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...
Date: Venice, 1559
Selling price: $2175
Sold in 2022
![Beschreibung der Statt Antorff? [Antwerp ]](/uploads/cache/27204-500x500.jpg)
Beschreibung der Statt Antorff? [Antwerp ]
RECTO: a bird's-eye-view of a Antwerp. VERSO: a woodcut portrait of Alfa. Taken from Sebastian Munster's encyclopedic work, the "Cosmographia Universalis". The ...
Date: Basle, ca. 1564
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2010
Brugae - Brugge
Rare and charming woodcut of Brugae or Brugge. Extensive legend below the plan including thirty-four letter press names of churches, palaces, monasteries, and more. Coat ...
Date: Antwerp, 1567
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2018
Louvain - Leuven.
Rare and charming woodcut of Louvain or Leuven. Extensive legend below the plan including thirty letter press names of churches, palaces, monasteries, and more. Coat of a...
Date: Antwerp, 1567
Selling price: $190
Sold in 2015
Malines - Mechelen
Rare and charming woodcut of Malines or Mechelen. The extensive legend below the plan including nineteen letterpress names of churches, palaces, monasteries, and more, an...
Date: Antwerp, 1567
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2018
Yprae - Ieper
Rare and charming woodcut of Yprae, or Ieper. Extensive legend below the plan including twenty letter press names of churches, palaces, monasteries, and more. Coat of arm...
Date: Antwerp, 1567
Selling price: $140
Sold in 2015
Anvers.
Charming and highly detailed bird’s-eye plan of Antwerpen with attractive pictorially drawn buildings, walls, churches, ships, and towers. Very early woodblock print pr...
Date: Antwerp, 1567
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2018
Brusselles.
Charming bird’s-eye plan of Brussel with attractive pictorially drawn buildings, walls, churches, and towers. Very early woodblock print printed in 1567 by Silvius with...
Date: Antwerp, 1567
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2014
Particvliere description de Flandres.
Famous bears’ map of Flanders, showing the four bears reflecting the four baronies of Flanders and their flags: Syson, Heyne, Pamele en Boelare. Charming bird’s-eye m...
Date: Antwerp, 1567
Selling price: $285
Sold in 2020
Anversa (Antwerp)
Rare Lafreri School town-plan of Antwerp, engraved by Paolo Forlani, of the Lafreri school of mapmakers, first published in "Il Primo Libro Delle Citta, Et Fortezze ...
Date: Venice, Zaltieri, (1567) 1568
Selling price: $590
Sold in 2016
Leodiencsis Dioecesis Typus.
Map of eastern Belgium region from Ortelius' Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. Shows the Meuse River and the cities located on the river, such as Namur, Liege and Maastricht. Beau...
Date: Antwerp, 1570
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2010
Flandria.
Very decorative, egg-shaped map. This is the early state with the farmer's wife and three ships in the North Sea.
Date: Antwerp, 1570
Selling price: $650
Sold in 2015
Bruxella...
A highly detailed 16th-century plan of Brussels with numerous buildings, streets, places, churches, and squares. Further with the city walls and bridges across the river,...
Date: Cologne, c1572
Selling price: $230
Sold in 2017
Liege. Leodium... Civitatis Leodiensis Genuina Delineatio.
A Very Early Plan of Liege - an Excellent Example. Earliest issue of the earliest acquirable, detailed view of Liege, showing the walled city in rich detail. With 64 spec...
Date: Cologne, 1572
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2019
Anverpia.
Superb bird's-eye plan of Antwerp. Highly detailed plan showing the city with buildings, streets, places, churches and squares. The river and the harbour are filled with ...
Date: Cologne, ca. 1572
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2013
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Gandavum, Amplissima Flandriae urbs. . . [Ghent (Gent)]
A bird's-eye view plan of Ghent, by Georg Braun and Frans Hogenberg. TRANSLATION OF CARTOUCHE TEXT: Ghent, the most splendid city in Flanders, was founded by Julius Caesa...
Date: Cologne, 1572
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2020
ANVERPIA
Superb bird's-eye plan of Antwerp. Highly detailed plan showing the town with buildings, streets, places, churches and squares. The river and the harbour are filled with ...
Date: Cologne, ca. 1572
Selling price: $550
Sold in 2014
Hypra Flandriarum Civitas Munitissima.
A very detailed, panoramic view of Leper (Ypres), from Braun & Hogenberg’s “Civitates Orbis Terrarum." This town is located in Belgium, on the border with Fr...
Date: Cologne, 1572
Selling price: $55
Sold in 2020
Hypra Flandriarum Civitas Munitissima.
A very detailed, panoramic view of Leper, from Braun & Hogenberg’s “Civitates Orbis Terrarum." This town is located in Belgium, on the border with France. Po...
Date: Cologne, 1572
Selling price: $130
Sold in 2020
Flandria
A very decorative, unusual, egg-shaped map of Flanders. This is the early state with the farmer's wife and three ships in the North Sea. Nice colors, enhanced by gold.
Date: Antwerp, 1572
Selling price: $360
Sold in 2018
Lovanium Brabanticarum Urbium Caput. . .
A lovely birds-eye view of Louvain with detail even of single buildings. Translated “Louvain, capital of Brabant, unrivalled site of the muses and the most distinguishe...
Date: Cologne, 1572
Selling price: $135
Sold in 2018
Atrebatum Episcopa Lis et Metropolica Artesiae Vivitas.
An early city views of Arras, in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais, North of France, from an early edition of Braun & Hogenberg's Civitates Orbis Terrarum, the most prolific com...
Date: Cologne, 1572
Selling price: $55
Sold in 2018
Anverpia, nobile in Brahantia . . .
A Very Early Plan of Antwerp - an Excellent Example. First issue. A beautiful, well-detailed glimpse of Antwerp, portrayed prior to the Spanish Fury when it was a great c...
Date: Cologne, 1572
Selling price: $325
Sold in 2019
Anverpia, nobile in Barbantia oppidum, parrim maritimum...
This work is the smaller version of the two plans of Antwerp that were included in Braun & Hogenberg's great city atlas. The bird's-eye plan provides an excellent vie...
Date: Cologne, ca. 1572
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2008
Beaumont en Hainaut.
A bird's-eye plan of Beaumont south of Charleroi, near Walcourt, in Belgium. Walls and a moat protect the city.It provides an excellent view of the city's defences, bridg...
Date: Amsterdam, 1572
Selling price: $11
Sold in 2018
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Flandria
Beautiful old colored copy of the Ortelius/Mercator map of Flanders, published in the 1573 Latin edition of ´Orbis Terrarum..´. Only 75 copies of these were printed! Ac...
Date: Antwerp, 1573
Selling price: $475
Sold in 2022
Flandria.
Map of Flanders. Very decorative, egg-shaped map. This is the early state with the farmer's wife and three ships in the North Sea.
Date: Antwerp 1574-1575
Selling price: $1150
Sold
![Huum Opp. Condrusorum Caput. . . [Huy]](/uploads/cache/84184-500x500.jpg)
Huum Opp. Condrusorum Caput. . . [Huy]
A bird's-eye view of Huy by Braun and Hogenberg, with a key to locations. The 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum', or the "Braun & Hogenberg", is a six-volume town a...
Date: Cologne, 1575
Selling price: $230
Sold in 2020
Flandria.
Very decorative, egg-shaped map. This is the early state with the farmer's wife and three ships in the North Sea.
Date: Antwerp, 1574-1575
Selling price: $1200
Sold in 2008
Leodium. (Luik or Liège)
Very desirable and early town-view of Liège, which shows the city with the Meuse flowing in its favorable location amongst gentle hills, sturdy trees and fertile fields....
- $300 / ≈ €276
Date: Cologne, (1572) 1577
Leodium. (Luik or Liège)
Very desirable and early of Liège, which shows the city with the Meuse flowing in its favorable location amongst gentle hills, sturdy trees and fertile fields. With a n...
Date: Cologne, (1572) 1577
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2019
Leodium. (Luik or Liège)
Very desirable and early of Liège, which shows the city with the Meuse flowing in its favorable location amongst gentle hills, sturdy trees and fertile fields. With a n...
Date: Cologne, (1572) 1577
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2017
Nitidissimae Civitatis Mechlineensis in meditullio Brabantiae sitae, exactis: delineatio. (Mechelen)
Very desirable and early town-plan of Mechelen with the city scape is dominated by the massive tower belonging to the cathedral of Sint-Rombout, which measures almost 100...
Date: Cologne, (1572) 1577
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2016
Tiena, Brabantiae Opp: ad amnem Geta, ... (Tienen)
Very desirable and early town-plan of Tienen. "Shown from the southwest shows the formerly more populous Belgian town lying within extensive walls that also encompas...
Date: Cologne, (1572) 1577
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2017
Gandavum (Ghent)
Very desirable and early town-plan of Ghent. In lower left corner a numbered key (1-103). "The view of Ghent shows the city from the northwest in plan view from a gr...
Date: Cologne, (1572) 1577
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2019
Bruxella, Urbs Aulicorum Frequentia, Fontium Copia, Magnificentia Principalis Aulae (Brussels)
Very desirable and early town-plan of Brussels. To the left a numbered key (1-56). "This plan view from a bird's-eye perspective shows an idealized, almost circular ...
Date: Cologne, (1572) 1577
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2015
Brugae, Flandricarum Urbium Ornamenta. (Brugge)
Very desirable and early town-plan of Brugge. "from a northwesterly direction, ringed by numerous windmills. At the center can be seen the market square with the clo...
Date: Cologne, (1572) 1577
Selling price: $475
Sold in 2013
Anverpia, nobile in Brabantia oppidum, . . (Antwerp)
Very desirable and early town-plan of Antwerp. "The eye is struck by the star-shaped citadel built by the Duke of Alba on Antwerp's southern side, the defensive moat...
Date: Cologne, (1572) 1577
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2016
Lovanium Perantiqua Brabantiae urbs . . . (Leuven)
Very desirable and early of Leuven. "On a grassy slope on the left stands the castle (Borcht), below it, further left again, the tall viewing tower (Verloren Cost) ...
Date: Cologne, (1572) 1577
Selling price: $170
Sold in 2013
Gandavum (Ghent)
Very desirable and early town-plan of Ghent. In lower left corner a numbered key (1-103). "The view of Ghent shows the city from the northwest in plan view from a gr...
Date: Cologne, (1572) 1577
Selling price: $340
Sold in 2019
Anverpia, nobile in Brabantia oppidum, . . (Antwerp)
Very desirable and early town-plan of Antwerp. "The eye is struck by the star-shaped citadel built by the Duke of Alba on Antwerp's southern side, the defensive moat...
Date: Cologne, (1572) 1577
Selling price: $255
Sold in 2018
Mechelen - Nitidissimae Civitatis Mechlineensis in meditullio Brabantiae sitae, exactis: delineatio.
Very desirable and early town-plan of Mechelen with the city scape is dominated by the massive tower belonging to the cathedral of Sint-Rombout, which measures almost 100...
Date: Cologne, (1572) 1577
Selling price: $225
Sold in 2020
Brugae, Flandricarum urbium ornamenta.
Very desirable and early town-plan of Bruges.From volume one of the greatest publication in this genre!. The Civitates was compiled and written by George Braun, Canon of ...
Date: Cologne, (1572) 1577
Selling price: $550
Sold in 2020
Namurcum Comitatus
Fine map of Walloon region of Belgium, prepared by Jacques Surhon and published by Ortelius. The Walloon capital city of Namur is shown in the center of the map. The citi...
Date: Antwerp, 1579
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2010
Mons. Arras.
Early views of Mons and Arras, a bird's eye view from the greatest publication in this genre ! The Civitates was compiled and written by George Braun, Canon of Cologne Ca...
Date: Cologne, c.1580
Selling price: $320
Sold in 2008
Lovanium, Brabanticarum..
A very decorative town-plan from the famous university-city Leuven in Belgium. From the greatest publication in this genre!. The Civitates was compiled and written by Geo...
Date: Cologne 1580
Selling price: $390
Sold in 2018
![Tiena, Brabantiae. [Fr. Tirlemont]](/uploads/cache/81841-500x500.jpg)
Tiena, Brabantiae. [Fr. Tirlemont]
Fine oblique aerial plan of the central Belgium city, famed for its cloth in the Renaissance.From the greatest publication in this genre!. The plates from Georg Braun and...
Date: Cologne, 1580
Selling price: $55
Sold in 2018
Bruxella.
A bird's-eye-view of the town.From the greatest publication in this genre! The Civitates was compiled and written by George Braun, Canon of Cologne Cathedral. Braun gathe...
Date: Cologne, 1580
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2009
![Niitidissimae Civitatis mechlineensis, in Meditulli O Brabantiae Sitae, Exactis Delineatio.[Mechelen]](/uploads/cache/84180-500x500.jpg)
Niitidissimae Civitatis mechlineensis, in Meditulli O Brabantiae Sitae, Exactis Delineatio.[Mechelen]
A bird's-eye plan of Mechelen, costume figures at bottom right, engraved after a plan by Jacob van Deventer. TRANSLATION OF CARTOUCHE TEXT: Faithful view of the illustrio...
Date: Cologne, 1581
Selling price: $240
Sold in 2021
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Namurcum, Elegantissima ad Mosae Flume Civitas. [Namur]
A bird's-eye view plan of Namur by Braun and Hogenberg. CARTOUCHE: Namur, a very fair city on the River Meuse. COMMENTARY BY BRAUN: "The council for the whole county...
Date: Cologne, 1581
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2020
![Philippopolis vulgo Philippeville munitiss. comitat Hannoniae opp. [on sheet with]: Marieburgum [on sheet with]: Cimacum, comuniter Chimay, principatus titulo, in Han prestas opp [on sheet with]: Walcourt, haud ignobile comitatus Namurcensis oppidum.](/uploads/cache/84186-500x500.jpg)
Philippopolis vulgo Philippeville munitiss. comitat Hannoniae opp. [on sheet with]: Marieburgum [on sheet with]: Cimacum, comuniter Chimay, principatus titulo, in Han prestas opp [on sheet with]: Walcourt, haud ignobile comitatus Namurcensis oppidum.
Four bird's-eye views on one sheet: Philippeville, Mariembourg, Walcourt. The 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum', or the "Braun & Hogenberg", is a six-volume town a...
Date: Cologne, 1581
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2021
Mons, Hannonia Urbs PotenS & Ampla. . .
A bird's-eye view plan of Mons, by Georg Braun and Frans Hogenberg. From: 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum'. Liber tertius. Köln, G. Kempen, 1581-88. TRANSLATION OF CARTOUCHE T...
Date: Cologne, 1581
Selling price: $210
Sold in 2020
Tiena, Brabantiae Opp: ad amnem Geta, unde casei, qui inde nomen habent, magnus proventus, Estque hic templum S. Germani, Canonicorum Collegio, ornatum (Tienen)
Decorative early view of Tienen in Flemish Brabant in Flanders, Belgium.From Braun & Hogenberg's Civitatus Orbis Terrarum, the most important book of town plans and v...
Date: Cologne, 1581
Selling price: $130
Sold in 2020
Bruxella, Urbs Aulicorum Frequentia, Fontium Copia, Magnificentia Principalis Aulae ... (Brussels)
Bird's-eye view plan of Brussels by Braun and Hogenberg, with key to locations.TRANSLATION OF CARTOUCHE TEXT: Brussels is a very well-known city due to its large number o...
Date: Cologne, 1581
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2020
Anverpia, nobile in Brabantia oppidum, ... (Antwerp)
Bird's-eye view of Antwerp by Braun and Hogenberg.TRANSLATION OF CARTOUCHE TEXT: Antwerp is a well-built and noted trade city in Brabant, which attracts many Germans, Fre...
Date: Cologne, 1581
Selling price: $675
Sold in 2020
Leodium. (Luik or Liège)
Very desirable and early town-view of Liège, which shows the city with the Meuse flowing in its favorable location amongst gentle hills, sturdy trees and fertile fields....
Date: Cologne, 1581
Selling price: $330
Sold in 2020
Namurcum, Elegantissima ad Mosae Flume Civitas. (Namur)
Bird's-eye plan of Namur by Braun and Hogenberg.CARTOUCHE: Namur, a very fair city on the River Meuse.COMMENTARY BY BRAUN: "The council for the whole county is held ...
Date: Cologne, 1581
Selling price: $140
Sold in 2020
Lympurch. - Limburgum oppidum Galliae Belgicae, vulgo Lympurch, gallice, Lembor dr. .. (Limbourg)
Bird's-eye view of Limbourg by Braun and Hogenberg, with key to locations.The Civitates Orbis Terrarum, or the "Braun & Hogenberg", is a six-volume town atl...
Date: Cologne, 1581
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2020
Eigentliche Beschreibung der Schlacht zwischen den Staten und Spaniarden nitt weit von Namur gehaltten.
Representation of the battle of Gembloux, between the Spanish army under Don Juan de Austria and the Dutch troops. In the background the city of Namur. Verso with Latin t...
Date: Cologne, 1583
Selling price: $56
Sold in 2013
Siege on Antwerp - Ship bridge blown up.
Large anonymous engraving of a famous event on the 5th of April, 1585. On this day the ship bridge on the Schelde, build by the Duke of Parma, was blown up. However, by t...
Date: Cologne, 1586
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2021
TORNACUM (Tournai, Belgium).
A detailed antique copper engraved view of the second oldest city in Belgium with its fortifications in decorative color. The view is supplemented by three city coats of ...
Date: Cologne, 1588
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2021
Lier - Lira, elegans et amoenum Brabantiae Opp: adeo, Ut multorum huius tractus nobilium in ocio degentium, a curise turba, iundissimus sit recessus.
Antique copper engraved map - a bird's-eye view plan of Lier by Braun and Hogenberg. An attractive map of the Brabantine town, belonging to the diocese of Antwerp. The to...
Date: Cologne, 1588
Selling price: $160
Sold in 2021
Brugae Flandricarum Urbium Ornamentia.
The city of Bruges in western Flanders is shown in a plan-like bird's-eye view from a northwesterly direction, ringed by numerous windmills. At the center can be seen the...
Date: Cologne, ca 1588
Selling price: $490
Sold in 2020
Brugae, Flandricarum Urbium Ornamenta. (Brugge)
Very desirable and early town-plan of Brugge. "from a northwesterly direction, ringed by numerous windmills. At the center can be seen the market square with the clo...
Date: Cologne, 1590
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2014
![[Flandria - Belgium]](/uploads/cache/32530-500x500.jpg)
[Flandria - Belgium]
On recto an early wood block printed map (115x153mm.) of Flanders in present-day Belgium. On verso a tiny view of Gent.From a Latin text edition of his Geographia, that g...
Date: Basle, 1550-1590
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2013
De quator Nobilis Potentissimisq Belgicae Civitativus Antverpia, Mechlinia, Bruxella, Grandauo . . .
Early print showing a army position near the town of Dreux in France on 14 March 1590 during the French Wars of Bird's-eye view map of Brabant, showing Antwerp, Gent, Vil...
Date: Cologne, 1590
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2021
![Von dem Hertogthumb Braband. . . [Brabant]](/uploads/cache/32239-500x500.jpg)
Von dem Hertogthumb Braband. . . [Brabant]
On recto an early birds-eye view of Luik in Belgium.From a German text edition of his Geographia , that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge.
Date: Basle, 1550-1590
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2012
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Contrastung der Statt Löven. . . [Leuven]
On verso an early birds-eye view of Leuven and on recto a plan of Tongeren in Belgium, with a lettered key underneath.From a German text edition of his Geographia , that ...
Date: Basle, 1550-1590
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2012
Naues a Gandauo submissae obuias Antwerpiensium naues fugant.
Striking and highly detailed rare copper engraved panoramic view of the siege of Antwerp, Belgium. In the middle we see the pontoon bridge by the Duke of Parma, Alessandr...
Date: Antwerp, 1590
Selling price: $130
Sold in 2016
Episcopatus Leodiensis / Bisthumsg. Luttich Leuesche De Liege.
A very rare map of the area around Liege. Extends until Frankfurt, Namur and Antwerp. Engraved by Frans Hogenberg for an Atlas by Johannes Metellus!
Date: Cologne, ca 1590
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2018
Antverpia.
Prepared for Volume V of Braun & Hogenberg "Civitates Orbis Terrarum", which was first published in 1598. Two sheets joined, for a total dimension of 450mm ...
Date: Antwerp, circa 1590
Selling price: $495
Sold in 2017
Leodiensis Dioecesis Typus
Map of eastern Belgium region from Ortelius' Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. Shows the Meuse River and the cities located on the river, such as Namur, Liege and Maastricht. A be...
Date: Antwerp, 1592
Selling price: $165
Sold in 2010
Flandriae Comitatus Descripto.
Colorful map of Belgium focuses on Flanders, the Dutch speaking region in northern Belgium, after Gerard Mercator. Many major cities and religious centers, including Ghen...
Date: Amsterdam, 1595
Selling price: $800
Sold in 2010
Antwerpia
Siege of Antwerp and blockade of the river "Schelde" by the Duke of Parma, 1584-1585.Originally engraved by Frans Hogenberg. For this second edition the text un...
Date: Cologne, 1596
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2020
FLANDRIAE DESCRIPTIO.
A highly decorative and rare map of Flanders by Matthias Quad, published in the Cosmographia by Johann Rauw in 1597. On verso a woodcut plan of Brussels.
Date: Frankfurt, 1597
Selling price: $225
Sold in 2020
Nobilis Hanoniae Comitatus descrip.
Including part of Belgium and the northern part of France.Dare to go in Black. All early maps were printed in black and white, and many were kept that way for a long time...
Date: Antwerp, 1598
Selling price: $85
Sold in 2018
Flandriae Comitatus Descriptio.
Very fine map of Flanders, after Gerard Mercator's map of 1540. Dare to go in Black. All early maps were printed in black and white, and many were kept that way for a ...
Date: Anvers, 1598
Selling price: $240
Sold in 2018
Namurcum Comitatus.
Prepared by Jacques Surhon in 1555. His manuscript map was for security reason not published. Only in 1579, when Antwerp was independent for a short time, Ortelius used a...
Date: Antwerp, 1598
Leodiensis Diocesis Typus.
East to the top. Centered on Liege, including southern part of Dutch Limburg. Prepared by Jan van Schille.
Date: Antwerp 1598
Selling price: $540
Sold in 2009
Namurcum Comitatus.
Prepared by Jacques Surhon in 1555. His manuscript map was for security reason not published. Only in 1579, when Antwerp was independent for a short time, Ortelius used a...
Date: Antwerp 1598
Selling price: $525
Sold in 2009