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Helvetiae descriptio.
A fine map based upon a map by the Swiss cartographer Aegidicus Tschudi of 1538.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1580
Selling price: $241
Sold in 2009
De Germania Basiliensis ciuitatis contrasactura, adumbrata ad genuinu eius situm, quem anno 1549 habuit.
Early bird's eye view of Basle. From a French text edition of S. Münster's Cosmographia, which is a short and complete summary of Renaissance knowledge.
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1580
Selling price: $55
Sold in 2011
De Germania Ursina ciuitas, uulgo Bernensis, ad hunc Christi annum 1549. exarata.
Early bird\'s eye view of Bern. From a French text edition of S. Münster\'s Cosmographia, which is a short and complete summary of Renaissance knowledge.
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1580
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2010
Le pourtraict de la ville de Basle . . .
Panoramic view of Basel. Engraved by Hans Rudolf Manuel Deutsch (1525-1571) was a painter, designer and poet. Probably apprenticed with Maximilian Wischack in Basel in th...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1580
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2010
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TIGVRVM [Zürich]
One of the finest and most sought-after views of Zürich. From volume one of the greatest publication in this genre!. The Civitates was compiled and written by George Bra...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1581
Selling price: $590
Sold in 2018
Basilea. (Basel)
A decorative map with a striking bird's-eye plan of Basel by Braun and Hogenberg, with key to locations. Together a sheet with the description in Latin text. COMMENTARY B...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca. 1581
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2020
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CONSTANTIA, vulgo Costnitz Memorabile Sueuie Opp. [on sheet with:] S. GALLI Opp. et Monasterium Helvetiorum. . . (Constance (Konstanz) / Sankt Gallen).
This sheet contains two lovely bird's-eye views of towns bordering Lake Constance, which lies between Germany and Switzerland. At top is Konstanz in southwest Germany and...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca 1581
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2020
Circulus Sive Liga Suevia Vulgo Schwabische Kraiss.
Early map showing the region bounded by the Bodensee, the Rhein and Augsburg, centered on the Donau.
Place & Date: Antwerp, ca. 1584
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2021
Helvetiae Descriptio, Aegidio Tschudo Auctore
This is the rare pocket edition of Abraham Ortelius maps, prepared and engraved by Philippe Galle in Antwerp in 1589. It depicts Switzerland, and. it has a neat title and...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1589
Selling price: $65
Sold in 2021
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[Map showing region of Basle and Strassbourg].
An early map of Colmar, Strasbourg, Basle, etc. (85x135 cm). VERSO: showing the cultivation of vinesFrom a German text edition of his Geographia , that great compendium o...
Place & Date: Basle 1550-1590
Selling price: $20
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Helvetiae seu Sviciae qvae mvltis confoederatvm..
A rare and beautifully engraved map from the second edition of De Jode's atlas Speculum Orbis Terrarum . Includes complete Switzerland.Engraved by Joan and Lucas van Deut...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1593
Selling price: $500
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Basileae Inclytae Rauracorum Urbis.. / Valesiae Provinciae montanae Italiam.
Two maps on one sheet: in top the canton Valais and in bottom part a detailed map of the area around Basel.Very rare and beautifully engraved map from De Jode's atlas Spe...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1593
Selling price: $300
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[Map of Switzerland canton of Argow.]
Map of Argow. With his engraved signature lower left.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1595
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2021
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, 1598
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2016
Helvetiae descriptio.
A fine map based upon a map by the Swiss cartographer Aegidicus Tschudi of 1538.
Place & Date: Anvers, 1598
Selling price: $560
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.. Stett Genff.. (Geneva)
An uncommon and early woodblock view of Geneva as a medieval walled city on the shores of Lake Leman. The skyline is dominated by the Cathedral of St. Peter, where John C...
Place & Date: Basle 1598
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2009
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[Zurichgow et Basiliensis Provincia].
Including the towns of Basle, Lucerne, Zürich, etc.Mercator was born in Rupelmonde in Flanders and studied in Louvain under Gemma Frisius, Dutch writer, astronom...
Place & Date: Amsterdam c.1600
Selling price: $42
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Helvetiae descriptio.
A fine map based upon a map by the Swiss cartographer Aegidicus Tschudi of 1538.
Place & Date: Antwerp 1603
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2008
Basilea (Basle).
This superb miniature view of the city of Basilea is from an edition of the famous Abraham Saur's Theatrum Urbium.The Theatrum Urbium was republished numerous times. The ...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1605
Selling price: $56
Sold in 2023
Chorographica Tabula Lacus Lemanni Locorumque Circumiacentium Auctore Iac. G. Genevensi
Beautiful old colored map of the Lake Geneva after J. Goulart from the first Latin edition of the Mercator-Hondius Atlas. Rare edition with the five portraits of Calvin, ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $2500
Sold in 2008
Chorographica Tabula Lacus Lemanni Locorumque Circumiacentium Auctore Iac. G. Genevensi.
Beautiful old colored "carte à figures" map of the Lake Geneva after J. Goulart from the first Latin edition of the Mercator-Hondius Atlas. Rare edition with t...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $4500
Sold in 2013
Chorographica Tabula Lacus Lemanni Locorumque Circumiacentium Auctore Iac. G. Genevensi.
Beautiful detailed "carte à figures"- map of the Lake Geneva after J. Goulart. Only published in the first three editions of J. Hondius’ atlas. Rare edition ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $1200
Sold in 2012
Chorographica Tabula Lacus Lemanni Locorumque Circumiacentium Auctore Iac. G. Genevensi.
Beautiful detailed carte à figures map of the Lake Geneva after J. Goulart. Only published in the first three editions of J. Hondius’ atlas. Rare edition with the five...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $1150
Sold in 2017
Lacus Lemanus.
Excellent example of Mercator?s close-up map Lake Geneva and surrounding area. North is at the bottom.Several old place names have been retained today. Strap work cartouc...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1608
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2008
Helvetia.
Map of Switzerland, from the first French-text edition of Jodocus Hondius'' Atlas Minor.Shortly after the publication of the big folio-atlases the need was apparently fel...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1608
Selling price: $55
Sold in 2017
Geneua
Nice rare woodcut view of Geneva / Geneve at the Lac Leman (Switzerland) on a full text sheet. From \"Parvum Theatrum Urbium sive Urbium Praecipuarum totius orbis Br...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1608
Selling price: $110
Sold in 2009
Zurichou.
Map depicting the area between Zugersee/Zurichsee, Basel and Lake Constance, included major cities as well as numerous small towns.In the left under corner a small strapw...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1608
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2009
Argou.
Finely engraved map including the towns of Bern, Thuner and Lucerne with Lucerner See.A profusion of place names and a nice title cartouche. From the first French-text ed...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1608
Selling price: $70
Sold in 2009
Savoia.
Miniature map of the Geneva area with major cities named, Geneva is situated in the middle. Strapwork title cartouche in the left upper corner. Latin text on verso.
Place & Date: Antwerp 1609
Selling price: $105
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Helvetia.
A miniature map of the Switzerland, centered on Zurich. Title cartouche on the upper left side.First published in 1598 in his Caert-Thresoor, the plates were executed by ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam/Frankfurt, 1609
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2008
Burgundia superior sive liber comitatus
Beautiful colored engraved map the Burgundy (Bourgogne) with parts of Switzerland and France by G. Mercator. Showing the Lake Geneva or Lake Léman and the Lake Neuchâte...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1610
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2008
Das Wilflispurgergow / Per Gerardum Mercatore
A fine detailed early map of Central Switzerland with Lake Geneva, Bern, etc. by Gerard Mercator. Gerard Mercator (1512-1594) was one of the most famous geographers of hi...
Place & Date: Druisburg and then Amsterdam, (1585-95) 1613
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2012
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[Northern Switzerland with Basel, Zurich, etc.] per Gerardum Mercatorem.
This is Gerard Mercator's map of Northern Switzerland with Basel, Zurich, the lakes, etc. It first appeared in Duisberg in 1585. This map is from a Latin edition of 1613.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, (1585-95) 1613
Selling price: $65
Sold in 2014
Das Wiflispurgergow.
A truly beautiful old color example of the Mercator Hondius map of Wiflispurgergow in south west Switzerland. This map was first issued in 1595, only one year after Merca...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1613
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2019
Chorographica Tabula Lacus Lemmanni Locorumque Circumia Centium. . .
A highly attractive and scarce map of Lake Geneva and its environs, orientated to the south east. There is a high degree of skillful engraving within this map, embellishe...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1613
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2018
Rhaetiae, Vindeliciae Norici et Pannoniarum descriptio.
Map of ancient Switzerland, part of Hungary and Croatia, prepared by Petrus Bertius (1565-1629). From "Commentariorum Rerum Germanicarum Libri Tres : Primus est Germ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, J.Janssonius, 1616
Selling price: $36
Sold in 2015
Nova Helvetiae Tabula.
A good example of the rare and beautiful map of Switzerland by Jodocus Hondius, printed in 1617. It is one of the most decorative single sheet maps of Switzerland publish...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1617
Selling price: $610
Sold in 2020
Zurichgow et Province de Basle (no title).
Gerard Mercator's ' Atlas sive Cosmographica' was published and augmented between 1606 and 1641 by Jodocus Hondius, his son Hendrik and by Johannes Janssonius.A map of th...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1619
Selling price: $400
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Helvetia.
Small map of Switzerland, 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 boo...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cloppenburch, 1621
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2009
Helvetia.
Small map of Switzerland, 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 boo...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cloppenburch, 1621
Selling price: $55
Sold in 2016