Swiss Cities

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[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