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Orbis Vetus, et Orbis Veteris Utraque Continens, Terrarum. . .
Sanson's double-hemisphere world map with ancient place names and latin text. California is shown as an island. A very large suggested Alaska. With parti coastal lines of...
Place & Date: Paris, 1657
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2019
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[Set of 4 continents] America Noviter Delineata, Asia Recens Summa Cura Delineata, Africa Nova Tabula and Nova Europae Descriptio
A magnificent and rare set of the 4 continents by Pierre D'Avity. The maps are from the French work "Les Etats, Empires, Royaumes du Monde". The engraver is unk...
Place & Date: Paris, 1659
Selling price: $7600
Sold in 2019
Harmonie ou Correspondance du Globe avecq la Sphere par les Points, Lignes, Cercles, &c. qui se descrivent en la surface des Globes Terrestres et des Mappemondes, pour respondre a ceux qui sont imaginés dans la Sphere Cœleste.
A large map of the world in two hemispheres, east and west, showing the climatic zones. The geographic content is relegated to the background, placing emphasis on the gri...
Place & Date: Paris,'"chez l'autheur", 1659
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2021
Hemispherium Orbis Antiqui, Cumzonis Circulis, Et Sity populorum Diverso.
The magnificent celestial atlas produced by Andreas Cellarius ?Atlas Coelestis seu Harmonia Macrocosmica? is the only celestial atlas published in the heydays of Dutch ca...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius, 1660
Selling price: $2600
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Orbis Terrarum Typus..
This map is a direct derivative of Nicolas Visscher's first world map designed for inclusion in Dutch Bibles. It has been re-engraved, is nominally larger, and this examp...
Place & Date: Amsterdam c.1660
Selling price: $1600
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![[First part of the Tabula Peutingeriana map with no tittle] Chrepstini Franci.](/uploads/cache/31368-250x250.jpg)
[First part of the Tabula Peutingeriana map with no tittle] Chrepstini Franci.
An uncommon variant of the first part of the Peutinger map, here showing a section of southeastern England with the roads and harbors marked.In the center France down to ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1660
Selling price: $210
Sold in 2011
Nova totius terrarum orbis tabula auctore F. de Wit.
This is the first state of the world maps by F. de Wit. Especially rare, extremely decorative. It appeared in "De Zee-Atlas Ofte Water-Wereld ..." By Hendrik Do...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1660
Selling price: $5450
Sold in 2014
Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula.
This is the first state of the world maps by F. de Wit. Especially rare, extremely decorative.It appeared in "De Zee-Atlas Ofte Water-Wereld ..." By Hendrik Don...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1660
Selling price: $5500
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Orbis Terrarum Veteribus Cogniti Typus Geographicus.
A beautifully engraved classic map of the ancient world, based on an earlier chart by Ortelius. Africa, Asia and Europe as far south as Northern Madagascar are placed at ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1660
Selling price: $335
Sold in 2016
Hemisphaerium Orbis Antiqui Cumzonis Circulis et Situ Populorum Diverso.
A wonderfully colored example of Andreas Cellarius's map of the Eastern Hemisphere, illustrating the climatic zones ranging from Frigida Borealis to Torrida, with planeta...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1660
Selling price: $900
Sold in 2019
Orbis Terrarum Tabula. . .
A scarce first state of this double hemisphere world map taken from a Ravensteyn bible printed as early as 1660 (!) and on very large paper format. Superbly engraved wit...
Place & Date: Leiden, 1660
Selling price: $1750
Sold in 2020
Orbis Terrarum Typus de Integro in Plurimis Emendatus, Auctus, et Icunculius Illustratus.
A highly decorative double hemisphere world map, surrounded by engravings that include allegorical representations of the continents, as well as native inhabitants and wi...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca 1660
Selling price: $1700
Sold in 2021
Typus Orbis Terrarum.
World map in double hemisphere showing the Arctic portion of North America as a geographical blank.In the Pacific discoveries are tentative, Australia is not outlined and...
Place & Date: Wolfenbüttel 1661
Selling price: $200
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Typus Orbis Terrarum.
Interesting world map in two hemispheres from a German edition of Philipp Clüver\'s famous Introductionis in Universam geographicam, first published in Leiden in 1624. P...
Place & Date: Wolfenbüttel, 1661
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2008
Typus Orbis Terrarum.
Interesting world map in two hemispheres from a German edition of Philipp Clüver's famous Introductionis in Universam geographicam, first published in Leiden in 1624. Ph...
Place & Date: Wolfenbüttel, 1661
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2016
Orbis Terrarum Veteribus Cogniti Typus Geographicus.
This map of the classical World is based upon Abraham Ortelius' ancient map of the World, which was later re-issued by Jan Jansson. This is a reduced version of the map. ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1661
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2018
Typus Orbis Terrarum.
An interesting world map in two hemispheres from a German edition of Philipp Clüver's famous Introductionis in Universam geographicam, first published in Leiden in 1624....
Place & Date: Wolfenbüttel, 1661
Selling price: $160
Sold in 2020
Typus Orbis Terrarum.
Nice, uncommon map of the world in two hemispheres by P. Cluver. Published in Wolfenbüttel by J. Buno, 1661. With title at the top. It shows a huge Antarctic region. Man...
Place & Date: Wolfenbüttel, 1661
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2020
Orbis Terrarum Typus De Integro in Plurimis Emandatus, Auctus, Et Incunculis Illustratus.
Very RARE WORLD MAP FROM DUTCH BIBLE. The map has the same title as the early Visscher bible-world maps (Shirley 401 and 414), it has the same decorations in the 4 corner...
Place & Date: Gorkum, H. van Kapel en I.B. Smient, 1662
Selling price: $7500
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Tabula Itineraria ex illustri Peutingerorum Bibliotheca Quae Auguste Vindelicorum.
Eight sheets making up the famous Peutinger Table, or a Roman road map of the world. The map depicts the imperial roads and posts within the Roman Empire throughout Europ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1662
Selling price: $1980
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Nova et Accuratissima Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula.
Since its appearance as an Appendix in 1630, the atlas launched by Willem Blaeu and continued by his son Joan had expanded greatly. But in spite of many new regional maps...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1662
Selling price: $13950
Sold in 2011
Tabula Itineraria ex illustri Peutingerorum Bibliotheca. . .
Eight maps (on 4 sheets) making up the famous Peutinger Table, or a Roman road map of the world. The map depicts the imperial roads and posts within the Roman Empire thro...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1662
Selling price: $2700
Sold in 2011
Nova et Accuratissima Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula.
Since its appearance as an Appendix in 1630, the atlas launched by Willem Blaeu and continued by his son Joan had expanded greatly. But in spite of many new regional maps...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1662
Selling price: $10600
Sold in 2015
Orbis Terrarum Tabula..
Magnificent double hemisphere Dutch Bible map. Surrounded by engravings of animals and four female allegorical representations of the continents. At top and bottom are tw...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1663
Selling price: $600
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Orbis Vetus. A Paris. 1663.
Piere du Val (1618-83), Paris-based cartographer and publisher. Atlases a.o. ' Cartes de Géographie', 1654-88, ' La Géographie universelle' , 1661-1712. After his death...
Place & Date: Paris, 1663
Selling price: $300
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Orbis Terrarum Tabula..
Magnificent double hemisphere Dutch Bible map. Surrounded by engravings of animals and four female allegorical representations of the continents. At top and bottom are tw...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1663
Selling price: $950
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Orbis Terrarum Tabula Recens..
First state of this map from a Dutch Bible published by the renowned house of Elzevier. Superb double hemisphere world map, surrounded by engravings including allegorical...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1663
Selling price: $1200
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Orbis Terrarum Tabula Recens Emendata et in Lucem Edita per N. Visscher
Attractive worldmap in double hemisphere with two inset astronomical diagrams. From a dutch bible. Surround with allegorical representation of the continents. Visschers s...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1663
Selling price: $1500
Sold in 2010
Orbis Terrarum Tabula. . .
Magnificent double hemisphere Dutch Bible map. Surrounded by engravings of animals and four female allegorical representations of the continents. South America of 7inch, ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1663
Selling price: $1200
Sold in 2013
Orbis Vetus . . .
Uncommon map of the Ancient world showing the European and Asian continents with in the lower right corner a blank landmass with incomplete coastlines appears in the loca...
Place & Date: Paris, 1663
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2023
Orbis terrarum tabula recens emendata et in lucem edita per N. Visscher.
A scarce first state of this double hemisphere world map from the Elzevier Dutch bible printed in 1663 (Dutch text on verso). Surrounded by allegorical scenes of the cont...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1663
Selling price: $1050
Sold in 2019
Orbis Vetus, et Orbis Veteris, utraque Continens, Terrarumq Tractus Arcticus, et Antarcticus ex Platone, Theopompo sive Aehano, Manilio . . . MDCLVII
Nicolas Sanson's map of the ancient world was also issued separately in 1657before being incorporated in the first formal edition of Sanson's world atlas in 1658. The map...
Place & Date: Paris, 1665
Selling price: $71
Sold in 2013
Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica Ac Hydrographica..
The forth state of Hondius' decorative world map, first issued in the 1630 edition of the Mercator-Hondius Atlas, in response to competition from Willem Blaeu. The basic ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, dated 1666
Selling price: $11100
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Typus orbis Terrarum description de la Terre universelle.
Rare double hemisphere world map, published by Jollain in 1667. California as an island. Australia connected to the southern continent. Published in "Trésor Des Car...
Place & Date: Paris, 1667
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2022
Tabula geographico-hydrographica..
Very unusual world map depicts ocean currents, volcanoes and deep-sea chasms. The continents are void of political detail and only major lakes, rivers and volcanoes are s...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1668
Selling price: $900
Sold in 2011
Tabula Geographico-Hydrographica Motus Oceani. . .
The Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher was one of the first compilers of semi-scientific knowledge about the physical features of the world. This extraordinary map depicts...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1668
Selling price: $950
Sold in 2012
Les Tables de Geographie, reduites en un Jeu de Cartes.
Uncut complete set of Pierre du Val’s rare geographical card game with 52 playing card maps. In top the four continents of America, Africa, Asia and Europe.The last cop...
Place & Date: Paris, 1669
Selling price: $2000
Sold in 2012
Nova Orbis Tabula in Lucem Edita A. F. de Wit
This is one of the extremely decorative and rare double-hemispherical world maps of the late seventeenth century, first state. The corners are filled with images of the ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c. 1670
Orbis Terrarum Typus (heightened with gold leaf)
From a copy of "Introductionis in Universam Geographicam". Published by Bertius in Amsterdam and printed on the Elzevier press. This double-hemisphere world ma...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1672
Selling price: $280
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Terraquei Orbis Typ.us In R.P.Dan Bartoli S.J. Geographiam Politico-Moralem. . .
Charming world map included in Daniello Bartoli rare work Geographia. Nikolaus Hautt was a "cartographer, engraver and printer of Constance" his maps appeared D...
Place & Date: Constance, 1674
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2008
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 ...
Place & Date: Ulm, 1675
Selling price: $900
Sold in 2022
Le Monde en Planisphere. . .
Uncommon miniature map of the World showing California as an island, from Pierre Duval's La Geographie Universeille dated 1676. Following his Cartes de geographie in 1657...
Place & Date: Paris, 1676
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2020
Planisphere, ou Carte Generale du Monde.
Third State, dated 1676. Engraved by Louis Cordier. The two hemispheres generally follow Sanson's latest world map of 1660 except for the unusual, and less accurate, repr...
Place & Date: Paris, 1676
Selling price: $900
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Planisphere, ou Carte Generale du Monde.
Third State, dated 1676. Engraved by Louis Cordier. The two hemispheres generally follow Sanson's latest world map of 1660 except for the unusual, and less accurate, repr...
Place & Date: Paris, 1676
Selling price: $720
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Patriarchatus, Romanus, Constantinopolitanus, Alexandrinus, Antiochenus, et Hierosolimitanus. . .
Map of the Roman Empire with large territorial holdings around the Mediterranean in Europe, Africa, and Asia. The first two centuries of the Empire were a period of unpre...
Place & Date: Paris, 1675-1676
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2017
A New and Accurat Map of the World Drawne According to ye Truest Descriptions Latest Discoveries & Best Observations yt Have Beene Made by English or Strangers
This desirable and beautiful double-hemispheric world map carries the imprint of Bassett & Chiswell. The map is dated 1651 but it was known to be published in 1676 wi...
Place & Date: London, 1676
Selling price: $8000
Sold in 2018
Novissima Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula, Auctore Nicolao Visscher.
Rare world map showing California as an island. This map may well have been produced by Nicolaas Visscher II. Geographically it is almost identical to the Visscher-Berche...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1679
Selling price: $6000
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Novissima Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula, Auctore Nicolao Visscher.
Rare world map showing California as an island. This map may well have been produced by Nicolaas Visscher II. Geographically it is almost identical to the Visscher-Berche...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1679
Selling price: $2000
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Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula..
Sometime after 1684, when a privilege was granted to the Danckerts firm, a new plate was engraved to replace the single-sheet world map of 1680. The outer decoration is v...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1680
Selling price: $5000
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Orbis Terrarum Veteribus Cogniti Typus Geographicus
A classic map of the ancient world based on Ortelius. Europe, Asia and Africa as far south as Madagascar are placed at the center of a much larger oval frame. The Climati...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1680
Selling price: $500
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Nova Orbis Tabula in Lucem edita A.F.de Wit.
According to Shirley, De Wit's map is one of the most attractive of its time. The brilliant scenes in the corners combine images of the four seasons, the elements and the...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1680
Selling price: $5700
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Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula. . .
Sometime after 1684, when a privilege was granted to the Danckerts firm, a new plate was engraved to replace the single-sheet world map of 1680. The outer decoration is v...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1680
Selling price: $3900
Sold in 2013
Orbis Terrarum Tabula Recens Emendata Et In Lucem Edita.
A world map in two hemispheres, decorated in the corners with the representations of the four continents in allegorical form.
Place & Date: Dordrecht / Amsterdam, ca. 1680
Selling price: $1200
Sold in 2018
Orbis Terrarum Tabula Recens Emendata et in Lucem Edita
World map from a Dutch bible of Daniel Stoopendael in beautiful hand coloring. The map is based on Nicolas Visscher's map of 1663. Showing double-hemisphere world map wit...
Place & Date: Amsterdam / Rotterdam, 1680
Selling price: $1600
Sold in 2009
Nova Orbis Tabula in Lucem edita A.F.de Wit.
According to Shirley, De Wit's map is one of the most attractive of its time. The brilliant scenes in the corners combine images of the four seasons, the elements and the...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1680
Selling price: $4200
Sold in 2018
Orbis Terrarum Veteribus Cogniti Typus Geographicus.
A classic map of the ancient world based on Ortelius. Europe, Asia and Africa as far south as Madagascar are placed at the center of a much larger oval frame.The Climatic...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1680
Selling price: $310
Sold in 2019
Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica...
A beautifully decorative world map taken from the 'English Atlas' by Moses Pitt and Steven Swart, based on an earlier engraved world map by Pieter van den Keere ca. 1630,...
Place & Date: Oxford, 1680
Selling price: $4510
Sold in 2016
Orbis Terrarum Tabula Recens Emendata per N. Visscher.
The second state of the second map of the world in two hemispheres by Nicolas Visscher I in the series of world maps in Dutch bibles. Published by Nicolaes Visscher II (d...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1680
Selling price: $1250
Sold in 2018
A Mapp of All The World.
An exceptional example of this very rare, separately published, beautifully adjusted map, highlighted with gold coloring. A fine engraved double-hemisphere map of the wor...
Place & Date: London, 1680
Selling price: $4200
Sold in 2019
Tab. 1. Geographia et Astronomia.
A scarce first state map by L.M. Steinberger that was originally published in 1680, this wonderful double hemisphere map of the World shows California as an island, and a...
Place & Date: Augsberg, ca 1680
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2019
Poli Antarctici cum Terris Circumajacentibus descriptio.
A very rare map of the South Pole, showing outlines of the Antarctic continent, also parts of Australia and New Zealand. Some dates and notes of discoveries. A very unusu...
Place & Date: ca 1680
Selling price: $195
Sold in 2019
A map of all the Earth and how after the flood it was. . ..
A beautifully colored, and second state of this early and uncommon, oval world map. The map includes CALIFORNIA AS AN ISLAND, and partial coastlines for Japan, Australia...
Place & Date: London, ca.1681
Selling price: $850
Sold in 2019
Orbis Terrarum Tabula recens emendata et in Lucem edita.
Beautiful double hemisphere world map from a folio Dutch Bible published by Hendrik and Jacob Keur.Surrounded by fabulous scenes from the Visscher-Berchem map of 1658 wit...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1682
Selling price: $1200
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Orbis Terrarum Tabula. . .
Double hemisphere world map from a folio Dutch Bible published by Hendrik and Jacob Keur.Surrounded by fabulous scenes from the Visscher-Berchem map of 1658 with astronom...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1682
Selling price: $550
Sold in 2014
Orbis Terrarum Tabula. . .
Beautiful double hemisphere world map from a folio Dutch Bible published by Hendrik and Jacob Keur.Surrounded by fabulous scenes from the Visscher-Berchem map of 1658 wit...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1682
Selling price: $900
Sold in 2012
Orbis Terrarum Tabula recens emendata et in Lucem edita.
Beautiful double hemisphere world map from a folio Dutch Bible published by Hendrik and Jacob Keur.Surrounded by fabulous scenes from the Visscher-Berchem map of 1658 wit...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1682
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2013
Orbis Terrarum Tabula Recens Emendata et in Lucem Edita
A beautiful double hemisphere world map from a folio Dutch Bible, published by Hendrik and Jacob Keur.
Place & Date: Dordrecht, 1682
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2016
Orbis Terrarum Tabula recens emendata et in Lucem edita.
Beautiful double hemisphere world map from a folio Dutch Bible published by Hendrik and Jacob Keur.Surrounded by fabulous scenes from the Visscher-Berchem map of 1658 wit...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1682
Selling price: $1400
Sold in 2020
Orbis Terrarum Veteribus Cogniti Typus Geographicus.
Philippe Cluverius (1580-1622), geographer of Danzig, settled in Leiden (Holland) specialized in Near Easrt and Ancient Geography. His main works ' Geographicus Academicu...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1683
Selling price: $60
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La Terre Partageeaux Trois Enfans de Noe / Ancienne Division dela Terre Endiuers Peuples Du Globe Terrestre.
An attractive miniature map of the Eastern Hemisphere and an oval map show the world known to the ancients. From the French text edition of "Description d'Univers.. ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1683
Selling price: $110
Sold in 2014
Carte du Monde de Marc Paul. - Carte du Monde de lacques Castaldo. - Carte du de Migued - Monde Lopez....Du Globe Terrestre Allain Manneson Mallet
This map shows various world maps based on early cartographers. From the French text edition of "Description d'Univers."
Place & Date: Paris, 1683
Selling price: $85
Sold in 2013
Continent Arctique.
A pretty miniature map of the 'Arctic Lands' by the French engineer, soldier and cartographer, Allain Mallet. The northern most areas of North America, Europe and Asia ar...
Place & Date: Paris, 1683
Selling price: $55
Sold in 2018
Ancien Continent avec plusieurs Isles Oceans et Mers.
A delightful small map of the Ancient Eastern Hemisphere by the French cartographer, Mallet, published in Paris in the later years of the 17th century. It shows a crude o...
Place & Date: Paris, 1683
Selling price: $45
Sold in 2020
Novissima Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula, Per Carolum Allard.
This is one of the most extremely decorative and very rare double-hemispherical world maps of the late seventeenth century. ​The scenes are almost identical as ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca.1683
Selling price: $2550
Sold in 2020
Continent Meridional Austral ou Antartique.
A charming map showing a circular south-polar projection with the continents showing partial coastlines for Antarctica, Australia and New Zealand. Includes also the south...
Place & Date: Paris, 1683
Selling price: $55
Sold in 2022
Mappa Mondo o vero carta generale del globo terestre.
A fine world map in two hemispheres without decoration. California is depicted as an island. An extensive landmass, called 'Terra di Iesso', occupies the northern Pacific...
Place & Date: Rome, 1684
Selling price: $160
Sold in 2014
Mappa Mondo o vero carta generale del globo terestre.
Rossi published this scarce World Map in his Mercurio Geographico . . . , first published in 1674. In 1684, the map was revised. Most notably, a more complete and defined...
Place & Date: Rome, 1684
Selling price: $425
Sold in 2015
Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula. . .
Sometime after 1684, when a privilege was granted to the Danckerts firm, a new plate was engraved to replace the single-sheet world map of 1680. The outer decoration is v...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1685
Selling price: $3300
Sold in 2018
Orbis Terrarum Tabula..
Beautiful double hemisphere world map from a folio Dutch Bible published by Hendrik and Jacob Keur. Surrounded by fabulous scenes from the Visscher-Berchem map of 1658 wi...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1686
Selling price: $1500
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Mappe-Monde Geo-Hydrographique ou Description Generale du Globe Terrestre et Aquatique?
California as an island. According to Shirley, Valck?s Mappe Monde was probably copied from Jaillot?s influential world map of 1674, but in contrast to the plain corners ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1686
Selling price: $3800
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