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Barbaria.
Excellent map by Jansson, engraved for Mercators Atlas Minor (page 575). The map is divided in three parts: the top part is showing Northern Africa with the Mediterranean...
Date: Amsterdam, c.1628
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Schotia
Charming small map of Scotland decorated with a strapwork title cartouche. Latin text on verso.
Date: Amsterdam 1628
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Livonia
Finely engraved small map of Estonia and Latvia filled with forests, rivers and lakes. Latin text on verso. Embellished with a strapwork title cartouche and distance scal...
Date: Amsterdam 1628
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Anglesey, Wight, Garnesey, Iarsay.
This is a reduced version of Mercator's folio map with four maps on one sheet depicting the English islands of Jersey, Guernsey, Wright and Alderney. Each map is embellis...
Date: Amsterdam 1628
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Tabula Italiae Corsicae, Sardiniae, et adjacentium Regnorum
Fine small map of all Italy, with Sardinia and Corsica, but only the northern part of Sicily. Decorated with a strapwork title cartouche and compass rose. Latin text on v...
Date: Amsterdam, 1628
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Forum Iulium Karstia, Caniola Histria etc.
Charming small map of the northern tip of the Adriatic Sea and the Gulf of Venice, present-day north-eastern Italy, Slovenia and Croatia. Two cartouches fill the Gulf of ...
Date: Amsterdam, 1628
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Lacus Lemannus
Handsome map of Lake Geneva with good detail of surrounding towns and villages. Decorated with 2 strapwork title cartouches. Latin text on verso.
Date: Amsterdam 1628
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America.
Jodocus Hondius's fine delineation of the Americas is probably the most attractive map of the Western Hemisphere in the Mercator/Hondius/Janssonius succession. A clarity ...
Date: Amsterdam 1628
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Daniae. . .
Map of Denmark. Ornamental title cartouche in the upper right has been painted in recent colors.Mercator was born in Rupelmonde in Flanders and studied in Louvain under G...
Date: Amsterdam, 1628
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Ivtia Septentrionalis. . .
Map of southern part of Denmark. Ornamental title cartouche in the center bottom has been hand colored in recent colors.Mercator was born in Rupelmonde in Flanders and st...
Date: Amsterdam, 1628
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Hassa Landgraviarus.
Folding-map of Hassia: the Latin name for the German state Hessen (capital Wiesbaden). Beautiful map of a part of Germany from Jansson's edition of Mercator's Atlas.More ...
Date: Amsterdam, 1628
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Japonia.
Drawn to a smaller scale than the 1607 map: including Korea and part of China. Engraved by Petrus Kaerius.
Date: Amsterdam, 1628
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Abissinorum sive Pretiosi Ioannis Imperiu
Hondius' Prester John Map. French text on verso.
Date: Amsterdam, 1628
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America sive India Nova.
The map's geography is based on the appropriate portions of Rumold Mercator's 1569 world map. The central hemisphere, which is a general map of the two continents, is sur...
Date: Amsterdam, 1628
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Asia ex magna Orbis terre descriptione Gerardi Mercatoris. . .
The cartography derives directly from the 1569 Mercator world map and includes the southern landmasses of New Guinea and Terra Australis, the East Indian Islands, the Phi...
Date: Amsterdam, 1628
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Africa ex magna orbis terre descriptione Gerardi Mercator. . .
Map of Africa, based on Gerard Mercator's twenty-one sheet wall map of the World, first published in 1569. Much of the interior of Africa defers to the traditions of Ptol...
Date: Amsterdam, 1628
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Helvetia cum finitimis regionibus confoederatis
Original old colored detailed engraved map of Switzerland by G. Mercator. With one cartouche and a mileage scale. Covering complete Switzerland with the Lake Constance an...
Date: Amsterdam, 1628
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Persici vel Sophorum Regni typus
Hand colored copper map of Persia by G. Mercator. With two beautiful colored cartouche. Covering the area of today Iran with the Caspian Sea and the Persian Gulf. From a ...
Date: Amsterdam, 1628
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Gallaecia regnum.
Map of Spain, including part of Portugal. Two ships on the sea.
Date: Amsterdam, 1628
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Legionis, Biscaiae et Guipiscoae Typus.
Shows cities of Bilbao, Laredo, Andero, Santillana.
Date: Amsterdam, 1628
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Castillae veteris et novae description.
Jodocus Hondius map of Castille, showing Zaragoza, Valencia, Alicante, Cartagena, Madrid, Cordoba, Sevilla, Salamanca, Palencia, Segovia, Toledo, Cuenca, Granada, etc.
Date: Amsterdam, 1628
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Andaluziae nova descript.
A very decorative and detailed map of Andalucia centered on the Guadalquivir river with the cities of Almeria, Cádiz, Córdoba, Granada, Huelva, Jaén, and Sevilla.Depic...
Date: Amsterdam, 1628
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Gallicia, Legio et Asturias de Oviedo.
A copper engraved map with original hand-coloring from the Minor-Mercator Atlas. Verso text: Latin. Maps from this atlas were engraved by Abraham Goos and Pieter van den ...
Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1628
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Leaf from a Spanish manuscript.
Spanish manuscript on vellum, Granada, 1628.The red capital D on a gold background is very nice: it has a face on the right side!
Date: Granada 1628
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Tunis
Woodcut of the Barbary town Tunis and outside the double walls a Women house (Harem) Botanical Garden (Hortus) an ancient Thermae (Therme). As well as the ruins of Cartha...
Date: Basel, 1628
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Novum Orbis Terrarum Schema, In Plano Sic Descriptum, ut Graduumtum Circa Polos. . .
An extremely rare and unusual world map, the sphere illustrated by 8 half gores formed using equilateral spherical triangles. Title set along upper border, with engraved ...
Date: Frankfurt, 1628
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Ivtia Septentrionalis. . .
Map of Denmark.Ornamental title cartouche in the center bottomMercator was born in Rupelmonde in Flanders and studied in Louvain under Gemma Frisius, Dutch writer, astron...
Date: Amsterdam, 1628
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Hispaniae nova describtio...
This dramatic map of Spain and Portugal includes Majorca and Minorca. The map is very finely engraved by Petrus Kaerius with elaborate cartouches, sailing ships, sea mons...
Date: Amsterdam, 1628
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Regni Valentiae Typus.
Fine early map of Valencia. Latin text on verso.
Date: Amsterdam, 1628
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Cataloniae principatus descriptio nova.
Map of Catalonia. Two sea monsters are shown in the upper right corner, along with a sailing ship, compass rose and decorative cartouche.
Date: Amsterdam, 1628
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Cataloniae principatus descriptio nova.
Map of Catalonia. The map is highly detailed, identifying cities, rivers, mountains, castles, ports and other features. Two sea monsters are shown in the upper right corn...
Date: Amsterdam, 1628
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America.
Jodocus Hondius fine delineation of the Americas is probably the most attractive map of the Western Hemisphere in the Mercator/Hondius/Janssonius succession. A clarity of...
Date: Amsterdam, 1628
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De Zurichgow.
Striking map of Zurich , Switzerland. Part of the Cloppenburgh edition with French on verso. Engraved by Van der Keere. Gerard Mercator (1512-1594) was the prime cartogr...
Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1628
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Persici vel sopho rum regni typus.
The focus of this map is the old Kingdom of Persia though the map clearly shows present-day Iraq, Iran, and Afghanistan. Of note are the cities: Bagadet (Baghdad), Chabul...
Date: Amsterdam, 1628
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Guineae Nova Descriptio.
The map shows the West African coast from Senegal (the 'Rio Senega' is the Senegal River) to Cape Lopez on the Gulf of Guinea just below the equator.The island of St. Tho...
Date: Amsterdam, 1628
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Abissinorum sive Pretiosi Joannis Imperiu.
Despite the title this map extends far beyond Prester John's supposed kingdom. It covers Africa from the fabled mountains of the moon in the center of the continent north...
Date: Amsterdam, 1628
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Barbaria. / Carthaginensis sinus / Aegyptus.
With two insets: Map of the Siege of Tunis and map of the Nile Delta.From the tenth edition of the Mercator's Atlas Sive Cosmographicae completed and reissued by Henricus...
Date: Amsterdam, ca.1628
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Insulae Indiae Orientalis Praecipuae, In quibus Moluccae..
A beautiful new map of Southeast Asia created by the Dutch mapmaker Jodocus Hondius for an enlarged issue of the Mercator Atlas of 1606. Focusing on the islands. Geograph...
Date: Amsterdam, 1628
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Tabula Italiae Corsicae, Sardiniae, et adjacentium Regnorum.
Attractive small map of all Italy, with Sardinia and Corsica, but only the northern part of Sicily. Decorated with a strapwork title cartouche and compass rose. German te...
Date: Amsterdam 1628
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America./ Americae Descriptio.
Map of America from 'Atlas Minor Gerardi Mercatoris', engraved by Abraham Goos. Joannes Jansson created a completely new set of small formatted maps to be included in the...
Date: Amsterdam, 1628
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Tabula ITALIAE Corsicae, Sardaniae, et adjacentium Regnorum. . . Ioannem Ianssonium . . . 1628.
First state (of 3) of this "carte à figures"- map of Italy produced by Johannes Janssonius in 1628. The composition, decoration and geographical content follow...
Date: Amsterdam, 1628
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Abissinorum Sive Pretiosi Ioannis Imperium
A single page map of central and eastern Africa. This map depicts the mythical Christian kingdom of 'Prester John' on the African continent. Based on Mercator/ Hondius.
Date: Amsterdam, 1628
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Septentrionalium Terrarum decsript.
A good example of Mercator-Jansson's small map of the North Polar regions.The map is extended to 60 degrees, to show the recent explorations in search of the North West a...
Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1628
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Salin die Namhaffte Stadt in Burgund Nach Ihrer Figur und Gelegenheit Abgemalet.
A woodcut of Salin, in France by Sebastian Münster. Salin-les-Bains in the Jura, the walled city with fortifications and the castle Belim. From his famous Cosmographia, ...
Date: Basel, 1628
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Die Statt Hammelburg in Francken Conerafaccur.
Fine double page wood block bird's-eye view of the fortified city of Hammelburg, germany. An original wood engraved map from the “COSMOGRAPHIA UNIVERSALIS” by Sebast...
Date: Basel, 1628
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Bahre Contrasehtung der Reichstatt Landaw.
Fine double page wood block bird's-eye view of the fortified city of Landau, Germany. An original wood engraved map from the “COSMOGRAPHIA UNIVERSALIS” by Sebastian ...
Date: Basel, 1628
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Hafnia Coppenhagen. / Hafnia oder Coppenhagen die Königliche Statt in Dennmarck gantz epgentlich abcontrafehtet / in dem jaht Christi / 1627.
A large-sized view of Copenhagen, double-leaf woodcut from Sebastian Münster 'Cosmography', edition of 1628 (only in this issue!).German text on verso.
Date: Basel, 1628
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Exquisita & magno aliquot.. Freti Magellanici..
Map of the extremities of South America. North at 180 degrees. Borders graduated for latitude. Single compass rose with radiates. Scale in German miles. Soundings and sho...
Date: Amsterdam, 1628
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Persici vel sophorum regni typus.
A detailed map of Persia from the "Atlas Minor" (Gerhard Mercator / Jodocus Hondius). Extends from Armenia to India, including a part of Arabia. Engraved by Pie...
Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1628
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Persici vel sopho rum regni typus.
The focus of this map is the old Kingdom of Persia though the map clearly shows present-day Iraq, Iran, and Afghanistan. Of note are the cities: Bagadet (Baghdad), Chabul...
Date: Amsterdam, 1628
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Morea olim Peloponnesus.
Gerard Mercator's map of the Greece's Peloponnesus peninsula called and labeled Morea. A few of the other smaller islands appear included the larger Cerigo (today's Cythe...
Date: Amsterdam, 1628
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Helvetia cum finitimis regionibus confederatis.
A great early 17th century map of Switzerland, that Includes also small areas of Austria, Italy, and France. Very detailed with many towns, rivers, lakes, mountains, etc....
Date: Amsterdam, ca 1628
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[World and Four Continents].
A beautiful set of maps engraved by Goos of the World and four continents. The first map is the striking World double hemisphere map.This map is from Jan Janssonius pocke...
Date: Amsterdam, ca 1615-1628
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Ducatus Geldriae novissima descriptio
Copper engraved map of Gelderland, but also including Utrecht, and parts of Brabant. It shows many cities (like Nijmegen, Eindhoven, Zutphen, Zwolle, etc.), roads, rivers...
Date: Amsterdam, 1629
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Sabaudia ducatus La Savoie.
Map of the French region of Savoie. Including the towns of Geneva, Grenoble, St. Anton, Val D'Isre, etc. Very dramatic topographic detail in the Alps. With the signature ...
Date: Amsterdam, after 1629
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Episcop. Ultraiectinus.
A very detailed map based on Utrecht. Scale cartouche held by a surveyor. Based on the map by B.F.van Berckenrode (1620-21) and engraved by the master engraver Evert Sijm...
Date: Amsterdam, after 1629
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Freti Magellanici ac novi Freti vulgo Le Maire. . .
The very rare according v.d. Krogt first state with the address of J.Hondius. After the acquisition of the copper plate by Willem Blaeu, the name of J.Hondius has been er...
Date: Amsterdam, 1629
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Verovering vande Silver-Vloot inde Bay Matanca. Anno 1628.
A scarce and important depiction of the taking of the Spanish silver fleet by the Dutch naval force in Matanzas Bay, Cuba. It includes the portraits of the Dutch commande...
Date: Amsterdam, 1629
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Arabia Eudaemon ex. Plinio Lib VI Cap. 28.
Charming small map of the Arabian Peninsula decorated with a strapwork title cartouche. Sparsely detailed reflecting the lack of knowledge of the geography other than the...
Date: Amsterdam, 1629
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Novissima Delflandiae, Schielandiae..
A very nice map showing the southern part of the province of Holland.Mercator was born in Rupelmonde in Flanders and studied in Louvain under Gemma Frisius, Dutch writer,...
Date: Amsterdam, 1629
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Daniae Regni Typum..
Very decorative map of Denmark with the signature of the engraver Petrus Kaerius. Printed on heavy paper, despite its repair still a very desirable and attractive item. T...
Date: Amsterdam, 1629
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Paraguayo prov. de Rio de La Plata cum regionibus..
Extremely rare edition of this beautiful map of Paraguay, Uruguay and northern Argentina.Jodocus Hondius Jr. planned to produce a new modern atlas less dependent on the M...
Date: Amsterdam, 1629
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Peru.
Rare first state. Decorated with ships and monsters on the sea. Orientated with east at the top. A most decorative item. One of the most dramatic events in the early hist...
Date: Amsterdam 1629
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India quae Orientalis dicitur, et Insulae Adiacentes.
An important Dutch map of South East Asia, noteworthy for being the first map to include, albeit incompletely, the discoveries made by the Dutch vessel Duyfken in 1605-06...
Date: Amsterdam, 1629
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Zutphania Comitatus.
Nice map of the county of Zutphen in Gelderland. The map shows the eastern part of the province of Gelderland as well as a smal part of Germany. Important cities are Arnh...
Date: Amsterdam 1629
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Freti Magellanici ac novi Freti vulgo Le Maire..
The very rare first state with the address of J.Hondius. After the acquisition of the copper plate by Willem Blaeu, the name of J.Hondius has been erased and substituted ...
Date: Amsterdam 1629
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Nova Virginiae Tabula.
The map is based on the first state of Smith's map, 1612, and is slightly larger and more expertly engraved. In 1629 the Hondius plate was purchased by Blaeu who deleted ...
Date: Amsterdam 1618-1629
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Pomeraniae Ducatus Tabula. Auctore Eilhardo Lubino.
Extremely rare first edition of which Peter van der Krogt list only 5 other copies in his updated Atlantes Neerlandici of this important map of present day eastern German...
Date: Amsterdam, 1629
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Turcici Imperii Imago.
Detailed map covering the Ottoman territories in Balkans, Anatolia, Levant, Arabia and North Africa. On top of title cartouche the portrait of Sultan Mahumet Turcorum Imp...
Date: Amsterdam 1629
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Isle de Cipre.
Early copper engraved map showing a deformed Cyprus, engraved by Henry Raignauld. Oversized depiction of the towns of Nicosia, Limosol and Famagusta. A numbered key (1-16...
Date: Paris, Michael Soly, 1629
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Turcici Imperii Imago.
A very decorative map. On top of title cartouche the portrait of Sultan Mahumet Turcorum Imperat .
Date: Amsterdam, 1629
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(Castle Margat - La ville De Valanie.]
Early copper engraved print of the castle of Margat in modern Syria, engraved by Henry Raignauld. Raigniauld?s signature is carefully worked into the shore line. The top ...
Date: Paris, Michael Soly, 1629
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Valletta citta nova dimalta.
Early copper engraved map of the town of Valetta, engraved by Henry Raignauld. In lower left corner an inset with Malta and Gozzo.Raigniauldi's signature is carefully wor...
Date: Paris, Michael Soly, 1629
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Turcici Imperii Imago.
A very decorative map. On top of title cartouche the portrait of Sultan Mahumet Turcorum Imperat .
Date: Amsterdam, 1629
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Austria Archiducatus auctore Wolfgango Lazio.
Extremely rare first edition of this fine map of Austria.Jodocus Hondius Jr. planned to produce a new modern atlas less dependent on the Mercator plates that his father h...
Date: Amsterdam, 1629
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Civitas Acon sive Ptolomaida.
Rare town-plan of Acre, based upon the Vesconte-Sanuto plan, intended to illustrate a period when the town was under the control of the Knights of St. John. Shows extensi...
Date: Paris, Michael Soly, 1629
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Ducatus Holsatiae nova tabula.
Extremely rare first edition of this beautiful map of Schleswich Holstein.Jodocus Hondius Jr. planned to produce a new modern atlas less dependent on the Mercator plates ...
Date: Amsterdam, 1629
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Celeberrimi Fluvis Albis nova delineatio.
Extremely rare first edition of this beautiful map of Elbe and Hamburg.Jodocus Hondius Jr. planned to produce a new modern atlas less dependent on the Mercator plates tha...
Date: Amsterdam, 1629
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[Lot of 3 portraits of Petrus Bertius.]
Three portraits of Petrus Bertius. The largest engraved by Nicolas II de Larmessin, who was born in 1632 and died in 1694, was a French engraver and publisher based in Pa...
Date: Paris, 1629
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Saxonia Inferior et Meklenborg Duc.
A map of the northern German region of Lower Saxony, showing the region on either side of the Elbe River. Some larger cities are highlighted in red, Hamburg, Lunenburg, B...
Date: Amsterdam, 1630
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