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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...
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...
Place & Date: Nüremberg, 1493
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[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 &...
Place & Date: Basle, Michael Isengrin, 1544
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2014
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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...
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.
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...
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...
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.
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....
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...
Place & Date: Basel, H.Petri, ca. 1550
Selling price: $125
Sold in 2020
Beyde Stett Basel mit dem fürfliessenden Rhein und allen fürnemmen gebeüwen.
A double-page wood block bird's-eye view of the fortified Swiss city of Basel. Filled with detail, down to individual streets and buildings, bridges, towers and churches....
Place & Date: Basel, H.Petri, ca. 1550
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2019
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BEYDE STAETT GENFF. . .[Geneva]
An uncommon and early woodblock panoramic view of Geneva as a medieval walled city on the shores of Lake Leman. The skyline is dominated by the Cathedral of St. Peter, wh...
Place & Date: Basel, ca 1550
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2021
Basel. - Beyde Stett Basel mit dem fürfliessenden Rhein und allen fürnemmen Gebewen
A decorative map with a striking bird's-eye plan of Basel from Seb. Muenster, with key to locations. Maybe the first map of Basel , printed in Basel.Basle is shown here f...
Place & Date: Basel, ca. 1550
Selling price: $165
Sold in 2021
Zürich, - De la ville de Zurich
Nice example of Munster's woodcut birds-eye view of Zuerich , within French textSebastian Münster, a German geographer, cartographer, Hebraist, and theologian, was bor...
Place & Date: BASEL, ca 1550
Valesiae Altera et VII, 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, 1545-1552
Selling price: $350
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Helvetia Prima Rheni et VIII, 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, 1542-1552
Selling price: $400
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![[Lot of 7 leaves] Curiensis civitas, Rhetorum…/Valesia/Solothurensis/Clarissimae civitatis/Genevensis/Basiliensis/Ursina…Bernensis/Sedunensis/Designatio …Badensis.](/uploads/cache/48278-250x250.jpg)
[Lot of 7 leaves] Curiensis civitas, Rhetorum…/Valesia/Solothurensis/Clarissimae civitatis/Genevensis/Basiliensis/Ursina…Bernensis/Sedunensis/Designatio …Badensis.
Seven text leaves illustrated with wood block bird's-eye views of Chur, Solothurn, Geneva, Basel, Bern, Sitten, Baden and one single sheet map of the Valais. From the 155...
- $400 / ≈ €374
Place & Date: Basel, 1552
La ville de Berne L'an 1549.
Attractive hand colored woodcut by Sebastian Münster. Fine bird's-eye view of Berne, Switzerland on the river Aare. The engraving shows city walls, churches, castles and...
Place & Date: Paris, 1556
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2016
La ville de Berne. . .
Bird's eye town-plan of Bern.
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1560
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2010
L'effigie de la ville de Saleurre. . . (Solothum)
Panoramic of Solothum with on the foreground the River Aar. In lower right CS. There is no information available for the monogamist CS, he was probably German or Swiss a...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1560
Selling price: $35
Sold in 2015
De Lacu Lemanno. (Lake Geneva)
One Latin text page with a woodcut map of Lake Geneva (147x157mm). From Münster's Cosmographia Universalis. The Cosmographia by Sebastian Münster from 1544 is the earli...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1564
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2017
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[ Zürich ]
One Latin text page with a wood-cut illustration of Zürich (120 x 173 mm). From Münster's Cosmographia Universalis. The Cosmographia by Sebastian Munster from 1544 is t...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1564
Selling price: $14
Sold in 2022
De pago aventico vulgo Wifelspurgergow. . .
A lovely detailed wood cut map of South-western Switzerland it shows Geneva, Lake Geneva, Lake Neuchatel, Lake Biel, Bern, Freiburg, Lake Thuner, etc (150 x 155 mm). On v...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1564
Selling price: $10
Sold in 2020
IIII. Die ganz Eydgnoschafft.
Very early wood cut printed map of Switzerland.Originally engraved in 1548. The map was prepared by Johannes Stumpf (1500-1576) and engraved by Heinrich I. Vogtherr (1490...
Place & Date: Zurich, Christoffel Froschover, 1548,1552-1566
Selling price: $900
Sold in 2021
VI. Das Zürychgow.
Very early wood cut printed regional map of Switzerland centered on Zurich.Originally engraved in 1548. The map was prepared by Johannes Stumpf (1500-1576). Included in &...
Place & Date: Zurich, Christoffel Froschover, 1548,1552-1566
Selling price: $400
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X. Rhetia. Die Pündt.
Very early wood cut printed regional map of Switzerland with River Rhine.Originally engraved in 1548. The map was prepared by Johannes Stumpf (1500-1576). Included in &qu...
Place & Date: Zurich, Christoffel Froschover, 1548,1552-1566
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2018
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GINEVRA [Geneve]
Splendid and rare Lafreri School town-plan of Geneva, Calvin's paradise on earth, with index, lake of Lausanne and dated 1567, engraved by Paolo Forlani, of the Lafreri s...
Place & Date: Venice, Zaltieri, (1567) 1567
Selling price: $790
Sold in 2017
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[Geneva] Vedendo quanto il mondo sia hoggi di curioso di ueder il sito e forma bdi Ginevra ..
Extremely rare bird's-eye plan of the town of Geneva. In lower text banner a lettered key A-O.The print is addressed and dated In Venetia alla libraria dalla Colonna l'an...
Place & Date: Venice 1568
Selling price: $775
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Nouvelle Description du Pays de Suysse.
Interesting woodblock map of Switzerland. From a French edition of Munster's Cosmographia Universalis.
Place & Date: Basel 1552 - 1568
Selling price: $35
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[ Switzerland ]
Münster's map of Switzerland showing Basel and numerous other cities and villages of Switzerland.
Place & Date: Basle, 1572
Selling price: $243
Sold in 2011
Wahre abcontrasehtung der Loblichen und alten Statt Solothurn / gelegen in der Eydtgnoschaffe an der Uar
A double page bird’s-eye map of Solothurn, town on the Aar River in Switzerland. Solothurn is considered by many to be the most beautiful baroque city in Switzerland. T...
Place & Date: Basel, 1572
Selling price: $36
Sold in 2016
Bende Statt Basel mit dem Furssiessenden Rhein.
Fine double page wood block bird's-eye view of the fortified city of Basel, Switzerland. An original wood engraved map from the “COSMOGRAPHIA UNIVERSALIS” by Sebastia...
Place & Date: Basel, 1572
Selling price: $290
Sold in 2018
DECEM ET TRIA LOCA CONFOEDERATORUM HELVETIAE. (13 views of Swiss cities)
A decorative, striking map with 13 bird's-eye views of Swiss cities by Georg Braun and Frans Hogenberg: Schwyz, Unterwalden, Zug, Glarus, Basel, Zurich, Bern, Lucerne, Ur...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1572
Selling price: $750
Sold in 2020
Decem et Tria Loca Confoederatorum Helvetiae.
A fine antique copper engraved sheet with 13 copper engraved views of the original 13 Cantons of the Swiss confederacy from the first volume of Braun & Hogenberg's &q...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1572
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2021
Basiliensis Territorii Descriptio Nova and Circulus Sveviae, Vulgo Schwafiue Ligabische Kraiss.
This page is comprised of two maps by Ortelius, with great original coloring. The left map is of the Basel, Switzerland, area, with Basel shown in the center, and is cred...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1573
Selling price: $85
Sold in 2010
Basiliensis territorii descriptio nova./Circulus sue Liga. . .
Left hand map centered on Basle, east to top. With credit to Sebastian Münster in title cartouche.Right hand map with Boden See, Strasbourg and Augsburg. The map was pre...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1573
Selling price: $122
Sold in 2014
Basiliensis territorii descriptio nova./Circulus sue Liga. . .
Left hand map centered on Basle, east to top. With credit to Sebastian Münster in title cartouche.Right hand map with Boden See, Strasbourg and Augsburg. The map was pre...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1573
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2020
Basiliensis territorii descriptio nova./Circulus sue Liga..
Left hand map centred on Basle, east to top. With credit to Sebastian Münster in title cartouche.Right hand map with Boden See, Strasbourg and Augsburg. The map was prep...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1574
Selling price: $50
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Valesia - Wallisserland.
Early woodcut map of the Valais in southern Switzerland. Showing the region at the river Rhone from the Furka Pass to St. Maurice. Published by Heinrich Petri in Basel.
Place & Date: Basel 1574
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2017
Helvetiae Descriptio Aegidio Tschudo Auct.
Attractive early map of Switzerland. Includes parts of Italy as far south as Milan and Cremona, with the Lago Maggiore, Lago di Lugano, Lago di Como, and Lago d'Iseo. Nor...
Place & Date: Antwerp, ca. 1575
Selling price: $215
Sold in 2013