Burgundiae Comitatus Recentiss. Descriptio.
From 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum [Atlas of the Whole World]'. Dare to go in Black. All early maps were printed in black and white, and many were kept that way for a long ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1598
Selling price: $75
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Venuxini Comitatus Nova Descr. / Gallia Narbonensis. / Sabaudiae Ducat.
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 corner a map of t...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1598
Selling price: $180
Sold in 2019
Gallia Nova Tabula.
The third state of Ruscelli's map of France, based upon Claudius Ptolemy. Girolamo Ruscelli first published the map in his "La Geographi di Claudio Tolomeo" (Ve...
Place & Date: Venice, 1598
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2018
![Lyon & Vienne. - Lugdunum vulgo Lion [on sheet with] Vienna vulgo Vienne.](/uploads/cache/85895-250x250.jpg)
Lyon & Vienne. - Lugdunum vulgo Lion [on sheet with] Vienna vulgo Vienne.
Fine antique copper engraved sheet with two panoramic views by Braun and Hogenberg: Lyon and Vienne from the uncommon fifth volume of Braun & Hogenberg's "Civita...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1598
![Poitiers & Montargis. - Pictavia Vulgo Poictiers [on sheet with:] La pierre levee demie lieue de Poictiers [and] Prospectus Montis Henrici vulgo Montherri.](/uploads/cache/85896-250x250.jpg)
Poitiers & Montargis. - Pictavia Vulgo Poictiers [on sheet with:] La pierre levee demie lieue de Poictiers [and] Prospectus Montis Henrici vulgo Montherri.
Fine antique copper engraved sheet with one panoramic view, and two others by Braun and Hogenberg: Poitiers and Montargis from the uncommon fifth volume of Braun & Ho...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1598
Selling price: $270
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Poictou. Pictonum Vicinarum que Regionum Fidiss Descriptio.
Beautiful antique map of the former French province of Poitou, centered on the city of Poitiers.Reaching from the Atlantic to La Haye and Limoges and from Nantes to Cogna...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1598
Selling price: $150
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Touraine. Turonensis Ducatus.
Map of Touraine Duché in very fine original colours.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1598
Regionis Biturigum... Per Ioannem Calamaeum. / Limaniae Topographia Gabriele Symeoneo Auct.
Two maps on one sheet. Biturigum. The Loire river is at the right in central France. Neuers (Nevers) is at the middle of the right margin. Bourges is near the center, an...
- $125 / ≈ €117
Place & Date: Antwerp, ca. 1598
Gallia.
Extremely rare map of France, Netherlands, Southern England, Switzerland, and Northern Spain. This map was never regularly included in the Theatrum; Denuce mentions the i...
Place & Date: Antwerp, ca 1598
CORSICA.
A miniature map of Corsica.First published in 1598 in his Caert-Thresoor, the plates were executed by the most famous engravers in Amsterdam, including Petrus Kaerius and...
Place & Date: Amsterdam/Frankfurt 1599
Selling price: $170
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Grenoble.
Uncommon plan of Grenoble from Francesco Valegio's townbook: Raccolta di le piv illustri et farmose citta di tutto il mondo.
Place & Date: Venice 1600
Selling price: $45
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Britannia & Normandia cum confinibs regionibus.
An important early map of Bretagne (Brittany) and Normandie, extending to show Paris, the Channel Islands, and parts of Cornwall. Decorated with sailing ships, a sea mons...
Place & Date: Duisburg or Amsterdam, ca. 1600
Selling price: $121
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France Picardie Champaigne cum regionibus adiacentibus.
An early map of Bretagne (Brittany), Normandie, and Champagne. Extends from Arras to Auxerre and Orleans. Including Dieppe, Rouen, Paris, Verdun, towns are shown as small...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca 1600
Selling price: $14
Sold in 2018
Aquitania australis regnu Arelatense cum confinijs
Early map of southern France, extending until Monaco, parts of Spain and Switzerland. Published in Mercators famous Atlas Sive Cosmographia. Latin text on verso.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1600
Selling price: $75
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Provincia
Miniature map of Provence after Ortelius published by Giovanni Battista Vrients. Names the cities of Arles, Aix, Avignon, Marseille, Antibes, Toulon, and Nice. Decorated ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, ca. 1601
Selling price: $24
Sold in 2016
Normandia.
Miniature map of Normandy after Ortelius published by Giovanni Battista Vrients. Among many others it names the cities of Paris, Amiens, Dieppe, Caen, and Rouen. Decorate...
Place & Date: Antwerp, ca. 1601
Selling price: $110
Sold in 2016
Gallia Narbonens / Sabavdiae Ducat / Venuuxini comitatus Nova Descr.
Detailed maps of regions of southern and southeastern France by Ortelius. "Gallia Narbonens," the map on the top left, depicts the southern French Riviera coast...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1603
Selling price: $124
Sold in 2010
The sea coastes of the landes of Poyctou and Bordeaux ...as they shew and appeare, when you sayle there alongst betweene Picquelier and the River of Bordeaux called the Garonne
This particular chart is a fine example of the west coast of France including Isle de Re and Oléron. The nearby mainland displays La Rochelle and the town of Charente ne...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1588 - 1605
Selling price: $3700
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Picardia.
From "Cosmographia Universalis" by Paul Merula, printed in Amsterdam in 1605. The maps used to illustrate the first edition of Cosmography were engraved in by J...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1605
Selling price: $32
Sold in 2019
Burgundia Ducatus.
One of the earliest maps of Burgundy.Mercator was born in Rupelmonde in Flanders and studied in Louvain under Gemma Frisius, Dutch writer, astronomer and mathematician. T...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1606
Selling price: $200
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L´Isle de France. Parisiesis Agri Descriptio..
Very detailed map of Isle de France, prepared by François de la Guillotiere. Centered on Paris and showing cities like Saint-Denis, Pontoise, Senlis, Meaux, etc. And dep...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1606
Selling price: $170
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Aquitania australis Regnu Arelatense cum consinijs.
Map of the southern part of France, centered on region of Auvergne, including Bourgogne, Provence, Limousine and Languedoc.Mercator was born in Rupelmonde in Flanders and...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1606
Selling price: $140
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Gallia.
Fine map of France.Mercator was born in Rupelmonde in Flanders and studied in Louvain under Gemma Frisius, Dutch writer, astronomer and mathematician. The excellence of h...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1606
Selling price: $140
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Gallia.
Fine map of France.Mercator was born in Rupelmonde in Flanders and studied in Louvain under Gemma Frisius, Dutch writer, astronomer and mathematician. The excellence of h...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $120
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Berry ducatus.
Mercator/Hondius map of central France, shows city of Bourges. Accompanying text on verso.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2010
Berry ducatus.
Mercator/Hondius map of Loire Valley region of central France, of what was previously called the province of Berry. The city of Bourges, which was the capital of Berry, i...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $33
Sold in 2010
Britannia & Normandia cum consinib regionibus.
Map of Brittany and Normandy, including part of Picardy. Mercator was born in Rupelmonde in Flanders and studied in Louvain under Gemma Frisius, Dutch writer, astronomer ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $170
Sold in 2016
Gallia.
Fine map of France.Mercator was born in Rupelmonde in Flanders and studied in Louvain under Gemma Frisius, Dutch writer, astronomer and mathematician. The excellence of h...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2016
Descriptio Normanniae.
A charming small map of Normandy, showing Rouen ,Amiens, Cherbourg, Harfleur etc. From the Bertius atlas Tabularum geographicarum contractarum. Bertius (1565-1629) was a ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2020
Descriptio Britanniae.
A charming small map of Britany in N.W. France. Showing Brest, St. Malo, Rennes, Nantes etc. From the Bertius atlas Tabularum geographicarum contractarum. Bertius (1565-1...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $50
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Descriptio Alsatiae.
A decorative miniature map of Alsace - a cultural and historical region in eastern France, on the west bank of the upper Rhine next to Germany and Switzerland. A map full...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2019
Lotharingia Meridiona.
Map depicting the southern part of the French region Lorraine. From the first French-text edition of Jodocus Hondius'' Atlas Minor.Shortly after the publication of the bi...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1608
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2011
Burgundiae Duca.
Map depicting the French region Burgundy. From the first French-text edition of Jodocus Hondius'' Atlas Minor.Shortly after the publication of the big folio-atlases the n...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1608
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2008
Berry.
Map centered on the French region Berry. From the first French-text edition of Jodocus Hondius' Atlas Minor.Shortly after the publication of the big folio-atlases the nee...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1608
Selling price: $80
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Paris / Lugdunum
Two rare woodcut views of the Paris on the front page and Lyon on the back page. From "Parvum Theatrum Urbium sive Urbium Praecipuarum totius orbis Brevis & Meth...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1608
Selling price: $170
Sold in 2009
Burgundiae Comitatus.
Map centered on the French region Franche-Comté, extending southwards as far as Lake Geneva.Oriented with West on top. From the first French-text edition of Jodocus Hond...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1608
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2013
Alsatia Inferior.
Detailed map centered on Strasbourg, oriented with West on top. From the first French-text edition of Jodocus Hondius' Atlas Minor.Shortly after the publication of the bi...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1608
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2020
Eygentlijke afbeeldinge...Zee custen van Bretaigne Poictoi.
Very rare sea of the French coast of Brittany and Poictou, running from the Brest to the Loire and beyond. Title cartouche in both Dutch and French text. A beautiful and...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1608
Selling price: $1600
Sold in 2011
Galliae Regni Potensiss: Nova Descriptio, Ioanne Ioliveto Auctore.
Abraham Ortelius' map of France is a copy of Jean Jolivet's 4-sheet woodcut map of France.Abraham Ortelius(1527-98), Dutch cartographer and publisher of the first modern ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1570-1608
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2017
Totius Lemovici et. . .
Map of part of France, centered on Limoge, including a plan of Limoge. Prepared by Jean du Fayen (1530-1612), French physician and geographer, who prepared the first know...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1608
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2016
Der Guvernator genant Mottegondrin. Hat die Stat Valencen genomen ein. . . (Valence)
Early print showing a scene in Valence on 25 April 1608.Plate from the series about the " Eighty Years' War" or the independence war of Holland against Spain, w...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca. 1608
Selling price: $35
Sold in 2020
Lotharingia.
A nice small map centered on the French region of Lorraine, oriented with east on top. With some good map detail. From the Latin-text edition of Jodocus Hondius' Atlas Mi...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1608
Selling price: $25
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Totius Lemovici et . . .
Map of part of France, centered on Limoge, including a plan of Limoge. Prepared by Jean du Fayen (1530-1612), French physician and geographer, who prepared the first know...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1608
Selling price: $22
Sold in 2019
Franciae insula.
Miniature map of Paris area with major cities named, Paris is situated left under. Strapwork title cartouche in the left under corner. Latin text on verso.
Place & Date: Antwerp 1609
Selling price: $80
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Languedoc.
Miniature map of Languedoc, South France with major cities named, Marseille is in the right border. Sea is stipple engraved. Strapwork title cartouche at the top. Latin t...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1609
Selling price: $76
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Britannia.
Miniature map of Britannia with major cities named. Sea is stipple engraved and has 2 boats. Strapwork title cartouche at upper left. Latin text on verso.
Place & Date: Antwerp 1609
Selling price: $100
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Normandia.
Miniature map of Normandy with major cities named, Paris in the right under corner. Sea is stipple engraved. Strapwork title cartouche at the top. Latin text on verso.
Place & Date: Antwerp 1609
Selling price: $100
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Gallia
Miniature map of France, with major cities named. The sea is stipple engraved. Strapwork title cartouche at left. Latin text on verso.
Place & Date: Antwerp 1609
Selling price: $93
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Galliae Narbone sis descriptio.
A miniature map of the Languedoc, including towns of Marseille, Avignon, Narbonne, etc. South to the top. Fine cartouche in the upper left corner. The sea is decorated wi...
Place & Date: Amsterdam/Frankfurt 1609
Selling price: $60
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Burgundiae Com.
A miniature map of the Burgundy. Title cartouche in the lower right corner.First published in 1598 in his Caert-Thresoor, the plates were executed by the most famous engr...
Place & Date: Amsterdam/Frankfurt, 1609
Selling price: $40
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Burgundiae Ducatus.
A miniature map of the Burgundy. Title cartouche in the lower left corner.First published in 1598 in his Caert-Thresoor, the plates were executed by the most famous engra...
Place & Date: Amsterdam/Frankfurt 1609
Selling price: $60
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Aniou / Anjou.
A miniature map of the Loire valley, centered on Angers. Title cartouche in the upper right corner.First published in 1598 in his Caert-Thresoor, the plates were executed...
Place & Date: Amsterdam/Frankfurt, 1609
Selling price: $55
Sold in 2015
Picardia / Picardie.
A miniature map of northern part of France, centered on Amiens. Title cartouche in the lower left corner.First published in 1598 in his Caert-Thresoor, the plates were ex...
Place & Date: Amsterdam/Frankfurt 1609
Selling price: $20
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Veromandui / Vermandois.
A miniature map of northern part of France. Title cartouche on the left side.First published in 1598 in his Caert-Thresoor, the plates were executed by the most famous en...
Place & Date: Amsterdam/Frankfurt 1609
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2014
Lotharingia / Lorraine.
A miniature map of eastern part of France. Title cartouche on the upper left corner.First published in 1598 in his Caert-Thresoor, the plates were executed by the most fa...
Place & Date: Amsterdam/Frankfurt 1609
Selling price: $40
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Gallia.
A charming miniature map of France with major cities shown. Extends to show London, Cologne, Bern, and Coblenz. Latin text on verso.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1609
Selling price: $70
Sold in 2017
Boloniae & Guines comitatus.
Very fine copper engraving, showing the coastline from Brique till Grevelinge including Calais.Decorated with two finely engraved cartouches.
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1610
Selling price: $50
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Burgundia Ducatus.
One of the earliest maps of Burgundy.
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1610
Selling price: $300
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Britannia & Normandia cum consinib regionibus.
One of the earliest maps of Brittany and Normandy. Very attractive copy.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1610
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2008
Erzeignung Wie Henrich der 4. Konig von Franckreich und Navarr, der Teutschen fursten lager empfangen hatt. Plate 278.
Plate from the series about the " Eighty Years' War" or the independence war of Holland against Spain, we know of approximately four hundred engravings by Frans...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca. 1610
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2020
Britannia & Normandia cum Consinib Regionibus.
A Mercator & Hondius map of Brittany and Normandy, including part of Picardy. One of the earliest maps of Brittany and Normandy, it was first published by Mercator in...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1610
Selling price: $380
Sold in 2017
L'Isle de France, Parisiesis Agri Descriptio Auctore.
This is a handsome and detailed map of the region of Paris and its vicinity, attributed to Francois de la Guillotiere. It is beautifully engraved with forests, rivers, ci...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca 1610
Selling price: $42
Sold in 2021
![[Lot of 6 maps of the Provence, Marseille, Cannes, Nice, France.] Provenciae, Regionis Galliae, vera exactissimiaqs descriptio. Petro Ionne Bompario auctore. / Provence / Baptista Doetecomius Sculp.](/uploads/cache/18218-(1)-250x250.jpg)
[Lot of 6 maps of the Provence, Marseille, Cannes, Nice, France.] Provenciae, Regionis Galliae, vera exactissimiaqs descriptio. Petro Ionne Bompario auctore. / Provence / Baptista Doetecomius Sculp.
An early and most decorative map of the Provence with the Riviera from the Rhone estuary, Marseille, Cannes, Nice to Vintimiglia. Engraved by Baptista Van Doetechum for...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c. 1610
Selling price: $180
Sold in 2023
Grevelinge / Gravelinga, urbs maritima.
From Ludovico Guicciardini.'s description of the Netherlands ' Beschrijvinghe van alle de Nederlanden anderssins ghenoemt Neder-Duytslandt ', published by Willem Blaeu.A ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, W.Blaeu, 1612
Selling price: $160
Sold in 2008
Lille.
From Ludovico Guicciardini.'s description of the Netherlands ' Beschrijvinghe van alle de Nederlanden anderssins ghenoemt Neder-Duytslandt ', published by Willem Blaeu.A ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, W.Blaeu, 1612
Selling price: $125
Sold in 2010
Arras
Nice bird's-eye plan of the city of Arras. Based on Braun & Hogenberg's 1572 plan, the map is filled with detail of the well-laid out city and the surrounding country...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1612
Selling price: $100
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![[Blâmont] - Blanmont au Pays de Vauge en Loreyne.](/uploads/cache/32215-250x250.jpg)
[Blâmont] - Blanmont au Pays de Vauge en Loreyne.
Early bird's-eye of Blâmont in the Lorraine region from the greatest publication in this genre!. The Civitates was compiled and written by George Braun, Canon of Cologn...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1575-1612
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2012
Othones Saxones Imperatories.
Othones Saxones Imperatories is a highly detailed copper engraving featuring the family tree of the rulers of Saxony. At the bottom is a detailed birds-eye view or map of...
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1612
Selling price: $75
Sold in 2013
Veteres Duces Lotharingiae.
Veteres Duces Lotharingiae is a highly detailed copper engraving featuring the family tree of the Ducal House of Lorraine. At the bottom is a detailed birds-eye view of t...
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1612
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2013
Blesenses Comites.
Blesenses Comites is a highly detailed copper engraving featuring the family tree of the rulers of Blois. At the bottom is a detailed birds-eye view of the town of Blois....
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1612
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2013
Comites ac Duces Wirtembergici.
\\\"Comites ac Duces Wirtembergici\\\" is a highly detailed copper engraving featuring the family tree of the Counts & Dukes of Wurttemberg. At the bottom i...
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1612
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2013
Duijkkerken Praecipus Totius Flandriae.
Beautiful bird's eye-view plan of the town of Duinkerken, France on the Belgian border. From Ludovico Guicciardini's description of the Netherlands 'Beschrijvinghe Van A...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1612
Selling price: $77
Sold in 2019
Andegavensium Ditionis Vera et Intregra Descriptio.
Early map of the Loire Valley, with Angiers in the center. Prepared by Lézin Guyet in 1579.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1608-1612
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2022
Burgundiae Ducatus. Burgundiae Comitatus.
Separately issued map of Burgundy area. Two maps of Burgundy region on a plate. Separately published map, without text on the verso. Second state with the date 1597 remov...
Place & Date: Antwerp, after 1612
Burgundiae Ducatus.
Map of Burgundy region without text on the verso. Second state with the date 1597 removed from the title cartouche. This is the rarest Burgundy map of the four that Ortel...
- $500 / ≈ €468
Place & Date: Antwerp, after 1612
![Lorraine, southern part: [untitled map].](/uploads/cache/92552-250x250.jpg)
Lorraine, southern part: [untitled map].
Map of Lorraine, with Moselle River. Nancy at top center. North at top. A typically and finely engraved map by Mercator.The map first appeared in 1585, and then again in ...
Place & Date: Duisburg and then Amsterdam, (1585-95) 1613
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2014
BERRY Ducatus per Gerardum Mercatorem.
Map of Berry centered on the city of Bourges.The map first appeared in 1585 and then again in 1595 in Mercator's Atlas. In 1604, the copperplates for the atlas were sold ...
Place & Date: Duisburg and then Amsterdam, (1585-95) 1613
Selling price: $90
Sold in 2013
BURGUNDIA Ducatus Per Gerardum Mercatorem.
Map of Burgundy. The map first appeared in 1585 and then again in 1595 in Mercator's Atlas. In 1604, the copperplates for the atlas were sold to Jodocus Hondius and Corne...
Place & Date: Duisburg and then Amsterdam, (1585-95) 1613
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2013
![Burgundy, etc. [Unititled map].](/uploads/cache/92555-250x250.jpg)
Burgundy, etc. [Unititled map].
Map of Burgundy, with Lake Geneva at left. North at the right side of the map. The map first appeared in 1585. In 1604, the copperplates for the atlas were sold to Jodocu...
Place & Date: Duisburg and then Amsterdam, (1585-95) 1613
Selling price: $51
Sold in 2014
POICTOV sive Pictauiae descriptio.
Map of Poictou centered on the city of Poitiers. With a decorative title-cartouche, a sailing ship and a sea-monster.The map first appeared in 1585. In 1604, the copperp...
Place & Date: Duisburg and then Amsterdam, (1585-95) 1613
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2014