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Aphricae tabula secunda continet
Untitled trapezoidal Ptolemaic woodcut map of North Africa. From the 1541 Vienne (Dauphiné) edition of Ptolemy\'s Geographia published by Gaspar Trechsel and sold by H...
Place & Date: Vienne, 1541
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2009
Tabula nova Siciliae, Sardiniae, & Corsicae
An early woodcut Ptolemaic map of Corsica, Sardinia, Sicily, and southern Italy. With several towns and islands named. The active volcano Etna is shown with flames.
Place & Date: Vienne, 1541
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2016
(Balearic Islands: Majorca, Minorca, Ibiza, Formentera)
The first separate printed maps of the Balearics, and the first regional map to name "Catalunya" (Catalonia) on the Spanish mainland! A wood cut page with Ital...
Place & Date: Venice, 1528-1547
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2015
Sicilia Sardinia Nova Tabula.
Gastaldi's modern map of Sicily and Sardinia. From Giacomo Gastaldi's Atlas of 1548 which has been called the most comprehensive atlas, produced between Martin Waldseemü...
Place & Date: Venice, 1548
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2023
Corsica.
Woodblock map of Corsica surrounded by ships and fierce sea monsters. On a full sheet of German text.
Place & Date: Basle 1562
Selling price: $100
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Neapolis. / Tiloi.
Text page with two town views of Naples and "Tiloi". It is a typical woodcut illustration that makes these Münster maps fascinating and sought after by map col...
Place & Date: Basel, 1562
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2008
Corsica.
Nice miniature map of Corsica with monsters and ships in the sea. It is a typical woodcut illustration that makes these Münster maps fascinating and sought after by map ...
Place & Date: Basel, 1562
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2008
Tabula Siciliae et Sardiniae. (Sicily and Sardinia)
Double-page woodcut Ptolemaic-style map by Sebastian Münster figuring Sicily and Sardinia, published in the edition of Strabo by Henri Petri in 1571."Strabonis reru...
Place & Date: Basle, Henri Petri, 1571
Selling price: $155
Sold in 2018
MAIORCA.
One of the earliest separate maps of Majorca (Mallorca)! First issue from 1572. The map shows major cities and several sea monsters. A compass rose orients the map with s...
Place & Date: Venice, c1572
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2013
Europae Tabula VII.
Map representing Sardinia and Sicily. Also showing Malta, southern part of Corsica, northern part of Africa and western part of Italy.From La Geografia Di Clavdio Tolomeo...
Place & Date: Venise 1574
Selling price: $130
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Senensis ditionis. . . / Corsica / Marcha Anconae. . .
Three inset maps : on the left the Tuscan region with Sienna upper left, the island of Corsica upper right, and lower right the Ancona region along the coast of the Adr...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1574-1575
![Calaris [on sheet with] Malta [and] Rhodus [and] Famagusta.](/uploads/cache/33682-250x250.jpg)
Calaris [on sheet with] Malta [and] Rhodus [and] Famagusta.
One sheet with very desirable and early town-plans of four Mediterranean island capitals—Cagliari (Sardinia), Valletta (Malta), Rhodes, and Famagusta (Cyprus). "C...
Place & Date: Cologne, (1572) 1577
Selling price: $550
Sold in 2015
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Melita
One of the first delineations of the island of Malta.
Place & Date: Basel, ca. 1578
Sardinia insula
Very early and decorative map of Sardinia with in top the southern most tip of Corsica.From his Cosmographia, that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge.Very decorati...
Place & Date: Basel 1580
Selling price: $275
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Corsica.
Early map of Corsica, oriented east to the top.
Place & Date: Antwerp, ca. 1580
Selling price: $480
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![[Lot with 12 maps of the Mediterraneans and Egypt.] Aegypti Recenttior Carthageni / General Karte des Roemischen Reichs](/uploads/cache/83963-250x250.jpg)
[Lot with 12 maps of the Mediterraneans and Egypt.] Aegypti Recenttior Carthageni / General Karte des Roemischen Reichs
A map of the Middle East and the Mediterranean. Taken from 'Algemeine Welthistorie (der Neuern Zeiten)', edited by S.J. Baumgarten, J.S.Semler a.o. Abraham Ortelius...
Place & Date: Antwerp, c. 1580
Selling price: $198
Sold in 2022
Creta Iouis magni, medio iacet insula ponto.
Fantastic map of islands of the Mediterranean by Ortelius; a large map of Crete is at the bottom half of the sheet, with smaller maps of Corsica, the Greek Islands and Sa...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1584
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2010
Tafel Der Lender Darin Der Apostel Paulus Geprediget Hat.
The Eastern Mediterranean, from the "Itinerarium Sacrae Scripturae", showing Italy, Sicily, Greece, Cyprus, Asia Minor, the Holy Land and North Africa, with cit...
Place & Date: Magdeburg, 1585
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2014
Insularum Aliquot Maris Mediterranei Descriptio.
Insularum Aliquot Maris Mediterranei Descriptio. Cum priuilegio'Sicily, Sardegne, Corfv, Zerbi, Elba, Malta. Six early maps on one sheet. Including the islands of Sicily,...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1587
Selling price: $650
Sold in 2017
Peregrinationis Divi Pauli Typus Corographicus...
Ortelius's map of Paulus's travels from his Atlas Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. It covers the Mediterranean Sea from Italy and Sicily until the Near East and Egypt, with Cypru...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1587
Selling price: $180
Sold in 2019
Descrittione Dell' Isola Di Corsica
Rare early map of the French island Corsica and a small part of Sardinia. Published around 1590 in "L'isole piu famose del mondo." Very detailed naming many s...
Place & Date: Padova, ca. 1590
Selling price: $160
Sold in 2009
Descrittione Dell' Isola Di Corsica.
Rare early map of the French island Corsica and a small part of Sardinia. Published around 1590 in "L'isole piu famose del mondo." Very detailed map, naming man...
Place & Date: Padova, ca. 1590
Selling price: $180
Sold in 2011
Descrittione dell' Isola dell'Elba.
The map depicts the Italian Mediterranean island of Elba. The map is orientated towards the north-west. From "L'Isole Piu Famose del Mondo", printed in Venice. ...
Place & Date: Venice, 1590
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2019
Corsicae insulae pars / Sardinia
Small map of southern Corsica and all of Sardinia, which is a part of Ortelius' map Insularum Aliquot. Superbly engraved and with fine detail.
Place & Date: Antwertp, ca. 1590
Peregrinationis divi Pauli typus corographicus
Hand colored map of the Eastern Mediterranean by Abraham Ortelius. Covering the Mediterranean Sea between Israel and Sicily with Cyprus, Italy, Greece and Turkey. With tw...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1592
Selling price: $700
Sold in 2010
Natoliam Moderni dicunt tam partem quam Asiam minrem appelauere veteres (with Cyprus)
Engraved by Van Deutecum, this is a spectacular example of the 1593 edition of the very rare De Jode's map of the Eastern Mediterranean and Asia Minor. It has two title c...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1593
Selling price: $2900
Sold in 2014
Creta Iouis magni../Corsica../ Sardinia..
Islands are shown with place names and important locales as they existed in the Classical Period. Ortelius mentions as his classical sources Strabo, Palenses, Athenaeus, ...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1595
Selling price: $270
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Aeneae Troiani navigatio..
After the destruction of Troy, Aenaeas is reported to have roamed the seas for seven years, as described in the writings of Xenophon, Ovidius, Lycrophonous, but most exte...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1595
Selling price: $320
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Peregrinationis Divi Pauli Typus Corographicus . . .
A splendid map depicting the travels of Paulus. With two fine scenes in top. Showing the countries along the Mediterranean, including Cyprus and Italy. Based on Mercator'...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1595
Selling price: $1300
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Peregrinationis Divi Pauli Typus...
A splendid map depicting the travels of Paulus. With two fine scenes in top. Showing the countries along the Mediterranean, including Cyprus and Italy. Based on Mercator'...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1595
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2014
Tafel der Lender / darin der Apostel Paulus geprediget hat.
Woodcut showing the Eastern Mediterranean from the "Itinerarium Sacrae Scripturae", showing Italy, Sicily, Greece, Cyprus, Asia Minor, the Holy Land and North A...
Place & Date: Magdeburg, 1595
Selling price: $340
Sold in 2017
![[Lot of 9 maps/ prints of Egypt ] Aegypti Recentior Descriptio / Carthaginis Celeberrimi Sinus Typus.](/uploads/cache/18309-(8)-250x250.jpg)
[Lot of 9 maps/ prints of Egypt ] Aegypti Recentior Descriptio / Carthaginis Celeberrimi Sinus Typus.
Abraham Ortelius' maps of Egypt and Carthago on one sheet.Abraham Ortelius(1527-98), Dutch cartographer and publisher of the first modern atlas, ' Theatrum Orbis Terrarum...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1595
Selling price: $160
Sold in 2023
Insularum Aliquot Maris Mediterranei Descriptio.
Six maps on one sheet. In the center a map of Sicily, surrounded by maps of Sardinia, Djerba, The island of Elbe, Corfu and Malta.
Place & Date: Antwerp 1598
Selling price: $350
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CALARIS, MALTA, RHODUS, FAMAGUSTA.
Four separate views of historical Mediterranean islands on one sheet. Malta, Calaris, Rhodes ( Rhodus ), Famagusta.From the greatest publication in this genre! The Civita...
Place & Date: Cologne 1598
Selling price: $660
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Insularum Aliquot Maris Mediterranei Descriptio.
Six maps on one sheet. In the center a map of Sicily, surrounded by maps of Sardinia, Djerba, The island of Elbe, Corfu and Malta.
Place & Date: Antwerp 1598
Selling price: $770
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Insularum Aliquot Maris Mediterranei Descriptio.
Six maps on one sheet. In the center a map of Sicily, surrounded by maps of Sardinia, Djerba, The island of Elbe, Corfu and Malta.
Place & Date: Antwerp 1598
Selling price: $650
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MALTA, CALARIS, RHODES, FAMAGUSTA.
Four separate views of historical Mediterranean islands on one sheet. MALTA, CALARIS, RHODES ( Rhodus ), FAMAGUSTA.From the greatest publication in this genre!. The Civit...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1598
Selling price: $1150
Sold in 2008
Insularum Aliquot Maris Mediterranei Descriptio.
Six maps on one sheet. In the center a map of Sicily, surrounded by maps of Sardinia, Djerba, The island of Elbe, Corfu and Malta.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1598
Selling price: $700
Sold in 2018
Majorcae et Minorcae descrip.
Superb miniature map of the Balearics. Including a sailing ship, sea monsters, and the title cartouche. With French text on verso.Published in his "Caert-Thresoor&qu...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c. 1600
Selling price: $210
Sold in 2017
Corcyra vel Corfu
Unusual edition of this early miniature map of Corfu. With a sailing ship and a sea-monster. Latin title above the map.
Place & Date: Antwerp, ca. 1600
Corcyra vel Corfu
Unusual edition of this early miniature map of Corfu. With a sailing ship and a sea-monster. Latin title above the map.
Place & Date: Antwerp, ca. 1600
Corsica.
A fine miniature map of the island of Corsica. North to the left.
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1606
Selling price: $150
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Sardinia.
Early depiction of the island of Sardinia. A number of place-names and with mountains in relief appearance. Text on the back in French.Mercator was born in Rupelmonde in ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $411
Sold in 2011
Elba.
An attractive miniature map of the Mediterranean and Italian island of Elba, situated off the Tuscan coast. The island found fame as the Emperor Napoleon was briefly exil...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2020
Alexandri Magni Macedonis Expeditio. - Iovis Ammonis Oraculum. 1595.
Alexandri Magni Macedonis Expeditio - Iovis Ammonis Oraculum. 1595.Abraham Ortelius (1527-98), Dutch cartographer and publisher of the first modern atlas, ' Theatrum Orb...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1607
Peregrinatio Pauli..
Early map showing the travels of Paulus, including Greece, Crete, Turkey, Palestine and Cyprus.From the first French-text edition of Jodocus Hondius'' Atlas Minor.Shortly...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1608
Selling price: $220
Sold in 2008
Corsica. / Sardinia.
2 maps of Corsica and Sardinia on the same plate. From the first French-text edition of Jodocus Hondius'' Atlas Minor.Shortly after the publication of the big folio-atlas...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1608
Selling price: $300
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Sardinia.
A miniature map centered on the island of Sardinia. Title cartouche on the upper left corner. First published in 1598 in his Caert-Thresoor, the plates were executed by t...
Place & Date: Amsterdam/Frankfurt 1609
Selling price: $80
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![[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
Cyprus Ins
From the "Gerardi Mercatoris Atlas sive Cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mundi et fabricati figura denuò auctus". Latin text on verso. An elegant map of ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c 1611
Selling price: $800
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Aeneae Troiani Navigatio.
From the famous historical Atlas Parergon. The map is ornated with four cartouches, on top in the middle the title cartouche, on the middle right, underneath a decorative...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1612
Selling price: $1200
Sold in 2013
CORSCICA / SARDINIA / Per Gerardum Mercatorem.
This is an attractively engraved map by Gerard Mercator of the islands of Corsica and Sardinia. The two maps are on one folio sheet. Like all of Gerard Mercator's maps ...
Place & Date: Duisburg and then Amsterdam, (1589-95) 1613
Selling price: $380
Sold in 2011
Tabula Aphricae II.
A fine Ptolemaic map, probably from the Jansson/Magini atlas of 1617. With parts of Algeria, Tunesia, and Lybia. It includes Sardinia and Sicily (with burning volcano), M...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1617
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2018
Majorcae et Minorcae descrip.
Superb miniature map of the Balearics. Including a sailing ship, sea monsters, and the title cartouche.Hondius map from Bertius "Tabularum geographicarum"! Rare...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1618
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2013
Maiorica.
A delightful small map of Majorca, the largest of the Balearic Islands. First published in 1572, this is the later edition of 1620. The place names of Palma, Cala Figera,...
Place & Date: Venice, 1620
Selling price: $125
Sold in 2020
Minorica.
A delightful small map of Minorca, one of the Balearic Islands. First published in 1572, this is the later edition of 1620. The place names of Santa Catherina, Citadella,...
Place & Date: Venice, 1620
Selling price: $135
Sold in 2020
CORSICA Isola, olim Cyrnus.
A striking, decorative map of Corsica, orientated with north to the left, with strapwork cartouches for the title, scale and dedication, and with sea monsters and a galle...
Place & Date: Bologne, 1620
Selling price: $427
Sold in 2019
Sicilia.
Small map of Sicily, surrounded by text in Dutch. Nicolaes de Clerck (de Klerc) was active as engraver and publisher in Delft from 1599-1621.Included in the rare book : W...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cloppenburch, 1621
Selling price: $180
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Sardinia.
Small map of Sardinia, oriented with East on top and surrounded by text in Dutch. Nicolaes de Clerck (de Klerc) was active as engraver and publisher in Delft from 1599-16...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cloppenburch, 1621
Selling price: $235
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Majorcae et Minorcae descrip.
Small map depicting 2 of the Balearic Islands, surrounded by text in Dutch. Embellished with a sailing boat and 2 sea monsters.Nicolaes de Clerck (de Klerc) was active as...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cloppenburch, 1621
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2016
Sardinia.
Small map of Sardinia, oriented with East on top and surrounded by text in Dutch. Nicolaes de Clerck (de Klerc) was active as engraver and publisher in Delft from 1599-16...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cloppenburch, 1621
Selling price: $160
Sold in 2016
Peregrinationis Divi Pauli Typus…
A splendid map depicting the travels of Paulus. With two fine scenes in top. Showing the countries along the Mediterranean, including Cyprus and Italy. Based on Mercator'...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1624
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2023
Corsica et Sardinia.
Early depiction of the two islands, each with their own titles and scale-bars. A number of place-names and with mountains in relief appearance.Mercator was born in Rupelm...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1633
Selling price: $335
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SARDINIA.
This is the first appearance of this Blaeu map. It is without the title cartouche and is on a page of text. Willem Janszoon, or Willem Jansz Blaeu (1571-1638) as he is m...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1634
Selling price: $110
Sold in 2012
Corsica.
Map of Corsica. East on top.Dutch edition. In original outline line color, with some later color additions.
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1635
Selling price: $62
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Corsica Insula.
Map of Corsica in copper engraving on a sheet with letterpress with French text description of the island.As Willem Blaeu died in 1638 most of his maps are actually publi...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1638
Selling price: $750
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Sardinia Insula.
Map of Sardinia in copper engraving on a sheet with letterpress with French text description of the island.As Willem Blaeu died in 1638 most of his maps are actually publ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1638
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2010
Sardinia Insula.
A small map of the Italian island of Sardinia, printed on a sheet of Dutch text and published in Blaeu's "Theatrum" in 1642. Attractive initial letter 'H' begin...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca 1642
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2019
Insulae BALEARIDES et Pytissiae.
A map of Mallorca and Minorca. With Ibiza and Formentera, called the Pytuisae Islands. The coastline runs from Barcelona to Atalaia.
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1639-1644
Selling price: $150
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Insulae Balearides et Pytiusae.
A map of Mallorca and Minorca and with Ibiza and Formentera, called the Pytuisae Islands, with the coastline from Barcelona to Denia.From an incomplete example of the 164...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1644
Selling price: $600
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Majorcae et Minorcae descrip.
Superb miniature map of the Balearics. Including a sailing ship, sea monsters, and the title cartouche. After Barent Langenes from his Caert-Thresoor. Very rare and at...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1649
Selling price: $220
Sold in 2013
Eiecitg Adam et collocauitante paradisium uouptatis cherubim . . . (Plate 7)
Very nice etching by Nicolas Chapron, after Raphaël's (Raffaello Sanzio) frescoes in the Vatican Loggia. Scene illustrating an angel casting Adam and Eve out of the para...
Place & Date: Paris, Petrus Mariette, 1649
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2021
Portantes Arcam sacerdotes . . . (Plate 37)
Very nice etching by Nicolas Chapron, after Raphaël's (Raffaello Sanzio) frescoes in the Vatican Loggia. Scene illustrating Priests carrying the Ark through the River Jo...
- $25 / ≈ €23
Place & Date: Paris, Petrus Mariette, 1649
Arca Dni septies circuit Ciuitatem et clangentib tubis. Jericho corruerunt Moenia. Iosue. CVI. ( Plate 38)
Very nice etching by Nicolas Chapron, after Raphaël's (Raffaello Sanzio) frescoes in the Vatican Loggia. Scene illustrating the walls of Jericho crumbling.From the first...
- $25 / ≈ €23
Place & Date: Paris, Petrus Mariette, 1649
Cataractae coeli apertoe funt: Et aguae proealuerunt super terram comfumptag Est omnis caro . . . (Plate 13)
Very nice etching by Nicolas Chapron, and after Raphaël's (Raffaello Sanzio) frescoes in the Vatican Loggia. Scene illustrating the moment when God said to Noah "Go...
- $25 / ≈ €23
Place & Date: Paris, Petrus Mariette, 1649
Insularum Sardiniae et Corsicae Antiqua descriptio/ Insular Aliquot Aegaei Maris Antiqua descrip.
Map showing Sardinia, Corsica and Aegean Islands including Chios, Rosi, Lemnos and Lesbos. From an historical atlas by Georgius Hornius,"Accuratissima orbis antiqui ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1653
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2014
Insularum Sardiniae et Corsicae Antiqua descriptio/ Insular Aliquot Aegaei Maris Antiqua descrip.
A striking map showing Sardinia, Corsica and many of the Aegean Islands, including Chios, Rosi, Lemnos and Lesbos.From an historical / geographical Atlas by Georgius Horn...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1653
Selling price: $160
Sold in 2017
Peregrinationis Divi Pauli Typus Corographicus. . .
Peregrinationis Divi Pauli Typus Corographicus In quo & novi testamenti, in primis autem apostulorum historiae, a Sancto Luca descripta, omnia fere loca geographica, ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1655
Selling price: $550
Sold in 2020
A Mappe of The Sea Coasts. (South-west Europe)
A unusual map showing the Atlantic coasts of Europe and part of the Western Mediterranean, with the northern tip of North Africa. Ungraduated chart. Text in English and L...
Place & Date: England, ca. 1657
Selling price: $210
Sold in 2020
Calaris
Very rare woodcut birds-eye view of Cagliari, the capital of Sardinia. Showing numerous buildings and ships! From Saur's important work "Stätte-Buch... / Beschreib...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1658
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2009