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Novae Insulae XXVI Nova Tabula (America)

Rare first state of Münster's map of America which is the earliest map to show both continents of America and the first to use Magellan’s name, Mare Pacificum (Pacific...

Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basel, (1540) 1542
Selling price: $6250
Sold in 2022

 


Novae Insulae XXVI Nova Tabula (America)

Rare second state of Münster's map of America which is the earliest map to show both continents of America and the first to use Magellan’s name, Mare Pacificum (Pacifi...

$3500 / ≈ €3275
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1545
Selling price: $3500
Sold in 2017

 


Tabula novarum insularum, quas diversis respectibus Occidentalis et Indianas vocant.

The earliest separate map to show both North and South America. One of the first maps also to include Japan, and the first to refer to Mare Pacificum or the Pacific Ocean...

$9100 / ≈ €8515
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basle, 1550
Selling price: $9100
Sold in 2013

 


Die Neuwen Inseln so Hinder Hispanien Gegen Orient bey dem Land Indie Ligen

This is an authentic, antique map of the Western Hemisphere showing North and South America connected as true continents. It is the 5th state example published out of Bas...

Maker / Publisher: Munster, S
Place & Date: Basel, 1550
Selling price: $4500
Sold in 2023

 


Novae Insulae XXVI Nova Tabula.

The earliest separate map of the western hemisphere, first published in the 1540 edition of Münster's "Geographia" and reprinted for subsequent editions of the...

$4200 / ≈ €3930
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basel, 1552
Selling price: $4200
Sold in 2011

 


La table des Isles neufves, lequelles on appelle isles d'occident & d'Indie pour divers regardz

The rare 1552 edition of Münster's map showing all of North and South America. Münster's map is the earliest map to show all of the continent of America and the first t...

$2800 / ≈ €2620
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S
Place & Date: Basel, 1552
Selling price: $2800
Sold in 2018

 


Tabula novarum insularum, quas diversis respectibus Occidentales & Indianas vocant.

The earliest separate map of the western hemisphere. State 5 of the Latin text edition incorporating the words 'Die Nüw Welt' in South America. It was first published in...

Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basel, 1552
Selling price: $4000
Sold in 2023

 


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...

$3800 / ≈ €3556
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1573
Selling price: $3800
Sold in 2014

 


Americae Sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descripto.

A finely engraved and beautiful map and one of the most recognised and influential maps of the Americas from the 16th century. This example is from an early state of the ...

$1350 / ≈ €1263
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1573
Selling price: $1350
Sold in 2019

 


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...

$4600 / ≈ €4304
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1574
Selling price: $4600
Sold in 2015

 


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,...

$2900 / ≈ €2714
Maker / Publisher: MUNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basle, 1574
Selling price: $2900
Sold in 2019

 


Americae Sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio.

This is the third state of the first copperplate of Ortelius' map showing the western hemisphere, showing the prominent bulge in the South American coastline. An importan...

$3925 / ≈ €3673
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS,A.
Place & Date: Antwerp 1575
Selling price: $3925
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America. Die Neüwen Inseln so hinder Hispanien gegen Orient, bey dem Landt Indie ligen.

A very rare state of the earliest separate map to show both North and South America. One of the first maps also to include Japan, and the first to refer to "Mare Pac...

$2100 / ≈ €1965
Maker / Publisher: Münster, Sebastian.
Place & Date: Basel, 1578
Selling price: $2100
Sold in 2018

 


Americae Sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio.

This is the second copperplate of Ortelius' map showing the western hemisphere, showing the largest ships in the Pacific sailing eastward and the prominent bulge in the S...

$4426 / ≈ €4141
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS,A.
Place & Date: Antwerp 1579
Selling price: $4426
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Americae Sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio. . .

This is the second copperplate of Ortelius' map showing the western hemisphere, showing the largest ships in the Pacific sailing eastward and the prominent bulge in the S...

$2800 / ≈ €2620
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp 1579
Selling price: $2800
Sold in 2017

 


Americae sive Novi Orbis Nova Descriptio.

A derivative of Mercator's large map published the year before, this is the second plate of Ortelius's map of the Americas, with the ship in the Pacific sailing East ward...

$3500 / ≈ €3275
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1579
Selling price: $3500
Sold in 2016

 


Americae Sive Novi Orbis Nova Descriptio.

Beautifully colored map of the Americas from the 1579 edition of Ortelius’ Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first modern atlas of the world. In this second edition, the or...

$3150 / ≈ €2948
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1579
Selling price: $3150
Sold in 2015

 


Americae sive Novi Orbis Nova Descriptio.

A rare miniature map of North and South America based on Ortelius' larger map, ornamented with two sailing ships and a delicate floral framing. This is the second edition...

$550 / ≈ €515
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1579
Selling price: $550
Sold in 2020

 


Americae Sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio.

This is the third edition of Ortelius' map landmark map of the Americas showing the western hemisphere, and showing a prominent bulge in the South American coastline. An ...

$3500 / ≈ €3275
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1579
Selling price: $3500
Sold in 2022

 


[Native Americans meeting Vespucci]

"On recto an early representation of Vespucci meeting native Americans (92x142mm).From a French text edition of his ""Geographia"", that great co...

$20 / ≈ €19
Maker / Publisher: -
Place & Date: Basle 1550-1580
Selling price: $20
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[UNTITLED] Indians of America and Africa.

Rare representation of Indians. A set of 6 couples with titles below. Each couple with traditional clothing, some of the males with bow and arrow. After Abraham de Bruyn....

$100 / ≈ €94
Maker / Publisher: DE BRUYN, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1581
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2013

 


America, sive Bresilia. . .

print of America. By Jan Sadeler after Theodor Bernard.

$250 / ≈ €234
Maker / Publisher: SADELER, J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca 1581
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2018

 


Brevis exactaq totius novi orbis eiusq insularum descriptio recens edita

Woodcut map of the Americas, which was published in three states. The first in Antwerp by Iuan Steelsio in 1554 in “La Historia General de las Indias”, written by the...

Maker / Publisher: BELLERE, Jean
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1566, 1567 or 1583
Selling price: $4100
Sold in 2023

 


Americae Sive Novi Orbis.

This is the third state of the famous Ortelius map showing the western hemisphere without the prominent bulge in the South American coastline.

$3500 / ≈ €3275
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1587
Selling price: $3500
Sold in 2016

 


Americae sive novi orbis, nova descriptio.

In 1587, a new plate was engraved which appeared in editions from 1588 onwards. Of the three maps, this one is perhaps the most important. It is the most geographically a...

$4200 / ≈ €3930
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1587
Selling price: $4200
Sold in 2018

 


Americae Sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio.

Third plate, state 1. In 1587, a new plate was engraved which appeared in editions from 1588 onward. Of the three maps, this one is perhaps the most important. Geographic...

$5000 / ≈ €4679
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Anvers, 1588
Selling price: $5000
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Americae sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio [Spanish text edition]

One of the most famous and decorative maps of America. In 1587, a new plate was engraved which appeared in editions from 1588 onwards. Of the three maps, this one is perh...

$4000 / ≈ €3743
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, (1587) 1588
Selling price: $4000
Sold in 2011

 


Americae Sive Novi Orbis Nova Descriptio. Die newen inseln so hinder Hispaniam gegen Orient, bey dem landt Indie gelegen

Nicely colored map of North and South America. Two elongated oval cartouches across the top with gothic German text and a finely decorated title cartouche to the bottom l...

$1250 / ≈ €1170
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER,S.
Place & Date: Basle, Henri Petrie, 1588
Selling price: $1250
Sold in 2013

 


Americae Sive Novi Orbis Nova Descriptio. / Die newen inseln so hinder Hispaniam gegen Orient . . .

Sebastian Münster (1489-1552) is one of the most renowned cartographers of the sixteenth century, Mercator and Ortelius are considered at the same level. Munster's two m...

$1205 / ≈ €1128
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basle, 1588
Selling price: $1205
Sold in 2019

 


Americae Sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio

Woodcut map by based on Abraham Ortelius' classic map of 1570, with the huge bulge in the southwest coastline of South America, the Ortelian western coastline of North Am...

$1200 / ≈ €1123
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER,S.
Place & Date: Basel, ca.1588
Selling price: $1200
Sold in 2022

 


Nova reperta.

Title-page from a series of twenty prints illustrating new inventions and discoveries (Nova Reperta) after Jan van der Straet. Lettered on image: 'NOVA REPERTA'; on left ...

$700 / ≈ €655
Maker / Publisher: STRADANUS, Johannes / COLLAERT, Jan (II).
Place & Date: Antwerp, Philips Galle, c. 1590
Selling price: $700
Sold in 2018

 


Americae sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio.

An engraved map of the Americas, image 357 x 493 mm (452 x 550 mm sheet). Elaborate baroque title cartouche, may ships and sea-monster, Italian text on verso. One of the ...

$2700 / ≈ €2526
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, Abraham.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1593
Selling price: $2700
Sold in 2020

 


Americae Retectio (Allegory of the Discovery of America)

Allegorical scene commemorating the discovery of America. The main image shows Neptune, supporting a Globe, flanked by Flora-representing Florence, and Janus-representing...

$850 / ≈ €795
Maker / Publisher: DE BRY, Th.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1594
Selling price: $850
Sold in 2015

 


America.

A nice late 16th century, finely engraved map of America, published in Bologna in 1594 by Giuseppi Rossaccio. The map is interesting for the fact of its number of curious...

$250 / ≈ €234
Maker / Publisher: ROSSACCIO, G.
Place & Date: Bologna, ca. 1594
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2020

 


Americae sive novi orbis, nova descriptio.

In 1587, a new plate was engraved which appeared in editions from 1588 onwards. Of the three maps, this one is perhaps the most important. It is the most geographically a...

$6225 / ≈ €5825
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS,A.
Place & Date: Antwerp 1595
Selling price: $6225
Sold

 


Americae sive novi orbis, nova descriptio.

In 1587, a new plate was engraved which appeared in editions from 1588 onwards. Of the three maps, this one is perhaps the most important. It is the most geographically a...

$4525 / ≈ €4234
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS,A.
Place & Date: Antwerp 1595
Selling price: $4525
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Americae sive novi orbis, nova descriptio.

In 1587, a new plate was engraved which appeared in editions from 1588 onwards. Of the three maps, this one is perhaps the most important. It is the most geographically a...

$4000 / ≈ €3743
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS,A.
Place & Date: Antwerp 1595
Selling price: $4000
Sold

 


Americae sive novi orbis, nova descriptio.

In 1587, a new plate was engraved which appeared in editions from 1588 onwards. Of the three maps, this one is perhaps the most important. It is the most geographically a...

$2600 / ≈ €2433
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1595
Selling price: $2600
Sold in 2013

 


Americae sive novi orbis, nova descriptio.

In 1587, a new plate was engraved which appeared in editions from 1588 onwards. Of the three maps, this one is perhaps the most important. It is the most geographically a...

$5200 / ≈ €4866
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1595
Selling price: $5200
Sold in 2014

 


Americae Sive Novi Orbis Nova Descriptio.

A beautiful colored map of the America continent which comes from the Latin edition of Theatrum Orbis Terrarum by Abraham Ortelius. This is the third plate that Ortelius ...

$3500 / ≈ €3275
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1595
Selling price: $3500
Sold in 2020