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
Lindoiae civitas insularis, undique aqua lacunari circunsusa.…
A wood block printed early bird's-eye view of Lindau on Lake Constance (Germany). A lettered key A-O in the plate. From the 1552 Latin text edition of Münster's Cosmogra...
- $70 / ≈ €66
Place & Date: Basel, 1552
Colonia Agrippina civitas…
A wood block printed early panoramic view of Cologne (Germany). A lettered key A-Z beneath the view. The 1552 Latin text edition of Münster's Cosmographia is a short and...
- $70 / ≈ €66
Place & Date: Basel, 1552
![[Lot of 7 leaves of Prussia, Gdansk and Riga]](/uploads/cache/48297-250x250.jpg)
[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]](/uploads/cache/48299-250x250.jpg)
[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
![[Meissen]](/uploads/cache/85932-250x250.jpg)
[Meissen]
A double-page woodcut panoramic view of MEISSEN/SAXONY. This fine wood-blocked engraved hand coloured original antique print a view of the German city of Meissen in Sa...
Place & Date: Basel, ca 1558
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]](/uploads/cache/38536-250x250.jpg)
[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..](/uploads/cache/23811-250x250.jpg)
[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]](/uploads/cache/38740-250x250.jpg)
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]](/uploads/cache/84171-250x250.jpg)
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. . .](/uploads/cache/84003-250x250.jpg)
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]](/uploads/cache/84005-250x250.jpg)
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.](/uploads/cache/84006-250x250.jpg)
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:](/uploads/cache/84008-250x250.jpg)
[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]](/uploads/cache/84189-250x250.jpg)
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
Sold in 2020
![Monacum, nominatis sima Bavariae, Civitas [on sheet with] Ingolstadium [and] Frisingensis ... [and] Nordlinga ... [and] Ratispona ... [and] Straubinga .. [München, Ingolstadt, Freissing, Nördlingen, Regensburg and Straubing]](/uploads/cache/84193-250x250.jpg)
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