Browse Listings in Map Types
Asia secunda pars terrae in forma Pegasi.
Wood block map of Asia in the form of a Pegasus. The seas are adorned with sea monsters and many major cities are indicated and named. There are several states, of this m...
Date: Magdeburg, ca. 1579
Selling price: ????
Please login to see price!
Sold in 2021
(Portrait of Ortelius )
Beautifully colored portrait of Ortelius of from the 1579 edition of Ortelius’ Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first modern atlas of the world.In this edition the portrai...
Date: Antwerp, 1579
Selling price: ????
Please login to see price!
Sold in 2015
Meerwunder und Seltzame Thier.
A fine detailed woodcut depicting a superb variety of fantastic sea-monsters, such as might be encountered by a sailor in northern waters. This famous piece may well have...
Date: Basel 1580
Selling price: ????
Please login to see price!
Sold
Monstra marina..
A fine detailed woodcut depicting a superb variety of fantastic sea-monsters, such as might be encountered by a sailor in northern waters. This famous piece may well have...
Date: Basel 1580
Selling price: ????
Please login to see price!
Sold
Spectandum dedit Ortelius mortalib..
This famous portrait, engraved by Galle, was included in Ortelius' atlases from 1579 onwards.The title translation is By looking, Ortelius gave to mortal beings the world...
Date: Antwerp, 1580
Selling price: ????
Please login to see price!
Sold
![[Europe depicted as a Queen]](/uploads/cache/24785-250x250.jpg)
[Europe depicted as a Queen]
Among the most striking of early cartographic curiosities is this woodcut of Europe regina or Queen of the world. This is a simplified version of Johannes Bucius' represe...
Date: Basel, 1580
Selling price: ????
Please login to see price!
Sold
Spectandum dedit Ortelius mortalib. Orbem, Orbi spectandum Galleus Ortelium. Papins.
This famous portrait, engraved by Galle, was included in Ortelius' atlases from 1579 onwards.The title translation is By looking, Ortelius gave to mortal beings the world...
Date: Antwerp, 1580
Selling price: ????
Please login to see price!
Sold in 2008
Meerwunder und Seltzame Thier.
A fine detailed woodcut depicting a superb variety of fantastic sea-monsters, such as might be encountered by a sailor in northern waters. This famous piece may well have...
Date: Basel, 1580
Selling price: ????
Please login to see price!
Sold in 2013
Meerwunder und Seltzame Thier.
An exceptional, seminal woodcut depicting, in detail, a variety of fantastic sea-monsters and rare animals, such as might be encountered by a sailor in northern waters.Th...
Date: Basle, 1580
Selling price: ????
Please login to see price!
Sold in 2017
![[Title page] Urbium Praecipuarum Totius Mundi. Liber Tertius.](/uploads/cache/47935-250x250.jpg)
[Title page] Urbium Praecipuarum Totius Mundi. Liber Tertius.
Uncolored example of the title page from Volume 3 of Braun & Hogenberg's Civitates Orbis Terrarum, the most lavish and important town view book published in the 16th ...
Date: Cologne, 1580
Selling price: ????
Please login to see price!
Sold in 2022