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Sexta etas Mudi. Metis. [Metz] Folio CX.

A imaginary view of Metz: however the earliest obtainable view of this period. Shows in upper left a castle and to the right the cathedral depicted as a mosque. It includ...

$200 / ≈ €187
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2017

 


Tolosa. Folio LXXI (Toulouse)

Panoramic view of Toulouse. A imaginary view: however the earliest obtainable view of this period.Page from the richest illustrated Incunable, the famous: Nuremberg Chron...

$500 / ≈ €468
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2016

 


Sexta Etas Mudi. /Ordo Cartusiensum.. / Nicea Urbs.. / Folio XCIIII

A imaginary view of Nice: however the earliest obtainable view of this period. On verso, it shows the first house of the Order of the Carthusians, founded by St Bruno, he...

$300 / ≈ €281
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2020

 


Quarta Etas Mundi. Folium.LXI

The Latin text page is illustrated with a imaginary view of Marseille, however the earliest obtainable view of this period. VERSO : Kings, Noble men and women and scienti...

$75 / ≈ €70
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $75
Sold in 2013

 


Nissa. (Nice)

A imaginary view of Nice (200x508mm.) : however the earliest obtainable view of this period. On verso the right hand part of a double page panoramic view of Lübeck in Sc...

$240 / ≈ €225
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $240
Sold in 2015

 


Massilia.

Very early imaginary view of Marseilles, the earliest available view of the city. There are several uncolored portraits on verso. On a full page with Latin text.

$100 / ≈ €94
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1493
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2016

 


Nicea urbs.

Very early imaginary view of Nice in France, the earliest available view of the city. On a full page with Latin text on both side.

$160 / ≈ €150
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1493
Selling price: $160
Sold in 2018

 


Parisius & Maguncia

The imaginary view of Paris, France and Munich, Germany (verso) by Hartmann Schedel from the Latin edition of the “Liber chronicarum”.

Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Nurenberg, 1493

 


Das gantz Franckreich, so vor zeiten Gallia Narbonensis, Lugdunensis, Belgica und Celtica ist genent worden.

One of the earliest maps of France by Sebastian Münster. With the southern part of England. The title on verso is surrounded by a large and beautiful woodcut border. Fro...

$235 / ≈ €220
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, Sebastian.
Place & Date: Basel, ca 1540
Selling price: $235
Sold in 2019

 


Tabula Europae III (France)

The first edition of Munster's Ptolemaic map of France appeared in his "Geographia Universalis", first published in 1540. This was a new and important edition o...

$150 / ≈ €140
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1545
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2016

 


Gallia IIII Nova Tabula (France)

Sebastian Münster's map of France. Appeared in his "Geographia Universalis", first published in 1540. The Geographia was a new and important edition of Ptolemy...

$240 / ≈ €225
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1545
Selling price: $240
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Gallia Nova Tavola.

Gastaldi's modern map of France. From Giacomo Gastaldi's Atlas of 1548 which has been called the most comprehensive atlas, produced between Martin Waldseemüller's Geogra...

$150 / ≈ €140
Maker / Publisher: GASTALDI, G.
Place & Date: Venice, 1548
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2021

 


Galliae Regionis Nova Descriptio.

Sebastian Münster's handsome and fascinating 1550 map of France and Belgium from the Pyrenees to Holland, also showing the south coast of England and the Channel Islands...

$170 / ≈ €159
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basle, 1550
Selling price: $170
Sold in 2014

 


Warhaffte abcontrafactur der namhafften Statt St. Quintin sampt aller Laegerstatt und umbligenden Ort wie sie von Konigs Philippi Heer im jar 1557 belagert worden

Rare and charming woodcut of St. Quentin. A bird's eye view of the siege of St. Quentin in Aisne (France) by the forces of King Philip II of Spain, in 1557. It shows the ...

$90 / ≈ €84
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basel, H.Petri, ca. 1550
Selling price: $90
Sold in 2020

 


Don Gallia.

A detailed vieGravelines, from an early edition of Sebastian Münster's 'Cosmography'.Münster's 'Cosmography' was one of the most influential geographical works of the 1...

$35 / ≈ €33
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basil, c 1550
Selling price: $35
Sold in 2016

 


Gallia oder Franckrych / Die Landtafel des dritten Buchs.

One of the earliest available maps of France. The wood cut printed map also shows small parts of Italy, Germany, and England. Filled with place names, rivers, mountains, ...

$235 / ≈ €220
Maker / Publisher: STUMPF, J.
Place & Date: Zurich, ca 1550
Selling price: $235
Sold in 2018

 


Die Statt Paris etlicher mass figuriert und contrafehtet nach ietziger gelegenheit.

A remarkable cityscape, because unlike most cityscapes in the Cosmographia, where the bird's-eye perspective or the profile view on cities is used, here we find what come...

$300 / ≈ €281
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, Sebastian.
Place & Date: Basel, H.Petri, ca. 1550
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2020

 


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 ...

$130 / ≈ €122
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, Sebastian.
Place & Date: Basel, ca 1550
Selling price: $130
Sold in 2020

 


[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
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basel, 1552

 


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...

$80 / ≈ €75
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
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...

$80 / ≈ €75
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1560
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2014

 


Tabula Europae III.

Ptolemaic style map of France, the Low Countries, and the Rhine river. Includes numerous historic place names. Italian text on verso.

$54 / ≈ €51
Maker / Publisher: RUSCELLI, G.
Place & Date: Venice, c1561
Selling price: $54
Sold in 2013

 


Rubeaquum Rusach (Château D'Isenbourg)

Rubeaquum Rufach is a detailed woodcut by Sebastian Münster showing the famous Château D'Isenbourg located in the heart of the vineyards on the Alsace wine route and th...

$30 / ≈ €28
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basil, 1564
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2018

 


[De Galliae et eius fitu, item de eius patitione . . . . . . ]

One text page with a map of France on the recto (7,8 x 13,5 cm). On verso, a text page in one hand , and in the other a horn from Münster's Cosmographia Universalis.The ...

$25 / ≈ €23
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1564
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2018

 


[De Regionibus, Ubibus et Fluviis Galliae . . . ]

One text page with a map of Europe on the recto (12,2 x 15,5 cm). From Münster's Cosmographia Universalis.The Cosmographia by Sebastian Munster from 1544 is the earliest...

Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1564
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2022

 


Tabula Europae III (France)

Early map of France. Girolamo Ruscelli first published the map in his "La Geographi di Claudio Tolomeo" (Venice, 1561). In 1574 a new plate was used which laste...

$60 / ≈ €56
Maker / Publisher: RUSCELLI, G.
Place & Date: Venice, 1564
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2020

 


Galliae exactissima descriptio.

A unique opportunity to acquire a fine example from a map from the early Lafreri school. It was the custom for Italian map sellers to bind together available maps into a ...

$4500 / ≈ €4211
Maker / Publisher: ZALTIERI, B.
Place & Date: Venice, 1566
Selling price: $4500
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CHALES [Calais]

Rare Lafreri School town-plan of Calais, engraved by Paolo Forlani, of the Lafreri school of mapmakers, first published in "Il Primo Libro Delle Citta, Et Fortezze P...

$60 / ≈ €56
Maker / Publisher: FORLANI, P. / BALLINO, G.
Place & Date: Venice, Zaltieri, (1567) 1567
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2018

 


Perpignan.

Extremely rare panoramic view showing the siege of the town of Perpignan in 1595. Also showing the towns of Narbonne, Rivesaltes along with the Mediterranean coast.Engrav...

$300 / ≈ €281
Maker / Publisher: FURLANI,P. / ZALTIRIE,B.
Place & Date: Venice 1568
Selling price: $300
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Desegno et circutio della citta di Metz.

Extremely rare panoramic view showing a plan of the siege of the town of Metz. In bottom left a numbered key 1-53. Engraved by Paolo Furlani (active 1561-1577), his addre...

$300 / ≈ €281
Maker / Publisher: FURLANI,P. / ZALTIRIE,B.
Place & Date: Venice 1568
Selling price: $300
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Parisi.

Rare Lafreri School town-plan of Paris, engraved by Paolo Forlani, of the Lafreri school of mapmakers, first published in "Il Primo Libro Delle Citta, Et Fortezze Pr...

$1200 / ≈ €1123
Maker / Publisher: FORLANI, P. / BALLINO, G.
Place & Date: Venice, Zaltieri, (1567) 1568
Selling price: $1200
Sold in 2011

 


Gravelinga.

Rare Lafreri School town-plan of Gravelines, engraved by Paolo Forlani, of the Lafreri school of mapmakers, first published in "Il Primo Libro Delle Citta, Et Fortez...

$52 / ≈ €49
Maker / Publisher: FORLANI, P. / BALLINO, G.
Place & Date: Venice, Zaltieri, (1567) 1568
Selling price: $52
Sold in 2014

 


Guines.

Rare Lafreri School town-plan of Guines, engraved by Paolo Forlani, of the Lafreri school of mapmakers, first published in "Il Primo Libro Delle Citta, Et Fortezze P...

$30 / ≈ €28
Maker / Publisher: FORLANI, P. / BALLINO, G.
Place & Date: Venice, Zaltieri, (1567) 1568
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2014

 


Thion ville.

Rare Lafreri School town-plan of Thionville, engraved by Paolo Forlani, of the Lafreri school of mapmakers, first published in "Il Primo Libro Delle Citta, Et Fortez...

$40 / ≈ €37
Maker / Publisher: FORLANI, P. / BALLINO, G.
Place & Date: Venice, Zaltieri, (1567) 1568
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2014

 


Tabula Galliae. (France)

Double-page woodcut Ptolemaic-style map by Sebastian Münster figuring France, published in the edition of Strabo by Henri Petri in 1571."Strabonis rerum geographica...

$50 / ≈ €47
Maker / Publisher: STRABO / MUNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basle, Henri Petri, 1571
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2018

 


Lutetia, Vulgari Nomine Paris, Urbs Gallia Maxima, sequana navigabili flumine irrigatur. . . frequeta universitate excelenti, stupendi opera Tempso B. Maria..

Beautiful and early town-plan of Paris with title cartouche and figures in the foreground. The Bastille is shown at the upper center of the engraving and the Notre-Dame c...

$2400 / ≈ €2246
Maker / Publisher: BRAUN, G. / HOGENBERG, F.
Place & Date: Cologne, ca. 1572
Selling price: $2400
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Lutetia vulgari Nomine Paris, Urbs Galliae Maxima ...

Based on Sebastian Munster's map of 1569, this exceptional town plan of 16th Century Paris depicts in details the city as it evolved from a small settlement on an island ...

$800 / ≈ €749
Maker / Publisher: BRAUN, G. /HOGENBERG, F.
Place & Date: Cologne, 1572
Selling price: $800
Sold in 2012

 


Lutetia vulgari Nomine Paris, Urbs Galliae Maxima, ...

Based on Sebastian Munster's map of 1569, this exceptional town plan of 16th Century Paris depicts in details the city as it evolved from a small settlement on an island ...

$3000 / ≈ €2807
Maker / Publisher: BRAUN, G. / HOGENBERG, F.
Place & Date: Cologne, c.1572
Selling price: $3000
Sold in 2013

 


Nimes and Bordeaux.

Text in top frame: "Rotomagus, vulgo Roan, Normandiae Metropolis depingebat Georgius Hoefnagle, cum privilegio."Lower Left Frame - Text: "Nemausus; Nismes ...

$350 / ≈ €328
Maker / Publisher: BRAUN, G. /HOGENBERG, F.
Place & Date: Cologne, ca. 1572
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2013

 


Lutetia, vulgari nomine Paris, urbs Gallia...

Beautiful and early town-plan of Paris with title cartouche and figures in the foreground. The Bastille is shown at the upper center of the engraving and the Notre-Dame c...

$1500 / ≈ €1404
Maker / Publisher: BRAUN, G. / HOGENBERG, F.
Place & Date: Cologne, ca. 1572
Selling price: $1500
Sold in 2020

 


Montpellier,Tours,Poitiers. - Monsiessulanus [on sheet with] Turo [and] Pictavis, sive Pictavia, Vernaculo Idiomate...

Fine antique copper engraved sheet with three bird's-eye views by Braun and Hogenberg: Montpellier, Tours and Poitiers from the first volume of Braun & Hogenberg's &q...

$280 / ≈ €262
Maker / Publisher: BRAUN, Georg / HOGENBERG, Frans.
Place & Date: Cologne, 1572
Selling price: $280
Sold in 2021

 


Rouen, Nîmes, Bordeaux. - Rotomagus, vulgo Roan, Normandiae Metropolis [on sheet with] Nemavsus, Nismes, Civitas Narbonensie Galliae Vetustissima [and] Civitas Burdegalensis in Aquitanea, Genuina Descrip.

Fine antique copper engraved sheet with three - one panorama and two bird's-eye - views by Braun and Hogenberg: Rouen, Nîmes and Bordeaux, after Georg Hoefnagel. From th...

Maker / Publisher: BRAUN, Georg / HOGENBERG, Frans.
Place & Date: Cologne, 1572

 


Lutetia vulgari Nomine Paris…

One of the earliest and most beautiful panoramic view of Paris, based on Sebastian Munster’s map from 1569. Latin title in cartouche top-left and French title in cartou...

Maker / Publisher: BRAUN, G. / HOGENBERG, F.
Place & Date: Cologne, c. 1572

 


Regionis Biturigum Exactiss Descriptio per D. 10 Annem Calamaeum / Limaniae Topographia Gabriele Symeoneo Auct.

Two detailed regional maps of France by Ortelius showing the regions of Berry and Limagne. Accompanying Latin text is on verso.

$60 / ≈ €56
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1573
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2010

 


Regionis Biturigum Exactiss Descriptio per D. 10 Annem Calamaeum / Limaniae Topographia Gabriele Symeoneo Auct.

Two detailed regional maps of France by Ortelius showing the regions of Berry and Limagne. Accompanying Latin text is on verso with hand-colored rubric letters. Striking,...

$200 / ≈ €187
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1573
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2010

 


Regionis Biturigum Exactiss / Limaniae Topographia Gabriele.

Two detailed regional maps of France on one page by Ortelius; showing the regions of Berry and Limagne.The larger map covers the Loire region from Gian to Le Blang and Ar...

$100 / ≈ €94
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1573
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2018

 


Caletensium et Bononi Ensium Ditionis Accurata delineation / Veromandy Orum Eorum Que Confini.

Two fine Ortelius maps on one sheet. The left hand map shows the Opal Coast (Côte d'Opale) within Pas-de-Calais between Gravelines to Étaples, including Calais & Bo...

$30 / ≈ €28
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1573
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2018

 


Venuxini Comitatus Nova Descr. / Gallia Narbonensis / Sabaudiae Ducat.

Interesting with three maps on one sheet. Upper left the coast of the Mediterranean Sea (with places like Narbonne, Aigues Mortes, Avignon, Arles etc. In the bottom left ...

$57 / ≈ €53
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1573
Selling price: $57
Sold in 2018

 


Rochella munitissimum galliae opp :

Town-plan of La Rochelle, with a numbered key (1-16) in the upper left corner gives the locations of the important buildings and landmarks.From volume II of Braun and Hog...

$350 / ≈ €328
Maker / Publisher: BRAUN, G. / HOGENBERG, F.
Place & Date: Cologne, ca. 1574
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2011

 


Rochella munitissimum galliae opp :

Town-plan of La Rochelle, with a numbered key (1-16) in the upper left corner gives the locations of the important buildings and landmarks.From volume II of Braun and Hog...

$100 / ≈ €94
Maker / Publisher: BRAUN, G. / HOGENBERG, F.
Place & Date: Cologne, ca. 1574
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2012

 


Gallia Nova Tabula.

Early map showing parts of France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Cornwall, and the Ligurian coast with Genoa and Milan. Engraved with mountains and rivers wi...

$40 / ≈ €37
Maker / Publisher: RUSCELLI, G.
Place & Date: Venice, c1574
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2013

 


Die statt Montpellier . . .

Panoramic view of Montpellier by Sebastian Münster. Title and a description of the city on verso. With a lettered key underneath the engraving. From the German edition o...

$50 / ≈ €47
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S
Place & Date: Basel, 1574
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2019

 


Description Générale de toute la France.

Detailed and uncommon wood block map of France after Ortelius, from François Belleforest's Paris version of Münster's cosmography : Histoire Universe du Monde ..

$400 / ≈ €374
Maker / Publisher: BELLEFOREST,F.
Place & Date: Paris 1575
Selling price: $400
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Bloys.

Early and detailed birds-eye town-view of Bloys. From the greatest publication in this genre!. The Civitates was compiled and written by George Braun, Canon of Cologne Ca...

$240 / ≈ €225
Maker / Publisher: BRAUN, G. / HOGENBERG, F.
Place & Date: Cologne, 1575
Selling price: $240
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Le Vray pourtraict de la ville d'Aix en Provence.

A very decorative and rare town-plan of Aix en Provence from Franc¸ois de Belleforest's "La Cosmographie universelle de tout le monde". Paris, 1575. The book w...

$50 / ≈ €47
Maker / Publisher: DE BELLEFOREST, F.
Place & Date: Nicolas Chesneau and Michel Sonnius, Paris,1575
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2012

 


Le vif portaict de la noble ville, & cité de Tours.

Early bird's eye of Tours. In 1575 Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia was translated into French and published in Paris by François de Belle-Forest.

$25 / ≈ €23
Maker / Publisher: DE BELLE-FOREST, Fr.
Place & Date: Paris, 1575
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2012

 


Lugdunum.

Bird's eye view of Lyon.

$200 / ≈ €187
Maker / Publisher: BRAUN, G. / HOGENBERG, F.
Place & Date: Cologne, ca. 1575
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2014

 


Augustodunum Flauia Heduorum.

A fine engraved view of the city of Autun, in France, on the Loire River. Taken from the Latin edition of George Braun and Frans Hogenberg's landmark "Civitates Orbi...

$121 / ≈ €113
Maker / Publisher: BRAUN, G.
Place & Date: Cologne, 1575
Selling price: $121
Sold in 2017

 


Bloys.

An early and detailed birds-eye town-view of Bloys. From the greatest publication in this genre!. The Civitates was compiled and written by George Braun, Canon of Cologne...

$100 / ≈ €94
Maker / Publisher: BRAUN, G. / HOGENBERG, F.
Place & Date: Cologne, 1575
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2020

 


La ville et Chasteau de Nice.

A rare and early woodcut view of Nice in the Provence, published in "La Cosmographie Universelle de tout le monde", A French version of Sebastian Münster's Cos...

$150 / ≈ €140
Maker / Publisher: BELLEFOREST, F. de.
Place & Date: Paris, Nicolas Chesneau, Michel Sonnius, 1575
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2019

 


Dunkirk,Gravelines,Bourbourg. - Duynkercke [on sheet with] Grevelinge [and] Borborch.

Fine antique copper engraved sheet with one panorama of Dunkirk and other two bird's-eye views by Braun and Hogenberg: Dunkerque, Gravelines and Bourbourg from the second...

Maker / Publisher: BRAUN, Georg / HOGENBERG, Frans.
Place & Date: Cologne, 1575

 


BLOIS. - BLOYS

Decorative early view of Blois, from Braun & Hogenberg's Civitatus Orbis Terrarum. The view shows Blois from the southeast, from across the Loire River. The cit...

Maker / Publisher: BRAUN, Georg / HOGENBERG, Frans.
Place & Date: Cologne, 1575

 


Blâmont. - Blanmont au Pays de Vauge en Loreyne.

Decorative early panoramic view of Blâmont by Braun and Hogenberg .From the second volume of Braun & Hogenberg's "Civitas Orbis Terrarum. " Latin text to v...

$180 / ≈ €168
Maker / Publisher: BRAUN, Georg / HOGENBERG, Frans.
Place & Date: Cologne, 1575
Selling price: $180
Sold in 2021

 


Besançon, - Vesontionis Antiquissimae Celeberrimaeq Sequanorum qui in Celtica Gallia Burgundiae Comitatus Nomine Censentur Metropolis Imperialisq Civitatis delineatio.

A fine antique map -  bird's-eye view of Besançon, by Braun and Hogenberg, from the: Civitates Orbis Terrarum, ... Part 2. Köln, 1575. CAPTION: The Sequani called thi...

$300 / ≈ €281
Maker / Publisher: BRAUN, Georg / HOGENBERG, Frans.
Place & Date: Cologne, 1575
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2022

 


Paris

One of the earliest and most beautiful panoramic views of Paris, based on Sebastian Muenster’s map from 1569. Latin title in cartouche top-left and French title in a ca...

$2200 / ≈ €2059
Maker / Publisher: BRAUN, G. / HOGENBERG, F.
Place & Date: Cologne, 1575
Selling price: $2200
Sold in 2022

 


Lugdunum

Fine bird's-eye view plan of Lyons, with excellent detail of the city and its surroundings. Decorated with a finely dressed man and woman in foreground and two strapwor...

Maker / Publisher: BRAUN, G. and HOGENBERG, F.
Place & Date: Cologne, c1575
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2023

 


Monsiessulanus, Montpellier [on sheet with] Turo, Tours [and] Pictavis, sive Pictavia, Vernaculo Idiomate Poitiers.

Three very desirable and early town-views of Montpellier, Tours and Poitiers.Montpellier: With key to locations. In his brief description of the city, Braun focuses prima...

$450 / ≈ €421
Maker / Publisher: BRAUN,G. / HOGENBERG, F.
Place & Date: Cologne, (1572) 1577
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2015

 


Rotomagus, vulgo Roan, Normandiae Metropolis [on sheet with] Nemavsus, Nismes, Civitas Narbonensie Galliae Vetustissima [and] Civitas Burdegalensis in Aquitanea, Genuina Descrip.

Three very desirable and early town-views of Rouen, Nîmes and Bordeaux.Montpellier: With key to locations. In his brief description of the city, Braun focuses primarily ...

$350 / ≈ €328
Maker / Publisher: BRAUN,G. / HOGENBERG, F.
Place & Date: Cologne, (1572) 1577
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2014

 


Argentoratum, cuius ob antiquitatem Ptolemeus. . .

Very desirable and early town-plans of Strasbourg in a first state. "Strasbourg is seen from a bird's-eye perspective in a plan view in which the blocks of houses ar...

$300 / ≈ €281
Maker / Publisher: BRAUN,G. / HOGENBERG, F.
Place & Date: Cologne, (1572) 1577
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2016

 


Von der Statt Cales.

Very attractive and detailed birds-eye plan of Calais, France showing the full extent of rivers and moated fortification. It is set in a page of Old German text with text...

$15 / ≈ €14
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basel, 1578
Selling price: $15
Sold in 2017

 


Exacta novaqve descriptio dvcatvs Andegravensis qvem vvlgari nomine Le Duche d'Aniou Indigitant.

Centered on the town of Angiers. From the first edition of De Jode's Speculum Orbis Terrarum, the second general atlas of the world, after Ortelius. Engraved by Ioannes V...

$750 / ≈ €702
Maker / Publisher: DE JODE, G.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1578

 


Picardiae, Belgicae regionis descriptio. Joanne Surhonio auctore

Beautiful original old colored map of the Picardie region in Northwest France by Abraham Ortelius. Showing the Picardy from the sea to Abbeville, Amiens and Laon in the e...

$220 / ≈ €206
Maker / Publisher: Ortelius, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1579
Selling price: $220
Sold in 2009

 


Anjou. Andegavensium Ditionis Vera et Integra Descriptio

Beautiful map of the Anjou region of western France along the Loire River. Include the city of Angers in the center. Accompanying text on verso

$70 / ≈ €66
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1579
Selling price: $70
Sold in 2010

 


Anjou : Andegavensium ditionis vera et integra descriptio.

Attractive map of the Loire River valley centred on Angers. The map displays the river system with mountains and forests and hundreds of tiny villages. Large strapwork t...

$160 / ≈ €150
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1579
Selling price: $160
Sold in 2015

 


Burgundiae Comitatus Recentiss. Descriptio Dno Ferdinando Lannoyo auctore

From Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. Published in  Antwerp, Latin text, “29” on verso.

Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1579

 


Matiscona vulgo Mascon../ Perpignan/ Chaumont

Bird's-eye view of Macon from his town book.From the greatest publication in this genre!. The "Civitates" was compiled and written by George Braun, Canon of Col...

$72 / ≈ €67
Maker / Publisher: BRAUN,G. / HOGENBERG, F.
Place & Date: Cologne 1580
Selling price: $72
Sold

 


De Germania Colmariensis ciuitatis & circumiacentis agri pictura ad uiuum expressa.

Early bird\'s eye view of Colmar. From a French text edition of S. Münster\'s Cosmographia, which was a complete summary of Renaissance knowledge.

$45 / ≈ €42
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1580
Selling price: $45
Sold in 2009

 


Lutetia Parisiorum urbs, toto orbe celeberrima notissimaque, caput regni Franciae.

Early bird\'s eye view of Paris, called at the time Lutetia. From a French text edition of S. Münster\'s Cosmographia, which is a short and complete summary of Renaissan...

$190 / ≈ €178
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1580
Selling price: $190
Sold in 2008

 


Caletensium Et Bononiensium Ditionis Accurata Delineatio [with] Veromanduorum Eorum Que Confinium Exactissima Descriptio.

Two finely detailed maps by Ortelius. The map on the left shows the Belgian and French Coastal regions, while the map on the right focuses on a small region surrounding S...

$100 / ≈ €94
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, ca. 1580
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2010

 


Old antique map of Narbonne Marseille- GAL / LIAE / NARBO / NENSIS / ORA MA / RITTIMA / / Recenter / descriptio.

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...

$60 / ≈ €56
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1580
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2020