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Britannicarum Insularum Vetus Descriptio.
Scarce. The upper sheet of a two-sheet map which was issued with the Parergon 1590 and repeated only in the Parergon 1591 and Theatrum 1592 (as present). According to Mar...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1592
Selling price: $390
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Scotiae Tabula.
From the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1592.A fine general map of Scotland with north to the right of the page.Ortelius derived this map from Mercator's 1564 map of the Britis...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1592
Selling price: $750
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Scotiae Tabula.
Scarce map of Scotland based on Ortelius. North orientated to the right. Very detailed with many place names. Decorated with sailings ships, a fox holding dividers above ...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1592
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2011
Angliae Regni Florentissimi Nova Descriptio, Auctore Humfredo Lhuyd Denbygiense. 1573.
Attractive map of England and Wales compiled from Mercator's 1564 wall map of the British Isles and Lhuyd's manuscript map of 1568. The countryside is fully engraved with...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1592
Selling price: $750
Sold in 2012
ANGLIAE, SCOTIAE ET HIBERNIAE, SIVE BRITANNICAR: INSVLARVM DESCRIPTIO.
A beautiful map of the British Isles, north to the right. The map is based on Mercator's earlier map of the British Isles of 1564. Title in strapwork cartouche at top rig...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1592
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2016
Angliae, Scotiae et Hibernie Nova Descriptio.
Rare map of the British Isles in original color from De Jode's Speculum orbis terrae. Oriented with West at the top. The map was based on Mercator's wall map from 1554. G...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1593
Selling price: $2600
Sold in 2009
Angliae, Scotiae et Hibernie Nova Descriptio.
Rare map of the British Isles in original color from De Jode's Speculum orbis terrae. Oriented with West at the top. The map was based on Mercator's wall map from 1554. G...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1593
Selling price: $2600
Sold in 2010
Oxonium nobile Anglie oppidum...
A decorative view of Oxford, from Braun & Hogenberg's "Civitatus Orbis Theatrum", the most famous atlas of city views published in the 16th Century. A fine ...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1593
Selling price: $170
Sold in 2017
Ultoniae Orientalis Par.
Decorative map of the Ulster Region.From the first edition of Mercator's Atlas, published in 1595. The map features an ornate title cartouche with a scale below. The map...
Place & Date: Duisberg, 1595
Selling price: $600
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Irlandia Regnum.
Striking map of Ireland, with north oriented to the right and featuring a splendid ribbon style title banner cartouche. Fully engraved with topographical features and a s...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1595
Selling price: $265
Sold in 2017
Angliae Regni flo: rentissimi nova descriptio, auctore Humfredo Lhuyd Cum Privilego.
Map by Humphrey Lloyd, Denbigh with coast shaded sea borders, rivers, hillocks, forests and towns. Published by Abraham Ortelius. The map presents an interesting picture ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1595
Selling price: $800
Sold in 2016
Cambriae Typus Auctore Humfredo Lhuydo Denbigiense Cambrobritano.
A beautiful hand colored copper-engraved map of Wales. It is the first separately printed map of Wales, by Humphrey Lhuyd. This is the second variant of the Ortelius publ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, ca 1595
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2019
Anglia regnum.
A finely engraved map of England published during the last years of the reign of Elizabeth I, filled with names taken from the earlier Christopher Saxton map of 1579. Wit...
Place & Date: Duisburg, ca 1595
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2023
Beschrivinge der zeecusten van de Züijtsijde ende de Oos t-sijde van Irlandt. . . .
A detailed chart of the coast of the western side of Ireland. Decorated by a title cartouche and scale cartouche, four compass roses, several vessels and sea monsters, an...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, C.Claes, 1596
Selling price: $10000
Sold in 2008
Hiberniae Britannicae insulae nova descriptio.
Copied from Mercator's influential wall map of the British Isles of 1564, this is certainly the best map of Ireland of the 16th century.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1598
Selling price: $1450
Sold in 2009
Palatium Regium in Angliæ Regno Appelatum Nonciutz. . .
This engraving is a view of Nonsuch Palace, with carriages and deer hunting, a panel of female costume figures below. Latin text verso, dated in the plate 1582. The scene...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1598
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2016
Hiberniae Britannicae insulae nova descriptio.
Copied from Mercator's influential wall map of the British Isles of 1564, this is certainly the best map of Ireland of the 16th century.Dare to go in Black. All early map...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1598
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2018
Cambriae Typus.
Ancient map of Wales, prepared by Humphrey Lhuyd. With fine cartouche, part of a compass-rose and a sea monster.Dare to go in Black. All early maps are printed in black a...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1598
Selling price: $280
Sold in 2018
Scotiae tabula.
Fine general map of Scotland with north to right of page. Derived from Mercator's 1564 map of the British Isles in 8 sheets.Dare to go in Black. All early maps are printe...
Place & Date: Anwerp, 1598
Selling price: $375
Sold in 2018
Palatium Regium in Angliæ Regno Appelatum Nonciutz. . .
This fine engraving is a view of Nonsuch Palace, with carriages and deer hunting, a panel of female costume figures below. Latin text verso, dated in the plate 1582. The ...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1598
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2019
Cantuarbury.
A beautifully rendered and decorative bird's-eye view of the famous English town of Canterbury. The plan identifies important sites and contains four coats-of-arms along ...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1599
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2017
Yorke - Shrowesbury - Lancaster - Richmont.
Four city plans by Braun & Hogenberg on one sheet : Plans of York, Shrewsbury and Lancashire and a view of the castle of Richmond.On each side of the four views are ...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1599
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2017
Londen oder Lunden (Londinum Feracis: Ang. Met.).
Superb bird's-eye view of London based on the Braun & Hogenberg view. Shows the area between Clerkenwell, Wapping, Southwark and Westminster Abbey. Elizabethan costum...
Place & Date: Basle, c1600
Selling price: $650
Sold in 2013
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Anglia, Regnum si quod aliud in toto Oceano ditissimuin et florentissimum. [imprints] Christophorus Saxton describedat, J.le Clerc ex.
Rare map of England, with elaborate title cartouche, and Royal coat-of-arms A close copy of the Saxton (c.1543-1610) / Ortelius map of 1603, however slightly smaller. Acc...
Place & Date: Paris, 1602
Selling price: $1850
Sold in 2009
Die Stat und Vestung Kynsael.. Ihrlandt welchs vbr die dreissig Jahr der Cron England zu wider war. . .
Showing siege of Kinsale on 8 January 1602, when the Spanish forces surrender to the English. The Battle of Kinsale was a decisive turning point in Irish history, bringin...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1602
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2012
Anglia Regnum si quod aliud in toto Oceano ditissimum et florentissimum.
Rare England map by Ortelius. Latin text on verso.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1603
Selling price: $1250
Sold in 2009
Anglia.
Miniature map of England and Wales from Ortelius-Coignet atlas published by Hulsius in Frankfurt after Abraham Ortelius. The title is contained in a strapwork cartouche.I...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1604
Selling price: $410
Sold in 2014
Warwicum Northamtonia Huntingdonia Cantabrigia..
A map of the south-eastern part of England.Mercator was born in Rupelmonde in Flanders and studied in Louvain under Gemma Frisius, Dutch writer, astronomer and mathematic...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1606
Selling price: $140
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Eboracum, Lincolnia, Derbia, Staffordia, Notinghamia..
Map of the eastern part of England from about Middlesbrough to Yarmouth, inland to include Coventry, Nottingham, Sheffield, Leeds, and York.Mercator was born in Rupelmond...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1606
Selling price: $110
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West Morlandia, Lancastria..
A map of the north-western part of England, including the Island of Man.Mercator was born in Rupelmonde in Flanders and studied in Louvain under Gemma Frisius, Dutch writ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1606
Selling price: $110
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Northumbria, Cumberlandia et Dunelmensis Episcopatus.
A map of the most northern part of England.Mercator was born in Rupelmonde in Flanders and studied in Louvain under Gemma Frisius, Dutch writer, astronomer and mathematic...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1606
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2015
Anglia regnum.
Counties are shown in outline and named. The coast of Ireland is shown across the Irish Sea.Mercator was born in Rupelmonde in Flanders and studied in Louvain under Gemma...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1606
Selling price: $300
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Irlandiae Regnum.
Two fine and early separate maps of southern and northern part of Ireland, can be joined.Mercator was born in Rupelmonde in Flanders and studied in Louvain under Gemma Fr...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1606
Selling price: $420
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Anglia regnum.
Counties are shown in outline and named. The coast of Ireland is shown across the Irish Sea.Mercator was born in Rupelmonde in Flanders and studied in Louvain under Gemma...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1606
Selling price: $250
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Eboracum, Lincolnia, Derbia, Staffordia, etc.
Map of the eastern part of England from about Middlesbrough to Yarmouth, inland to include Coventry, Nottingham, Sheffield, Leeds, and York.Mercator was born in Rupelmond...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $170
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Anglia Regnum.
A map of England from the Mercator's Atlas III. 1606 latin edition.A finely engraved map of Elizabethan England filled with names taken from the Saxton map of 1579. Merca...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2015
Hibernia.
An attractive miniature map of the island of Ireland, published by Petrus Bertius, in Amsterdam at the beginning of the seventeenth century.Ireland is seen 'lying on its ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $105
Sold in 2019
Scotia.
An attractive miniature map of Scotland, published by Petrus Bertius, in Amsterdam at the beginning of the seventeenth century.Scotland is seen 'lying on its back' , as n...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $75
Sold in 2020
Anglia.
An attractive miniature map of Anglia (England & Wales), published by Petrus Bertius, in Amsterdam at the beginning of the seventeenth century.Anglia is seen 'lying o...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2020
Cornub Devonia Somerset etc. ANGLIAE IIII TABULA.
Mercators map of Southwest England and South Wales. Decorated with a small strapwork title cartouche ‘Cornub. Devonia. Somerset etc.’From the Latin text edition of Jo...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1607
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2014
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[Pict warrior holding a head].
A marvellous print by de Bry of a Pict (Celtic / Scottish) warrior holding the head (dripping blood) of a defeated opponent. His nude body is stained and painted, much li...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1607
Selling price: $275
Sold in 2017
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[An accurate picture of a male neighbour of a Pict].
The male neighbours of the Picts wore cloth cassocks or jerkins. They grew their hair and moustaches long but shaved their chins. Around their waists they had girdles fro...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1607
Selling price: $275
Sold in 2017
NOTINGAMIAE Comitatus olim pars Coritanorum.
1607 first edition Latin text verso. A very attractive and detailed early 17th Century map of Nottinghamshire - based on the first survey of England by Christopher Saxton...
Place & Date: London, 1607
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2020
(Title page) Britannia.
Very attractive and decorative early 17th century frontispiece from Camden's Britannia.Below the title, a map of Britain, inscribed with the Latin names places and tribes...
Place & Date: London, W.Hole, ca. 1607
Selling price: $305
Sold in 2017
(Irlandiae Regnum - Northern part of Ireland)
Expertly engraved map of Ireland, being the top sheet of Mercator's two-sheet map of Ireland, including sailing ships and a sea monster. From an early edition of Mercator...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1607-1608
Selling price: $275
Sold in 2020
Scotia.
Map of the Scotland from the first French-text edition of Jodocus Hondius'' Atlas Minor.Shortly after the publication of the big folio-atlases the need was apparently fel...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1608
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2008
Scotiae Tabula. III.
Map depicting the northern part of Scotland. From the first French-text edition of Jodocus Hondius'' Atlas Minor.Shortly after the publication of the big folio-atlases th...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1608
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2008
Eboracum Lincolnia Derbia, Stafford, etc.
Charming map of eastern England with a strap work title cartouche. From the first French-text edition of Jodocus Hondius'' Atlas Minor.Shortly after the publication of th...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1608
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2009
West:morland, Castria, Cestria etc.
Showing the north-western part of England, including the Island of Man, Liverpool, Blackpool, etc.From the first French-text edition of Jodocus Hondius'' Atlas Minor.Shor...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1608
Selling price: $90
Sold in 2020
Cornub. Devonia, Somerset etc.
Nice map Southwest England and South Wales. Decorated with a small strapwork title cartouche.From the first French-text edition of Jodocus Hondius'' Atlas Minor.Shortly a...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1608
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2012
Irlandia.
Map of the Ireland from the first French-text edition of Jodocus Hondius' Atlas Minor. Oriented with West on top.Shortly after the publication of the big folio-atlases th...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1608
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2018
Ultonia Conatia et Media.
Map of Northern Ireland from the first French-text edition of Jodocus Hondius' Atlas Minor.Shortly after the publication of the big folio-atlases the need was apparently ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1608
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2017
Hiberniae V. Tabula.
Map depicting the southern part of Ireland, extending northwards as far as Galway Bay in the west and Wicklow in the East.From the first French-text edition of Jodocus Ho...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1608
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2013
Scotiae Tabula. II.
Map depicting the southern part of Scotland. From the first French-text edition of Jodocus Hondius' Atlas Minor.Shortly after the publication of the big folio-atlases the...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1608
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2012
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[Londinum/Londres]
Nice rare woodcut view of London on a full text sheet. From \"Parvum Theatrum Urbium sive Urbium Praecipuarum totius orbis Brevis & Methodica Descriptio\" b...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1608
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2008
Anglia Sco:tia et Hibernia.
Map of the British Isles from the first French-text edition of Jodocus Hondius' Atlas Minor.Shortly after the publication of the big folio-atlases the need was apparently...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1608
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2016
Britannicarum Insularum Typus.
Decorative and rare map of the British Isles in Roman times. Based on information from Mercator's 1564 map of the British Isles, improved by a new outline from Saxton's 1...
Place & Date: Antwerp, ca. 1608
Selling price: $255
Sold in 2016
Hiberniae Britanicae Insulae Nova Descriptio Eryn Irlandt.
Published in Cologne by J. Bussemacher from 'Geographisch Handtbuch' based upon Mercator's map of the British Isles from 1564.Matthias Quad (1557-1613), was a map publish...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1608
Selling price: $700
Sold in 2018
Angliae et Hiberniae.
A rare early map of England and Ireland (and part of Scotland) in perfect condition. Full title in a small cartouche middle top: 'ANGLIAE ET HIBERNIAE | ACCVRATA DESCRIPT...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1608
Selling price: $1800
Sold in 2020
Hibernia.
Miniature map of Ireland with major cities named. North is oriented to the right of the map. Sea is stipple engraved. Strapwork title cartouche at upper right. Latin text...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1609
Selling price: $100
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Scotia.
A miniature map of Scotland. Fine cartouche.First published in 1598 in his Caert-Thresoor, the plates were executed by the most famous engravers in Amsterdam, including P...
Place & Date: Amsterdam/Frankfurt 1609
Selling price: $80
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Hibernia.
Miniature map of Ireland with major cities named. North is oriented to the right of the map. Sea is stipple engraved. Strap work title cartouche at upper right. Latin tex...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1609
Selling price: $125
Sold in 2017
Angliae et Hiberniae Accurata Decriptio. . .
One of the most decorative and rare maps of Great Britain and Ireland by Jan Baptist Vrients (1552-1612) in original color. The map first appeared in 1606, and this is st...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1609
Selling price: $2700
Sold in 2020
Brittanicarum Insularum Typus. 1595.
A map of Roman Britain based on information from Mercator's 1564 map of the British Isles, improved by a new outline from Saxton's 1579 map, and ancient knowledge from Di...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1609
Selling price: $415
Sold in 2021
Irlandiae regnum.
One of the earliest maps of Ireland.
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1610
Selling price: $1200
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Northumbria, cum Berlandia, et Dunelmensis Episcopatus.
A lovely early map of border region between England and Scotland. The seas are engraved in Mercator's characteristic wave pattern and the interior is filled with detail. ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1610
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2010
Hiberniae Ireland Anglis Yuerdon Britannis Erin incolis Ierna Orpheo & Arist. Iris Diodoro Siculo Juverna Juvenali Joyernia Ptol.Christopher Saxton & William Hole
One of the earliest obtainable maps of Ireland. Oriented with West at the top. Highly detailed.This map of Ireland is derived from Baptista Boazio's map of Ireland dating...
Place & Date: London, 1610
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2013
Stonehenge.
Stonehenge from 1610 edition of Camden’s Britannia. Attributed to William Kip One of the most important engravings in the 1610 edition is this splendid one of Stoneheng...
Place & Date: London, 1610
Selling price: $210
Sold in 2012
Irlandiae regnum. (2-sheets)
A early and large scale, two-sheet map of Ireland, which can be joined.The maps are richly engraved with a moiré pattern in the seas and strong topographical features in...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1610
Selling price: $800
Sold in 2016
Irlandiae Regnum.
Gerard Mercator's map of Ireland from the Mercator Hondius atlas with Latin text printed on the back. A fine, early map of Ireland with west at the top of the map. This i...
Place & Date: Duisberg, Amsterdam, 1587-1610
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2015
Lincolniae Comitatus Ubi Olim Insederunt Coritani.
A fine copper engraved map by William Kip, after Christopher Saxton. A map of Lincolnshire from the second edition of Philemon Holland’s translation of Camden’s Brit...
Place & Date: London, 1610
Selling price: $22
Sold in 2016
SCOTIA REGNUM
Second state map of Scotland 'SCOTIA REGNUM' By William Hole based on Christopher Saxton’s map of 1579, signed in the plate.A very attractive and decorative early 17th ...
Place & Date: London, 1610
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2016
Caermarden, Both Shyre And Towne Described.
This is probably the most decorative map of Caermarden county. It has an inset plan of Caermarthen, two cartouches with armorials, wonderful compass rose and the Prince ...
Place & Date: London, 1610
Selling price: $270
Sold in 2017
The Countie of Nottingham described. The Shire Townes Situation and the Earls there of observed.
From Speed's atlas, engraved by Jodocus Hondius. With inset plan of Nottingham. Huge, beautiful cartouche featuring putti with bow & arrows, pheasants, crown and co...
Place & Date: London, Thomas Bassett and Richard Chiswell, 1610
Selling price: $289
Sold in 2015
The Kingdome of England
The most famous and iconic map of England in the Stuart period. Rare first state of the map. Handsome copper engraved map from Speed's "Theatre of the Empire of Grea...
Place & Date: London, 1610
Selling price: $561
Sold in 2015
Radnor Comitatus quem Silvres.
A decorative map of the Welsh county of Radnorshire, in Mid-Wales, engraved by William Kip, after Christopher Saxton, for the second English edition of Camden's 'Britanni...
Place & Date: London, 1610
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2017
Radnor Comitatus Quem Silvres.
A decorative map of the Welsh county of Radnorshire, in Mid-Wales, engraved by William Kip, after Christopher Saxton, for the second English edition of Camden's 'Britanni...
Place & Date: London, 1610
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2018
Caermardt Comitatus in Quo Dimetae.
A decorative map of the Welsh county of Caermarthen, in Wales, engraved by William Kip, after Christopher Saxton, for the second English edition of Camden's 'Britannia', ...
Place & Date: London, 1610
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2017
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