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![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 abs...
Place & Date: Basel, 1550 ca
Selling price: $2000
Sold in 2020
![[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 ]](/uploads/cache/16721-250x250.jpg)
[ 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 ]](/uploads/cache/22310-250x250.jpg)
[ 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
Typus Orbis Universalis.
Uncommon first issue (east and West windheads within oval perimeter) in preciously rare original color (recto and verso). “The world as viewed in the mind of educated m...
Place & Date: Basel, 1540
Selling price: $9700
Sold in 2010
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
![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
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
Typus Orbis Universalis
Münster’s map of the World, it is one of the most recognized world maps of the 16th Century. This example is from the second woodblock, which includes the engraver Dav...
Place & Date: Basel, 1559