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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

 


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....

$150 / ≈ €140
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, Sebastian.
Place & Date: Basel, H.Petri, ca. 1550
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2019

 


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...

$200 / ≈ €187
Maker / Publisher: MUNSTER, S.
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...

$165 / ≈ €154
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, Sebastian.
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...

Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, Sebastian
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...

$350 / ≈ €328
Maker / Publisher: Münster, S.
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...

$400 / ≈ €374
Maker / Publisher: Münster, S.
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.

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
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
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...

$150 / ≈ €140
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Paris, 1556
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2016

 


La ville de Berne. . .

Bird's eye town-plan of Bern.

$100 / ≈ €94
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
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...

$35 / ≈ €33
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
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...

$30 / ≈ €28
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1564
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2017

 


[ 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...

Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
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...

$10 / ≈ €9
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
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...

$900 / ≈ €842
Maker / Publisher: STUMPF, J.
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 &...

$400 / ≈ €374
Maker / Publisher: STUMPF, J.
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...

$400 / ≈ €374
Maker / Publisher: STUMPF, J.
Place & Date: Zurich, Christoffel Froschover, 1548,1552-1566
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2018

 


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...

$790 / ≈ €739
Maker / Publisher: FORLANI, P. / BALLINO, G.
Place & Date: Venice, Zaltieri, (1567) 1567
Selling price: $790
Sold in 2017

 


[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...

$775 / ≈ €725
Maker / Publisher: FURLANI,P. / ZALTIRIE,B.
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.

$35 / ≈ €33
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER,S.
Place & Date: Basel 1552 - 1568
Selling price: $35
Sold

 


[ Switzerland ]

Münster's map of Switzerland showing Basel and numerous other cities and villages of Switzerland.

$243 / ≈ €227
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
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...

$36 / ≈ €34
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
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...

$290 / ≈ €271
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER , S.
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...

$750 / ≈ €702
Maker / Publisher: BRAUN, G. / HOGENBERG, F.
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...

$400 / ≈ €374
Maker / Publisher: BRAUN, Georg / HOGENBERG, Frans.
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...

$85 / ≈ €80
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
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...

$122 / ≈ €114
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
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...

$50 / ≈ €47
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
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...

$50 / ≈ €47
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS,A.
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.

$100 / ≈ €94
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, Sebastian
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...

$215 / ≈ €201
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, ca. 1575
Selling price: $215
Sold in 2013

 


Constantia, vulgo Costnitz Memorabile Sueuie Opp. - S. Galli Opp. et Monasterium Helvetiorum, [Konstanz - Sankt Gallen]

Two bird's-eye panoramic views on one sheet: Constance and Sankt Gallen, by Georg Braun and Frans Hogenberg. From: 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum, ... Part 2'. Köln, 1575. CO...

$350 / ≈ €328
Maker / Publisher: BRAUN, Georg / HOGENBERG, Frans.
Place & Date: Cologne, 1575
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2021

 


Helvetiae sev sviciae qvae mvltis confoederatorvm terra dicitvr primmae Germanorvm provinciae Galliae Italiae qvae contigvae chorographia vera et elegans avtore.

FIRST EDITION of this fine example of De Jode's rare map of Switzerland. From the first edition of De Jode's Speculum Orbis Terrarum, the second general atlas of the worl...

$1800 / ≈ €1684
Maker / Publisher: DE JODE,G.
Place & Date: Antwerp 1578
Selling price: $1800
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Basilea (Basle)

One of the earliest detailed birds-eye view of Basle.From the greatest publication in this genre!. The Civitates was compiled and written by George Braun, Canon of Cologn...

$400 / ≈ €374
Maker / Publisher: BRAUN, G. / HOGENBERG, F.
Place & Date: Cologne, 1580
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2015

 


Helvetiae descriptio.

A fine map based upon a map by the Swiss cartographer Aegidicus Tschudi of 1538.

$241 / ≈ €226
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS,A.
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.

$55 / ≈ €51
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
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.

$50 / ≈ €47
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
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...

$300 / ≈ €281
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1580
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2010

 


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...

$590 / ≈ €552
Maker / Publisher: BRAUN,G. / HOGENBERG, F.
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...

$350 / ≈ €328
Maker / Publisher: BRAUN, G. / HOGENBERG, F.
Place & Date: Cologne, ca. 1581
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2020

 


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...

$350 / ≈ €328
Maker / Publisher: BRAUN, G. / HOGENBERG, F.
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.

$50 / ≈ €47
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
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...

$65 / ≈ €61
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1589
Selling price: $65
Sold in 2021

 


[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...

$20 / ≈ €19
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER,S.
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...

$500 / ≈ €468
Maker / Publisher: DE JODE,C.
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...

$300 / ≈ €281
Maker / Publisher: DE JODE,C.
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.

$50 / ≈ €47
Maker / Publisher: MERCATOR, G.
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...

$50 / ≈ €47
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS,A.
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.

$560 / ≈ €524
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Anvers, 1598
Selling price: $560
Sold

 


.. 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...

$250 / ≈ €234
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basle 1598
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2009

 


[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...

$42 / ≈ €39
Maker / Publisher: MERCATOR,G.
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.

$300 / ≈ €281
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS,A.
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 ...

Maker / Publisher: SAUR, A.
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, ...

$2500 / ≈ €2339
Maker / Publisher: Mercator, G.
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...

$5000 / ≈ €4679
Maker / Publisher: MERCATOR, G./ HONDIUS, J.
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 ...

$1200 / ≈ €1123
Maker / Publisher: MERCATOR, G./ HONDIUS, J.
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...

$1150 / ≈ €1076
Maker / Publisher: MERCATOR, G./ HONDIUS, J.
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...

$200 / ≈ €187
Maker / Publisher: MERCATOR,G./ HONDIUS,J.
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...

$55 / ≈ €51
Maker / Publisher: MERCATOR, G. / HONDIUS, J.
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...

$110 / ≈ €103
Maker / Publisher: Saur, A.
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...

$50 / ≈ €47
Maker / Publisher: MERCATOR, G. / HONDIUS, J.
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...

$70 / ≈ €66
Maker / Publisher: MERCATOR, G./ HONDIUS, J.
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.

$105 / ≈ €98
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS,A./COIGNET.M.
Place & Date: Antwerp 1609
Selling price: $105
Sold

 


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 ...

$50 / ≈ €47
Maker / Publisher: LANGENES, J.B.
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...

$400 / ≈ €374
Maker / Publisher: Mercator, G.
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...

$120 / ≈ €112
Maker / Publisher: MERCATOR, G.
Place & Date: Druisburg and then Amsterdam, (1585-95) 1613
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2012

 


[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.

$65 / ≈ €61
Maker / Publisher: MERCATOR, Gerard
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...

$50 / ≈ €47
Maker / Publisher: MERCATOR, Gerardus.
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...

$350 / ≈ €328
Maker / Publisher: MERCATOR, G.
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...

$36 / ≈ €34
Maker / Publisher: BERTIUS, P.
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...

$610 / ≈ €571
Maker / Publisher: HONDIUS, Jodocus.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1617
Selling price: $610
Sold in 2020