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Basilea (Basel).

An incunable double page panoramic view of Basel by H. Schedel from the German text edition of his Nuremberg Chronicle. Hartmann Schedel grew up in Nuremberg and first s...

$700 / ≈ €655
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, Hartmann.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1493
Selling price: $700
Sold in 2021

 


Basilea (Basel)

Probably the first-ever, woodcut view of the city of Basel in Switzerland from a 15th-century incunable.Page from the richest illustrated Incunable, the famous: Nuremberg...

Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H, after WOHLGEMUT, M.
Place & Date: Nüremberg, 1493

 


[Map of the central Europe with Switzerland]

Page with an early representation of Central Europe with Switzerland, Austria. South to the top. This text page with a fine wood block printed map is from the rare work &...

$100 / ≈ €94
Maker / Publisher: MELA, P. / SOLINUS, G.J.
Place & Date: Basle, Michael Isengrin, 1544
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2014

 


Genff [Geneva]

Early wood block print of Geneva. From his Geographia , that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge.The Cosmographia was one of the most successful and popular books o...

$40 / ≈ €37
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1550
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2008

 


Helvetiae moderna descriptio

Early woodcut map showing Switzerland, South Germany and the Lake Constance. From a Latin edition of Cosmographia from Sebastian Munster, published around 1550.

$400 / ≈ €374
Maker / Publisher: MUNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basle, 1550
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2010

 


Bende Stett Genff Gross und Klein/mit Einer Brucken Zusammen Gehencht. (Geneva)

Detailed hand-colored woodcut engraving of Geneva. The plate shows buildings, gardens and town walls. Map is adorned with a large armorial and has German text on the vers...

$55 / ≈ €51
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basle, c1550
Selling price: $55
Sold in 2013

 


Helvetiae Moderna Descriptio.

Early woodcut map showing Switzerland, South Germany and the Lake Bodensee below right. Fine colored map of Switzerland and the Alps, with north oriented to the right. Th...

$120 / ≈ €112
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basle, 1550
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2014

 


Nouvelle Description du Pays de Souysse. . .

Interesting woodblock map of Switzerland. From a French edition of Munster's Cosmographia Universalis.

$120 / ≈ €112
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basle, 1550
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2015

 


Die vierdt Landtafel haltet inn die alt Helvetiam Julii Cesaris. . .

A very early and rare wood engraved map of Switzerland orientated to the south. With many towns, lakes, rivers, and mountains named. Small boats are sailing on the lakes....

$165 / ≈ €154
Maker / Publisher: STUMPF, J.
Place & Date: Zurich, ca 1550
Selling price: $165
Sold in 2018

 


Bern in der Eydgnoschafft an dem Wasser Aar gelegen, figuriert nach ihrer gelegenheit.

This well rendered bird's-eye view depicts the fortified Swiss city of Bern. The detailed plan shows the Arola Fl or Aare River wrapping around the city with scores of in...

$125 / ≈ €117
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, Sebastian.
Place & Date: Basel, H.Petri, ca. 1550
Selling price: $125
Sold in 2020