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Anglia Fo CCLXXXVIIII (Town in England)
Text page in latin on recto a hill-side city in England with a series of gates leading up to a citadel. It is one of two woodcuts used for England in the work. On the rer...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2017
Anglia / Hispania. Fo CCLXXXVIIII.
Text page in Latin on recto a hill-side city in England with a series of gates leading up to a citadel. It is one of two woodcuts used for England in the work. On the ver...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $325
Sold in 2017
Cantebrigia...
A sought after and highly decorative early bird's-eye plan of the ancient university town of Cambridge. From Braun & Hogenberg's monumental work, CIVITATES ORBIS TERR...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca. 1575
Selling price: $1050
Sold in 2008
Londinium Feracissmi Angliae Regni Metropolis.
Very desirable and early plan of London - in a second state - shown from the Tower to Westminster, with the City already built-up and a ribbon development westwards along...
Place & Date: Cologne, (1572) 1577
Selling price: $5400
Sold in 2013
Londinum Feracissimi Angliae Regni Metropolis.
Very desirable and early plan of London - in a second state - shown from the Tower to Westminster, with the City already built-up and a ribbon development westwards along...
Place & Date: Cologne, (1572) 1577
Selling price: $4900
Sold in 2018
Londinum Feracissimi Angliae Regni Metropolis.
Very desirable and early plan of London - in a second state - shown from the Tower to Westminster, with the City already built-up and a ribbon development westwards along...
Place & Date: Cologne, (1572) 1577
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[Edinburgh]
Early panoramic view of Edinburgh. From his Cosmographia, that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge. An exciting print.Sebastian Münster was born in Nierder-Ingelhe...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1580
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2009
Yorke/ Shrowesbury/ Lancester/ Richmont.
Four views bring city plans of York, Shrewsbury and Lancashire and a view of the castle of Richmond. On each side of the four views are four figures in historical dress: ...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1580
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2016
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, 1580
Selling price: $70
Sold in 2019
Londinum Feracissimi Angliae Regni Metropolis.
A very desirable and early plan of London, shown from the Tower to Westminster, with the City already built-up and a ribbon development westwards along the Strand. On the...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1580
Selling price: $5000
Sold in 2021
Londinum Feracissimi Angliae Regni Metropolis.
Important, early bird's-eye view of London, which appeared in the first Volume of Civitates Orbis Terrarum by Braun & Hogenberg.The view is based on a previous 15-she...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca 1580
Selling price: $4190
Sold in 2019
Cestria vulgo Chester, Angliae Civitas.
A stunning town plan of the northern city of Chester, with heraldic shields, Royal and civic coats of arms, explanation table, dividers and Elizabethan figures in the for...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca 1582
Selling price: $235
Sold in 2018
Cestria Vulgo Chester, Angliae Civitas
This desirable, highly decorative depiction presents the city of Chester on the banks of the River Dea. Based on the survey of William Smith, the bird's-eye plan shows th...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca. 1588
Selling price: $850
Sold in 2008
EDENBURG / EDENBURGUM, SCOTIAE METROPOLIS 1588
From an engraving in Ralph Holished’s Chronicles [1574], the Scottish Capital of Edinburgh during the reign of Mary Queen of Scots. Viewed from the South, it includes t...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1588
Selling price: $900
Sold in 2012
Oxonium nobile Anglie oppidum...; Vindesorium celeberrimum Anglie castrum... 1588
Decorative pair view of Oxford and view of Windsor Castle, from Braun & Hogenberg's "Civitatus Orbis Theatrum", the most famous atlas of city views publishe...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1588
Selling price: $650
Sold in 2012
Cantuarbury.
A detailed city map in a 'bird's-eye view' of Canterbury, in original hand coloring, with the cathedral. Title at top centre, with left the crowned coat of arms of Englan...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1588
Selling price: $475
Sold in 2020
Cantuarbury.
A spectacular and early view of Canterbury.From the greatest publication in this genre! The Civitates was compiled and written by George Braun, Canon of Cologne Cathedral...
Place & Date: Cologne 1590
Selling price: $550
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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
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
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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[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
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
London oder Lunden die Haupestatt in Engellande …
This bird’s-eye view of London derived from the Braun & Hogenberg map, only appeared in the later editions of Munster’s the Cosmographia. It shows the area betwee...
Place & Date: Basel, 1614
Denbighshire.
A highly decorative map of the county of Denbighshire, located in the northwest corner of Wale from the uncommon and early Latin edition. The upper right corner inset con...
Place & Date: London, 1616
Selling price: $130
Sold in 2018
Oxonium - Vindesorium
Oxford and Windsor Castle, by Georg Braun and Frans Hogenberg, after design by G. Hoefnagel.Titles at top centre on both views: 'Oxonium Nobile Anglie Oppidum ... ' / Vin...
Place & Date: ca. 1620
Selling price: $475
Sold in 2022
Elisabet D. G. Angliae, Franciae, Et Hiberniae, Regina, Fid. Chr. Prop.
The engraving depicts a half length oval portrait of Elisabeth I.Nicolaes de Clerck (de Klerc) was active as engraver and publisher in Delft from 1599-1621.Included in th...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cloppenburch, 1621
Selling price: $80
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Maria D. G. Angliae Franciae Et Hiberniae Regina.
The engraving depicts a half length oval portrait of Mary Tudor.Nicolaes de Clerck (de Klerc) was active as engraver and publisher in Delft from 1599-1621.Included in the...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cloppenburch, 1621
Selling price: $10
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Henricus VII D.G. Angliae Franciae Et Hiberniae Rex.
The engraving depicts a half length oval portrait of Henry VII.Nicolaes de Clerck (de Klerc) was active as engraver and publisher in Delft from 1599-1621.Included in the ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cloppenburch, 1621
Selling price: $10
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Henricus VIII D.G. Angliae Franciae Et Hiberniae Rex.
The engraving depicts a half length oval portrait of Henry VIII.Nicolaes de Clerck (de Klerc) was active as engraver and publisher in Delft from 1599-1621.Included in the...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cloppenburch, 1621
Selling price: $45
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Iacobus I. D. G. Magnae-Brittanniae, Franciae Et Hiberniae Rex. Def. Fid.
The engraving depicts a half length oval portrait of James I of England.Nicolaes de Clerck (de Klerc) was active as engraver and publisher in Delft from 1599-1621.Include...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cloppenburch, 1621
Selling price: $32
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Iacobus I. D. G. Magnae-Brittanniae, Franciae Et Hiberniae Rex. Def. Fid.
The engraving depicts a half length oval portrait of James VI and I (1566 – 1625) was King of Scotland as James VI, and King of England and King of Ireland as James I. ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cloppenburch, 1621
Selling price: $45
Sold in 2016
Maria D. G. Angliae Franciae Et Hiberniae Regina.
The engraving depicts a half length oval portrait of Mary I (1516 – 1558), Queen of England, unpleasantly remembered as "the Bloody Mary" on account of the re...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cloppenburch, 1621
Selling price: $35
Sold in 2016
Henricus VII D.G. Angliae Franciae Et Hiberniae Rex.
The engraving depicts a half length oval portrait of Henry VII, known before accession as Henry Tudor, 2nd Earl of Richmond (1457 – 1509), was King of England after sei...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cloppenburch, 1621
Selling price: $10
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Henricus VIII D.G. Angliae Franciae Et Hiberniae Rex.
The engraving depicts a half length oval portrait of Henry VIII (1491 – 1547) was King of England from 21 April 1509 until his death. He was the first English King of I...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cloppenburch, 1621
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2016
Brightstowe in Engelland (Bristol)
An attractive and unusual , from Daniel Meisner's 'Sciagraphica Cosmica'. Copper engraved print, showing a bird's-eye view of Bristol, with its castle, within the city wa...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, ca. 1630
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2011
London
A panoramic, early view of London before the fire 1666, it has a key noting 43 places within the City. This large view extends from the King's Palace at Whitehall to the ...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1638
Selling price: $1350
Sold in 2016
London.
A panoramic, early view of London before the fire of 1666, it has a key noting 43 places within the City. This large view extends from the King's Palace at Whitehall to ...
Place & Date: Frankfurt a. M., 1638
Selling price: $1090
Sold in 2019
Edynburgum.
From Merian's "Topographia," a beautifully presented panoramic view of Edinburgh in the mid 17th century. Edinburgh Castle is shown in the left portion of the p...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, ca. 1640
Selling price: $400
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Edynburgum
A beautifully rendered 17th century view of Edinburgh. Provides excellent detail, with many of the town's key sites visible. The Scottish coat of arms is shown in the upp...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1650
Selling price: $475
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Brightstowe.
An very attractive town plan of Bristol with in the upper right corner coat of arms. Lower left a key to the principal buildings of the city.Brightstowe (meaning pleasant...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1650
Selling price: $400
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Edynburgum.
Detailed bird's-eye view of the town of Edenburg. From Merian's Theatrum Europaeum.
Place & Date: Frankfurt 1650
Selling price: $300
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Lvnden [London]
Decorative panoramic view London. With extensive shipping in river Themes. Very decorative and of the highest standing of engraving.
Place & Date: Frankfurt 1650
Selling price: $160
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Herfordiensis Ecclesiae Cathedralis Ab Aquilone Prospectus.
Striking copper engraving of Herford Cathedral by Wenceslaus Hollar. It was created in about 1650 for Sir. W. Dugdale of England for his well known book featuring British...
Place & Date: London, c1650
Selling price: $69
Sold in 2015
Oxforde.
Superbly detailed plan of Oxford with hundreds of tiny buildings, numerous fields, and rivers. With 48 places, streets, bridges, churches, and colleges identified through...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, c1650
Selling price: $185
Sold in 2015
London.
A beautifully engraved panorama of London during the reign of James I which was based on an earlier Visscher engraving published in 1616.Merian's panorama shows London fi...
Place & Date: London, 1650
Selling price: $2800
Sold in 2019
The North Prospect of ye Conuentuall Church of Christ in Oxford.
Hand-colored copper engraving of the Church of Christ in Oxford from Daniel King's "The Cathedrall & Conventuall Churches of England". King was a friend an...
Place & Date: London, 1656
Selling price: $15
Sold in 2015
Cantebrigia, Opulentissimi Angliae Regni . . .
A sought after and highly decorative early bird's-eye plan of the ancient university town of Cambridge.The plan originally appeared in Braun & Hogenberg's Civitates O...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1657
Selling price: $1250
Sold in 2013
Nordoviaim.....
The English city of Norwich in the county of Norfolk is shown here from the north-west. The cathedral church "called Christes" is immediately identifiable withi...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1657
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2014
London.
Very rare woodcut birds-eye view of London during the early 17th century. Shows numerous buildings and ships! From Saur's important work "Stätte-Buch.....
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1658
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2009
London. Londinum celeberrimum Angliae Emporium.
A rare panoramic view of London with over the whole length of the lower part 3 columns of poems in Latin, Dutch and French and a numbered key 1-43 to the principal buildi...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1660
Selling price: $3100
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Burtoniensis ecclesiae, (in agro Staffordiensi)
A very decorative copper engraving of Burton-upon-Trent, England, engraved by Hollar, from Dugdale's book, published in London in 1661. Decorated with three beautiful car...
Place & Date: London, 1661
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2016
Londinum London.
A delightful and attractive small 17th century 'bird's-eye plan of London, by Rutger Hermannides; from his Britannia Magna sive Angliae, Scotiae, Hiberniae & Adjacent...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1661
Selling price: $160
Sold in 2022
Endhauptung deß Königs in Engelandt Ano 1649.
A fine copperplate engraving, unnamed from Theatrum Europaeum, Volume 6, printed by Daniel Fievet, Frankfurt 1663.King Charles I King of England, Scotland and Ireland who...
Place & Date: Frankfurt,1663
Selling price: $260
Sold in 2011
Abbildung der Statt und Revier von Rochester, Chetham...
Two views of the Dutch raid on the Medway in June 1667 during the Second Anglo-Dutch War, published in Merian's monumental Theatrum Europaeum. The scenes are drawn in gr...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, ca. 1670
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2022
LONDON BEFORE THE FIRE IN 1666
A rare, sought after 17th century plan of London prior to the Great Fire. The work is beautifully engraved and elaborately decorated with the arms of major London merchan...
Place & Date: London, ca. 1673
Selling price: $930
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London.
An attractive early map of pre-fire London , decorated with the coats of arms of the City of London, fifteen of the great Livery and Merchant Companies, and those of Sir ...
Place & Date: London, 1673
Selling price: $700
Sold in 2013
London before the Fire in 1666 / Plan de Londres tel quil Etoi avant L'incendie de 1666 Gravé par Hollar.
A rare 17th century plan of London. Richly decorated with the arms of some 16 London merchant houses. Three legend keys identify 69 points of interest on the map. The Tha...
Place & Date: London, ca. 1673
Selling price: $375
Sold in 2017
Collegium Orlielence (Oriel College)
From ”Oxonia Illustrata”, the first illustrated book on Oxford, and one of the major works of the 17th century.The book was the product of several years of devoted an...
Place & Date: Oxford, 1675
Selling price: $27
Sold in 2019
Nova & Accuratissima Celeberrimae Universitatis Civitatisque Oxoniensis Scenographia.
The most prominent historical map of Oxford by David Loggan (1634 - 1692), and has the added cache of having been printed in that city, drafted by a local resident. The m...
Place & Date: Oxford, 1675
Selling price: $1300
Sold in 2017
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Nonclutz. [Hampton Court near London]
A very nice depiction of Hampton Court castle near London. In the foreground a pelican, a doe, a rabbit, a fox and a wild cat. With a verse in two languages underneath th...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1623-1678
Selling price: $105
Sold in 2011
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Vindesor in Engellandt [Windsor castle near London]
A very nice depiction of Windsor Castle near London. In the foreground a shepherd and a court guard. With a verse in two languages underneath the picture. The poet and ...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1623-1678
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2011
(2 Engravings) Achievements of Baronets & Achievements of Esquires.
Two stunning, hand-colored, copper engravings from Guillim's Heraldry which include the following names: VYNER, WOLSTENHOLME, GLEANE, IASON, BROUNCKER, VERNON, CUDMORE AN...
Place & Date: London, 1679
Selling price: $56
Sold in 2017
Four full portraits of English Noblemen.
Engravings of James Duke of York and Albany, Charles the second, Anthony Earl of Shaftsbury, - Portrait of Sir William de la More, full-length, standing to the right, in ...
Place & Date: London, ca. 1679
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2016
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Abbildüng der Statt LONDON, sambt dem erschröcklichen brandt [?] A° 1666 ..
Decorative view of London, showing the great fire of 1666. Very decorative and of the highest standing of engraving.
Place & Date: Frankfurt 1680
Selling price: $600
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Gründtriss der Statt LONDON, wie folche vor und nach dem Brand anzüseher s..
Decorative plan of London. With inset map showing the future design after the great fire. Very decorative and of the highest standing of engraving.
Place & Date: Frankfurt 1680
Selling price: $500
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(Two maps) Isle d\'Albion.
Finely etched map of the British Isles (figure II and Figure III.) From the French text edition of Description d'Univers.. , published in 5 volumes in 1683 by Allain Mann...
Place & Date: Paris, 1683
Selling price: $17
Sold in 2015
Londres. (View of London)
A charming panoramic view of London. Title in curtain draped at top. French text on verso.From the original 1683 text edition of "Description d'Univers. . ." by...
Place & Date: Paris, 1683
Selling price: $85
Sold in 2020
Ch. De Withal. (Withal Castle)
A charming view of While Hall and a scene on the River Thames. Title in curtain draped at top. French text on verso.From the original 1683 text edition of "Descripti...
Place & Date: Paris, 1683
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2022
Westminster-Hall . Westminster.
Two charming views of Westminster, one from the main square and one from across the Thames.Title in curtain draped at top. French text on verso.From the original 1683 tex...
Place & Date: Paris, 1683
Selling price: $45
Sold in 2022
La tour de Londres. Profil de la Tour de Londres (The tower of London. Profile of the Tower of London)
Two charming views of The tower of London and a profile of the Tower of London seen from the River Thames.Title in curtain draped at top. French text on verso.From the or...
Place & Date: Paris, 1683
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2022
Bourse de Londres. (London Stock Exchange)
A charming view of the London Stock Exchange. Title in curtain draped at top. French text on verso.From the original 1683 text edition of "Description d'Univers. . ....
Place & Date: Paris, 1683
Selling price: $75
Sold in 2022
Der König Krönung Actus Wilhelmini III und Mariae in England zu Londen.
Engraved by M. Merian, from "Theatrum Europaeum".
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1690
Selling price: $65
Sold in 2013
Londres Ville Capital du Royaume d'Angleterre. . .
A very decorative and extremely raretown-viewof London, including a numbered key ( 1- 7) in lower part. Engraved by Pierre-Alexandre Aveline. With "fait par Aveline ...
Place & Date: Paris, ca.1692
Selling price: $600
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The Prospect of the Abby of Dumeermling.
Hand-colored, topographical engraving by John Slezer from "THEATRUM SCOTIAE", published in Scotland in 1693. This publication contained the prospects of their m...
Place & Date: Edinburgh, 1693
Selling price: $17
Sold in 2018
The Coast of Lothian from Stony Hill.
Hand-colored, topographical engraving by John Slezer from "THEATRUM SCOTIAE", published in Scotland in 1693. This publication contained the prospects of their m...
Place & Date: Edinburgh, 1693
Selling price: $47
Sold in 2019
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Urbis Edinae Facies Meridionalis Septentrionale. [ Edinburgh]
Two engraved panoramic views on one double-page engraved map sheet, key below each view. The town seen from the north and south. Title in Latin and English. Rare early vi...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1694
Selling price: $1500
Sold in 2009
LONDEN WESTMUNSTER U SOUDWARK
A very finely engraved view of London as seen at the start of the 18th century. The work's title is presented in two ribbons at the top portion of the engraving. Two comp...
Place & Date: Germany, c. 1700
Selling price: $680
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