Die ander Tafel des Rheinstromes, begreiffendt die Pfaltz, Westereich, Eyfel,sc. [Course of the Rhine from approx. Strassbourg to Andernach]
Wood block map of a part of the course of the Rhine and surrounding lands, by Sebastian Munster.One of the Earliest Modern Maps of the Rhine river. This map is the second...
Place & Date: Basel 1550 ca.
Selling price: $130
Sold in 2020
Partie septentrionale du cercle de Haute Saxe [...] Brandebourg.
Finely and crisply engraved map of north eastern part of Germany, including part of Poland. With inset map of Brandenburg. Prepared by Giles Didier Robert De Vaugondy wit...
Place & Date: Venice, 1178
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2016
Sexta Etas Mundi. Patavia. [Passau]
A very fine presentation of the city of Passau, in Germany, centered on the cathedral (Dim. : 232 mm W : 520 mm).Overleaf, the different kings are depicted.Page from the ...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $1500
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Nuremberga. [Nüremberg] Folio. C. and XCIX.
Double page panoramic of Nüremberg.As most town view in the book are imaginary views, the view of Nuremberg as being the town where the book was published, the view mus...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $3100
Sold in 2014
Bamberga.
Double page panoramic view of Bamberg.As most town view in the book are imaginary views, the view of Nuremberg as being the town where the book was published, the view mu...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $1500
Sold in 2015
Monacum. (Munich) Folio CCXXVI
A very fine representation of the city of Munich.Page from the richest illustrated Incunable, the famous: Nuremberg Chronicle, published the year that Columbus returned t...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $2000
Sold in 2013
[Text page with imaginary towns in Westphalia and Hesse. ] CCLXXXIIII
On recto an imaginary view of towns in Westphalia (230x225mm.). Verso of towns in the province Hesse.Page from the richest illustrated Incunabula, the famous: Liber chron...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2022
Erfordias. [Erfurt CLVI ]
A very fine town view of Erfurt (225x528mm.), capital of the German Province of Thuringia. Verso showing different Popes and noble men.Page from the richest illustrated I...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $900
Sold in 2020
Quinta etas mudi Folio XCI [Colonia]
Double page in Latin with a panoramic town view of Cologne. (19.5 x 52.5cm). This woodcut has been specially designed for the Cologne view, and appears nowhere else in th...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $1200
Sold in 2020
Patavia [Passau].
A very attractive example in rarely seen early color. Evocative panoramic view of the lower Bavarian city of Passau, which produced swords and bladed weapons renowned thr...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1493
Selling price: $220
Sold in 2018
Von Polnischem land.
A wonderful early woodblock view of this Polish or Prussian city, engraved at the end of the fifteenth century in Germany. A page from the richest illustrated Incunable, ...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1493
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2019
[Text page with imaginary towns in Westphalia and Hesse. CCLXXXIIII ].
On recto an imaginary view of towns in Westphalia (230x225mm.). Verso of towns in the province Hesse.Page from the richest illustrated Incunabula, the famous: Nuremberg C...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2022
Bressla. (Wroclaw,german Breslau, Silesia)
Incunable double page panoramic view of Breslau (Wroclaw, Silesia) by H. Schedel. From the Nuremberg Chronicle: Hartmann Schedel grew up in Nuremberg and first studied li...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1493
Selling price: $700
Sold in 2021
Ratisbona (Regensburg).
An incunable view of the city of Regensberg, from the German text edition of Schedel's Liber Chronicum (Nuremberg Chronicle), a landmark work of the 15th Century. Regensb...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1493
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2020
Ulma (Ulm).
An incunable view of Ulm by Hartmann Schedel from the German text edition of his Nuremberg Chronicle. Hartmann Schedel grew up in Nuremberg and first studied liberal art ...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1493
Selling price: $450
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Magdeburg.
An incunable engraving, view of Magdeburg by Hartmann Schedel. Nuremberg Chronicle: Hartmann Schedel grew up in Nuremberg and first studied liberal art in Leipzig. He ear...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1493
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2021
Munchen (München/Munich).
An incunable panoramic view of München (20 x 51,5cm) , by H. Schedel, from his German text edition of his Nuremberg Chronicle. Hartmann Schedel grew up in Nuremberg and ...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1493
Selling price: $850
Sold in 2021
Patavia. (Passau)
An incunable engraving - View of Passau by H. Schedel. Nuremberg Chronicle: Hartmann Schedel grew up in Nuremberg and first studied liberal art in Leipzig. He earned a d...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1493
Selling price: $450
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Constancia. (Konstanz)
An incunable view of Konstanz by Hartmann Schedel from the German text edition. Hartmann Schedel grew up in Nuremberg and first studied liberal art in Leipzig. He earned ...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1493
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2021
Ordnung der churfursten des reichs / Die siben churfursten Des heiligen romische reichs. [3 sheets joined with 2 double page views!]
Three sheets with two double page engravings joined together, with the first showing the then main cities of the Holy Roman Empire of German nation The second shows the E...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1493
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2020
[Jews burned alive during the southern German pogroms of 1298 ] Terta etas mudi Folio CCXX
With a wood block cut of Jews burned alive during the southern German pogroms of 1298. Dimensions of 116x155mm. On recto illustrations of Kings, doctor, comet, etc. Folio...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2021
[Czech Republic, Germania, Germany, Poland]
Wood block printed map and one of earliest printed representation of Czech Republic, Germania, Germany, Poland prepared Martin Waldseemüller. River Rhine to the left. Ba...
Place & Date: Vienna, Trechsel, G., 1525 -1541
Selling price: $750
Sold in 2014
Franconia XII Nova Tabula.
Detailed regional map of Germany, centered on Bamberg and the Mein River. One of the earliest obtainable modern maps of the region. From the 1542 edition of Münster's Ge...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1542
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2017
Svevia et Bavaria XII, Nova Tabula.
A highly decorative woodcut map by famous mapmaker Sebastian Münster published in his Ptolemy edition 1552 in Basel at Heinrich Petri. The decorative woodcut bordures ve...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1542
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2016
Alsatia et Brisgoia II Rheni Et VII Nova Tabula.
Detailed map of the Rhine River Valley, from Strasburg and Argentina to Basel and Laufenberg, centered on Brisach and Kappel and showing Colmar. West is at the top of the...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1542
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2019
Quarta Rheni et IX Nova Tab.
Highly detailed regional map of the course of the Rhine, from Mainz to Bonn, one of the first obtainable modern maps of the region. Extremely detailed for the period. The...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1542
Selling price: $135
Sold in 2017
[Map of Caspian Sea and Europe]
Page with an early representation of Germany. This text page with a fine wood block printed map is from the rare work "C. Iulii Solini Polyhistor, Rerum Toto Orbe Me...
Place & Date: Basle, Michael Isengrin, 1544
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2011
Heidelberg.
One of the two largest woodcuts from the 'Cosmographia' by Sebastian Münster. This is the attractively colored bird-eye view of Heidelberg. It is highly detailed, with a...
Place & Date: Basel, 1544
Selling price: $190
Sold in 2019
Germania nova Tabula MDXXXXII.
Gastaldi's modern map of Germany, from the Low Countries to Poland in the North and covering Germany and part of Hungary in the South.It is one of the earliest obtainable...
Place & Date: Venice, 1548
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2021
Quarta Rhein et IX Nova Tabula.
Sebastian Münster, 1489-1552, outstanding geographer of Basle. Edited Ptolemy's atlas 'Geographia Universalis', editions 1540,-42, -45, -51 and -52. Published his 'Cosmo...
Place & Date: Basle, c. 1550
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2008
Germanicae Nationis Descriptio.
This charming map was published in the 1550-edition of Sebastian Münster’s Cosmographia. This edition is considered to be Münster’s Magnum Opus. Early Munster's ma...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2014
Sveviae et Bavariae Descriptio.
An attractive early woodcut map Bavaria in Southern Germany. The map extends from the source of the Danube through Ulm, Ingolstad, Regensberg and Passau on the Danube, th...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2020
Germania Teutschland/die ander Landtafel des anderen Buchs.
An early woodcut printed map. The fantastic map shows the area between Lübeck, Preßburg, Brixen and Gent. Oriented to the south.Filled with place names, rivers, mountai...
Place & Date: Zurich, ca 1550
Selling price: $160
Sold in 2018
Würzburg. - Herbipolis Würtzpurg
A double-page woodcut view of Würzburg. From a French edition of Munster's 'Geographia', one of the most important 16th Century geographical books. Herbipolis Würtzpur...
Place & Date: Basel, ca 1550
Selling price: $160
Sold in 2021
COLOGNE/KÖLN. - La noble & ample ville de Coloigne Agrippine,
A double-page woodcut panoramic view of KÖLN. From a French edition of Munster's 'Geographia', one of the most important 16th-century geographical books. With a key to 2...
Place & Date: Basel, ca 1550
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2021
Germania VI Nova Tabula.
Sebastian Münster, 1489-1552, outstanding geographer of Basle. Editied Ptolemy's atlas ' Geographia Universalis', editions 1540,-42, -45, -51 and -52. Published his &quo...
Place & Date: Basle, 1540-1552
Selling price: $360
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Franckofordianae civitatis situs…
A wood block printed early bird's-eye view of Frankfurt/Main (Germany). From the 1552 Latin text edition of Münster's Cosmographia, which is a short and complete summary...
Place & Date: Basel, 1552
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2022
[Lot of 7 leaves of Prussia, Gdansk and Riga]
Seven text pages illustrated with wood block prints relating to Poland, Prussia and Latvia with a small view of Riga. From the 1552 Latin text edition of Münster's Cosmo...
Place & Date: Basel, 1552
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2022
[Lot of 7 leaves of American interest]
Seven text leaves illustrated with wood block prints relating to America and explorers. From the 1552 Latin text edition of Münster's Cosmographia, which is a short and ...
Place & Date: Basel, 1552
Selling price: $51
Sold in 2022
Die Stat Landaw.
Attractive bird's-eye view of the city Landau in Germany. Latin text on the verso.
Place & Date: Basel, ca. 1554
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2023
La paincture de la cité tresancienne des Nemetiens../..Spire.
Panoramic of Speyer, with in foreground the river Rhine. Lower part signed with monogram HF.
Place & Date: Basle, c.1560
Selling price: $22
Sold in 2014
La tresancienne Cité de Vangions../.. Vuormes. (Worms)
Panoramic of Worms, with in foreground the river Rhine.Read more [+]
Place & Date: Basle, c.1560
Selling price: $35
Sold in 2015
La noble & ample ville de Coloigne Agrippine... (Cologne)
Panoramic of Cologne with on the foreground the River Rhine. In lower left CS. There is no information available for the monogamist CS, he was probably German or Swiss a...
Place & Date: Basle, c.1560
Selling price: $35
Sold in 2015
Tavola nuova di Germania.
Map of Germany and parts of the surrounding areas. In the northwest is Flanders and Brabant. In the southwest is Lake Geneva and Budapest is in the southeast. The Vistula...
Place & Date: Venise, 1561
Selling price: $245
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Martpurg (Marburg)
RECTO: A print of the city of Marburg in Germany illustrated in lower right portion by a woodcut of a scholar . VERSO: a small map of a provincial German village.Taken fr...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1564
Selling price: $10
Sold in 2014
Hessen.
RECTO: A map of the city of Hessen in Germany illustrated in lower right portion by a woodcut of a scholar.Taken from Sebastian Münster's encyclopedic work, the Cosmogra...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1564
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2012
Das Funffte Buch. Aldenburg.
RECTO: A map of the city of Aldenberg in Germany. Taken from Sebastian Münster's encyclopedic work, the Cosmographia Universalis. The Cosmographia by Sebastian Münster ...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1564
Selling price: $10
Sold in 2014
Wittenburg. / Portrait of Luther
RECTO: A map of the city of Wittenburg in Germany illustrated in lower right portion by a woodcut of Luther. VERSO: a woodcut of a Pope.Taken from Sebastian Münster's en...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1564
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2011
Eyfalia.
RECTO: a map of the area around Cologne, including the Dutch province Limburg and part of Luxemburg. VERSO: a woodcut of a Turkish bath scene and the its outside surround...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1564
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2009
Munster.
A of Münster in Germany. VERSO: a woodcut of a coat of arms.Region known for its agriculture, dairy farming, livestock raising.Taken from Sebastian Münster's encyclope...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1564
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2012
Das Funffte Buch. Mitnacht.
Town-plan of Mitnacht with a key: A-Q. VERSO: a woodcut of a scholar. Taken from Sebastian Münster's encyclopedic work, the "Cosmographia Universalis". The &qu...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1564
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2012
[De Germania - Prinum Suitenfium Foedus]
One Latin text page telling a story from the years 1316-1323. Illustrated with a wonderful wood block print of medieval knights and men shown in a highly stylized primiti...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1564
Selling price: $15
Sold in 2017
[Gotha] GOTTA. Alli 25 di Gennaro 1567 su posto l'assedio sotto la gr: an fortezza..
Rare plan of the town and siege of Gotha in 1567. In the foreground nice depiction of tents and soldiers on horses.Engraved by Nicolo Nelli.Collector's item. A unique opp...
Place & Date: Venice 1567
Selling price: $2000
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FRANCKFORT [Frankfurt]
Rare Lafreri School town-plan of Frankfurt, engraved by Paolo Forlani, of the Lafreri school of mapmakers, first published in "Il Primo Libro Delle Citta, Et Fortezz...
Place & Date: Venice, Zaltieri, (1567) 1567
Selling price: $790
Sold in 2016
Frankfurt an der Oder.
Interesting woodblock of the medieval town of Frankfurt an der Oder, in Brandenburg. It lies on the Oder river, which marks the current border between Germany and Poland...
Place & Date: Basel, 1552 - 1568
Selling price: $250
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Die Stat Nordlingen.
Interesting woodblock view of the medieval town of Nordlingen, today Riess, in Bayern.Individual landmarks and buildings are named as well as farms and other points of i...
Place & Date: Basel, 1552 - 1568
Selling price: $67
Sold in 2011
La cité de Augspourg des Vindeliciens auiourdhuy des Rhetiens cogneue par tout le monde.
Interesting woodblock view of Augsburg illustrating a detailed plan of the fortified city, with west at the top and 3 coats of arms.One of the most detailed of all Münst...
Place & Date: Basel 1552 - 1568
Selling price: $50
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Friburg Im Brisgew. 1549.
Decorative woodblock bird's-eye view of Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany. From a French edition of Munster's Cosmographia Universalis.
Place & Date: Basel 1552 - 1568
Selling price: $35
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La situation & figure de la cité de Francfort...
Interesting woodblock view of Frankfort am Mainz. Individual landmarks and buildings are named in a key. With French title on top and two cartouches with a key.From a Fre...
Place & Date: Basle, 1552 - 1568
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2015
GOTTA. (GOTHA)
Rare Lafreri School town-plan of Gotha,Thüringen, engraved by Paolo Forlani of the Lafreri school of mapmakers, first published in "Il Primo Libro Delle Citta, Et F...
Place & Date: Venice, Zaltieri, (1567) 1568
Selling price: $31
Sold in 2018
Die Nordlingen Stat.
Interesting woodblock view of the medieval town of Nordlingen, today Riess, in Bayern.Individual landmarks and buildings are named as well as farms and other points of in...
Place & Date: Basel, 1552 - 1568
Selling price: $10
Sold in 2016
Hamburg.
A delightful birds-eye view of the north German city from of Hamburg, as seen from the River, as set within a page of German text. This lovely view includes a key (A-O) b...
Place & Date: Basle, 1570
Selling price: $45
Sold in 2021
Monasteriensis et Osnaburgensis Episcopatus 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 carto...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1571
Selling price: $280
Sold in 2008
Tabula Germaniae. (Germany)
Double-page woodcut Ptolemaic-style map by Sebastian Münster figuring Germany, published in the edition of Strabo by Henri Petri in 1571."Strabonis rerum geographic...
Place & Date: Basle, Henri Petri, 1571
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2018
Augusta iuxta figuram quam his ce temporibus habet delineata
Attractive cityview of Augsburg. Beautiful colored. Latin text on verso.
Place & Date: Cologne, 1572
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2008
Colonia Agrippina.
A bird's-eye view of the city of Cologne. With a strapwork title cartouche, and many figures.From the greatest publication in this genre!. The Civitates was compiled and ...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1572
Selling price: $750
Sold in 2020
Augusta Iuxta Figuram. . .[Augsburg]
A bird's-eye view plan of Augsburg by Braun & Hogenberg, with a key to locations. TRANSLATION OF CARTOUCHE TEXT: Following the catastrophic defeat of Varus and the su...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1572
Selling price: $180
Sold in 2020
TREVERIS[TRIER] - Typus ac Situs antiquissimae. . . [on sheet with] COBOLENTZ - Situs civitatis confluentinae. . . [and] ROTENBURG Tubarum. . .
Trier A nice old decorative view that looks down upon the city from the left bank of the Moselle. Founded as Augusta Treverorum by Augustus in 16 BC. Trier is Germany's o...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1572
Selling price: $330
Sold in 2020
COLONIA AGRIPPINA.[COLOGNE/KOELLN]
A nice old color example of Braun & Hogenberg's view of Koln (Cologne). TRANSLATION OF CARTOUCHE TOP: Divitense Munimentum is today known in the corrupted form of Tui...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1572
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2020
MARPURG [on sheet with] CASSEL.
A decorative map showing the views of Marburg and Kassel in Germany. From Braun & Hogenberg's famous 'Civitatus Orbis Terrarum', the most important book of town plans...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1572
Selling price: $180
Sold in 2020
[KALKAR] Calcaria Ducatus Clivensis, Multis Dotibus, Nobile Opp:
A decorative bird's-eye view plan of Kalkar by Braun and Hogenberg. TRANSLATION OF CARTOUCHE TEXT: Kalkar, a town in the Duchy of Cleves, well known for its many excellen...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1572
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2020
Wittenburga Saxoniae oppidum, ... [on sheet with] Civitas Francfordiensis In Marchionatu Brandeburgensi, ... [and] Wismaria, ... [and] Rostochium, ...[LUTHERSTADT WITTENBERG, ROSTOCK,WISMAR,FRANKFURT/ODER]
Four bird's-eye views on one sheet:: Wittenberg, Frankfurt an der Oder, Wismar and **Rostock. CARTOUCHE: Wittenberg, the Saxon town, universally famous for its cultivatio...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1572
Selling price: $275
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Monacum, nominatis sima Bavariae, Civitas [on sheet with] Ingolstadium [and] Frisingensis ... [and] Nordlinga ... [and] Ratispona ... [and] Straubinga .. [München, Ingolstadt, Freissing, Nördlingen, Regensburg and Straubing]
An old map with six German bird's-eye views by Braun and Hogenberg: München, Ingolstadt, Freissing, Nördlingen, Regensburg and Straubing. TRANSLATION OF CARTOUCHE TEXT:...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1572
Selling price: $435
Sold in 2020
Magdeburgum ... Metropolitica Saxoniae Urbs.[MAGDEBURG]
An old map - bird's-eye view plan of Magdeburg by Braun and Hogenberg. TRANSLATION OF CARTOUCHE TEXT: Magdeburg was called Parthenopolis (virgin city) after Venus, who wa...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1572
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2020
Dresden - Dresa Florentissimum Misniae Opp. Illust: Saxoniae Ducum Sedes [on sheet with] Leibzigk - Lipsia Litterarum Studiis et Mercatura Celebre Misniae Oppidum. [Dresden & Leipzig]
An antique map with two bird's-eye views by Braun and Hogenberg: Dresden and Leipzig. Zwei alte Gesamtansichten von Braun und Hogenberg: Dresden und Leipzig. TRANSLATION ...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1572
Selling price: $500
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Nurnberga Florentissimum Germaniae Emporium . . [on sheet with] Ulma Imperialis in Suevia [and] Saltzburg Urbis Salisburgensis Genvina Descriptio [and] Lindaw. . .
A fine antique 'map' with four bird's-eye views on one sheet: Nürnberg, Ulm, Salzburg and Lindau, all by Braun & Hogenberg, from the: Civitates Orbis Terrarum, ... P...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1572
Selling price: $270
Sold in 2020
Civitas Francofordiana ad Moe [FRANKFURT/MAIN].
A fine copper engraved birds-eye view of Frankfurt am Main from the first volume of Braun & Hogenberg's "Civitas Orbis Terrarum. " Latin text to verso. From...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1572
Selling price: $650
Sold in 2021
Monasterium, Urbs in Media Westphalia Celeberrimi Nominis. . .Osnabrugum Elegans Saxoniae Opp. . .Wesalia Inferior.
A fine copper engraved sheet with panoramic views of Münster - Osnabrück - Wesel, by Braun and Hogenberg. From: 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum. - Urbium Praeciuarum Totius M...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1572
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2021
Treveris - Typus ac Situs antiquissimae. . .Cobolentz - Situs civitatis confluentinae, [and] Rotenburgum ad Tubarum. . .
A fine antique copper engraved sheet with three panoramic views by Braun and Hogenberg on one sheet: Trier, Koblenz and Rothenburg. From: 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum', ... ...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1572
Selling price: $240
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Heidelberga - Florentissimae civitatis Heidelbergensis [on sheet with] Spira Celebris admodum Imperij & episcopalis in Germania civitas. . .Wormacia vetustissima Vangionum civitas. . .
A fine antique copper engraved sheet with three panoramic views by Braun and Hogenberg: Heidelberg, Speyer and Worms. From: 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum', Liber Primus. Köl...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1572
Selling price: $280
Sold in 2021