Browse Listings in Asia
Turcici imperii descriptio.
From Ortelius' 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum', the first regularly produced, and uniform format, modern atlas of the World. Reference literature: MARCEL P.R. van den Broecke, ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1570
Selling price: $900
Sold in 2020
Indiae Orientalis, Insularumque Adiacientium Typus.
Finely contemporarily handcolored example of Ortelius' map of SE Asia, Japan, and the Philippines, etc. The map includes Beach and other information drawn from Marco Polo...
Place & Date: Antwerpen, 1571
Selling price: $1750
Sold in 2009
Tabula Asiae V
Woodcut map showing Persia between Persian Gulf and Caspian Sea. From the Latin 1571 edition of Strabo's Geographia with maps of Sebastian Munster which appeared in Ptole...
Place & Date: Basle, 1571
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2013
Natoliae quae olim asia minor? / Aegypti recentior? / Carthaginis celeberimisinus typus.
colored copper engraved map of Turkey by A. Ortelius. On right side a map of Egypt and one of Tunis. Three map on one sheet printed from one plate. From the 1571 Latin ed...
Place & Date: Antwerp, c. 1571
Selling price: $170
Sold in 2010
Tabula Asiae III
Attractive woodblock Ptolemaic map, depicting Armenia and in the Right part of the Caspian Sea with Noes Arch. The mountain ranges are depicted in the manner of the early...
Place & Date: Basle, Strabo, 1571
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2012
Tabula Asiae III. (Armenia)
Double-page woodcut Ptolemaic-style map by Sebastian Münster figuring Armenia, published in the edition of Strabo by Henri Petri in 1571."Strabonis rerum geographic...
Place & Date: Basle, Henri Petri, 1571
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2018
Tabula Asiae IX. (Pakistan, including part of India)
Double-page woodcut Ptolemaic-style map by Sebastian Münster figuring Pakistan, including part of India, published in the edition of Strabo by Henri Petri in 1571."...
Place & Date: Basle, Henri Petri, 1571
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2019
Tabula Asiae IIII. (Holy Land)
Double-page woodcut Ptolemaic-style map by Sebastian Münster figuring Holy Land, published in the edition of Strabo by Henri Petri in 1571."Strabonis rerum geograph...
Place & Date: Basle, Henri Petri, 1571
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2019
Tabula Asiae I. (Turkey)
Double-page woodcut Ptolemaic-style map by Sebastian Münster figuring Turkey, published in the edition of Strabo by Henri Petri in 1571."Strabonis rerum geographica...
Place & Date: Basle, Henri Petri, 1571
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2018
Tabula Indiae X. (part of India and the Indian Ocean)
Double-page woodcut Ptolemaic-style map by Sebastian Münster figuring part of India and the Indian Ocean, published in the edition of Strabo by Henri Petri in 1571."...
Place & Date: Basle, Henri Petri, 1571
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2022
Tabula Asiae IX. (North India and Pakistan)
Double-page woodcut Ptolemaic-style map by Sebastian Münster figuring North India and Pakistan, published in the edition of Strabo by Henri Petri in 1571."Strabonis...
Place & Date: Basle, Henri Petri, 1571
Selling price: $65
Sold in 2020
Tabula Asiae VI. ( Arabian Peninsula)
Double-page woodcut Ptolemaic-style map by Sebastian Münster figuring Arabian Peninsula, published in the edition of Strabo by Henri Petri in 1571."Strabonis rerum ...
Place & Date: Basle, Henri Petri, 1571
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2018
Tabula Asiae V. ( Eastern Iraq and western Iran)
Double-page woodcut Ptolemaic-style map by Sebastian Münster figuring Eastern Iraq and western Iran, published in the edition of Strabo by Henri Petri in 1571."Stra...
Place & Date: Basle, Henri Petri, 1571
Selling price: $75
Sold in 2019
Tabula Asiae IIII. ( Holy Land, Cyprus, Syria, etc.)
Double-page woodcut Ptolemaic-style map by Sebastian Münster figuring Holy Land, Cyprus, Syria, etc., published in the edition of Strabo by Henri Petri in 1571."Str...
Place & Date: Basle, Henri Petri, 1571
Selling price: $75
Sold in 2018
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[Cyprus].
Woodcut Ptolemaic-style map by Sebastian Münster figuring Cyprus, published in the edition of Strabo by Henri Petri in 1571."Strabonis rerum geographicarum" is...
Place & Date: Basle, Henri Petri, 1571
Selling price: $180
Sold in 2018
Terra Sancta.
Full title in an elaborate cartouche with scenes from the live of Christ in vignettes at top right: 'Terra Sancta, a Petro Laicstain perlustrata, et ab eius ore et schedi...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1571
Selling price: $575
Sold in 2021
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...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1572
Selling price: $1500
Sold
Palestinae sive totius terrae promissionis nova..
A new description of Palestine or the whole Promised Land. The shoreline runs from Berytus (Beirut) to the Nile Delta, reaching inland east of the Jordan and in the south...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1572
Selling price: $480
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Das hehlig Judisch land mit. . .
This is Sebastian Munster's interesting and detailed double-page map of the Holy Lands from his Cosmographia. The map shows from Sidon and the land of the Phoenicians in...
Place & Date: Basel, (1540) 1572
Selling price: $275
Sold in 2012
Tabula Terrae Canaan Abrahae tempore et ante adventum?
Map of Canaan at the times of Abraham and before the conquest by the Children of Israel, with the neighboring regions. Oriented to the east. The shore line runs from Turk...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1572
Selling price: $1050
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Damascus, urbs.
Early view of Damascus, a town-plan from the greatest publication in this genre !. The ,Civitates, was compiled and written by George Braun, Canon of Cologne Cathedral. B...
Place & Date: Cologne 1572
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2011
Turcici Imperii Descriptio.
This is Ortelius uncommon first map of the Turkish Empire only used from 1570 until 1579. This is the best known of all the sixteenth-century maps of the Middle East, ext...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1572
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2012
Descrittione del l'Isola di Taprobana.
Charming map of the island of Sri Lanka (Celon). The map is oriented with north to the right. Fancy strapwork cartouche with two faces and a unique compass rose. Printed ...
Place & Date: Venice, 1572
Selling price: $99
Sold in 2013
Hierosolyma, Clarrisima Totius Orientis Civitas ludaee Metropolis... (Jerusalem)
A very fine, decorative map with a double-view of Jerusalem depicts Biblical Jerusalem and the modern city during the 16th century. Biblical Jerusalem appears on the left...
Place & Date: 1572
Selling price: $310
Sold in 2019
Damascus, urbs.
Early view of Damascus, a bird's eye view from the greatest publication in this genre ! The Civitates was compiled and written by George Braun, Canon of Cologne Cathedral...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1572
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2020
Tartariae sive Magni Chami Regni.
Beautiful old color example of Ortelius' map of Tartary, Japan and the West Coast of North America, from the early 1573 Latin edition Ortelius' Theatrum Orbis Terarrum, t...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1573
Selling price: $1550
Sold in 2014
Cypri insulae nova descript.
A milestone in the history of cartography of Cyprus, based on a 1570 map by Giacomo Franco. The map is embellished by sailing ships and a sea monster, bearing a map of Le...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1573
Selling price: $1200
Sold in 2020
Tartariae sive Magni Chami Regni typus. . .
An early edition of the famous and important map of Tartary, Japan, and the west coast of North America, from Ortelius'Theatrum Orbis Terarrum, the first modern atlas of ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, ca 1573
Selling price: $700
Sold in 2018
Cypri Insulae Nova descript. 1573.
This is a beautiful copy of a classic map of Cyprus. It is the earliest obtainable version of the best map of Cyprus made to date. Ortelius based his map upon that publis...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1574
Selling price: $2700
Sold in 2011
Tabula Asiae VI.
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...
Place & Date: Venice, 1561-1574
Selling price: $330
Sold in 2016
Tabula Asiae III
The ancient depiction of the region between the Black Sea and Caspian Sea extending south to include all of Armenia Maior and part of Armenia Minoris, based on Claudius P...
Place & Date: Venice, 1561-1574
Selling price: $210
Sold in 2014
Constantinopoli.
Uncommon plan of Istanbul from Giovanni Francesco Camocio. In the lower right corner, "appresso Gioan Francesco Camocio." Oriented with north toward the upper r...
Place & Date: Venice, ca. 1574
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2010
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...
Place & Date: Venice, D.Bertelli, ca.1574
Selling price: $1275
Sold in 2015
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...
Place & Date: Venice, 1574
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2014
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...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca. 1574
Selling price: $3000
Sold in 2014
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...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1574
Selling price: $2100
Sold in 2015
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[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...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1574
Selling price: $140
Sold in 2016
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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...
Place & Date: Venice, 1574
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2017
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...
Place & Date: Venice, 1574
Selling price: $290
Sold in 2017
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 ...
Place & Date: Venice, 1574
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2020