologian, was bor...
Place & Date: BASEL, ca 1550
Italia mit zeijnen furnemesten Inseln Corsica Sardinia und Sicilia.
In general a fine impression of this early wood block print of Italy including Sardinia and Corsica.
Place & Date: Basle 1540-1551
Selling price: $320
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Sicilia.
In general a fine impression of this early wood block print of Sicily from a French text edition.
Place & Date: Basle 1540-1551
Selling price: $130
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Sicilia.
In general a fine impression of this early wood block print of Sicily, taken from a French edition of Sebastian Münster's encyclopedic work, the "Cosmographia Unive...
Place & Date: Basle, 1540-1551
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2011
DE la duché de Brabant, & des principales villes d'icelle.
A woodcut map and one of the oldest maps of Brabant, covering the area from Antwerp in the west to Muenster in the east, from Utrecht in the north to Namur in the south.T...
Place & Date: Basle 1552
Selling price: $110
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HOLLAND.
One of the oldest (woodcut)maps of the county of Holland, also partly covering areas of Zeeland,Frisia, Gelre and Brabant. North orientated to the top. It shows the main ...
Place & Date: Basle 1552
Selling price: $180
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Valesiae Altera et VII, Nova Tabula.
Sebastian Münster, 1489-1552, outstanding geographer of Basle. Editied Ptolemy's atlas ' Geographia Universalis', editions 1540,-42, -45, -51 and -52. Published his &quo...
Place & Date: Basle, 1545-1552
Selling price: $350
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Helvetia Prima Rheni et VIII, Nova Tabula.
Sebastian Münster, 1489-1552, outstanding geographer of Basle. Editied Ptolemy's atlas ' Geographia Universalis', editions 1540,-42, -45, -51 and -52. Published his &quo...
Place & Date: Basle, 1542-1552
Selling price: $400
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Germania VI Nova Tabula.
Sebastian Münster, 1489-1552, outstanding geographer of Basle. Editied Ptolemy's atlas ' Geographia Universalis', editions 1540,-42, -45, -51 and -52. Published his &quo...
Place & Date: Basle, 1540-1552
Selling price: $360
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Description nouvelle d'Europe.
Sebastian Münster's (1488–1552) modern map of Europe from a French text edition.Sebastian Münster (Ingelheim, c.1489-1552, Basel), originally a Franciscan friar, beca...
Place & Date: Basle, 1552
Selling price: $1550
Sold in 2010
Nouvelle description de Poloigne & Hongrie.
Munster's map of Poland, Lithuania, the Ukraine, Muscovy and the Balkans, extending from Prussia, Vilna and Smolensk in the north to Bosnia, Bulgaria, Constantinople and ...
Place & Date: Basle, 1552
Selling price: $700
Sold in 2010
Description Nouvelle d'Europe.
The first map of the continent of Europe! The map is oriented with south at the top and includes a large sailing ship off the coast of Spain and France. Latin text on ver...
Place & Date: Basle, 1552
Selling price: $950
Sold in 2017
Della Region Spagnola Nuova Discrizzione (Spain)
Beautiful colored woodcut map of Spain. From the second Italian edition of Münster's Cosmographia universale. Burmeister Sebastian Münster 101.
Place & Date: Basle, 1552
Selling price: $210
Sold in 2020
De terris Asiae minoris.
A woodblock printed map of the region between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea with parts of Tartary and Kazakhstan, also neighboring Armenia in the south. From the 1552...
Place & Date: Basel, 1552
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2022
Franckofordianae civitatis situs…
A wood block printed early bird's-eye view of Frankfurt/Main (Germany). From the 1552 Latin text edition of Münster's Cosmographia, which is a short and complete summary...
Place & Date: Basel, 1552
Selling price: $40
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Lindoiae civitas insularis, undique aqua lacunari circunsusa.…
A wood block printed early bird's-eye view of Lindau on Lake Constance (Germany). A lettered key A-O in the plate. From the 1552 Latin text edition of Münster's Cosmogra...
- $70 / ≈ €66
Place & Date: Basel, 1552
Hollàd [Holland].
A wood block printed early map of Holland. From the 1552 Latin text edition of Munster's Cosmographia, which is a short and complete summary of Renaissance knowledge.Seba...
Place & Date: Basel, 1552
Selling price: $20
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Colonia Agrippina civitas…
A wood block printed early panoramic view of Cologne (Germany). A lettered key A-Z beneath the view. The 1552 Latin text edition of Münster's Cosmographia is a short and...
- $70 / ≈ €66
Place & Date: Basel, 1552
Egrana civitas olim imperio Romanorum…
Early woodcut view of the city of Egra (Cheb) in the Czech Republic. From the 1552 Latin text edition of Münster's Cosmographia, which is a short and complete summary of...
Place & Date: Basel, 1552
Selling price: $30
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[Lot of 31 leaves] Solothurensis civitatis effigies…
Thirty-one text pages with several wood block prints with maps and views relating to Hungary, Serbia, Bulgaria, Poland and Russia. Taken from the 1552 Latin text edition ...
Place & Date: Basel, 1552
Selling price: $55
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[Lot of 34 leaves relating to Greece and Turkey]
Thirty-four text pages with wood block illustrations about Greece and Turkey with small maps, views, animals.... From the 1552 Latin text edition of Münster's Cosmograph...
Place & Date: Basel, 1552
Selling price: $51
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[Lot of 7 leaves] Curiensis civitas, Rhetorum…/Valesia/Solothurensis/Clarissimae civitatis/Genevensis/Basiliensis/Ursina…Bernensis/Sedunensis/Designatio …Badensis.
Seven text leaves illustrated with wood block bird's-eye views of Chur, Solothurn, Geneva, Basel, Bern, Sitten, Baden and one single sheet map of the Valais. From the 155...
- $400 / ≈ €374
Place & Date: Basel, 1552
Figura theatri Veronensis.… [Verona]
A wood block printed early view of Verona Theatre. From the 1552 Latin text edition of Münster's Cosmographia, which is a short and complete summary of Renaissance knowl...
Place & Date: Basel, 1552
Selling price: $30
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[Lot of 45 leaves of Italy]
Forty-five leaves illustrated with wood block prints relating to Italy. From the 1552 Latin text edition of Münster's Cosmographia, which is a short and complete summary...
Place & Date: Basel, 1552
Selling price: $150
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[Lot of 10 leaves of Bohemia, Moravia]
Ten text leaves illustrated with wood block prints relating to Bohemia and Moravia. From the 1552 Latin text edition of Münster's Cosmographia, which is a short and com...
Place & Date: Basel, 1552
Selling price: $26
Sold in 2022
[Lot of 7 leaves of Prussia, Gdansk and Riga]
Seven text pages illustrated with wood block prints relating to Poland, Prussia and Latvia with a small view of Riga. From the 1552 Latin text edition of Münster's Cosmo...
Place & Date: Basel, 1552
Selling price: $50
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[Lot of 19 leaves of Scandinavia, Greenland, Island]
Nineteen text leaves illustrated with wood block prints and maps relating to Scandinavia, Greenland and Island. From the 1552 Latin text edition of Münster's Cosmographi...
Place & Date: Basel, 1552
Selling price: $155
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[Lot of 7 leaves of American interest]
Seven text leaves illustrated with wood block prints relating to America and explorers. From the 1552 Latin text edition of Münster's Cosmographia, which is a short and ...
Place & Date: Basel, 1552
Selling price: $51
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[Lot of 25 leaves of France, Brabant, Netherlands, Luxemburg]
Twenty-five text leaves with wood block illustrations relating to France, Brabant, the Netherlands, Luxemburg. From the 1552 Latin text edition of Münster's Cosmographia...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Basel, 1552
[Lot of 10 leaves of Spain, Balearic Islands]
Ten text leaves with wood block illustrations relating to Spain and the Balearic Islands. From the 1552 Latin text edition of Münster's Cosmographia, which is a short an...
Place & Date: Basel, 1552
Selling price: $56
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[Lot of 2 leaves] Vienna Austriae metropolis, urbs…
A wood block printed early panoramic view of Vienna (Austria). From the 1552 Latin text edition of Münster's Cosmographia, which is a short and complete summary of Renai...
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: Basel, 1552
[Lot of 2 leaves] Rubeaquum cum arce Isenburgo…/ Wyssenburg…
Two wood block printed early bird's-eye views of Rouffach (lies along the Alsatian wine route) and Wissembourg (Alsace). From the 1552 Latin text edition of Münster's Co...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Basel, 1552
Europa Prima Nova Tabula
Very rare issue of one of the earliest printed maps of the European continent oriented to the south. Shows the continent from Constantinople and Greece to the east and Sp...
Place & Date: Basel, 1552
Tabula Europae I
Very rare issue and the first Munster’s map of the British Isles, based on Ptolemy’s writings. Woodcut map of the British Isles and the northern European coast by Seb...
Place & Date: Basel, 1552
Italia XIX Nova Tabula
Very rare issue and the first Münster’s map of Italy, based on Ptolemy’s writings. It shows the area from Marseille to Albania, including the Adriatic Sea, also the ...
Place & Date: Basel, 1552
Selling price: $700
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Nova Graecia secundum omnes eius regiones & provincias citra ultra & Hellespontum.
Early map of Greece, Turkey and adjoining regions from the 1552 Latin text edition of Münster's Cosmographia, which is a short and complete summary of Renaissance knowl...
Place & Date: Basel, 1552
Selling price: $300
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Venetiarum amplissima & maritima urbs cum multis circumiacentibus insulis.
Early bird's-eye view of Venice from the 1552 Latin text edition of Münster's Cosmographia, which is a short and complete summary of Renaissance knowledge.Sebastian Mü...
Place & Date: Basel, 1552
Selling price: $400
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Descriptio Graeciae.
Sebastian Münster, 1489-1552, outstanding geographer of Basle. Editied Ptolemy's atlas ' Geographia Universalis', editions 1540,-42, -45, -51 and -52. Published his &quo...
Place & Date: Basle, 1554
Selling price: $100
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[Amsterdam]
Attractive bird's-eye view of the city Amsterdam. One of the oldest plans of the town. From a French text edition of Münster's Cosmographia, with text and portrait of Er...
Place & Date: Basel, ca. 1554
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2009
Die Stat Landaw.
Attractive bird's-eye view of the city Landau in Germany. Latin text on the verso.
Place & Date: Basel, ca. 1554
Selling price: $20
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Tabula nova Graeciae, Sclavoniae, & Bulgariae
Woodcut map of the Greek mainland and islands, including Crete. Also shown are parts of Italy, Croatia, Albania, Serbia, Northern Macedonia, Bulgaria and Turkey. After Pr...
Place & Date: Basel, ca. 1555
Selling price: $240
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MOSCOVIA, QUATENUS MOENIBUS INCLUDITUR ARX VOCATUR EXTRA MOENIA INGENS LIGNEA-rum aedium numerus, civitas dicitur
One of the earliest obtainable town-plans of Moscow from the first authentic account of Russia written by a western traveler: "Rerum Moscoviticarum commentarii Sigis...
Place & Date: Basel, 1556
Selling price: $1250
Sold in 2010
MOSCOVIA, QUATENUS MOENIBUS INCLUDITUR ARX VOCATUR EXTRA MOENIA INGENS
One of the earliest obtainable town-plans of Moscow from the first authentic account of Russia written by a western traveler: "Rerum Moscoviticarum commentarii Sigi...
Place & Date: Basel, 1556
Selling price: $1050
Sold in 2011
La ville de Berne L'an 1549.
Attractive hand colored woodcut by Sebastian Münster. Fine bird's-eye view of Berne, Switzerland on the river Aare. The engraving shows city walls, churches, castles and...
Place & Date: Paris, 1556
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2016
Moscovia Sigismundi Liberi Baronis In Herberstein, Neiperg et Gutehnag Anno M.D XLIX
First Modern Map of Russia. A rare and important cornerstone map for any Russian collection.One of two maps of Russia compiled by Herberstein, who was ambassador from the...
Place & Date: Basle, 1556
Mosqua so vil mit der Maur eingefangen / Ist das Schlos genent / Ausserhalb ist die Stat gross und weit mit Hulzen heusern.
One of the earliest obtainable town-plan of the Kremlin fortress and Moscow from the German edition of the first authentic account of Russia written by a western traveler...
Place & Date: Vienna, 1557
Selling price: $1150
Sold in 2009
[Meissen]
A double-page woodcut panoramic view of MEISSEN/SAXONY. This fine wood-blocked engraved hand coloured original antique print a view of the German city of Meissen in Sa...
Place & Date: Basel, ca 1558
Exactissima Flandriae Descriptio
Rare Lafreri style map of the County of Flanders (BE) published by Domenico Zenoi, Venice 1559. One of the earliest maps of Flanders. Based on Gerard Mercator's 4-sheet m...
Place & Date: Venice, 1559
Selling price: $2175
Sold in 2022
Antiquissimus Vulterrae regiae olim Thuscorum urbis typus ex monumentis et vestigiis antiquitatis desumptus.
Rare map representing the ancient town of Volterra, in Tuscany, which was one of the major centres of the Etruscan civilization.With an explanatory key index on the botto...
Place & Date: Pisa, ca.1560
Selling price: $530
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La figure de la place ou fut jadiz la cité de Rome. . .
Interesting town-plan of ancient Rome. In lower left initials H.H. Heinrich Holzmüller was a famous woodblock cutter working with Sebastian Münster. French text on left...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1560
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2010
La ville de Berne. . .
Bird's eye town-plan of Bern.
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1560
Selling price: $100
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La paincture de la cité tresancienne des Nemetiens../..Spire.
Panoramic of Speyer, with in foreground the river Rhine. Lower part signed with monogram HF.
Place & Date: Basle, c.1560
Selling price: $22
Sold in 2014
Le rhein de la Gaule, pourtraicte selon la figure qu'elle a auiourdhuy.
Panoramic town-view along River Rhine in French Alsace. In lower left HSD. There is no information available for the monogamist HSD, we think he originates from Worms.Tak...
Place & Date: Basle, c.1560
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2014
Selestat ou Schletstat, cité impériale, située au milieu du pays d'Alsace. . .
Panoramic of Sélestat in the French Alsace region. In lower right corner: RMD [Rudoplh Manuel called Deutsch who was a well-known wood-cutter].Taken from Sebastian Mün...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1560
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2014
Tantum aevi longinqua Valet mutare vetustas.
Bird's-eye view of Volterra after Dominicus Vadorinius Pomaranciensis, by Domenicus Vadorinius. With the title in a small banner at upper left, banner at upper right is b...
Place & Date: Pisa, ca. 1560
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2014
L'effigie de la ville de Saleurre. . . (Solothum)
Panoramic of Solothum with on the foreground the River Aar. In lower right CS. There is no information available for the monogamist CS, he was probably German or Swiss a...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1560
Selling price: $35
Sold in 2015
La tresancienne Cité de Vangions../.. Vuormes. (Worms)
Panoramic of Worms, with in foreground the river Rhine.Read more [+]
Place & Date: Basle, c.1560
Selling price: $35
Sold in 2015
La noble & ample ville de Coloigne Agrippine... (Cologne)
Panoramic of Cologne with on the foreground the River Rhine. In lower left CS. There is no information available for the monogamist CS, he was probably German or Swiss a...
Place & Date: Basle, c.1560
Selling price: $35
Sold in 2015
Europa / das ein Drittheil der Erden / nach gelegenheit unsern zeiten.
A decorative, full color example of Munster's map of Europe. It belongs to an early German edition of Munster's 'Cosmographia', which has been one of the most influential...
Place & Date: Basle, 1560
Selling price: $1225
Sold in 2016
De Europa
A small, attractive map of Europe from the famous 'Cosmographia' by Sebastian Munster, in very nice colors.
Place & Date: Basel, ca. 1560
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2018
Venice.
An early, fine bird's-eye view of the city of Venice. It comes from the famous Cosmographia, one of the most influential books of the XVI and XVII century, representing a...
Place & Date: Basle, ca 1560
Selling price: $390
Sold in 2020
Gemeine beschreibung aller Mitnaechtigen Laender, Schweden, Gothen, Nordwegien, Dennmarck, sc.
An early Sebastian Münster's woodcut map of Scandinavia, based on the 'Carta Marina' of Olaus Magnus, 1539. The map includes Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Iceland, S...
Place & Date: Basel, 1560
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2021
Landtafel des Ungerlands / Polands / Reussen / Littaw / Walachei / Bulgarei.
Early woodcut map from Münster's Cosmographia, one of the most influential geographical works of the 16th Century. It shows the area from Prussia to Constantinople and...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1560
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2023