Browse Listings
Asie.
Landmark map of Asia, it is the first French map to depict significantly new information. The map is known in one state. The map was prepared and issued separately in 165...
Date: Paris, 1650
Selling price: ????
Please login to see price!
Sold in 2016
GALLIA. Le royaume de France.
The map was first published with figured borders (1607). When Blaeu needed a folio size map of France for his first atlas (Appendix 1631) he cut off the borders. The same...
Date: Amsterdam, 1650
Selling price: ????
Please login to see price!
Sold in 2016
Eight woodcut printed coats of arms.
Eight wood cut printed coats of arms in very fine contemporary coloring. On verso and decorated oval with name. Including, Henry de Lenoncourt, Antoine Levy, Charles Robe...
Date: France, ca. 1650
Selling price: ????
Please login to see price!
Sold in 2018
Languedoc
A great map of southern France from Perpignan to just east of the mouth of the Rhone river, until Étang de Berre. Filled with place names, including Avignon, Arles, Caho...
Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1650
Selling price: ????
Please login to see price!
Sold in 2016
Asia Noviter Delineata.
This is one of the most famous 17th century maps of the continent of Asia. It is surrounded in a beautiful carte-a-figures border and is richly ornamented with animals, s...
Date: 1650
Selling price: ????
Please login to see price!
Sold in 2016
Gallia Vetus ad Iuly Caesaris Commentaria
This striking map of Gallia (ancient France) by Jan Jansson is based on information from Caesar's “De Bello Gallico". It is engraved to show the mountains, rivers ...
Date: Amsterdam, 1650
Selling price: ????
Please login to see price!
Sold in 2016
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Missal or Antiphonary.
Very large hand vellum leaf with handwritten text. Several initials hand-painted in red and blue. With 15 lines of text on both sides. Probably from a Missal or Antiphona...
Date: France, ca. 1650
Selling price: ????
Please login to see price!
Sold in 2016
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Missal or Antiphonary.
Very large hand vellum leaf with hand written text. Several initials hand painted in red and blue. With 15 lines of Latin text on both sides. Probably from a book written...
Date: France, ca. 1650
Selling price: ????
Please login to see price!
Sold in 2016
Italian manuscript leaf on vellum.
This is an handwritten page from the 1300 done in Italy. The marginal drawing of grapes done in the 1600's. It is written in a Gothic hand on fine Italian vellum.
Date: Italy 1300s with the drawing c.1650
Selling price: ????
Please login to see price!
Sold in 2017
Africae nova descriptio.
Fine and important "carte à figures"- map of Africa. Much of the geographical information is still based on the Ptolemaic maps, with the Nile shown with its so...
Date: Amsterdam, 1650
Selling price: ????
Please login to see price!
Sold
Magni Mogolis Imperium.
An attractive map of the region from Iran through Tibet, and northern India to Burma. The travel route from Kabul to Surat is the most prominent feature of the map. Richl...
Date: Amsterdam, 1650
Selling price: ????
Please login to see price!
Sold in 2022
Cyprus Insula laeta choris, blandorum et mater amorum.
A classical map of Cyprus from Janssonius' historical atlas "Accuratissima Orbis Antiqui". With a rococo style title cartouche and similar explanation table in ...
Date: Amsterdam, ca 1650
Selling price: ????
Please login to see price!
Sold in 2017
Orbis Terrarum Veteribus Cogniti Typus Geographicus.
A standard map of the world, according to the ancients, by Jansson, published in the mid seventeenth century, but based on earlier works by Ortelius.The map covers Europe...
Date: Amsterdam, ca 1650
Selling price: ????
Please login to see price!
Sold in 2017
Europam, sive Celticam Veterem.
A map of the Celtic Empire by A. Ortelius, and reissued by Jansson in the middle of the seventeenth century. Ortelius' map first appeared in 1595.The map shows the contin...
Date: Amsterdam, ca 1650
Selling price: ????
Please login to see price!
Sold in 2017
Britannia prout divisa suit temporibus Anglo-Saxonum, praesertim durante illorum Heptarchia.
A very decorative map of England, Scotland and Wales. Wales and Scotland have their own kingdoms, however, England is divided up into seven separate Saxon kingdoms.Northu...
Date: Amsterdam, ca 1650
Selling price: ????
Please login to see price!
Sold in 2018
GALLIA. Le royaume de France.
Engraved by the master engraver Josua van den Ende. A very attractive map of France, embellished with a beautiful title cartouche at lower left, two royal shields in the ...
Date: Amsterdam, 1650
Selling price: ????
Please login to see price!
Sold in 2018
Petrus Bertius Collegii, Illustr ordinum Regens.
Copper engraving portrait of the famous geographer Petrus Bertius (1565 -1629). Bertius grew up in Beveren (Flanders, Belgium). As young man he travelled extensively thro...
Date: ca. 1650
Selling price: ????
Please login to see price!
Sold in 2017
HISPANIAE Veteris descriptio.
A decorative handcolored copper engraved map, Latin text edition of J. Jansson's’ Historical Atlas'.
Date: Amsterdam ca. 1650
Selling price: ????
Please login to see price!
Sold in 2018
Descriptio Peregrinationis D. Pauli, Apostoli. . .
A striking map of the Mediterranean Sea and its surrounding areas. It depicts the travels of the Apostle St. Paul.The pair of decorative cartouches, presented in a curtai...
Date: Amsterdam, 1650
Selling price: ????
Please login to see price!
Sold in 2017
Schwedischen Feiverwerks, Anno 1650,
A night time fireworks display watched by an enthusiastic crowd, a print by M.Merian, published in his "Theatrum Europaeum." Banner title in German.
Date: Frankfurt am Main, 1650
Selling price: ????
Please login to see price!
Sold in 2019
![[Frontispiece] 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum sive Atlas Novus. Partis Primae Pars'.](/uploads/cache/98686-250x250.jpg)
[Frontispiece] 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum sive Atlas Novus. Partis Primae Pars'.
Frontispice from 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum sive Atlas Novus. Partis Primae Pars'. Johan Blaeu succeeded his father Willem when the latter died in 1638. Johan led the Blaeu...
Date: Amsterdam, ca 1650
Selling price: ????
Please login to see price!
Sold in 2020
Tertia Pars Brabantiae. . .
A striking map showing part of present-day Belgium and Dutch Brabant. West is at the top. At the lower left the cartouche is embellished with male figures with compasses,...
Date: Amsterdam, 1650
Selling price: ????
Please login to see price!
Sold in 2018
Thuringia Landgraviatus.
A detailed map of Thuringa in central Germany, centred on Erfurd on the middle of the map. Showing also Weimar. Embellished with a very decorative title cartouche that is...
Date: Amsterdam, 1650
Selling price: ????
Please login to see price!
Sold in 2018
Afbeeldinge Vande vermaerde Seehaven ... Duynkerken...
A striking coastal chart, extending from Dunkerque and Wynoxbergen to in the east to Waldarn and Gravelines in the west, with an inset showing the continuation of the coa...
Date: Amsterdam, 1650
Selling price: ????
Please login to see price!
Sold in 2018
'Peacocks'.
A copper engraving. Print showing peacocks in different poses.
Date: English, ca 1650
Selling price: ????
Please login to see price!
Sold in 2020
Das Wiflispurgergow.
A lovely detailed map of South-western Switzerland after Gerhard Mercator's map of the same. With an ornamental title cartouche and Dutch text on the verso. It shows Gene...
Date: Amsterdam, ca 1650
Selling price: ????
Please login to see price!
Sold in 2018
Russiae vulgo Moscovia dictae, Partes Septentionalis et Orientalis.
Covers the northern part of Russia from Finland to just beyond the Jenisej River and south to the Volga River. Includes the cities of Jaroslavl, Niznij Novgorod, and Kaza...
Date: Amsterdam, ca 1650
Selling price: ????
Please login to see price!
Sold in 2019
London.
A beautifully engraved panorama of London during the reign of James I which was based on an earlier Visscher engraving published in 1616.Merian's panorama shows London fi...
Date: London, 1650
Selling price: ????
Please login to see price!
Sold in 2019
Aethopia Inferior vel Exterior Monomotapa.
A very attractive map of the African region south of the Congo, probably derived from Blaeu, and based on Portuguese exploration. The interior is filled with indigenous ...
Date: Frankfurt ca 1650
Selling price: ????
Please login to see price!
Sold in 2018
Magni Mogolis Imperium.
An attractive map of the region from Iran through Afghanistan, Tibet, and northern India across to Burma. The travel route from Kabul to Surat is the most prominent featu...
Date: Amsterdam, 1650
Selling price: ????
Please login to see price!
Sold in 2018
Asia Vetus Autore N. Sanson Abbavillæo Christianiss. . .
A striking and highly detailed unusual double page copper engraved map of the Asian Continent at the time of the ancients. The East Indies and northern part of Papua-New ...
Date: Paris, 1650
Selling price: ????
Please login to see price!
Sold in 2019
Hellas. seu Graecia Universa. Autore J. Laurenbergio.
Fine map of Greece with Crete, the Carpathian Sea, the islands west of Peloponesia, the Aegean Sea, and a part of Turkey. Richly detailed with towns, rivers, and topograp...
Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1650
Selling price: ????
Please login to see price!
Sold in 2019
Comitatus Tirolensis.
A detailed map of the west Austrian Tirol region, with plenty of excellent topographical detail in the rendering of the numerous mountains, rivers, forests, larger towns,...
Date: Amsterdam, ca 1650
Selling price: ????
Please login to see price!
Sold in 2019
America Septentrionalis.
A wonderful map showing California as an island, and above, the north west of the continent left blank except for two paragraphs explaining the discoveries to date. Inter...
Date: Amsterdam, ca 1650
Selling price: ????
Please login to see price!
Sold in 2019
Joannis Janssonii Novus Atlas, sive Theatrum Orbis Terrarum: in quo Orbis Antiquus. . .
A glorious mid-seventeenth century engraved frontispieces to atlas by Janssonius. Finely decorated with a pair of terrestrial (bottom) and celestial (top) globes and the ...
Date: Amsterdam, 1650
Selling price: ????
Please login to see price!
Sold in 2024
China veteribus Sinarum Regio nuc incolis Tame dicta.
A very fine example of this classic 17th century map, and Blaeu’s first of China, in attractive strong original color. The map further shows the whole of Japan, the 'is...
Date: Amsterdam, 1650
Selling price: ????
Please login to see price!
Sold in 2020
Americae Pars Meridionalis.
A finely engraved map of South America. One of the earliest separate maps of South America, and one of the first decorative maps of South America to appear in a Dutch Atl...
Date: Amsterdam, 1650
Selling price: ????
Please login to see price!
Sold in 2019
Avignon.
Detailed bird's-eye view of the town of Avignon.
Date: Frankfurt 1650
Selling price: ????
Please login to see price!
Sold in 2020
Abriß der Dreÿen, gegeneinander correspondierenden Vestungen, Monaco, Capo di Sant' Spirito, und Niza di Provenza. (Monaco)
Beautiful map showing the coasts of Provence, with detailed plans of Nice, Villefranche-sur-Mer, the peninsula of Cap Ferrat and Monaco, from the from the Theatrum EuropÃ...
Date: Frankfurt, ca. 1650
Selling price: ????
Please login to see price!
Sold in 2019
Silesia Inferior. . .
A fine and decorative map of lower Silesia (western Poland), centred on Glogau, the capital of Breslaw (Wroclaw) is found not far away. Each major city in the region is c...
Date: Amsterdam, 1650
Selling price: ????
Please login to see price!
Sold in 2019
Afbeeldinge van Zeker Concept tot Bedykinge, van de Haarlemer, Leydse en Andere byleggende Meeren.
Large, rare, and detailed map of the region between Amsterdam, Haarlem and Leiden, from two copperplates. It concerns a concept to reclaiming the Haarlemmermeer, drawn by...
Date: Amsterdam, 1650
Selling price: ????
Please login to see price!
Sold in 2019
Russie Blanche ou Moscovie. . .
An unusual map of eastern Europe and western Russia. With two pages of descriptive text in French about the area on verso. Includes many cities and towns, rivers, and reg...
Date: Paris, ca 1650
Selling price: ????
Please login to see price!
Sold in 2019
ΠΟΝΤΟΣ ΕΥΞΕΙΝΟΣ. PONTUS EUXINUS.
A striking example of the map depicting the Black Sea and the Crimean Peninsula with its surrounding regions. Covers parts of the Ukraine, Russia, Georgia, Romania and Tu...
Date: Amsterdam, ca 1650
Selling price: ????
Please login to see price!
Sold in 2020
HISPANIAE Veteris descriptio. Abraham Goos Sculpsit.
A decorative handcolored copper engraved map, Latin text edition of J. Jansson's’ Historical Atlas'. A very handsome and decorative map of ancient Spain based on classi...
Date: Amsterdam ca. 1650
Selling price: ????
Please login to see price!
Sold in 2019
Duche et Gouvernement de Bretagne.
A probable first state of this decorative regional French map of Bretagne, including the cities of Nantes, Rennes, Belle-ÃŽle, St. Malo, Pontivy, Morlaix, Brest and Vanne...
Date: Paris, 1650
Selling price: ????
Please login to see price!
Sold in 2019
AFRIQUE par N. Sanson d'Abbeville.
According to Betz, this is a landmark map of Africa, It is the first French map to depict significantly new information. The map is known in one state. The map was prepar...
Date: Paris, 1650
Selling price: ????
Please login to see price!
Sold in 2019
Insulae Flandricae, olim Asores dictae.
A scarce colored sea chart of part of the Atlantic Ocean: the Azores islands ((Faial, Pico, Graciosa, Terceira, Sao Jorge, Formigas, São Miguel), published by Johannes J...
Date: Amsterda, 1650
Selling price: ????
Please login to see price!
Sold in 2020
Abrahamus Ortelius Antuerpianus cosmographus natus a. MDXXVII
Portrait of Abraham Ortelius (Abraham Ortel), famous cartographer born in Antwerp and after studying Greek, Latin and mathematics set up a business there with his sister,...
Date: Antwerp, c.1650
Selling price: ????
Please login to see price!
Sold in 2023
Russiae, vulgo Moscovia, pars Australis.
Centered on Moscow. Prepared by Isaac Massa, a Dutch mapmaker who travelled to Russia, returning to Holland in 1609, bringing with him a large amount of original cartogra...
Date: Amsterdam 1650
Selling price: ????
Please login to see price!
Sold
Iprensis Episcopatus.
Map of the Dioceses of Ypres (1559-1801). Centered on the towns of Ypres and Rouselare.Rare map only included in Joan Blaeu's Atlas Major. Originally engraved for Sanderu...
Date: Amsterdam, 1650
Selling price: ????
Please login to see price!
Sold in 2020
Edynburgum
A beautifully rendered 17th century view of Edinburgh. Provides excellent detail, with many of the town's key sites visible. The Scottish coat of arms is shown in the upp...
Date: Frankfurt, 1650
Selling price: ????
Please login to see price!
Sold
Reims en Champagne.
Detailed bird's-eye view of the town of Rheims. From Merian's Theatrum Europaeum. To the bottom a lettered key to the principal places in town.
Date: Frankfurt 1650
Selling price: ????
Please login to see price!
Sold
Nova Aegypti Tabula.
With an ornate cartouche and two surveyors supporting the mileage scale.
Date: Amsterdam, 1650
Selling price: ????
Please login to see price!
Sold in 2011
Americae pars meridionalis.
Decorated with several ships and sea monsters, and a cartouche flanked by engravings of six Indians, netted hammocks and South American fauna.
Date: Amsterdam 1650
Selling price: ????
Please login to see price!
Sold
Belägerung des Vesten.. Gennep.
Detailed map of the siege of Gennep.
Date: Frankfurt 1650
Selling price: ????
Please login to see price!
Sold
Prima pars Brabantiae cuius caput Lovanium.
Decorative map centred on Tienen and Leuven. West to the top.
Date: Amsterdam 1650
Selling price: ????
Please login to see price!
Sold in 2018
Angelus Tobiam liberat ne deuoretur a pisce Tob.6.
Illustration of the history of Tobias. engraving number 4.The angel saving Tobias from being devored by the whale.
Date: Southern Netherlands c.1650
Selling price: ????
Please login to see price!
Sold
Novus XVII Inferioris Germanie Provinciarum Typus
This is undoubtedly one of the most magnificent maps of the seventeen provinces of the Netherlands. It was first produced as a separately issued wall map in 1608 with fig...
Date: Amsterdam, 1650
Selling price: ????
Please login to see price!
Sold in 2010
Magni Mogolis Imperium.
A most attractive map of northern India and Central Asia.
Date: Amsterdam, 1650
Selling price: ????
Please login to see price!
Sold
Titlepage: Studium Geographicum.
Uncommon title page by the Rome publisher Joannis Baptistae Nicolosi (active 1610-1670).
Date: Rome, 1650
Selling price: ????
Please login to see price!
Sold
Pascaart vande Custen van Andaluzia, Portugal..
Decorative chart of the coasts of Andalusia, Portugal, Galicia, Biscayne from the first sea-atlas (in the real sense of the word) printed in the Netherlands.
Date: Amsterdam 1650
Selling price: ????
Please login to see price!
Sold
Dioecesis Sarlatensis, vernacule
Detailed map of Perigord, depicting Bergerac, Saint Cyprien, Montignac, Sarlat, Villefranche, etc. Embellished with an enormous and beautiful title cartouche in the left ...
Date: Amsterdam 1650
Selling price: ????
Please login to see price!
Sold
Dioecesis Sarlatensis, vernacule... Sarlat.
Impressive title cartouche with four putti. Detailed map of the region south of the Dordogne River from Bergerac till Saint-Cirq. Including Le Buisson.
Date: Amsterdam 1650
Selling price: ????
Please login to see price!
Sold in 2009
Prima pars Brabantiae cuius caput Lovanium.
Decorative map centered on Tienen and Leuven. West to the top.
Date: Amsterdam, 1650
Selling price: ????
Please login to see price!
Sold in 2018
No title. Map of the Holy Land.
Engraved by Baptista van Doetechum for a bible by Plancius.The rare re-issue by Joost Hartgers. The bible maps of Plancius came into the hands of the Amsterdam publisher ...
Date: Amsterdam 1650
Selling price: ????
Please login to see price!
Sold
Imperium Romanum. Auth. Phil. Briet e Societ Iesu.
Philip Briet S.J. (1601-1668). French cartographer. Parallela Geogr. Veterus et Novae 1648, Atlas 1653.A map depicting the Roman Empire with an inset showing Rome and its...
Date: Paris, c. 1650
Selling price: ????
Please login to see price!
Sold
Prima pars Brabantiae cuius caput Lovanium.
Decorative map centered on Tienen and Leuven. West to the top. Prepared by Michael Floris van Langeren (1612-1675). He was an mathematician and astronomer who served for ...
Date: Amsterdam 1650
Selling price: ????
Please login to see price!
Sold
Mexicum in hac forma in lucem edebat IOANNES BAPTISTA NICOLOSIVS S.T.D.
The first state of Nicolosi's rare and important map of south-western North America. Although the Spanish settlements in New Mexico were already more than half a century ...
Date: Rome 1650
Selling price: ????
Please login to see price!
Sold
Pais qui dependent de la Norvege suivant les derniers relations.
Rare map of the North Pole. With inset maps of Faeroe and Shetland Islands.
Date: Paris 1650
Selling price: ????
Please login to see price!
Sold
Regno di Napoli.
To the left and right 12 coats of arms of different regions. From a German text edition.
Date: Amsterdam 1650
Selling price: ????
Please login to see price!
Sold
Gouvernement General d'Orleans ..
Fine map of south eastern part of France, including Isle de Ré, Paris, S.Malo, etc. This edition carries the date 1650 and the cartouche presents the address of Pierre M...
Date: Paris, 1650
Selling price: ????
Please login to see price!
Sold
Imperium Caroli Magni
Finely engraved map of the Empire of Karol the Great.
Date: Amsterdam 1650
Selling price: ????
Please login to see price!
Sold
Malta.
Attractivetown-plan of Valetta on Malta, based on the engraving in Braun and Hogenberg' townbook from 1572-1624.A schematic drawing shows Valetta with a strongly fortifie...
Date: The Netherlands ? 1650
Selling price: ????
Please login to see price!
Sold
Gouvernement General d'Orleans ..
Fine map of south eastern part of France, including Isle d'Ré, Paris, S.Malo, etc.This edition carries the date 1650 and the cartouche presents the address of Pierre Mar...
Date: Paris 1650
Selling price: ????
Please login to see price!
Sold
Royaume de Boheme.
Covering Czech Republic and cantered on Prague.This edition carries the date 1650. Nicolas Sanson was to bring about the rise of French cartography, although the fierce c...
Date: Paris 1650
Selling price: ????
Please login to see price!
Sold
Typus Frisiae Orientalis.
Decorative map of east Frisia in Germany with the Watten islands. With inset map of the area south of Emden. Prepared by Ubbo Emmius (1547-1625).
Date: Amsterdam, 1650
Selling price: ????
Please login to see price!
Sold in 2018
Wiltopnia sive comitatus Wiltoniensis, Anglis Wilshire.
A fine copy of this famous and decorative map of Wiltshire. 16 shields, two left blank underneath the decorated cartouche at top left. Two more shields at right, secondar...
Date: Amsterdam 1650
Selling price: ????
Please login to see price!
Sold
Essexia comitatus.
A fine copy of this famous and decorative map of Essex. Title banner, scale cartouche with three putti. Royal Arms, Arms of England and A panel displaying seven coats of ...
Date: Amsterdam 1650
Selling price: ????
Please login to see price!
Sold
Imperium Romanum. Auth. Phil. Briet e Societ Iesu.
Philip Briet S.J. (1601-1668). French cartographer. Parallela Geogr. Veterus et Novae 1648, Atlas 1653.A map depicting the Roman Empire with an inset showing Rome and its...
Date: Paris, c. 1650
Selling price: ????
Please login to see price!
Sold
Novissima Russiae Tabula.
Johannes Janssonius, the great rival of Willem Blaeu, was the son-in-law of Jodocus Hondius. Together with Jodocus' son Hendrick, he continued to publish the successive e...
Date: Amsterdam, c. 1650
Selling price: ????
Please login to see price!
Sold