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Illuminated leaf from a liturgical Psalter.

Very fine illuminated leaf from a liturgical Psalter in Latin. Lines in a slightly irregular gothic hand, black ink, plummet ruling. Very fine initial extended in the mar...

$1000 / ≈ €936
Maker / Publisher: PSALTER
Place & Date: England, c. 1280
Selling price: $1000
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Manuscript leaf, on vellum from a book of hours.

The flesh side of the vellum has 2 large 2-line initials illuminated initials "G" and "M" in blue and red with white heightening, on a very heavily bu...

$155 / ≈ €145
Maker / Publisher: BOOK OF HOURS
Place & Date: Paris, 1450
Selling price: $155
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Ultima etas mundi ( The Last Judgment ) CCLXV.

One of the most sought-after prints from the Nuremberg Chronicle . VERSO: full-page woodcut of the last Judgment . Christ on the rainbow and orb, flanked by St.John and t...

$900 / ≈ €842
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $900
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Ars moriendi.

The Ars moriendi or Art of Dying is one of the great themes of medieval life, and it founds its most poetic expression in a series of wonderful images created around 1460...

$18000 / ≈ €16843
Maker / Publisher: ANONYMOUS
Place & Date: Lyon, Johann Siber, ca. 1495
Selling price: $18000
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Leaf on vellum from a printed Book of Hours.

A metal cut of the crusification (85x6cm) with 8 lines of text and with many initials hand painted in red, blue and gold. Verso 30 lines of printed text, surrounded by a...

$200 / ≈ €187
Maker / Publisher: BOOK OF HOURS
Place & Date: Paris, Philippe Pigouchet for Simon Vostre, ca. 1502
Selling price: $200
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[Illuminated MS leaf from a medieval devotional book of hours].

An attractive fully colored page from a devotional book of hours, published in France during the 16th century. The main page is beautifully presented with a line in Latin...

$625 / ≈ €585
Maker / Publisher: ANONYMOUS.
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1520
Selling price: $625
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Tabula Terre Sanctae.

A n early woodcut map of the Holy Land (Palestine, Israel) by Laurent Fries, published by M. & G. Trechsel, Lyon 1535. Title in a banderole above. Verso a nice orname...

$760 / ≈ €711
Maker / Publisher: FRIES, Laurent, after PTOLOMAEUS, Claudius.
Place & Date: Lyon, 1535
Selling price: $760
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Cyria / Cypern / Palestina / Mesopotamia / Babylonia / Chaldea und zwey Arabia mit Bergen Wassern und Stetten.

An early, attractive woodcut map of the eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East. Covering the area between northern Syria and the Red Sea, with Cyprus, the Holy Land, J...

$190 / ≈ €178
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, Sebastian.
Place & Date: Basel, ca 1540
Selling price: $190
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Tierra Nova

Gastaldi's map of South America from Giacomo Gastaldi's Atlas of 1548 which has been called the most comprehensive atlas, produced between Martin Waldseemüller's Geograp...

$700 / ≈ €655
Maker / Publisher: GASTALDI, G.
Place & Date: Venice, 1548
Selling price: $700
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Sconladia Nova.

Gastaldi's modern map of Scandinavia, Iceland, and the Baltic According to Bill Ginsberg the map was "built upon previous publications, in particular, the representa...

$1100 / ≈ €1029
Maker / Publisher: GASTALDI, G.
Place & Date: Venice, 1548
Selling price: $1100
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Tabula Aphricae II.

Gastaldi's map of North Africa and part of the Mediterranean, including Malta, Sardinia and Sicily. Embellished with two mythical birds and a ship wreck off the coast. Ba...

$300 / ≈ €281
Maker / Publisher: GASTALDI, G.
Place & Date: Venice, 1548
Selling price: $300
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Würzburg. - Herbipolis Würtzpurg

A double-page woodcut view of Würzburg. From a French edition of Munster's 'Geographia', one of the most important 16th Century geographical books. Herbipolis Würtzpur...

$160 / ≈ €150
Maker / Publisher: MUNSTER, Sebastian.
Place & Date: Basel, ca 1550
Selling price: $160
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COLOGNE/KÖLN. - La noble & ample ville de Coloigne Agrippine,

A double-page woodcut panoramic view of KÖLN. From a French edition of Munster's 'Geographia', one of the most important 16th-century geographical books. With a key to 2...

$200 / ≈ €187
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, Sebastian.
Place & Date: Basel, ca 1550
Selling price: $200
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Exactissima Flandriae Descriptio

Rare Lafreri style map of the County of Flanders (BE) published by Domenico Zenoi, Venice 1559. One of the earliest maps of Flanders. Based on Gerard Mercator's 4-sheet m...

$2175 / ≈ €2035
Maker / Publisher: ZENOI, Domenico
Place & Date: Venice, 1559
Selling price: $2175
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India Tercera Nuova Tavola

An early map of South East Asia  after Gastaldi from "La Geographia: Descrittione dell' Asia", 3rd vol., p. 122; published by M. Sessa in Venezia, Italy, showi...

$500 / ≈ €468
Maker / Publisher: Ruscelli, Girolamo / [Ptolemy] (after Gastaldi) Rosaccio, Giuseppe [editor] Sanuti, [Giulio and Livio] [engravers]
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
Selling price: $500
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[untitled] Judaea, Chaldaea, Syria, Mesopotamia, Asia Minor, Dioscurias, Mecha, Arabia Felix, Saba et al

Johannes Honter was a Protestant reformer from Transylvania, mentioned in 1570 by Abraham Ortelius in his ground-breaking atlas. Honter’s 'Rudimentorum Cosmographicorum...

$300 / ≈ €281
Maker / Publisher: HONTER, JOHANNES with Froschauer
Place & Date: Zurich, 1564
Selling price: $300
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Montpellier,Tours,Poitiers. - Monsiessulanus [on sheet with] Turo [and] Pictavis, sive Pictavia, Vernaculo Idiomate...

Fine antique copper engraved sheet with three bird's-eye views by Braun and Hogenberg: Montpellier, Tours and Poitiers from the first volume of Braun & Hogenberg's &q...

$280 / ≈ €262
Maker / Publisher: BRAUN, Georg / HOGENBERG, Frans.
Place & Date: Cologne, 1572
Selling price: $280
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Paris

One of the earliest and most beautiful panoramic views of Paris, based on Sebastian Muenster’s map from 1569. Latin title in cartouche top-left and French title in a ca...

$2200 / ≈ €2059
Maker / Publisher: BRAUN, G. / HOGENBERG, F.
Place & Date: Cologne, 1575
Selling price: $2200
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Americae Sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio.

This is the third edition of Ortelius' map landmark map of the Americas showing the western hemisphere, and showing a prominent bulge in the South American coastline. An ...

$3500 / ≈ €3275
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1579
Selling price: $3500
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Meerwunder und Seltzame Thier.

A fine detailed woodcut depicting a superb variety of fantastic sea-monsters, such as might be encountered by a sailor in northern waters. Including monsters with abundan...

$2000 / ≈ €1871
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basel, 1580
Selling price: $2000
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Grenoble & Romans-sur-Isère. - Gratianopolis Acusianoru Colonia, ... [on sheet with] Romans Delfinatus vulgo Daufine in Gallia Oppidu.

Fine antique copper engraved sheet with two bird's-eye views/plans by Braun and Hogenberg: Grenoble & Romans-sur-Isère from the third volume of Braun & Hogenberg...

$230 / ≈ €215
Maker / Publisher: BRAUN, Georg / HOGENBERG, Frans.
Place & Date: Cologne, 1581
Selling price: $230
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STOCKHOLM - STOCHOLM.

An old, antique map with two bird's-eye/panoramic views(North and South) of Stockholm, by Georg Braun and Frans Hogenberg, after Hieronymus Scholäus. Showing its active ...

$1300 / ≈ €1216
Maker / Publisher: BRAUN & HOGENBERG.
Place & Date: Cologne, 1588
Selling price: $1300
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Illyricum

Ortelius' map of the region from Triest and Villach in the west, to Brod in the east, along the course of the Sava, centered on Zagreb and Novograd. Includes nice detail ...

$200 / ≈ €187
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, Abraham.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1588
Selling price: $200
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Ierusalem, et suburbia eius. . .

Plan of ancient Jerusalem and its suburbs as it looked at the time of Jesus Christ. TRANSLATION OF CAPTION: Jerusalem and its suburbs, as it flourished in the time of Chr...

$2500 / ≈ €2339
Maker / Publisher: BRAUN, G. / HOGENBERG, F.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1588
Selling price: $2500
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Americae Sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio

Woodcut map by based on Abraham Ortelius' classic map of 1570, with the huge bulge in the southwest coastline of South America, the Ortelian western coastline of North Am...

$1200 / ≈ €1123
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER,S.
Place & Date: Basel, ca.1588
Selling price: $1200
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CAMBRAI. - La Ville de Cambray.

A handsome birds-eye view/map of the northeast French city of Cambrai, from "Civitates Orbis Terrarum", in fine color. With a strong graphic element of the ...

$220 / ≈ €206
Maker / Publisher: BRAUN, Georg / HOGENBERG, Frans.
Place & Date: Cologne, 1596
Selling price: $220
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Delineatio orarum maritimarum, terræ vulgo indigetatæ terræ do Natal, item Sofalæ, Mozambicæ & Melindæ, insulæque Sancti Laurentii. . . / Affbeeldinghe der custen des landts genaempt terra do Natal, item van alle de custen...

A superbly decorative early chart engraved by Arnold van Langren showing the African coastline of the Indian Ocean from the Cape to Natal, Mozambique and Madagascar. Tool...

$4000 / ≈ €3743
Maker / Publisher: VAN LINSCHOTEN, J.H.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1598
Selling price: $4000
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Poitiers & Montargis. - Pictavia Vulgo Poictiers [on sheet with:] La pierre levee demie lieue de Poictiers [and] Prospectus Montis Henrici vulgo Montherri.

Fine antique copper engraved sheet with one panoramic view, and two others by Braun and Hogenberg: Poitiers and Montargis from the uncommon fifth volume of Braun & Ho...

$270 / ≈ €253
Maker / Publisher: BRAUN, Georg / HOGENBERG, Frans.
Place & Date: Cologne, 1598
Selling price: $270
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Siciliae Veteris Typus.

A very beautiful early map of ancient Sicily. Title cartouche centered on the upper part: includes an inset map of the ancient city of Syracuse, a city notable for its ri...

$500 / ≈ €468
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1601
Selling price: $500
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Maris Pacifici, (quod vulgo Mar del Zur) ...

The first printed map of the Pacific Ocean. Date on the map: 1589, first published 1590. Based on Mercator's world map of 1569. This was the first map to focus on the Pac...

$4600 / ≈ €4304
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, Abraham
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1589 / 1603
Selling price: $4600
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Tartariae sive Magni Chami Regni Typus.

Tartariae sive Magni Chami Regni Typus. Map of Mongolia, also showing the northwest coast of North America. Abraham Ortelius(1527-98), Dutch cartographer and publishe...

$500 / ≈ €468
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, Robert Bruneau, 1609
Selling price: $500
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Schlavoniae, Croatiae, Carniae, Istriae, Bosniae, Finitimarumque Regionum Nova Descriptio.

Abraham Ortelius’ map is based on the map of the Turkish border by Augustin Hirschvogel of 1539. Third state. From the rare Spanish edition of Abraham Ortelius’ ‘Th...

$190 / ≈ €178
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, Abraham.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1609
Selling price: $190
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Tornaci Nervorum. Episcopatus Perantiquus Totaq. Tornacesii Ditio... Ion. Baptista Vrientius Antverp. Tabulam a se delineatam.. [One of the rarest of all Ortelius maps]

This exceptional rare map of Hainaut is a must for all collectors of Ortelius maps!!! The rarest of all Ortelius maps. Centered on Lille. The map has a dedication to Mich...

$800 / ≈ €749
Maker / Publisher: VRIENTS, J. B.
Place & Date: Antwerp, ca. 1610
Selling price: $800
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[Lot of 5 maps] Salzburg Austria

 Ortelius Salisburgensis Iurisdictionis, 38 x 46 cm, attractive later colouring, very good condition. From the rare Spanish edition of Abraham Ortelius’ ‘Theatrum Or...

$230 / ≈ €215
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A. / among others
Place & Date: Antwerp, c. 1612
Selling price: $230
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[ lot of 14 maps/views] Caerte vanden lande ende Graefschappe van Hollandt, Midtsgaders het landt van Utrecht, de deelen ende houcken van andere lande annex hollt gelege. 1589.

The third state of Jan Pietersz. Saenredam attractive map of Holland. From Ludovico Guicciardini' s 'Les Description de touts les Pays-Bas', publised by Willem Blaeu in 1...

$200 / ≈ €187
Maker / Publisher: Saenredam, J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c. 1620
Selling price: $200
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Virginiae item et Floridae Americae Provinciarum nova Descriptio.

Map of the Carolinas and parts of Virginia and Georgia. The map extends from St. Augustine in the south to just north of Chesepioock Sinus in the north and to the Allegha...

$800 / ≈ €749
Maker / Publisher: MERCATOR, G. / CLOPPENBURGH, J.E.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Selling price: $800
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America.

A very nice map of America. The inset shows native Brazilians brewing beer. Mercator was born in Rupelmonde in Flanders and studied in Louvain under Gamma Friskies, Dutch...

$2800 / ≈ €2620
Maker / Publisher: MERCATOR, G. / HONDIUS, J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Selling price: $2800
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Chorographia Terrae Sanctae in Angustiorem formam Redacta et ex Variis Auctoribus a Multis Erroribus Expurgata.

A highly attractive and large map of the Holy Land, printed from two plates joined. The map ranges from Syria and Tyre southward as far as the Sinai, Egypt and Thebes. Th...

$490 / ≈ €459
Maker / Publisher: TIRINUS, J.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1632
Selling price: $490
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Novus Brasiliae Typus.

A decorative map with a title cartouche of two natives: in the interior is an inset of Baya de todos os Sanctos (Salvador), indigenous wild life and cannibal scenes. Orig...

$750 / ≈ €702
Maker / Publisher: BLAEU, W.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1635
Selling price: $750
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[Lot of 7 maps] Paraguay, Ó Prov. de Rio de la Plata cum regionibus With Arnold Montanus's and Tirion's of the countries bordering the Rio de la Plata. and Isaak Tirion's map of the same area.

Willem Blaeu, founder of the famous publishing firm. Originally publishing pilot-guides, he issued his first atlas,  'Atlantis Appendix', in 1630, followed by his "...

$200 / ≈ €187
Maker / Publisher: BLAEU, W.
Place & Date: 1635
Selling price: $200
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[Title page for Janssonius atlas with past-on.]

Unique title page for an atlas by Janssonius with a past-on of an engraving of a still life with vase and fish-bowl.Read more about decorative atlas title pages [+]

$550 / ≈ €515
Maker / Publisher: JANSONIUS, J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1638
Selling price: $550
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De Custen van Engelandt tuschen de droochte van Weembrugh en Poortlandt

Rare sea-chart from Blaeu's Zeespiegel. It shows the area around the Isle of Wight, from Weymouth and the Isle of Portland to Selsey and Chichester, including Poole, Sout...

Maker / Publisher: BLAEU, W.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1638
Selling price: $200
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Moscovia urbs Metropolis totius Russiae Albae.

Extremely rare and detailed bird's-eye view of the town of Moscow by Giacomo Lauro (active about 1584-1637), taken from "Heroico Splendore delle Città del Mondo&quo...

$600 / ≈ €561
Maker / Publisher: LAURO, G.
Place & Date: Rome, dated 1628, or 1639
Selling price: $600
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Nova Virginiae Tabula.

Blaeu's beautiful map of Virginia, Maryland and the Chesapeake Bay region on North America's eastern seaboard. It shows the discoveries in the area as detailed by John Sm...

$700 / ≈ €655
Maker / Publisher: BLAEU, J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca 1640
Selling price: $700
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Insularum Britannicarum acurata delineatio. . .

A map of the Roman Britain as seen during the third and fourth centuries. Roman place names as well as Hadrian's Wall and the Wall of Pius appear on the map, identifying ...

Maker / Publisher: JANSSONIUS, J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1642
Selling price: $250
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Waerachtige beschryvinge vande wydvermaerde Conincklicke Hooft Stadt Jerusalem.

Engraved by Baptista van Doetechum for a bible printed by Jan Everts Cloppenburg. The bible maps of 1590 are the earliest of Plancius compilations to survive.Very rare pl...

$1350 / ≈ €1263
Maker / Publisher: CLOPPENBURG, J.E. / PLANCIUS, P.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1643
Selling price: $1350
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Danubius, fluvius Europae maximus, a fontibus ad Ostia, cum omnibus Fluminibus. . .

A striking large-format map of the course of the river Danube on two sheets. Nicely embellished with two large cartouches, a title cartouche with on one side the Kaiser o...

$430 / ≈ €402
Maker / Publisher: BLAEU, W. and J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca 1645
Selling price: $430
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Turkey - Maltese Order, - OSMAN FILS D'IBRAHIM EMPEREUR DES TURCS

Fine antique copper engraving with the portraits of Osman, son of Emperor/Sultan Ibrahim, and of his mother ,an Imperial Concubine. With engraved explanatory text ,in dec...

$600 / ≈ €561
Maker / Publisher: Sr. de Beaulieu
Place & Date: Paris, 1645
Selling price: $600
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Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica ac Hydrographica Tabula.

A very decorative world map presented on Mercator’s projection with cartography closely copied from Blaeu’s world map of 1606, second state, without Merian’s name o...

$1050 / ≈ €983
Maker / Publisher: MERIAN, M.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1646
Selling price: $1050
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Kremelin.

An early town-view of Kremlin in Moscow. From the rare first edition "Offt begehrte Beschreibung der newen orientalischen Rejse, so durch Gelegenheit einer Holsteini...

$450 / ≈ €421
Maker / Publisher: OLEARIUS, A.
Place & Date: Schleßwig, Zur Glocken, 1647
Selling price: $450
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Vera Delineatio Prouinciae Fertilissimae . . .

Detailed map of the Southern Caspian Sea, showing the area north of Tehran. From the rare first edition "Offt begehrte Beschreibung der newen orientalischen Rejse, s...

$400 / ≈ €374
Maker / Publisher: OLEARIUS, A.
Place & Date: Schleßwig, Zur Glocken, 1647
Selling price: $400
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VOLGA RIVER. -Accurata delineatio Nobilissmi toti Europae Fluminis Wolgae olim RHA dictae per Adamum Olearium.

Rare First Edition of The First Great Map of the Volga River. Nice example of Olearius' map of the Volga River, first issued in 1647 and engraved by Christian Rothgiesser...

$1300 / ≈ €1216
Maker / Publisher: OLEARIUS, Adam.
Place & Date: Schleswig, 1647
Selling price: $1300
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Pascaarte vant Canaal door Arnold Colom t Amsterdam op het Watter by de Nieuwe brugh inde Lichtende Colom.

This large folio, extremely decorative sea chart offered here is one of the earliest and rarest sea charts depicting the British Isles. It appeared in the famous Colom's...

$2990 / ≈ €2798
Maker / Publisher: COLOM, A.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1656
Selling price: $2990
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Paskaert Zynde de Noordelijckste Zeekusten van America van Groenland door de Straet Davis en de Straet Hudson tot Terra Neuf . . .

An eye-catching chart of North America, covering the approaches to Hudson Bay and the North West Passage. Including Greenland.Pieter Goos (ca. 1616-1675) was one of the m...

$800 / ≈ €749
Maker / Publisher: GOOS, P.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1666
Selling price: $800
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Miako - Kyoto.

A large, rare, copper engraving by Arnoldus Montanus. "Denkwürdige Gesandschaften der Ostindischen Gesellschaft in den vereinigten Niederlanden an unterschiedliche ...

$250 / ≈ €234
Maker / Publisher: MONTANUS, A.
Place & Date: Amsterdm, 1669
Selling price: $250
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Iedo - Tokyo.

A large, rare, copper engraving by Arnoldus Montanus. "Denkwürdige Gesandschaften der Ostindischen Gesellschaft in den vereinigten Niederlanden an unterschiedliche ...

$250 / ≈ €234
Maker / Publisher: MONTANUS, A.
Place & Date: Amsterdm, 1669
Selling price: $250
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Paraquaria vulgo Paraguay cum adjacentibus.

Detailed map extending from Rio de Janeiro to the Rio de la Plata basin in what is today Argentina.The title cartouche of this highly decorative map features Indians and ...

Maker / Publisher: MONTANUS, A.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1673
Selling price: $200
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Novi Belgii, quod nunc Novi Jorck vocatur, Novaeque Angliae & Partis Virginiae Accuratissima et Novissima Delineatio.

A beautifully engraved map of the Northeast, extending from the St. Laurence and New England to the Chesapeake and centered on Long Island, which is still shown as an isl...

$1000 / ≈ €936
Maker / Publisher: MONTANUS, A.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1673
Selling price: $1000
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Nova Hispaniae, Chili, Peruviae, et Guatimalae Littorae...

An early edition of this superb chart of the Pacific Ocean, oriented with north to the left of the sheet, showing the coasts of Peru, Chili, Ecuador, Colombia, Honduras, ...

$850 / ≈ €795
Maker / Publisher: DE WIT, F.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1675
Selling price: $850
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Die Ebbe und Fluth auff einer Flachen Landt-Karten Furgestelt

A very rare example of one of the first maps devoted to illustrate the world’s ocean currents, produced by  Eberhard Werner Happel. The map also depicts volcanoes. It ...

$900 / ≈ €842
Maker / Publisher: HAPPEL, E. W.
Place & Date: Ulm, 1675
Selling price: $900
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Ierusalem

Impressive very large panoramic view of the city of Jerusalem, based on the work of Wenceslas Hollar, shows a panorama of ancient Jerusalem as viewed from the east. The m...

Maker / Publisher: Dapper, O. / Van Meurs, J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1677
Selling price: $650
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De Stadt Ierusalem Zoot Hedendaeghs Bevonden Wordt

Rare view in bird´s eye perspective of the walled city of Jerusalem as it was in the 17th century, made for Olfert Dapper ´s book on the Holu Land "Naukeurige besc...

$190 / ≈ €178
Maker / Publisher: Olfert Dapper / Jacob van Meurs
Place & Date: 1678
Selling price: $190
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Arrivée du roi devant Douai qu'il fait investir par sa cavalerie

Showing the arrival of Louis XIV arriving near Douai. This fine engraving shows a landscape with, in the foreground, men loading donkeys in the foreground, beyond at left...

$250 / ≈ €234
Maker / Publisher: MEULEN, Adam Frans van der. (after)
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1680
Selling price: $250
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Plan de la Ville…de Batavia / Ware afbeeldinge wegens het Casteel ende Stadt Batavia gelegen opt groot Eylant Java

Very interesting map of Batavia (modern-day Jakarta) as key base in Asia for the Dutch East-Indies Company (VOC). The map shows the city and the surrounding area and is ...

$375 / ≈ €351
Maker / Publisher: Arnold Montanus / Jacob van Meurs
Place & Date: 1680
Selling price: $375
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[Lot of 2 charts and 40 pages of text with prints of coastal profiles] Nieuwe Pascaert vande Oost Cust van Schotlandt Beginnende van Barwyck tot aen de Orcades Ylanden. [Together with a sea-chart of England's east coast.]

A fine seachart of the east coast of Scotland with the Orkney Islands. Embellished with two cartouches.From the ' Nouveau et Grand Illuminant Flambeau de la Mer'.The succ...

$218 / ≈ €204
Maker / Publisher: VAN KEULEN, Johannes
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c. 1680
Selling price: $218
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Povo [with] Villa d Olinda d Pernambuco.

These splendid views encompass one of the earliest etchings of this region and its cities. Artistically engraved armies, fortresses, and ships. At top is a view of Pov...

$150 / ≈ €140
Maker / Publisher: DE JONGE, Guglielmo
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1690
Selling price: $150
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Sea battle in the Baya de Gibraltar.

Print of the sea battle in the Bay of Gibraltar. On the right the city, on the right in the foreground a fort. Shots are fired from this fort as well as from the ramparts...

$325 / ≈ €304
Maker / Publisher: DE JONGE, Guglielmo
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1690
Selling price: $325
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Peloponnesus Hodie Moreae Regnum Distincte Divisum in Omnes suas Provincias . . . Insulae Cefalonia, Zante, Cerigo et St. Maura Acore F. De Wit.

A rare, spectacular map in fine period color of the Peloponnese surrounded by 14 large city, port and fortress views and plans of important Greek cities including Athens,...

$1350 / ≈ €1263
Maker / Publisher: DE WIT, F.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1690
Selling price: $1350
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Isola di Malta, olim Melita..

The island of Malta surrounded by 62 engraved armorials, including the arms of the Grand Masters of the Order of St John. Most decorative.The remarkable Vincenzo Coronell...

$3500 / ≈ €3275
Maker / Publisher: CORONELLI, V. M.
Place & Date: Venice, 1691
Selling price: $3500
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Asia Divisa nelle sue Parti secondo lo stato presente Descritta, e Dedicata.. Dal P.M. Coronelli.

A beautifully engraved decorative double sheet map of Asia. The map itself contains interesting detail of Abel Tasman's discoveries in Australia as well as those made by ...

$3700 / ≈ €3462
Maker / Publisher: CORONELLI, V. M.
Place & Date: Venice, 1691
Selling price: $3700
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Parte orientale della China.. / Parte occidentale della China (2 sheets)

The map depicts the eastern part of China with Korea -correctly- as a peninsula. Formosa is included as well. Japan is partly visible i.e. the area of Yamaguchi, strait K...

$5000 / ≈ €4679
Maker / Publisher: CORONELLI, V. M.
Place & Date: Venice, 1695
Selling price: $5000
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[Lot of two maps of Europe]

An attractive large-format map of the European continent, embellished with a large title-cartouche. Newly engraved for the counterfeited edition of the ' Atlas Nouvea...

Maker / Publisher: Jaillot, A.-H. / P. Mortier.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1696
Selling price: $450
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Nova Tabula India Orientalis Hugo Allard Excudit jnde Kalverstraet inde Werrelt Caert.

Extremely decorative, large, very rare of Africa, Asia and Australia by Hugo Allard. This is the even rarer first state of the map, which appeared around 1697 in Amsterda...

$3100 / ≈ €2901
Maker / Publisher: ALLARD, H.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1697
Selling price: $3100
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[Title page] Imprimé a Amsterdam par Jean Van Ceulen . . .

Stunning copper engraving. Below the engraving is the advertisement in French for Joannes van Keulen giving his profession and address.Rare.Read more about decorative atl...

$1050 / ≈ €983
Maker / Publisher: VAN KEULEN, J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1698
Selling price: $1050
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LE CAP DE BONNE ESPERANCE.

Probably the finest view of Cape Town. Beautifully engraved. A sea battle in the foreground with at least 15 galleons.With Tabletop mountain as the backdrop. Two putti ho...

$180 / ≈ €168
Maker / Publisher: AA ,van der P.
Place & Date: Leiden, ca 1700
Selling price: $180
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Kaart van de Ring van Putten, bestaande uit vier delen Caerte gemaeckt op ordre vande bovengenoemde heeren opperdijckgraeff en hoog heemraden des Ringhs van Putten

Wall map consisting of four separate maps, each measuring 50 x 63 cm. The Ring van Putten concerns the region south of Rotterdam, with cities such as Spijkenisse, Geervli...

Maker / Publisher: Opperdijkgraaf en Hoogheemraden
Place & Date: 1701
Selling price: $220
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Mediolanum. Milano.

A beautifully engraved and richly decorated plan of Milan. With a key (1-256) in left and right referring to the principal places of interest in the town.Joan Blaeu publi...

$1600 / ≈ €1497
Maker / Publisher: BLAEU, J. / MORTIER, P. / ALBERTS, R.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1704 / 1705
Selling price: $1600
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SOUTH AMERICA. Corrected from the Observations comunicated to the Royal Societys of London & Paris.

A lovely extra large map of South America, dedicated by Senex to the famous Astronomer and Mnathematician Edmund Halley LLD Savilian Professor of Geometery in Oxford and ...

$450 / ≈ €421
Maker / Publisher: SENEX, J.
Place & Date: London, 1710
Selling price: $450
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Planiglobii Terrestris Cum Utroq Hemisphaerio Caelesti Generalis Exhibitio..

Intriguing and spectacular world map, one of the most decorative world maps of the eighteenth century. This is the first edition of J.B. Homann's double hemisphere map, w...

$1200 / ≈ €1123
Maker / Publisher: HOMANN, J.B.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1710
Selling price: $1200
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Carte Très Curieuse De La Mer Du Sud Contenant Des Remarques Nouvelles Et Tres Utiles Non Seulement Sur Les Ports et Isles de Cette Mer .

Based on de Fer's wall map of 1713. One map on 4 sheets, showing America in the middle with Europe on one side and the Pacific with Japan and China on the other. Top shee...

$10250 / ≈ €9591
Maker / Publisher: CHATELAIN, H.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1719
Selling price: $10250
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