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Nova Delineatio PERSIAE et Confiniorum Veteri longe accuratior edita Anno 1655.
The first realistic map of Iran. Highly important regional map of the Persian Empire, published by Adam Olearius in 1656, in his Vermehrte newe Beschreibung der muscowiti...
Date: Schleswig or Hamburg, 1655
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[ Lot of 3 maps] Terra Firma et Novum Regnum.
Willem Blaeu’s map of Columbia with the Isthmus of Panama. Embellished with two cartouches and two compass-roses. Willem Blaeu, the father of Johan and Cornelis Blaeu, ...
Date: Amsterdam, 1655
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Novi Belgii novaeque Angliae nec non partis Virginiae tabula multis in locis emendata a Iusto Dackers.
This map belongs to the most famous maps of New England. It shows the East coast from the Chesapeake to the St. Lawrence river. The map was firstly published by J. Dancke...
Date: Amsterdam, 1655
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Exactissima Asiae Delineatio..
With a very decorative title cartouche lower left featuring camels, cockatoos and Eastern merchants bartering their wares.
Date: Amsterdam, 1655
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Estats de L'Empire des Turqs en Europe et pays circomvoisins.
Fine map of Greece, including lower part of Italy, western part of Turkey and the Black Sea with Crimea.This edition carries the date 1655.Nicolas Sanson was to bring abo...
Date: Paris, 1655
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Germano-Sarmatia in qua Populi maiores Venedi et Aetiaei Peucini et Bastarnae in minores Populos divisi ad hodiernam locorum et Regionum
Fine map of ancient Poland and the whole of Eastern Europe, showing part of the Baltic and Gulf of Riga, including the modern countries of Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine and ...
Date: Paris, 1655
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Estats et Royaumes de Fez et Maroc, Darha et Segelmesse.
A striking map of today's Morocco and Algeria that includes the southern tip of Spain and the Strait of Gibraltar. Decorated by a large title cartouche.Nicolas Sanson (16...
Date: Paris, 1655
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Novissima descriptio Angliae Scotiae et Hiberniae.
A striking and highly detailed copper engraved map of British Islands, including United Kingdom, Ireland and portions of Netherlands. The map gives several details concer...
Date: Paris, 1655
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Xensi Imperii Sinarum provincia tertia.
Based on the remarkably accurate compilations of the Jesuit Father Martino Martini during his travels between 1643 and 1650, this map of the Xensi (Shaanxi) province feat...
Date: Amsterdam, 1655
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Africae Tabula Nova.
From Italian pirated edition of Ortelius miniature atlas 'Theatro del Mondo di Abraamo Ortelio' by Giovanni Turrini in 1655. Italian text on verso. Page size about 135 by...
Date: Venice, G. Turrini, 1655
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Sir Francis Drake crowned King of California.
Rare 1655 view of Sir Francis Drake, English soldiers paraded and planting the flag while native Californians celebrate and place a crown on Drake's head. From "Newe...
Date: Frankfurt, 1655
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Diocese, Prevoste, et Eslection de Paris le Diocese Divise en Archipbreis .....
Fine copper engraved map of the Island of Paris. Adorned by a striking strap title cartouche.By Matthaus Merian, considered to be the grandmaster of the city view. He inh...
Date: Frankfurt, 1655
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Estats De La Couronne De Pologne ou sont les Royaume de Pologne, Duches et Provinces De Prusse, Cuiave, Mazovie, Russie Noire &c.
First state of Sanson's map of modern day Poland, Lithuania, Belarus and Ukraine. Dated 1655 and revised several times over the next 50 years. Engraved by J.Sommer.Nicola...
Date: Paris, 1655
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Africae Propriae Tabula. In Qua, Punica Regna Vides, Tyrios, et Agenoris Urbem
A fine decorative map of the coasts of present day Tunisia and Libya, with southern Sicily and Malta. It has a fancy title cartouche, a detailed compass rose, and a large...
Date: Amsterdam, ca.1655
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The History of That Great and Renowned Monarchy of China.
An important account of China, written by the Portuguese Jesuit Alvarez de Semedo (1586-1658), who was stationed in China from 1613 to 1637. On his return to Europe, Seme...
Date: London, 1655
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Imperii Sinarum Nova Descriptio.
A superb map of the Chinese Empire based on the compilation of the Jesuit Father Martino Martini who travelled through the region between 1643 and 1650.This was a period ...
Date: Amsterdam, 1655
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Order of St. Benedict (The Benedictine Tree).
A fine religious print featuring St. Benedict by Wenseslaus Hollar (signed by him in print). Published in 1655. It features a tree with St. Benedict with a crozier in his...
Date: London, 1655
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Royaume et Desert de Barca et L'Egypte. . .
A striking map of Egypt and the eastern parts of Libya by Nicholas Sanson, "the founder of French cartography" (Tooley). The map extent is from Sidon in the Hol...
Date: Paris, 1655
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Xantung Sinarum Imperii Provincia Quarta.
A map of the province of Shandong, China. Many larger cities are named including Tungchang, Cinan, Yencheu. Laicheu and Leaochang. At the upper right side is an engrave...
Date: Amsterdam, 1655
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Urivsque Burgundiae tum Ducatus tum Comitatus Descriptio.
Fine copper engraved map by Matthäus Merian from “Neuwe Archontologia Cosmica” Published in Frankfurt in 1646. The map shows the French region of Burgundy with the...
Date: Frankfurt, 1655
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Ollandt.
A fine miniature map of Holland, including a sea-monster and several sailing ships. The map was published by Pietro Marchetti in his Il Theatro del Mondo, an Italian pir...
Date: Venice, ca. 1655
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[Atlas]
>Early edition of Sanson’s atlas Cartes générales de toutes les parties du monde, before title page. Illustrated with 74 double page maps in original outline color...
Date: Paris, ca. 1655
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L. Colivri / Pie Griesche.
A very fine and decorative representation of two birds, with flowers and insects. In the style of DeBry, but here by François Langlois, French (1589-1647).
Date: Paris, c.1655
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Normandia Ducatus.
Very decorative map of the Normandy coast. The map shows details of even the tiniest villages and prominently depicts the fortified cities. Numerous ships, fishing boats ...
Date: Amsterdam, 1656
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Sabaudia Ducatus Savoye
Lovely, very detailed map of Savoy with two cartouches: An ornamental title cartouche with two putti and a coat of arms and a strapwork scale cartouche. Features the two ...
Date: Amsterdam, 1656
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Atrebates. Evesche d'Arras Comte d'Artois.
Fine copper engraved map of the French department of Nord-Pas-de-Calais. The map includes the cities of Douai, Lens, Cambrai and Bapaume. Very decorative ribboned title c...
Date: Paris, 1656
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The North Prospect of ye Conuentuall Church of Christ in Oxford.
Hand-colored copper engraving of the Church of Christ in Oxford from Daniel King's "The Cathedrall & Conventuall Churches of England". King was a friend an...
Date: London, 1656
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Terre Ferme ou sont les Governations, ou Gouvernemens de Terre Ferme, Cartagene, St. Marthe, Rio De la Hache, Venezuela, Nouvelle Andaluise, Popyan
A beautiful early map of the northern coast of South America, Venezuela and Columbia, showing the course of the Rio de Paria or Yuyapari or Orinaque River, Venezuela's Ca...
Date: Paris, 1656
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Totius Regni Hungarie et Adjacentium Regionum.
A beautiful, large, detailed map of southeastern Europe; featuring Hungary by Nicolas Visscher. Includes the regions of Northern Italy (showing the cities Bologna, Padua,...
Date: Amsterdam, 1656
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Quercy olim Cadurcium.
Decorative map east to the top of the French province in the south-east of the country. With Cahors and the river Lot in the center.
Date: Amsterdam, 1656
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Borbonium Ducatus - Bourbonnois.
A fine map of the Bourbon in central France with nice detail of cities, villages, forests and rivers. Decorated with two beautiful cartouches flanked by musketeers and pu...
Date: Amsterdam, 1656
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Nova Totius Westphaliae.
Shows the area between Maastricht, Dockum, Herschfelt and Hamburg. A fine copy in attractive colors.
Date: Amsterdam 1656
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View of Colomna, Cassimogorod and Moru. ma Mordwinorum.
Three early town-views of Colomna, Cassimogorod and Mordwinorum on the Occa river on one sheet.From "Voyages en Moscovie, Tartarie et Perse, par Adam Olearius"....
Date: Paris, Abraham de Wicquefort , 1656
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La Chine Royaume. . .
An important and attractive French map of the whole of China, the northern tip of the Philippines, with a strangely curved Korea and an under-sized Taiwan here called &qu...
Date: Paris, 1656
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Le Paraguayr. Le Chili. La Terre, et les Isles Magellanicque
The map was first separately published and later included in his atlas of 1658. A first state, dated 1656. Title cartouche in the lower right corner, including the mentio...
Date: Paris 1656
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Title page from
Attractive title page of Janssonis's New Atlas. Very decorative, and finely engraved architectural façade, with figures.Engraved by D.v.Bremden.On verso a part of anothe...
Date: Amsterdam, 1656
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Afbeeldinghe van Pariba ende Forten.
The Dutch fleet before the entrance of the Rio de Paribo. From Isaac Commelin's description of the life and acts of Prince Frederik Hendrik van Nassau (the 'Brasilian').
Date: Amsterdam, 1656
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Abbildung der Statt Pilsen in Böhmen und diesselbige durch den:von Mansfeldt belägert und Eingenohmen worden. Anno 1618.
Decorative plan of the town of Pilsen.
Date: Frankfurt, 1656
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Wahrhaffte Abbildung der Vesten Statt Rochelle, mit Ihren Fortificationen, und dem Königl. Läger und Schantzen Anno 1627. Obsidio Rupellae.
Decorative plan of the siege of 1627 of the town of La Rochelle.
Date: Frankfurt, 1656
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India Orientalis nec non Insularum Adiacentium Nova Descriptio.
This superb map of South East Asia presents a detailed image of the sphere of operations and Asian trading empire of the Dutch East India Company. The map extends from In...
Date: Amsterdam, 1656
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Casan Tartacorium.
An early of Kazan, with the Volga river on the left. From "Voyages en Moscovie, Tartarie et Perse, par Adam Olearius".Adam Olearius was a seventeenth-century G...
Date: Paris, Abraham de Wicquefort , 1656
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View of Nisen-Navgorod.
An early of Nisen-Navgorod, on the Volga river. From "Voyages en Moscovie, Tartarie et Perse, par Adam Olearius".Adam Olearius was a seventeenth-century German...
Date: Paris, Abraham de Wicquefort , 1656
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View of Weliki Nowgorod.
An early of Weliki Nowgorod, in the North-West of Russia, on the Volkhov river.From "Voyages en Moscovie, Tartarie et Perse, par Adam Olearius".Adam Olearius w...
Date: Paris, Abraham de Wicquefort , 1656
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Combat between John de Astley and Peter de Masse.
Combat between John de Astley & Peter de Masse" which took place in 1438 from 'The Antiquities of Warwickshire' by William Dugdale. 1656.“Of the Patshull bran...
Date: London, 1656
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Description des Isles du Iapon. . .
Map of Japan prepared by N.Sanson and published by Pierre Mariette.Published in an early edition of the small Sanson atlas L'Europe Dediée a Monseigneur . . . Le Tellier...
Date: Paris, P. Mariette, 1656
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Espagne. . .
Map of Spain and Portugal prepared by N.Sanson and published by Pierre Mariette.Published in an early edition of the small Sanson atlas L'Europe Dediée a Monseigneur . ....
Date: Paris, P. Mariette, 1656
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France.
Engraved map of France.
Date: Paris, 1656
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Guiane divisee en Guiane, et Caribane. . .
Map of Guinea prepared by N.Sanson and published by Pierre Mariette. This is a reduced derivative of the famous Sanson map of 1650.Published in an early edition of the sm...
Date: Paris, P. Mariette, 1656
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Isles Britanniques . . .
Map of Great Britain prepared by N.Sanson and published by Pierre Mariette. This is a reduced derivative of the famous Sanson map of 1650.Published in an early edition of...
Date: Paris, P. Mariette, 1656
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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...
Date: Amsterdam, 1656
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PARTIE DU BILEDULGERID ou sont TESSET, DARHA et SEGELMESSE &c.
A very fine decorative map of Morocco and the Canary Islands. In upper left hand corner decorative title cartouche. Engraved by A.de Winter.
Date: Paris 1657
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ISLE DE MADAGASCAR ou de St. LAURENS.
Very fine map of Madagascar, first published by Sanson in 1657. A detailed map of Madagascar and near islands.Sanson notes the source of his map as Livio Sanuto and other...
Date: Paris 1657
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Partie de BARBARIE ou Sont les ROYAUMES de TUNIS et TRIPOLI.
Very decorative map of part of the Mediterranean Coastlines o Tunisia and Libya, first published by Nicholas Sanson in 1657.
Date: Paris, 1657
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Mar del Nort.
This lovely sea chart is from the Johannes Janssonius' sea-atlas De Water-Weereld. The decorative title cartouche shows a native American (as interpreted by those in Euro...
Date: Amsterdam, 1657
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Het Beloofde Landt Canaan door wandelt van onsen Salichmaecker Iesu Christo, neffens syne Apostelen.
Showing the travels of Christ and His disciples. With 36 numbered sites and insets of the Birth, Resurrection, Ascension and Pentecost. Orientated with east to the top.
Date: Amsterdam, 1657
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De Heylige en Wytvermaerde stadt Ierusalem Eerst Genaemt Salem, Genesis 14 vers 18
Bird's eye plan of the holy city of Jerusalem with 36 principal sites numbered and keyed to a table in a scroll at left, which is held aloft by an eagle. Biblical scenes ...
Date: Amsterdam, 1657
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La Chine.
A very uncommon map of China by Picart. With rivers, mountains, lakes and many place names given.
Date: Paris, ca. 1657
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A Mappe of The Sea Coasts. (South-west Europe)
A unusual map showing the Atlantic coasts of Europe and part of the Western Mediterranean, with the northern tip of North Africa. Ungraduated chart. Text in English and L...
Date: England, ca. 1657
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Het Beloofde Landt Canaan door wandelt van onsen Salichmaecker Iesus Christo, neffens syne Apostelen
A decorative map depicting the Holy Land with 4 scenes from the life of Christus, 3 cartouches and two fisherman. Claes Jansz. Visscher (1587-1652). The Dutch so-called '...
Date: Amsterdam, 1657
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Les Suisses les Allies des Suisses et leurs Suiets. . .
Early imprint of this detailed map of Switzerland. This edition carries the date 1648 and was engraved by R.Cordier Abbauil.Nicolas Sanson was to bring about the rise of ...
Date: Paris, 1648-1657
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Le Canada, ou Nouvelle France, &c. ...
Map of Canada, from the first edition of the atlas L'Amérique en plusieurs cartes, et en divers traittés de Géographie, et d'Histoire.Nicolas Sanson was to bring about...
Date: Paris, 1657
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Audience de Guadalajara, Nouveau Mexique, Californie, &c.
Map of California, shown as an island, from the first edition of the atlas L'Amérique en plusieurs cartes, et en divers traittés de Géographie, et d'Histoire.Nicolas S...
Date: Paris, 1657
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Le Chili ...
Map of Chile, from the first edition of the atlas L'Amérique en plusieurs cartes, et en divers traittés de Géographie, et d'Histoire.Nicolas Sanson was to bring about ...
Date: Paris, 1657
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Galwaye, Dubline , Lymericke, and Corcke - Braun & Hogenberg, 1618.
Fine "carte à figures"- map with four Irish bird's-eye plans: Galway, Dublin, Limerick and Cork with left and right borders of costumed figures and top right v...
Date: Amsterdam, (1618) 1657
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Cantebrigia, Opulentissimi Angliae Regni . . .
A sought after and highly decorative early bird's-eye plan of the ancient university town of Cambridge.The plan originally appeared in Braun & Hogenberg's Civitates O...
Date: Amsterdam, 1657
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Duché de Pomeranie Contenant les Duchés de Stettin, de Wolgats, de Bardt, de Cassubie, de Vandalie, la Principauté et Isle de Rugen, le Comté de Gutzkow les Seigneuries de Louwenbroch et de Butow. . .
Fine map of Pomerania, now split between Germany and Poland, showing from Rostock east to Gdansk by George-Louis le Rouge.
Date: Paris, 1657
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La Floride.
Map of Florida, from the first edition of the atlas L'Amérique en plusieurs cartes, et en divers traittés de Géographie, et d'Histoire.Nicolas Sanson was to bring abou...
Date: Paris, 1657
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Orbis Terrarum Typus De Integro In Plurimis. . .
Exquisitely decorated double hemisphere world map, surrounded by engravings including allegorical representations of the continents as well as native inhabitants and wild...
Date: Amsterdam, 1657
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Nordoviaim.....
The English city of Norwich in the county of Norfolk is shown here from the north-west. The cathedral church "called Christes" is immediately identifiable withi...
Date: Amsterdam, 1657
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Moscovia urbs Metropolis totius Russiae Albae.
Detailed bird's-eye town-plan of Moscow from Jansson's rare town book. With a key (1-20) to important spots in town. The verso has French text and originates from Jansson...
Date: Amsterdam, 1657
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Pays, et Coste des Caffres: Empires du Monomotapa Monoemugi, &c.
Map of South Africa, from the first edition of the atlas L'Afrique en plusieurs cartes nouvelles, et exactes; & en divers traictés de Géographie, et d'Histoire.Nico...
Date: Paris, 1657
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Orbis Terrarum Typus De Integro In Plurimis. . .
Exquisitely decorated double hemisphere world map, surrounded by engravings including allegorical representations of the continents as well as native inhabitants and wild...
Date: Amsterdam, 1657
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Orbis Terrarum Typus De Integro In Plurimis Emendatus Auctus et Icunculis Illustratus.
Fine early World Map by Nicolaus Visscher, published in Amsterdam in 1657. This was the "first map" to be inserted in a Dutch bible by Nicholas Visscher and bec...
Date: Amsterdam, 1657
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Le Duche de Auvergne.
A quaint map of the Auvergne, printed in Frankfurt by Caspar Merian in 1657. With a decorative title cartouche featuring three peasants from the region. A striking scale ...
Date: Frankfurt, 1657
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Galwaye, Dubline , Lymericke, and Corcke.
Four early town plans with six costume vignettes, the Irish crest and a view of Enniskillen Castle down the sides, published in the 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum'. All the il...
Date: Amsterdam, 1657
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Tabula nova Poloniae et Silesiae.
Seventh state, with new title and changes in borders. Since a crack was already visible in the view of Gdansk on the 1657 state, Pieter Hendricksz Schut had to etch a new...
Date: Amsterdam, 1630 but after 1657
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Basse partie de la Basse Saxe.. Duches de Sleswick, Holsace, Meckelenbourg..
Detailed map of the northeastern part of Germany. Nicolas Sanson was to bring about the rise of French cartography, although the fierce competition of the Dutch would las...
Date: Paris, 1657
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Nova Galliae Tabula.
A rare carte à figures of France by Cloppenburg.
Date: Amsterdam, 1657
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Ichnogeraphia Oppidi Itzehoae.
Itzehoe Germany town plan with course of the Stoer River. The map is copperplate engraved with hand coloring and shows the hinterland of Itzehoe during the Swedish Thirt...
Date: Stockholm , 1657
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Isfahan.
Jansson's fantastic town-view of Isfahan from his rare 8 volume "Theatrum Urbium", which was the most comprehensive Dutch town-book of the 17th century. The cit...
Date: Amsterdam, 1657
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