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Brabantiae Germaniae Inferioris.
Based on a map by Jacob van Deventer, by order of King Charles V. Jacob van Deventer was one of the first cartographers of the Southern Netherlands. He was famous for his...
Date: Antwerp, 1574
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Byzantium nunc Constantinopolis.
One of the finest and most sought-after views of Istanbul. Viewed from the village of Scutari, the City is shown with all its fortifications, the original Genoese distric...
Date: Cologne, ca 1574
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Palestinae sive totius terrae promissionis nova description (....)
A fine example of Ortelius' map of the Holy Land, published in his "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum", the first modern atlas. This famous map by Ortelius is based on th...
Date: Antwerp, ca 1574
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![Weimaria [on sheet with] Iena [and] Erdfordia [and] Gotha [and] Fuldensis Civitatis. [Weimar, Jena, Erfurt, Gotha, and Fulda]](/uploads/cache/84191-250x250.jpg)
Weimaria [on sheet with] Iena [and] Erdfordia [and] Gotha [and] Fuldensis Civitatis. [Weimar, Jena, Erfurt, Gotha, and Fulda]
Five bird's-eye views on one sheet: Weimar, Jena, Erfurt, Gotha and Fulda. TRANSLATION OF CARTOUCHE TEXT: Weimar, a handsome town in Thuringia, the famous seat of the Duk...
Date: Cologne, 1574
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ISOLA CUBA NOVA.
One of the earliest separately published maps of Cuba. Also includes Jamaica and northwestern Hispaniola and the Cayman Islands. The map is elegantly designed and engrave...
Date: Venice, 1574
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CARTA MARINA NUOVA TAVOLA.
One of the earliest published mariner’s world maps. The map is elegantly designed and engraved on copper with typical Italian taste and skill, with lots of rhumb lines....
Date: Venice, 1574
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TAVOLA PRIMA UNIVERSALE ANTICA.
A unique map compared to the other Ruscelli maps corrected by Malombra. For this particular map, Malombra returned tot he original conical projection of Ptolemy. The map ...
Date: Venice, 1574
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Orbis descriptio.
A separate double-hemispherical world map which was the first to appear in this format in an atlas. The map is elegantly designed and engraved on copper with typical Ital...
Date: Venice, 1574
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Teutschland mit seinem gantzen begriff und eingeschlossnen Landschaften
Early woodcut map from Munster's Cosmographey, one of the most influential geographical works of the 16th Century. It shows central Europe, Poland, Germany, Austria, S...
Date: Basle, c1574
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Amsterdam
This important early map of Amsterdam is from Braun and Hogenberg’s important work Civitates Orbis Terrarum, the first atlas of cities of the world.This particular map ...
Date: Cologne, 1574
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Byzantium Nunc Constantinopolis
This marvelous engraving of Constantinople in original color is from an early edition of Braun & Hogenberg's Civitates Orbis Terrarum, the most prolific compilation o...
Date: Cologne, 1574
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Regni Neapolitani verissima…
Very attractive antique Ortelius map of the Southern Italy. It shows the area with towns of Ascoli Piceno, Napels, Fogia, Bari, Catanzaro and Messina.The map comes from L...
Date: Antwerp, 1574
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Septentrionalium Partium Nova Tabula
The map of Italy, Corsica and the Gulf of Venice.Comes from atlas “La geografia di Claudio Tolomeo Alessandrino, nuouamente tradotta di Greco in Italiano, da Girolamo R...
Date: Venice, 1574
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Daniae Tabula...
Striking map of Denmark, extending from the Mechlenberg, Pomerania and Prussian Coastlines to the Norwegian Coastline, and extending north to show Stockholm. from the 157...
Date: Antwerp,1572/1574
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Graeciae Universae Secundum Hodiernum Neoterica Descriptio.
Published in a French edition of the 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum'. Finely hand-colored in wash and outline. A fine map, showing Greece prominently with its neighbouring coun...
Date: Antwerp, 1572/1574
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Eryn - Hiberniae, Britannicae Insulae, Nova Descriptio - Irelandt.
A beautiful map of Ireland from Ortelius' "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum." This map is significant as the first separate printed map of Ireland. It’s also one of th...
Date: Antwerp, 1574
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Italiae Novissima Descriptio.
Original copper engraving, published 1572/74 in a French text edition of the Atlas 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum' at Christopher Platin in Antwerp. A highly decorative and ear...
Date: Antwerp, 1572/1574
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Zarra et Contado citta principale della Dalmatia posta sul mare adriatico loco Ihr.me Sri. Venetiani al pnte molestata aa Turchi.
Uncommon map of the Dalmatian coast with the town of Zadar in Croatia, with Turkish and Venetian warships in the foreground, from Giovanni Francesco Camocio's rare "...
Date: Venice, D.Bertelli, ca.1574
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![[Greece]](/uploads/cache/32477-250x250.jpg)
[Greece]
Rare map of Greece. From Giovanni Francesco Camocio's rare " Isole Famose porti, fortezze, e terre maritime . . ." issued by Bertelli. The second state, which i...
Date: Venice, D.Bertelli, ca.1574
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(Greece)
Uncommon map of Greece with the western part of Turkey. From Giovanni Francesco Camocio's rare " Isole Famose porti, fortezze, e terre maritime . . ." issued by...
Date: Venice, D.Bertelli, ca.1574
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Costantinopoli città principale del gran turcho. . .
Uncommontown-plan of Constantinople. From Giovanni Francesco Camocio's rare " Isole Famose porti, fortezze, e terre maritime . . ." issued by Bertelli. The seco...
Date: Venice, D.Bertelli, ca.1574
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Austriae Descrip. Par Wolfganum Lazium.
Early map of the Duchy of Austria, engraved after the cartographic source by Wolfgang Lazius. This is the first state of two, before the horizontal hatching in the Neusie...
Date: Antwerp, ca. 1574
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Rochella munitissimum galliae opp :
Town-plan of La Rochelle, with a numbered key (1-16) in the upper left corner gives the locations of the important buildings and landmarks.From volume II of Braun and Hog...
Date: Cologne, ca. 1574
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![Russiae, Moscoviae et Tartariae Descriptio. [With Latin text on verso]](/uploads/cache/33401-250x250.jpg)
Russiae, Moscoviae et Tartariae Descriptio. [With Latin text on verso]
From a Latin text edition, v.d. Broecke estimates that 175 copies are printed. Engraved by Frans Hogenberg from an original of 1562 by Anthony Jenkinson of the English Mu...
Date: Antwerp, 1574
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Gallia Nova Tabula.
Early map showing parts of France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Cornwall, and the Ligurian coast with Genoa and Milan. Engraved with mountains and rivers wi...
Date: Venice, c1574
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Arabia Felice Nuova Tavola.
A classical map of the Arabian Peninsular, is an enlarged version of Giacomo Gastaldi's published in 1548. Girolamo Ruscelli's edition of Ptolemy's Geographia included ne...
Date: Venice, 1574
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![Russiae, Moscoviae et Tartariae Descriptio. [With Latin text on verso]](/uploads/cache/34162-250x250.jpg)
Russiae, Moscoviae et Tartariae Descriptio. [With Latin text on verso]
From a Latin text edition. Engraved by Frans Hogenberg from an original of 1562 by Anthony Jenkinson of the English Muscovy Company. The map covers the region from the Gu...
Date: Antwerp, 1574
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Byzantium nunc Constantinopolis.
One of the finest and most sought-after views of Istanbul. Viewed from the village of Scutari, the City is shown with all its fortifications, the original Genoese distric...
Date: Cologne, ca. 1574
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Hiberniae Britannicae insulae nova descriptio.
Copied from Mercator's influential wall map of the British Isles of 1564, this is certainly the best map of Ireland of the 16th century.
Date: Antwerp, 1574
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Scotiae tabula.
Very fine general map of Scotland with north to right of page. Derived from Mercator's 1564 map of the British Isles in 8 sheets.
Date: Antwerp, 1574
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Americae Sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio.
This is the second state of the first copperplate of Ortelius' map showing the western hemisphere, showing the prominent bulge in the South American coastline. An importa...
Date: Antwerp, 1574
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Asiae nova descriptio.
Ortelius' fine map of Asia well represents the continent at a time when Europeans were expanding their power in the Far East. The Indian subcontinent and Malaysian penins...
Date: Antwerp, 1574
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Europae.
Early edition of the classic Europa map by Ortelius. Somewhat distorted land masses: vignette of Europe being carried off by the bull (Zeus). The first plate with title A...
Date: Antwerp, 1574
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Daniae Regni Typus.
Early decorative map of Denmark, extending from the Mechlenberg, Pomerania and Prussian Coastlines to the Norwegian Coastline, and extending north to show Stockholm. Abra...
Date: Antwerp, 1574
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![[Asia Minor]](/uploads/cache/35967-250x250.jpg)
[Asia Minor]
Early, attractive hand-colored woodcut map of Turkey, with an unnamed Cyprus in the lower right corner. From the German edition of Sebastian Münster's Cosmography, title...
Date: Basle, ca. 1574
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Egitto Nuova Tavola
One of the earliest obtainable maps of Egypt and the Nile delta.Extends to include Cairo, and a part of the Red Sea. Includes several pyramids. Italian text on verso.
Date: Venice, 1574
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Mauritania Nuova Tavola
A very early map of Western Africa, after Ptolemy, including Gibraltar and the Canary Islands.Displays a rich system of rivers throughout, and a curious set of trees near...
Date: Venice, 1574
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Tabula Asiae VI. [Arabian Peninsular]
The ancient depiction of Arabia, based on Claudius Ptolemy's Geographia from the second century A.D. The region appears with many interior mountains and rivers: none of w...
Date: Venice, 1574
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Tabula Asiae II.
A scarce map of the ancient region of Asiatic Sarmatia - now Southern Russia and part of Ukraine, around the Azov sea. Shows Armenia Maior, Iberia, Albania, Colchis, Port...
Date: Venice, 1574
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Soria et Terra Santa Nuova Tavola.
Ruscelli's map of the Holy Land, Syria and Cyprus. One of the earliest obtainable separately published maps of the region. The map first appeared in the 1561 edition of R...
Date: Venice, 1574
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Africa Minor Nuova Tavola.
Striking impression of Ruscelli's map of the region of present day Algiers, Tunisia and Libya. Ruscelli sought the most up-to-date geographical information available, mak...
Date: Venice, 1574
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Valesia - Wallisserland.
Early woodcut map of the Valais in southern Switzerland. Showing the region at the river Rhone from the Furka Pass to St. Maurice. Published by Heinrich Petri in Basel.
Date: Basel 1574
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Tabula Asiae VI. (Arabian Peninsular)
A lovely example of this classical map depicting an ancient representation of the Arabian Peninsula, based on Ptolemy's second century A.D. Geographia here called Arabia ...
Date: Venice, 1574
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![Tabula Europae I [British Isles].](/uploads/cache/42111-250x250.jpg)
Tabula Europae I [British Isles].
An early double page Ptolemaic map of the British Isles from 'La Geografia Di Claudio Tolomeo Alessandrino...' published by G. Ziletti, Venice (using plates from the 1561...
Date: Venice, 1574
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Indiae Orientalis, Insularumque Adiacientium Typus. . .
A finely hand colored example of Ortelius' highly decorative map of South East Asia, Japan, and the Philippines, etc from the Latin text edition of 1574. The map includes...
Date: Antwerp, 1574
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Portugalliae que olim Lusitania.
The best-known map of Portugal, after Alvares Secco (1560), map is orientated west to the top of the sheet, seen here in a fine, early impression in good color. Fernando ...
Date: Antwerp, 1574
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Die statt Eger vor dem Bohemer wald gelegen conrafhe et nach jetziger gelegenheit..
An attractive, large, early woodcut view of Cheb (Eger) in the Karlovy Vary region of the Czech Republic by Sebastian Munster on a full double sheet. Title and a descript...
Date: Basle, 1574
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Die Statt Rom boden und circkel sampt thor. . .
An early woodcut map of the ancient Rome by Sebastian Münster. From the German edition of Sebastian Münster's Cosmography, titled Cosmographey oder beschreibung aller L...
Date: Basle, 1574
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Sumatra ein grosse Insel, so von den alten Geographen Taprobana, ist genent worden (Sri Lanka).
A nice impression of this great map of island of Tabrobana, which was variously thought to be Ceylon or Sumatra. This map depicts Ceylon with the typical misconceptions o...
Date: Basle, 1574
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Die statt Montpellier . . .
Panoramic view of Montpellier by Sebastian Münster. Title and a description of the city on verso. With a lettered key underneath the engraving. From the German edition o...
Date: Basel, 1574
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Die neüwen Inseln/ so hinder Hispanien gegen Orient bey dem land Indie ligen.
The earliest and one of the most important separate maps to show both Americas. Although it was not the first map to use “America” as a designation for the New World,...
Date: Basle, 1574
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![[Algiers].](/uploads/cache/14175-250x250.jpg)
[Algiers].
On recto an early representation of Algiers (142x185 mm). On verso a representation of a sword and a corona.From a French text edition of his Cosmographia , that great co...
Date: Basle, after 1575
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De la Cosmographie. Rauenne. Boloigne.
Text page with imaginary town views of Bologna and Ravenna.From a French text edition of his Cosmographia , that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge. In 1575 Sebast...
Date: Basle, ca. 1575
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La figure de la place ou sut iadiz la cite de Rome avec ses portes quand elie estoit en sa grand fleur.
Plan of ancient Rome. On recto a child coming out of a bull. From a French text edition of his Cosmographia , that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge. In 1575 Seba...
Date: Basle, ca.1575
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Transilvania.
Detailed map of Hungary prepared by Sambucas in 1566, who itself based his map on Honter's map of 1532.Latin text on verso.
Date: Antwerp, 1575
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Moschouie.
Early woodcut map of the European part of Russia, centered on Moscow. The area shown extends to Kiev, the Sea of Azov, the Caspian Sea, the Ob River in Siberia, and borde...
Date: Basel, c1575
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Bloys.
Early and detailed birds-eye town-view of Bloys. From the greatest publication in this genre!. The Civitates was compiled and written by George Braun, Canon of Cologne Ca...
Date: Cologne, 1575
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Le Vray pourtraict de la ville d'Aix en Provence.
A very decorative and rare town-plan of Aix en Provence from Franc¸ois de Belleforest's "La Cosmographie universelle de tout le monde". Paris, 1575. The book w...
Date: Nicolas Chesneau and Michel Sonnius, Paris,1575
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Le vif portaict de la noble ville, & cité de Tours.
Early bird's eye of Tours. In 1575 Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia was translated into French and published in Paris by François de Belle-Forest.
Date: Paris, 1575
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Grodna.
This is a stunning of what is now referred to today as Hrodna or Grodno, a city in Belarus. This image showings the city situated on the banks of the Neman River (called...
Date: Cologne, 1575
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Cairus, quae olim Babylon , Aegypti Maxima Urbs.
Bird's-eye view of Cairo with key to locations.The Civitates was compiled and written by George Braun, Canon of Cologne Cathedral. Braun gathered together vast amounts of...
Date: Cologne, c.1575
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Leyda, Batavorum Lugdumum, vulgo Leyden.. (Leiden)
A bird's-eye view of Leiden, Voorschoten, Zoeterwoude and Leiderdorp. From the greatest publication in this genre!. The Civitates was compiled and written by George Braun...
Date: Cologne, 1575
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Augusta iuxta figuram quam his ce temporibus habet delineata
A bird's-eye of Augsburg, with a numbered key in the lower left corner (1-133) shows the individual groups of buildings very clearly, including the Fuggerei (72, bottom ...
Date: Cologne, 1575
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(Arch of Noah.)
Wood block engraved print of the Arch of Noah, from "La Cosmographie Universelle de Tout le Monde", the French and most extended edition of Sebastian Münster's...
Date: Paris, Nicolas Chesneau, 1575
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Marcha Anconae, olim Picenum. 1572.
The Ancona region along the coast of the Adriatic Sea. Oceans, mountains, rivers, lakes, cities and important towns are detailed. No text on verso.Taken from a larger she...
Date: Antwerp, 1574-1575
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Europae Tabula IX.
One of the earliest maps of Turkey and Macedonia. From Girolamo Ruscelli's edition of "Ptolemy's Geographia". The map is drawn on the trapezoidal projection and...
Date: Venice, 1575
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Tabula Europae X - (Greek Islands)
One of the earliest maps of the Greek Islands. From Girolamo Ruscelli's edition of "Ptolemy's Geographia". The woodcut map is drawn on the trapezoidal projectio...
Date: Venice, 1575
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Helvetiae Descriptio Aegidio Tschudo Auct.
Attractive early map of Switzerland. Includes parts of Italy as far south as Milan and Cremona, with the Lago Maggiore, Lago di Lugano, Lago di Como, and Lago d'Iseo. Nor...
Date: Antwerp, ca. 1575
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Urbis Romae situs que adhuc conspiuntur..
A bird's-eye view of Rome during the year 1570, 3 local figures lower right. From the greatest publication in this genre!. The Civitates was compiled and written by Georg...
Date: Cologne, 1575
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Lugdunum.
Bird's eye view of Lyon.
Date: Cologne, ca. 1575
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Europe.
Uncommon wood-cut map of Europe. The surrounding sea is cut in very great detail. The seas are teeming with numerous small sailing vessels of different shapes and sizes t...
Date: Paris, 1575
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Zelandicarum Insularum Exactissima et Nova Descriptio.
Striking map of Zeeland from 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum [Atlas of the Whole World]',by Ortelius, Latin ed, pl. 39, CN no. 18.The Theatrum was re-issued in 42 editions with ...
Date: Antwerp, 1575
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Transilvania.
Detailed map of Hungary prepared by Sambucas in 1566, who itself based his map on Honter's map of 1532.Dutch text on verso.
Date: Antwerp, 1575
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Asie.
Scarce wood-cut map of Asia. New Guinea has disappeared and Japan is represented as a turtle-shaped island. An important innovation is the appearance of the Straits of An...
Date: Paris, 1575
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Transilvania.
Detailed map of Hungary prepared by Sambucas in 1566, who itself based his map on Honter's map of 1532.Latin text on verso.
Date: Antwerp, 1575
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![[Kings of the Ottoman Empire].](/uploads/cache/14188-250x250.jpg)
[Kings of the Ottoman Empire].
On recto an early representation of the first Ottoman King of the dynasty (112x65 mm). On verso a portrait of Orchanes, second king (80x50 mm), and of Amurathes, third ki...
Date: Basle, about or after 1575
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POLONIAE finitimarumque locorum descrip:tio. Auctore WENCESLAO GRODECCIO. Polono.
Ortelius' evocative map of Poland, being a close copy of Grodecki / Pograbka's map of 1558/62 map, itself based on Wapovsky 1526 (Karrow 56) With Latin text on verso, a s...
Date: Antwerp, 1575
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Transilvania.
Detailed map of Hungary prepared by Sambucas in 1566, who itself based his map on Honter's map of 1532.Latin text on verso.
Date: Antwerp, 1575
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MOSCAVW
From the famous 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum' of Braun and Hogenberg, one of the most sought after early views of Moscow.It depicts the city from an elevated viewpoint acros...
Date: Cologne, 1575
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Augustodunum Flauia Heduorum.
A fine engraved view of the city of Autun, in France, on the Loire River. Taken from the Latin edition of George Braun and Frans Hogenberg's landmark "Civitates Orbi...
Date: Cologne, 1575
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