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![[Untitled world map] 'Insculptum est per Iohanne Schnitzer de Artmsheim' ]](/uploads/cache/23731-250x250.jpg)
[Untitled world map] 'Insculptum est per Iohanne Schnitzer de Artmsheim' ]
A FIRST EDITION of the first Ptolemy wood block printed world map north of the Alps, by Leonard Holm of Ulm in Germany and is one of the most beautiful of the early maps ...
Place & Date: Ulm, 1482
Selling price: $57600
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Seconda etas mundi.
Appearing in the famous Nuremberg Chronicle, this woodcut map by Hartmann Schedel is both an aesthetic and historic document of great significance. Published just 40 year...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $14250
Sold in 2010
Secunda etas mundi. Folium XIII.
Schedel's world map included in the Chronicle Liber chronicarum was based on the cartographic system of Claudius Ptolemy, the great second-century AD geographer whose sch...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $9500
Sold in 2013
![(World map] Secunda etas mundi. Folium XIII](/uploads/cache/38683-250x250.jpg)
(World map] Secunda etas mundi. Folium XIII
Schedel's world map was based on the cartographic system of Claudius Ptolemy, the great second-century AD geographer whose scholarship formed the foundation for map produ...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $8200
Sold in 2016
Secunda etas mundi. Folium XIII.
Schedel's world map was based on the cartographic system of Claudius Ptolemy, the great second-century AD geographer whose scholarship formed the foundation for map produ...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $3100
Sold in 2017
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[World Map.]
A rare incunable World map from a reduced edition of Schedel's 'Nuremberg Chronicle,' published by Schonsperger from his 'Liber Cronicarum...'.German text. This map rarel...
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1496
Selling price: $3250
Sold in 2019
World map.
This is the Ptolemaic map of the world. It is a reduced copy of Waldseemullers map, although Fries has inserted a northern coastline for Scandinavia outside the map borde...
Place & Date: Strassburg, 1525
Selling price: $4500
Sold in 2009
![[No title] Daniel's Dream Map.](/uploads/cache/17657-250x250.jpg)
[No title] Daniel's Dream Map.
A somewhat curious map of Europe, Africa, and Asia is to be found in apocalyptic literature originally emanating from Wittenberg in 1530 or even 1529. One of the first im...
Place & Date: Wittemberg c.1534
Selling price: $2358
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[ Ptolemaic world map ]
Rare Ptolemaic world map included in Gregor Reisch, compiler of the Margarita Philosophica, (Pearl of Wisdom), first published in Basel in 1503. The world map showing the...
Place & Date: Freiburg 1503 -1535
Selling price: $7625
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[ Ptolemaic world map ]
Rare Ptolemaic world map included in Gregor Reisch, compiler of the Margarita Philosophica, (Pearl of Wisdom), first published in Basel in 1503. The world map showing the...
Place & Date: Freiburg 1503 -1535
Selling price: $9100
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Typus orbis descriptione Ptolemaei.
Waldseemüller Ptolemaic map of 1513 has been redrawn and reduced in size in this publication by Laurent Fries, geographer and physician. The Vienne edition was printed b...
Place & Date: Vienne, 1535
Selling price: $4050
Sold in 2008
Diefert Situs Orbis Hydrographorum Ab Eo Quem Ptolomeus Posuit.
The earliest obtainable map of the World to include the word America in the map. While the majority of Fries maps were derived from Waldseemuller's 1513 edition of Ptolem...
Place & Date: Lyon, M. Servetus, 1535
Selling price: $4500
Sold in 2009
Tabu. Nova Orbis / Diefert Situs Orbis Hydrographorum Ab Eo Quem Ptolomeus Posuit.
The second 'modern' world map of Laurent Fries. 'This map is one of the earliest world maps available to a collector, and is an unsophisticated but attractive rendering o...
Place & Date: Lyon, 1535
Selling price: $4200
Sold in 2011
Orbis typus universalis iuxta hydrographorum traditionem..
One of the earliest world maps that collectors can still obtain and probably the earliest delineation with the name America on it of similar obtainability. It has long be...
Place & Date: Lyons, 1535
Selling price: $6100
Sold in 2011
Tabu Nova Orbis / Diefert Situs Orbis Hydrographorum Ab Eo Quem Ptolomeus Posuit. . .
The second 'modern' world map of Laurent Fries. This map is one of the earliest world maps available to a collector. The map is a reduced version of Martin Waldseemuller'...
Place & Date: Lyon, 1525 or 1535
Selling price: $3250
Sold in 2019
World (La Mer des histoires).
The World map was, in its basis and design mediaeval, with the World compressed into the circular frame of the 'T-O' form. The world is portrayed in pictorial form thus, ...
Place & Date: Dupre, Paris, 1536
Selling price: $6100
Sold in 2016
Ptolemaisch General Tafel Begreissend die halbe Rugel der Weldt
A fine colored example of Munster's first ancient map of the World, based upon the writings of Ptolemy. The world map is surrounded by clouds and eleven wind heads (with ...
Place & Date: Basel, 1540
Selling price: $1125
Sold in 2016
Ptolemaïsch General Tafel Begreiffend die halbe Kugel der Weldt.
An attractively colored first state of Sebastian Münster’s first world map. The world map is surrounded by clouds and eleven wind gods (with their names shown in banne...
Place & Date: Basel, ca 1540
Selling price: $540
Sold in 2019
![[No title - Daniel's Dream map - Rare Swedish edition]](/uploads/cache/34783-250x250.jpg)
[No title - Daniel's Dream map - Rare Swedish edition]
A rare Swedish edition of this somewhat curious map of Europe, Africa, and Asia is to be found in apocalyptic literature originally emanating from Wittenberg in 1530 or e...
Place & Date: Uppsala, Georg Richolff, 1541
Selling price: $1800
Sold in 2017
![[World map] Typus Universalis.](/uploads/cache/39237-250x250.jpg)
[World map] Typus Universalis.
The first of Münster's world map blocks, which can be distinguished from the editions of 1550 and after, the later editions being significantly revised and including the...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1541
Selling price: $4000
Sold in 2017
Typus orbis descriptione Ptolemaei.
A finely colored example of this early16th Century map of the World according to the ancients, surrounded by 12 wind heads representing the various wind directions. The W...
Place & Date: Vienne, (1522) 1541
Selling price: $3000
Sold in 2019
![[Armillary Sphere with Windheads]](/uploads/cache/26265-250x250.jpg)
[Armillary Sphere with Windheads]
Attractive woodblock print showing an armillary sphere with a large globe at center and surrounded by twelve classical winds. Each wind direction is depicted with a wind ...
Place & Date: Strasbourg, 1522 - 1541
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2019
Description of the World.
Set before the text on the first page of his book Cosmographiae , Sebastian Münster presents his view of the Cosmos. We find the Divinity presiding over his creation, w...
Place & Date: Basel, 1544
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2019
Universalis Cosmographia,
A very desirable cordiform (heart shaped) world map from Johann Honter's 'Rudimentum'. The map is a reduced version of Waldseemüller's and Apianus' earlier world maps. T...
Place & Date: Zurich, ca. 1546
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2020
Carta Marina Nova Tabula
Gastaldi's maritime world map. Europe and North America are connected via a long land bridge. The bridge passes from North American to Tierra Del Bacalaos, Tierra del Lab...
Place & Date: Venice, 1548
Selling price: $2500
Sold in 2021
![[No title] Daniel's Dream Map.](/uploads/cache/30206-250x250.jpg)
[No title] Daniel's Dream Map.
A somewhat curious map of Europe, Africa, and Asia is to be found in apocalyptic literature originally emanating from Wittenberg in 1530 or even 1529. The map was used by...
Place & Date: Hans Walther, Magdeburg 1545, 1550
Selling price: $1350
Sold in 2011
Typus Orbis Universalis
Beautiful example of Sebastian Münster's oval new world map, from the Cosmographia of 1550. Relief is shown pictorially. The map is embellished with fierce sea monsters...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550
Selling price: $1700
Sold in 2014
Altera generalis tab. Secundum Ptol.
Lovely full color example Sebastian Münster's Ptolemaic world map, from the Cosmographia of 1550. Relief is shown pictorially. The Ptolemaic map shows the known world b...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550
Selling price: $1650
Sold in 2014
Typus Orbis Universalis.
Münster's map of the World is one of the most recognized world maps of the 16th Century. This example is from the second woodblock, which includes the engraver David Kan...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1550
Selling price: $1150
Sold in 2015
Typus Universalis.
A famous wood block map, cut by David Kandel. His initials identify this block as the second version of the modern world map to be used in the Cosmographia , that great c...
Place & Date: Basle 1550
Selling price: $2200
Sold in 2016
Charta cosmographica, cum ventorum propria natura et operatione..
The map is one of the earliest obtainable world maps not based upon the works of Ptolemy. The second wood block cut of the cordiform world map after Gemma Frisius in Apia...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1544 - 1550
Selling price: $2400
Sold in 2016
Das erst General, inhaltend die beschreibung und den Circkel des gantzen Erderichs und Möres.
Münster's map of the World is one of the most recognized world maps of the 16th Century. This example is from the second woodblock, which includes the engraver David Kan...
Place & Date: Basle, ca 1550
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2019
LA FIGURE DU MONDE UNIVERSEL.
Beautiful example of Sebastian Münster's oval new world map, from the Cosmographia of 1550. Relief is shown pictorially. The map is embellished with fierce sea monsters ...
Place & Date: Basel, ca 1550
Selling price: $2000
Sold in 2020
![Das Erst General, inhaltend die beschreibung und den Circkel des gantzen Erdtrichs und Moese.['Modern World' map]](/uploads/cache/84759-250x250.jpg)
Das Erst General, inhaltend die beschreibung und den Circkel des gantzen Erdtrichs und Moese.['Modern World' map]
Münster’s modern map of the world, on an oval projection, was first published in his ‘Geographia’ of 1540. The early issues are distinguished by the absence of ...
Place & Date: Basel, ca.1550
Selling price: $2000
Sold in 2020
![Ptolemaisch General Tafel / begreiffend die halbe Kugel der Welt. [World map after Ptolemy]](/uploads/cache/84755-250x250.jpg)
Ptolemaisch General Tafel / begreiffend die halbe Kugel der Welt. [World map after Ptolemy]
A nice full color example of Munster's first ancient map of the World, based upon the writings of Ptolemy. At the advent of printing in the 15th century, the geographical...
Place & Date: Basel, ca. 1550
Selling price: $1100
Sold in 2021
Typus Orbis Universalis.
​Münster’s map of the World. It is one of the most recognised world maps of the 16th Century. This example is from the second woodblock, which includes the e...
Place & Date: Basel, 1550
Selling price: $2800
Sold in 2021
Typus Orbis Universalis
The second edition of Münster’s map of the world is one of the most recognized and influential world maps of the sixteenth century. Today, it is one of the earliest ob...
Place & Date: Basel, 1550
Selling price: $1600
Sold in 2023
Das Erst General / inhaltend die beschreibung...
Famous Münster's map of the World, one of the most recognized world maps of the 16th Century. This example is from the first, 1550 German edition of the second block of ...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550
Selling price: $1900
Sold in 2023
LA SECONDE TABLE GENERALE SELON PTOL.
A beautiful, full color example of Sebastian Münster's first map of the ancient World, based on Ptolemy's work. Showing 12 wind-heads and other classic pre-Columbian bel...
Place & Date: Basel, ca 1552
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2020
Ptolemaisch general Tafel begreiffend.. halbe kugel..
A famous wood block map of the Polemic world. There are 12 wind heads surrounding the then known world, with such romantic names, in banners, as Zephyrus, Corus and Subso...
Place & Date: Basle c.1560
Selling price: $1602
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Orbis descriptio.
The map is elegantly designed and engraved on copper with typical Italian taste and skill. One of two modern world maps in Ruscelli's Atlas, based upon Gastaldi's world m...
Place & Date: Venise, 1561
Selling price: $1060
Sold in 2008
Ptolemaei Typus.
A rare first edition of a very attractive Ptolemaic world map, following the standard classical format.Girolamo Ruscelli's edition of Ptolemy's Geographia included newly ...
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
Selling price: $640
Sold in 2008
Carta Marina nuova tavola.
Ruscelli's mariner's map is a slightly enlarged version of the map which appeared in Gastaldi's edition of Ptolemy thirteen years earlier. The only change seems to be the...
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
Selling price: $1300
Sold in 2008
Orbis descriptio.
The map is elegantly designed and engraved on copper with typical Italian taste and skill. Separate double-hemispherical maps were no innovation but this is the first tim...
Place & Date: Venise, 1561
Selling price: $900
Sold in 2011
Orbis descriptio.
The map is elegantly designed and engraved on copper with typical Italian taste and skill. One of two modern world maps in Ruscelli's Atlas, based upon Gastaldi's world m...
Place & Date: Venise, 1561
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2021
Ptolemaei Typus.
A rare first edition of a very attractive Ptolemaic world map, following the standard classical format.Girolamo Ruscelli's edition of Ptolemy's Geographia included newly ...
Place & Date: Venice, Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1561
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2023
Carta Marina nuova tavola.
Uncommon first edition of this early map of Ruscelli's mariner, slightly enlarged version of the map which appeared in Gastaldi's edition of Ptolemy thirteen years earlie...
Place & Date: Venice, Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1561
Selling price: $1100
Sold in 2018
Orbis descriptio.
Uncommon first edition of this early world map, elegantly designed and engraved on copper with typical Italian taste and skill. One of two modern world maps in Ruscelli's...
Place & Date: Venice, Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1561
Selling price: $950
Sold in 2018
Charta cosmographica, cum ventorum propria natura et operatione..
The socond wood block cut of the cordiform world map after Gemma Frisius in Apian's Cosmographiawith explanatory text on windheads in Dutch arround, North America labeled...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1564
Selling price: $2900
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Charta cosmographica, cum ventorum propria natura et operatione..
The second wood block cut of the cordiform world map after Gemma Frisius in Apian's Cosmographiawith explanatory text on wind heads in Dutch around, North America labelle...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1564
Selling price: $2200
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![[No title] Daniel's Dream Map.](/uploads/cache/24907-250x250.jpg)
[No title] Daniel's Dream Map.
A somewhat curious map of Europe, Africa, and Asia is to be found in apocalyptic literature originally emanating from Wittenberg in 1530 or even 1529. One of the first im...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1564
Selling price: $2450
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La Secunde table generale selon Ptol.
A famous wood block map of the Polemic world, surrounded by clouds and twelve wind-heads. From his "Cosmographia", that great compendium of Renaissance knowledg...
Place & Date: Bâle, 1568
Selling price: $650
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Ptolemeisch General Tafel, die Halbe Kugel der Welt Begreiffende​. . .
A spectacular example of the second ancient map of the World, based upon the writings of Ptolemy. This map by Sebastian Münster and features 12 wind heads. Many Pre-Colu...
Place & Date: Basle, ca 1570
Selling price: $1150
Sold in 2021
Typus Orbis Terrarum.
An early issue of this influential, and famous World map, issued in the first regularly produced world atlas. The map is a careful reduction of Mercator\'s landmark wall-...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1571
Selling price: $5200
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Typus Orbis Terrarum.
An early issue of this influential, and famous World map, issued in the first regularly produced world atlas. The map is a careful reduction of Mercator's landmark wall-m...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1571
Selling price: $6900
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[Descrittione del Mappamondo]
From : "L'Isole piu Famose Del Mondo...",Large landmass above the north of the American continent called Grvtlandia.
Place & Date: Venise, later than 1572
Selling price: $300
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Ptolemeisch General Tafel, die Halbe Kugel der Welt Begreiffende​.
The second ancient map of the World, based upon the writings of Ptolemy. This map by Sebastian Münster features 12 wind heads and other classic pre-Columbian beliefs abo...
Place & Date: Basle, 1572
Selling price: $1300
Sold in 2018
Ptolemeisch General Tafel, die Halbe Kugel der Welt Begreiffende​.
The second ancient map of the World, based upon the writings of Ptolemy. This map by Sebastian Münster features 12 wind heads and other classic pre-Columbian beliefs abo...
Place & Date: Basle, 1572
Selling price: $900
Sold in 2019
Typus Orbis Terrarum.
Ortelius' Landmark World Map - 1st state, 1st Edition. French text on verso. One of the most famous world maps ever made, "Typus Orbis Terrarum" featured in the...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1572
Selling price: $5000
Sold in 2019
![Moderna Europae Descriptio / Totius Africae tabula, & descriptio universalis ... /Tabula orientalis regionis, Asiae scilicet extremas ... / Novae Insulae (America) [4 sheets]](/uploads/cache/84453-250x250.jpg)
Moderna Europae Descriptio / Totius Africae tabula, & descriptio universalis ... /Tabula orientalis regionis, Asiae scilicet extremas ... / Novae Insulae (America) [4 sheets]
MODERNA EUROPAE Descriptio (First Map of the Continent of Europe!) Dimensions: 25,2 x 34 cm.Fine full color examples of the first printed map of the continent of Europe, ...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550 ca. - 1572
Selling price: $6200
Sold in 2020
Typus Orbis Terrarum.
Striking example (first state) of this influential, and most famous World map, issued in the first regularly produced world atlas by Abraham Ortelius. The map is a carefu...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1573
Selling price: $5490
Sold in 2015
CARTA MARINA NUOVA TAVOLA.
One of the earliest published mariner’s world maps. The map is elegantly designed and engraved on copper with typical Italian taste and skill, with lots of rhumb lines....
Place & Date: Venice, 1574
Selling price: $875
Sold in 2020
TAVOLA PRIMA UNIVERSALE ANTICA.
A unique map compared to the other Ruscelli maps corrected by Malombra. For this particular map, Malombra returned tot he original conical projection of Ptolemy. The map ...
Place & Date: Venice, 1574
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2022
Orbis descriptio.
A separate double-hemispherical world map which was the first to appear in this format in an atlas. The map is elegantly designed and engraved on copper with typical Ital...
Place & Date: Venice, 1574
Selling price: $790
Sold in 2021
Typus Orbis Terrarum.
An early issue (printed before 1575) of this influential, and famous World map, issued in the first regularly produced world atlas. The map is a careful reduction of Merc...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1570-1575
Selling price: $4880
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A complete set of Ortelius' World and Continents.
An attractive set of these decorative and important maps published at Antwerp in Ortelius' Theatrum. The maps are very early impressions, with no plate cracks in America ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, Chr. Plantin, 1571-1575
Selling price: $19300
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Carta cosmographica, con los nombres propiedad y vertu delos vientos.
A beautiful woodblock map in cordiform of the World by Frisius for Apian's 'Cosmographia'. This is the 2nd state, Spanish edition with 'Angl' and 'Scot' against the outli...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1575
Selling price: $2800
Sold in 2019
Ptolemaisch general tafel, begreiffend die halbe Kugel der Welt.
A lovely full color example Sebastian Münster's Ptolemaic world map, from the "Cosmographia" of 1578. Relief is shown pictorially. The Ptolemaic map shows the ...
Place & Date: Basel, 1578
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2018
Das Erst General, inhaltend die beschreibung und den Circkel des gantzen Erdrichs und Möres.
A beautiful oval full color example of Sebastian Münster's new world map, from the "Cosmographia" of 1578. Relief is shown pictorially. The map is embellished ...
Place & Date: Basel, 1578
Selling price: $2100
Sold in 2018
Typus Orbis Terrarum
Ortelius' beautiful oval world map is a simplified version of Mercator's influential map of 1569. From surviving correspondence it is known that Mercator encouraged Ortel...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1579
Selling price: $5600
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[Old world]
A charming map of the old world, surrounded with 12 windheads, among three are sculs. From an early small octavo edition of Apianus' hugely popular work Cosmographicus li...
Place & Date: Venice, c.1580
Selling price: $2200
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Cosmographia Universalis..
Map of the world showing a landmass remarkably like the west coast of Australia and roughly where Australia should be.Lower left an early representation of America, the C...
Place & Date: Magdeburg 1581
Selling price: $1038
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Insignia Inclytae Reipublicae Hannoverensis Patriae.
This cartographic oddity was designed more for religious edification rather than geographical information. It shows the continents of Asia, Europe and Africa in the form ...
Place & Date: Magdeburg, ca. 1581
Selling price: $3875
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Die eigentliche und warhafftige gestalt der Erden..
Map of the world showing a landmass remarkably like the west coast of Australia and roughly where Australia should be. Lower left an early representation of America, the ...
Place & Date: Magdeburg, ca. 1581
Selling price: $1401
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Cosmographia Universalis. . .
Map of the world showing a landmass remarkably like the west coast of Australia and roughly where Australia should be. Lower left an early representation of America, the ...
Place & Date: Magdeburg, later than 1581
Selling price: $1950
Sold in 2008
Die eigentliche und wahrafftige Gestalt der Erden und des Meers.
Rare map of the world from Heinrich Bunting's "Itinerarium Sacrae Scripturae", his famous theological commentary. Some towns named including Jerusalem, Damascus...
Place & Date: Magdeburg, 1581
Selling price: $1500
Sold in 2012
Die eigentliche und wahrafftige Gestalt der Erden und des Meers
A rare map of the world from Heinrich Bünting's "Itinerarium Sacrae Scripturae", famous theological commentary.Some towns named, including Jerusalem, Damascus ...
Place & Date: Magdeburg, ca. 1581
Selling price: $980
Sold in 2016
Cosmographia Universalis. . .
Map of the old world showing a landmass remarkably like the west coast of Australia and roughly where Australia should be.Lower left an early representation of America, t...
Place & Date: Magdeburg, ca. 1581
Selling price: $650
Sold in 2017
Die gantze Welt in ein Kleberblatt..
This extraordinary curiosity is referred to as the Clover-leaf, for obvious reasons. Heinrich Bünting's design was inspired by the trefoil form of the arms of Hanover, h...
Place & Date: Magdeburg, ca. 1581
Selling price: $2300
Sold in 2017
Die eigentliche und wahrafftige Gestalt der Erden und des Meers.
A rare, important map of the world from Heinrich Bünting's "Itinerarium Sacrae Scripturae", famous theological commentary. Towns named include; Jerusalem, Dama...
Place & Date: Magdeburg, ca. 1581
Selling price: $690
Sold in 2019
![Larii Lacus Vulgo Comensis Descriptio . . . [and] Terretorii Romani Descrip. [and] Fori Iulii Vulgo Frivli Typus. . .](/uploads/cache/41008-250x250.jpg)