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Vicovaro.
Rare Lafreri School town plan of Vicovaro, engraved by Paolo Forlani, of the Lafreri school of mapmakers, first published in "Il Primo Libro Delle Citta, Et Fortezze...
Date: Venice, Zaltieri, (1567) 1568
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Nettuno.
Rare Lafreri School town plan of Nettuno, engraved by Paolo Forlani, of the Lafreri school of mapmakers, first published in "Il Primo Libro Delle Citta, Et Fortezze ...
Date: Venice, Zaltieri, (1567) 1568
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Siena.
Rare Lafreri School town plan of Siena, engraved by Paolo Forlani, of the Lafreri school of mapmakers, first published in "Il Primo Libro Delle Citta, Et Fortezze Pr...
Date: Venice, Zaltieri, (1567) 1568
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Mirandola.
Rare Lafreri School town plan of Mirandola, engraved by Paolo Forlani, of the Lafreri school of mapmakers, first published in "Il Primo Libro Delle Citta, Et Fortezz...
Date: Venice, Zaltieri, (1567) 1568
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Fano.
Rare Lafreri School town plan of Fano, engraved by Paolo Forlani, of the Lafreri school of mapmakers, first published in "Il Primo Libro Delle Citta, Et Fortezze Pri...
Date: Venice, Zaltieri, (1567) 1568
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Les Quatre Premiers Livres des Navigations et Peregrinations Orientales.
Rare title page with elaborate woodcut border published 1568 in Paris by Nicolas de Nicolay, seigneur d'Arfeville (1517-1583) who published an illustrated book on his tra...
Date: Paris, 1568
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La situation & figure de la cité de Francfort...
Interesting woodblock view of Frankfort am Mainz. Individual landmarks and buildings are named in a key. With French title on top and two cartouches with a key.From a Fre...
Date: Basle, 1552 - 1568
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Anversa (Antwerp)
Rare Lafreri School town-plan of Antwerp, engraved by Paolo Forlani, of the Lafreri school of mapmakers, first published in "Il Primo Libro Delle Citta, Et Fortezze ...
Date: Venice, Zaltieri, (1567) 1568
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Parma.
Rare Lafreri School town-plan of Parma, engraved by Paolo Forlani of the Lafreri school of mapmakers, first published in "Il Primo Libro Delle Citta, Et Fortezze Pri...
Date: Venice, Zaltieri, (1567) 1568
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Comar.
Rare Lafreri School view of the fortification of Comar, engraved by Paolo Forlani of the Lafreri school of mapmakers, dated 1567, first published in "Il Primo Libro ...
Date: Venice, Zaltieri, (1567) 1568
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GOTTA. (GOTHA)
Rare Lafreri School town-plan of Gotha,Thüringen, engraved by Paolo Forlani of the Lafreri school of mapmakers, first published in "Il Primo Libro Delle Citta, Et F...
Date: Venice, Zaltieri, (1567) 1568
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Die Nordlingen Stat.
Interesting woodblock view of the medieval town of Nordlingen, today Riess, in Bayern.Individual landmarks and buildings are named as well as farms and other points of in...
Date: Basel, 1552 - 1568
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Napoli.
Splendid and rare Lafreri School town-plan of Naples, engraved by Paolo Forlani, of the Lafreri school of mapmakers, first published in "Il Primo Libro Delle Citta, ...
Date: Venice, Zaltieri, (1567) 1568
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Vienna.
Splendid and rare Lafreri School town-plan of Vienna, engraved by Paolo Forlani, of the Lafreri school of mapmakers, first published in "Il Primo Libro Delle Citta, ...
Date: Venice, Zaltieri, (1567) 1568
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![GIAVARINO [ Gyor HUNGARY]](/uploads/cache/38741-250x250.jpg)
GIAVARINO [ Gyor HUNGARY]
Rare Lafreri School 1566 battle plan of Gyor, engraved by Paolo Forlani, of the Lafreri school of mapmakers, first published in "Il Primo Libro Delle Citta, Et Forte...
Date: Venice, Zaltieri, 1568
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OSTIA (ROMA)
Rare Lafreri town-plan of seaport of OSTIA near Rome, engraved by Zenoi/Paolo Forlani, , of the Lafreri school of mapmakers, dated 1567, first published in "Il Primo...
Date: Venice, Zaltieri, (1567) 1568
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ROMA.
Rare Lafreri town-plan of Rome, engraved by Zenoi/Paolo Forlani, of the Lafreri school of mapmakers, dated 1567, first published in "Il Primo Libro Delle Citta, Et F...
Date: Venice, Zaltieri, (1567) 1568
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Il vero disegno della seconda parte dil Regno di Polonia.
A rare map of Poland, prepared by G. Gastaldi, engraved by Paolo Forlani, and published in Venice in 1568. Includes Ukraine and Crimea. Bar scale on the map given in &quo...
Date: Venice, 1568
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Constantinopoli
Rare Lafreri School town-plan of Constantinople, engraved by Paolo Forlani, of the Lafreri school of mapmakers, first published in "Il Primo Libro Delle Citta, Et Fo...
Date: Venice, Zaltieri, (1567) 1569
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Genova (Genoa)
Splendid and rare Lafreri School town-plan of Genoa, with Jerusalem wind rose and index of 25 locations, engraved by Paolo Forlani, of the Lafreri school of mapmakers, fi...
Date: Venice, Zaltieri, (1567) 1569
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![VENETIA [Venice]](/uploads/cache/37625-250x250.jpg)
VENETIA [Venice]
Splendid and rare Lafreri School town plan of Venice, engraved by Paolo Forlani, of the Lafreri school of mapmakers, first published in "Il Primo Libro Delle Citta, ...
Date: Venice, Zaltieri, (1567) 1569
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Istria sotto il dominio veneto..
Fine map of the Istrian peninsula, based on a map of the Venetian patrician Pietro Coppo (1469-1556), probably the most prolific Italian cartographer before Gastaldi.The ...
Date: Venice, 1569
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Italia mit den Dreien Furnemsten Inseln Corsica / Sardinia und Sicilia.
One of the earliest woodblock maps of Italy. It shows the area from Marseille to Albania, including the Adriatic Sea, also the islands of Sicily, Corsica and Sardinia. Th...
Date: Basel, 1569
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![MIRANDOLA. [Mirandola]](/uploads/cache/47582-250x250.jpg)
MIRANDOLA. [Mirandola]
Rare bird's-eye view of the town of Mirandola. Engraved and published by Donato Bertelli.Some examples are found, in fact, in the work Le vere imagini et descritioni del...
Date: Venice, 1569
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MESSINA. [Messina]
Rare bird's-eye view of the town of MessinaEngraved and published by Donato Bertelli.Underneath the town view a blank space.Some examples are found, in fact, in the work ...
Date: Venice, 1569
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Regni Neapolitani Verissima secundum antiquorum et recentiorum traditionem descriptio, Pyrrho Ligorio Auct.
Very fine map of Southern Italy, including the towns of Ascoli, Piceno, Napoli, Fogia, Bari, Catanzaro and the most northern tip of Sicily with Messina.Orientation: top i...
Date: Antwerp, 1570
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Hollandiae Antiquorum Catthorum sedis Nova Descriptio.
A fine and decorative, early map if the Duchy of Holland in the first state by Abraham Ortelius, from his "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum", Antwerp 1570, after a Jacob...
Date: Antwerp, 1570
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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...
Date: Basle, ca 1570
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Isola Cuba Nova
This important Ruscelli map of Cuba from his work La Geografia di Claudio Tolomeo Alessandrino, is based on Gastaldi’s earlier map of the same region, dated 1548. Altho...
Date: Venice, 1570
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Costantinopoli.
Very rare plan of Istanbul, with in the lower part a numbered key (1-58) to the important places in town by Claudio Ducheto. Collector's item. A unique opportunity to acq...
Date: Rome, 1570
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Leaf on vellum from a French manuscript Book of Hours.
A wonderful vellum leaf from a Book of Hours, written in Paris, around 1570. The scribe used dark brown ink and wrote in a fine rounded roman hand. The initials are in br...
Date: Paris, 1570
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La famosa citta de Constantinopoli.
A separately published decorative and very rare panoramic of of present-day Istanbul, viewed from the village of Scutari. The City is shown with all its fortifications, ...
Date: Venice, c. 1570
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Leaf on vellum from a French manuscript Book of Hours.
A wonderful vellum leaf from a Book of Hours, written in Paris, around 1570. The scriber used dark Guido ink and wrote in a fine rounded roman hand. The initials are in b...
Date: Paris, 1570
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Britannischen Insula.
An unusual outline of the British Isles, influenced by Ptolemy.
Date: Basle, 1570
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Flandria.
Very decorative, egg-shaped map. This is the early state with the farmer's wife and three ships in the North Sea.
Date: Antwerp, 1570
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Sardinia Insula.
An early woodcut depicting the Italian island of Sardinia, by Sebastian Münster. It also shows the southern part of Corsica. From one of the German editions of the famou...
Date: Basel, ca 1570
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Europa, das ein Drittheil der Erden, nach gelegenheit unsern zeiten.
A very important, attractive woodcut map showing the European continent with South at the top.It comes from a German edition of the famous 'Cosmographia Universalis' by S...
Date: Basel, ca 1570
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Der Statt Rom in Aller Welde Bekant Contrafehtung nach Jetziger Gelegenheit
An early plan view of Rome and the Vatican City. Many monuments of the ancient time, like the Coliseum, the Pantheon, Castello St. Angelo and the aqueducts are shown. Ger...
Date: Basel, ca. 1570
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Constantinopel.
An early, fine, extremely detailed woodcut depicting a bird's-eye view of Istanbul as seen from the perspective showing it out on a spur, with Pera across the water to th...
Date: Basle, ca. 1570
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Africae Tabula Nova Edita Antverpiae 1570.
This beautiful map is one of the cornerstone maps of Africa. This particular map does not have text on the verso. This example is not recorded by van den Broecke in his b...
Date: Antwerp, 1570
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Russiae, Moscoviae et Tartariae Descriptio. [With Latin text on verso]
From a 1570 Latin text edition, v.d. Broecke estimates that only 225 copies are printed. Engraved by Frans Hogenberg from an original of 1562 by Anthony Jenkinson of the ...
Date: Antwerp, 1570
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Turcici imperii descriptio.
From Ortelius' 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum', the first regularly produced, and uniform format, modern atlas of the World. Reference literature: MARCEL P.R. van den Broecke, ...
Date: Antwerp, 1570
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Hamburg.
A delightful birds-eye view of the north German city from of Hamburg, as seen from the River, as set within a page of German text. This lovely view includes a key (A-O) b...
Date: Basle, 1570
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Europae.
The first edition Ortelius’ map of Europe. The map is based upon several important maps of Europe, including Gerard Mercator’s 1554 map of Europe. Mapping of Greenlan...
Date: Antwerp, 1570
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La Saincte cité de Ierusalem iadiz metropolitaine..
A particularly attractive example of this early wood cut view of Jerusalem from an French text edition. The Holy city appears well laid out, and is surrounded by a vast w...
Date: Basle 1570
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Hollandiae Antiquorum.
A first state of this mile stone map published by Ortelius on the basis of the map drawn by Jacob van Deventer in abt. 1550. Here from the very first 1570 edition of the ...
Date: Antwerp, 1570
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Leaf on vellum from a French manuscript Book of Hours.
A wonderful vellum leaf from a Book of Hours, written in Paris, around 1570. The scribe used dark brown ink and wrote in a fine rounded roman hand. The initials are in br...
Date: Paris, 1570
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Leaf on vellum from a French manuscript Book of Hours.
A wonderful vellum leaf from a Book of Hours, written in Paris, around 1570. The scribe used dark brown ink and wrote in a fine rounded roman hand. The initials are in br...
Date: Paris, 1570
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Leaf on vellum from a French manuscript Book of Hours.
A wonderful vellum leaf from a Book of Hours, written in Paris, around 1570. The scribe used dark brown ink and wrote in a fine rounded roman hand. The initials are in br...
Date: Paris, 1570
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Leaf on vellum from a French manuscript Book of Hours.
A wonderful vellum leaf from a Book of Hours, written in Paris, around 1570. The scribe used dark brown ink and wrote in a fine rounded roman hand. The initials are in br...
Date: Paris, 1570
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Leaf on vellum from a French manuscript Book of Hours.
A wonderful vellum leaf from a Book of Hours, written in Paris, around 1570. The scribe used dark brown ink and wrote in a fine rounded roman hand. The initials are in br...
Date: Paris, 1570
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23 Leaves on vellum from a French manuscript Book of Hours.
Very Rare Manuscript: 23 vellum leaves, the beginning of a Book of Hours!The leaves 1, 2 and 3 are blank, but for a liquid gold panel around each page. Leaf 4 has the tex...
Date: Paris, 1570
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Leaf on vellum from a French manuscript Book of Hours.
A wonderful vellum leaf from a Book of Hours, written in Paris, around 1570. The scribe used dark brown ink and wrote in a fine rounded roman hand. The initials are in br...
Date: Paris, 1570
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Leaf on vellum from a French manuscript Book of Hours.
A wonderful vellum leaf from a Book of Hours, written in Paris, around 1570. The scribe used dark brown ink and wrote in a fine rounded roman hand. The initials are in br...
Date: Paris, 1570
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Africae Tabula Nova.
The title is contained in a striking cartouche consisting of a panel flanked by caryatids and strap work. The sea is engraved in stipple-work, and features a sea-battle i...
Date: Antwerp, 1570
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Africae Tabula Nova.
The title is contained in a striking cartouche consisting of a panel flanked by caryatids and strap work. The sea is engraved in stipple-work, and features a sea-battle i...
Date: Antwerp, 1570
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Leodiencsis Dioecesis Typus.
Map of eastern Belgium region from Ortelius' Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. Shows the Meuse River and the cities located on the river, such as Namur, Liege and Maastricht. Beau...
Date: Antwerp, 1570
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Leaf on vellum from a French manuscript Book of Hours.
A wonderful vellum leaf from a Book of Hours, written in Paris, around 1570. The scribe used dark brown ink and wrote in a fine rounded roman hand. The initials are in br...
Date: Paris, 1570
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*untitled map of Russia & Ukraine*
Interesting sheet from Sebastian Munster and Henricii Petri from the influential "Cosmographiae Universalis".The very detailed map shows Belarus, the Ukraine, a...
Date: Basle, c1570
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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-...
Date: Antwerp 1571
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Monasteriensis et Osnaburgensis Episcopatus descriptio.
Abraham Ortelius(1527-98), Dutch cartographer and publisher of the first modern atlas, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum in 1570. Editions till 1612. Also an atlas of ancient carto...
Date: Antwerp, 1571
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Regni Neapolitani.
Abraham Ortelius (1527-98), Dutch cartographer and publisher of the first modern atlas, ' Theatrum Orbis Terrarum' in 1570. Editions till 1612. Also an atlas of ancient c...
Date: Antwerp, 1571
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[Title page] Theatrum Orbis Terrarum.
A decorative title page of the first atlas ever made. Depicting the five continents then known as native goddesses. From a Dutch text edition.On verso a poem : M.TVLLIVS ...
Date: Antwerp c. 1571
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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...
Date: Antwerp 1571
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Regni Bohemiae Descriptio.
Abraham Ortelius(1527-98), Dutch cartographer and publisher of the first modern atlas, ' Theatrum Orbis Terrarum' in 1570. Editions till 1612. Also an atlas of ancient ca...
Date: Antwerp, 1571
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Salisburgensis Iurusdictionis. Inset: Urbis Salisburgensis genuina descriptio.
Abraham Ortelius(1527-98), Dutch cartographer and publisher of the first modern atlas, ' Theatrum Orbis Terrarum' in 1570. Editions till 1612. Also an atlas of ancient ca...
Date: Antwerp, 1571
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Indiae Orientalis, Insularumque Adiacientium Typus.
Finely contemporarily handcolored example of Ortelius' map of SE Asia, Japan, and the Philippines, etc. The map includes Beach and other information drawn from Marco Polo...
Date: Antwerpen, 1571
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Tabula Asiae V
Woodcut map showing Persia between Persian Gulf and Caspian Sea. From the Latin 1571 edition of Strabo's Geographia with maps of Sebastian Munster which appeared in Ptole...
Date: Basle, 1571
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Natoliae quae olim asia minor? / Aegypti recentior? / Carthaginis celeberimisinus typus.
colored copper engraved map of Turkey by A. Ortelius. On right side a map of Egypt and one of Tunis. Three map on one sheet printed from one plate. From the 1571 Latin ed...
Date: Antwerp, c. 1571
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Terra Sancta.
Full title in an elaborate cartouche with scenes from the live of Christ in vignettes at top right: 'Terra Sancta, a Petro Laicstain perlustrata, et ab eius ore et schedi...
Date: Antwerp, 1571
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Tabula Asiae III
Attractive woodblock Ptolemaic map, depicting Armenia and in the Right part of the Caspian Sea with Noes Arch. The mountain ranges are depicted in the manner of the early...
Date: Basle, Strabo, 1571
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Tabula Thraciae.
Tabula Thraciae by Sebastian Münster, woodblock engraved Strabonis Ptolemeic map. Map of Greece and North Europe first published in Münster's edition of Ptolemy's 'Geog...
Date: Basle, by Heinrich Petri, 1571
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Descriptio Germaniae Inferioris.
Fine map of the Netherlands of Philip II King of Spain. The oval map is surrounded by a strapwork frame and the title, adorned with ribbons, is held aloft by two winged c...
Date: Antwerp, 1571
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Tabula Hispaniae. (Spain and Portugal)
Double-page woodcut Ptolemaic-style map by Sebastian Münster figuring Spain and Portugal, published in the edition of Strabo by Henri Petri in 1571."Strabonis rerum...
Date: Basle, Henri Petri, 1571
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Tabula Galliae. (France)
Double-page woodcut Ptolemaic-style map by Sebastian Münster figuring France, published in the edition of Strabo by Henri Petri in 1571."Strabonis rerum geographica...
Date: Basle, Henri Petri, 1571
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Tabula Britanniae. (British Isles)
Double-page woodcut Ptolemaic-style map by Sebastian Münster figuring the British Isles, published in the edition of Strabo by Henri Petri in 1571."Strabonis rerum ...
Date: Basle, Henri Petri, 1571
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Tabula Italiae. (Italy)
Double-page woodcut Ptolemaic-style map by Sebastian Münster figuring Italy and including Corsica, published in the edition of Strabo by Henri Petri in 1571."Strabo...
Date: Basle, Henri Petri, 1571
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Tabula Siciliae et Sardiniae. (Sicily and Sardinia)
Double-page woodcut Ptolemaic-style map by Sebastian Münster figuring Sicily and Sardinia, published in the edition of Strabo by Henri Petri in 1571."Strabonis reru...
Date: Basle, Henri Petri, 1571
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Tabula Germaniae. (Germany)
Double-page woodcut Ptolemaic-style map by Sebastian Münster figuring Germany, published in the edition of Strabo by Henri Petri in 1571."Strabonis rerum geographic...
Date: Basle, Henri Petri, 1571
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Tabula Sarmatiae. (Eastern Europe including Poland and Black sea region)
Double-page woodcut Ptolemaic-style map by Sebastian Münster figuring Eastern Europe including Poland, Lihuania and Black sea region, published in the edition of Strabo ...
Date: Basle, Henri Petri, 1571
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