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[Lot of 8 leaves relating to the Holy Land]
Eight printed text leaves with maps and views relating to the Holy Land. From the 1552 Latin text edition of Münster's Cosmographia, which is a short and complete summar...
Date: Basel, 1552
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[Lot of 17 leaves with maps and views relating to India, Sri Lanka, China, Indonesia]
Seventeen text pages illustrated with wood block prints relating to India, Sri Lanka, China, Indonesia illustrated with animals : elephants, rhinoceros... From the 1552 L...
Date: Basel, 1552
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De terris Asiae minoris.
Sebastian Münster, 1489-1552, outstanding geographer of Basle. Editied Ptolemy's atlas ' Geographia Universalis', editions 1540,-42, -45, -51 and -52. Published his &quo...
Date: Basle, 1554
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Sumatra.
A superb example of "the first separate map of any Southeast Asian island to be based on actual observation" (Suarez). It is moreover highly unusual for a map t...
Date: Venice, 1556
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Aedificat Templum Sapientia per Solomonis.
Solomon directing the building of the temple. Rare print by Philips Galle, after Frans Floris and published by Hieronymus Cock, 1558.Solomon sits at right and converses w...
Date: Antwerp, 1558
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Soria et Terra Santa nova tavola.
Uncommon first edition of this classical map of the Holy Land, including Cyprus. The map is an enlarged version of Giacomo Gastaldi's published in 1548Girolamo Ruscelli's...
Date: Venice, 1561
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Tabula Asiae I.
Uncommon first edition of this classical map of Turkey, prepared by Ptolemy.Girolamo Ruscelli's edition of Ptolemy's Geographia included newly engraved copperplates by Gi...
Date: Venice, 1561
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Tabula Asiae IIII.
Uncommon first edition of this classical map of the Holy Land, including Cyprus. The map is an enlarged version of Giacomo Gastaldi's published in 1548Girolamo Ruscelli's...
Date: Venice, 1561
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Tabvla Asiae XII.
An elegantly engraved early map of Sri Lanka, with left the image of an elephant. Ref.: Paranavitana, maps of Dutch Ceylon, p.7.
Date: Venice, 1561
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Tabula Asiae XII. . .
Uncommon first edition of one of the earliest maps of Sumatra.Girolamo Ruscelli's edition of Ptolemy's Geographia included newly engraved copperplates by Giulio and Livio...
Date: Venice, 1561
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India Tercera Nuova Tavola.
Uncommon first edition of this early map of South East Asia.Girolamo Ruscelli's edition of Ptolemy's Geographia included newly engraved copperplates by Giulio and Livio S...
Date: Venice, 1561
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India Tercera Nuova Tavola.
Uncommon first edition of Ruscelli's map is one of the earliest modern maps of Southeast Asia. An enlarged version of Gastaldi's miniature map of 1548, the map is one of ...
Date: Venice / 1561
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Tabula Asiae VI. (Arabian Peninsular)
Scarce FIRST edition of this classical map depicting the Arabian Peninsula, here called Arabia Foelix, Persian Gulf and Red Sea. The map is based upon a map published by ...
Date: Venice, 1561
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India Tercera Nuova Tavola.
Early edition of this modern map of South East Asia. Just to the west and south of Malacca one will notice ‘Camatra’ (Sumatra) and Java. Covers the region from the Gu...
Date: Venice, 1561
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Arabia Felice Nuova Tavola.
Fine early map of this modern depiction of the Arabian peninsula, being one of the earliest modern maps of the region. The map extends from the Arabian Desert south as fa...
Date: Venice, Vincenzo Valgrisi, c.1561
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Tabula Asiae VI.
Scarce FIRST edition of this classical map depicting the Arabian Peninsula.
Date: Venice, 1561
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Calecut Nuova Tavola.
Scarce FIRST edition of this early map of the Indian Peninsula, being one of the earliest modern maps of the region.Girolamo Ruscelli's edition of Ptolemy's Geographia in...
Date: Venice, Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1561
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India Tercera Nuova Tavola.
Uncommon first edition of this early map of South East Asia, showing the Bay of Bengal to southern China in the north, and down just below the Equator to the south. While...
Date: Venice, 1561
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INDIA TERCERA NUOVA TAVOLA.
Ruscelli's map is one of the earliest modern maps of Southeast Asia. An enlarged version of Gastaldi's miniature map of 1548, the map is one of the earliest to introduce ...
Date: Venice, 1561
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Taprobana [Ceylon/Sri Lanka].
Ptolemy's mythical island of Taprobana originally became associated with Sri Lanka. Later, as this theory was discredited, Sumatra became the next candidate. Almost a dec...
Date: Basle, 1561
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India.
A woodcut from P. Mela's "De Orbis Situ Libri tres". Published by Henric Perti. Almost a decade after the death of Sebastian Münster, his publisher and stepson...
Date: Basle, 1561
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Tabvla Asiae XII.
[Antique map of Sri Lanka] Tabvla Asiae XII. An elegantly engraved early map of Sri Lanka, (misshapen) with left the image of an elephant.
Date: Venice, 1561
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India Tercera Nuova Tavola
An early map of South East Asia after Gastaldi from "La Geographia: Descrittione dell' Asia", 3rd vol., p. 122; published by M. Sessa in Venezia, Italy, showi...
Date: Venice, 1561
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Tabula Asiae XII. (Taprobana)
Scarce FIRST edition of this map depicting the island of Ceylon (Taprobana), based on Gastaldi's 1548 map. An elephant with descriptive text next to the map.Ptolemy's myt...
Date: Venice, 1561
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Constantinoble ( Constantinople )
This chorographical view of Constantinople is from Du Pinet's rare city atlas published in Lyon by Jean d'Ogerolles. It is taken from Sebastian Munster's plan and feature...
Date: Lyon, 1564
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Sinus Persicus [Arabia]
Rare wood block printed map of the Arabian Peninsular from "De orbis situ libri tres accuratissime emendati". Underneath the map a lettered key (A-E) in letter ...
Date: Basle, Henri Petri, 1564
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Sinus Persicus [Arabia]
Rare wood block printed map of the Holy Land, Syria, Cyprus, northern Arabia from "De orbis situ libri tres accuratissime emendati". Underneath the map a letter...
Date: Basle, Henri Petri, 1564
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De Terra Sancta (Jerusalem)
One Latin text page with on verso three illustrations of Salomon's Temple, View of Jerusalem and stairs to Mount Calvaria. On recto the Holy Sepulchre (Sacri sepulchri te...
Date: Basle, ca. 1564
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De Terris Asiae Maioris de India Ultra Gangem Fluvium Sita.
One text page with a woodcuts of a fanciful creatures along the River Ganges in India from Münster's Cosmographia Universalis.The Cosmographia by Sebastian Munster from ...
Date: Basle, ca. 1564
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Calecut Nova Tavola.
A fine early map of Indian peninsula,it being one of the earliest modern maps of the region, extending from west of the Gujarat peninsula eastward to Bengal and south as ...
Date: Venice, 1564
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Calecut Nuova Tavola.
Early map of India, extending from west of the Gujarat peninsula eastward to Bengal and south as far as northern Ceylon (“Ceilam”). Girolamo Ruscelli first published ...
Date: Venice, 1564
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Tabula Asiae XI.
Early map of part of India. Girolamo Ruscelli first published the map in his "La Geographi di Claudio Tolomeo" (Venice, 1561). In 1574 a new plate was used whic...
Date: Venice, 1564
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![[untitled] Judaea, Chaldaea, Syria, Mesopotamia, Asia Minor, Dioscurias, Mecha, Arabia Felix, Saba et al](/uploads/cache/85878-250x250.jpg)
[untitled] Judaea, Chaldaea, Syria, Mesopotamia, Asia Minor, Dioscurias, Mecha, Arabia Felix, Saba et al
Johannes Honter was a Protestant reformer from Transylvania, mentioned in 1570 by Abraham Ortelius in his ground-breaking atlas. Honter’s 'Rudimentorum Cosmographicorum...
Date: Zurich, 1564
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[Tevarya] Lago di Tiberia.
Extremely rare map centered on the town and Lake Tevarya, including Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Sichem, Damascus and the island of Cyprus.Engraved by Paolo Furlani (active 1561...
Date: Venice 1568
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Al S. Alberto Lavezzola.. Con questa bellissima et ordinatissima ordinanza suole il gran sig.or Turco ..
Extremely rare print of the Great Turk and his army.The print is addressed and dated Paolo Forlani Veronese.. Merzaria all'insegna della Colonna.Engraved by Paolo Furlani...
Date: Venice 1568
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[Tevarya] Lago di Tiberia.
Extremely rare map centered on the town and Lake Tevarya, including Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Sichem, Damascus and the island of Cyprus.Engraved by Paolo Furlani (active 1561...
Date: Venice 1568
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Situs Terra Sancta iuxta numeru[m] filior, Israel, apices, seu pu[n]cta divisus.
This is ultimately derived from the materials of Marino Sanudo, drawn in the 1320s, perhaps via Berlinghieri's map of 1482. Oriented to the east. The shoreline runs from ...
Date: Venice, c. 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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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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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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