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Indiae Orientalis, Insularumque Adiacientium Typus. . .
A finely hand colored example of Ortelius' highly decorative map of South East Asia, Japan, and the Philippines, etc from the Latin text edition of 1574. The map includes...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1574
Selling price: $1550
Sold in 2018
Sumatra ein grosse Insel, so von den alten Geographen Taprobana, ist genent worden (Sri Lanka).
A nice impression of this great map of island of Tabrobana, which was variously thought to be Ceylon or Sumatra. This map depicts Ceylon with the typical misconceptions o...
Place & Date: Basle, 1574
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2021
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: $1550
Sold in 2019
Palestinae sive totius terrae promissionis nova description (....)
A fine example of Ortelius' map of the Holy Land, published in his "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum", the first modern atlas. This famous map by Ortelius is based on th...
Place & Date: Antwerp, ca 1574
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2021
Byzantium Nunc Constantinopolis
This marvelous engraving of Constantinople in original color is from an early edition of Braun & Hogenberg's Civitates Orbis Terrarum, the most prolific compilation o...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1574
Selling price: $1600
Sold in 2023
La Sainte cité de Jérusalem jadiz métropolitaine du royaume des juifz...
A particularly attractive example of this early wood cut view of Jerusalem. The city appears well laid out, and is surrounded by a vast wall.Included in a French text edi...
Place & Date: Paris, 1575
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2017
La Sainte cité de Jérusalem jadiz métropolitaine du royaume des juifz...
A particularly attractive example of this early wood cut view of Jerusalem. The city appears well laid out, and is surrounded by a vast wall.Included in a French text edi...
Place & Date: Paris, 1575
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2014
Turcici Imperii Descriptio.
Map of the Middle East, extending from Greece to Arabia and covering the Cradle of Civilisation region. This is rare FIRST PLATE only used until 1579. Based on Gastaldi's...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1575
Selling price: $2200
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Asiae nova descriptio.
The much rarer first plate of Ortelius' fine map of Asia. The first plate has "La Farfana", in the lower right corner. It is estimated that only 1575 copies are...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1575 - 1575
Selling price: $1750
Sold in 2008
Hierosolymia, Clarissima totius Orientis civitas.
Two bird's eye perspectives town-plans on one sheet. The left plan shows ancient Jerusalem at the time of Christ. A contemporary view of Jerusalem appears to the right wi...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1575
Selling price: $750
Sold in 2015
Calechut Celeberrimum Indiae Emporium
Birdeye view of Kozhikode (Calicut) with ships and elefants.
Place & Date: Cologne, 1575
Selling price: $210
Sold in 2009
![[ Noe's Ark caught in a storm ].](/uploads/cache/27241-250x250.jpg)
[ Noe's Ark caught in a storm ].
On verso a woodcut of Noe's Ark caught in a storm.From a French text edition of his Cosmographia , that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge. In 1575 Sebastian Müns...
Place & Date: Basle, ca.1575
Selling price: $10
Sold in 2018
Asie.
Uncommon wood-cut map of Asia. New Guinea has disappeared and Japan is represented as a turtle-shaped island. An important innovation is the appearance of the Straits of ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1575
Selling price: $1550
Sold in 2010
Indiae Orientalis, insularumque adiacentium typus.
Fine example of Ortelius' map of SE Asia, Japan, and the Philippines, etc. The map includes Beach and other information drawn from Marco Polo, portion of the West Coast o...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1575
Selling price: $3400
Sold in 2011
(Arch of Noah.)
Wood block engraved print of the Arch of Noah, from "La Cosmographie Universelle de Tout le Monde", the French and most extended edition of Sebastian Münster's...
Place & Date: Paris, Nicolas Chesneau, 1575
Selling price: $75
Sold in 2014
Europae Tabula IX.
One of the earliest maps of Turkey and Macedonia. From Girolamo Ruscelli's edition of "Ptolemy's Geographia". The map is drawn on the trapezoidal projection and...
Place & Date: Venice, 1575
Selling price: $99
Sold in 2014
Asie.
Scarce wood-cut map of Asia. New Guinea has disappeared and Japan is represented as a turtle-shaped island. An important innovation is the appearance of the Straits of An...
Place & Date: Paris, 1575
Selling price: $2000
Sold in 2017
![[Kings of the Ottoman Empire].](/uploads/cache/14188-250x250.jpg)
[Kings of the Ottoman Empire].
On recto an early representation of the first Ottoman King of the dynasty (112x65 mm). On verso a portrait of Orchanes, second king (80x50 mm), and of Amurathes, third ki...
Place & Date: Basle, about or after 1575
Selling price: $10
Sold in 2020
Ormus.
A scarce and early woodcut view of Hormuz, an island in the Strait of Hormuz, belonging to Iran. On the full text sheet. Based on the Hormuz view of Braun and Hogenberg. ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1575
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2016
![Calechut Celeberrimum Indiae Emporium [on sheet with] Ormus [and] Canonor [and] S. Georgii Oppidum Mina.](/uploads/cache/33683-250x250.jpg)
Calechut Celeberrimum Indiae Emporium [on sheet with] Ormus [and] Canonor [and] S. Georgii Oppidum Mina.
Four very desirable and early town-plans of Kozhikode, Hormuz, Kannur and Almina. "KOZHIKODE (CALICUT) : "The city is viewed from the sea, just as it would hav...
Place & Date: Cologne, (1572) 1577
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2017
![Anfa, quibusdam Anaffa [on sheet with] Azaamurum [and] Diu [and] Goa.](/uploads/cache/33685-250x250.jpg)
Anfa, quibusdam Anaffa [on sheet with] Azaamurum [and] Diu [and] Goa.
Four very desirable and early town-plans of Casablanca (Anfa) - Azemmour (Azamor) - Diu - Old Goa (Velha Goa) "CASABLANCA (ANFA) : "The engraving shows the rav...
Place & Date: Cologne, (1572) 1577
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2020
![Calechut Celeberrimum Indiae Emporium [on sheet with] Ormus [and] Canonor [and] S. Georgii Oppidum Mina.](/uploads/cache/36842-250x250.jpg)
Calechut Celeberrimum Indiae Emporium [on sheet with] Ormus [and] Canonor [and] S. Georgii Oppidum Mina.
Four very desirable and early town-plan of Kozhikode, Hormuz, Kannur and Almina. "KOZHIKODE (CALICUT) : "The city is viewed from the sea, just as it would have ...
Place & Date: Cologne, (1572) 1577
Selling price: $900
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![Calechut Celeberrimum Indiae Emporium [on sheet with] Ormus [and] Canonor [and] S. Georgii Oppidum Mina.](/uploads/cache/41270-250x250.jpg)
Calechut Celeberrimum Indiae Emporium [on sheet with] Ormus [and] Canonor [and] S. Georgii Oppidum Mina.
Four very desirable and early town-plans of Kozhikode, Hormuz, Kannur and Almina. "KOZHIKODE (CALICUT) : "The city is viewed from the sea, just as it would hav...
Place & Date: Cologne, (1572) 1577
Selling price: $325
Sold in 2018
Percici Siuc Sophorum Regni Tipus.
This is a miniature map of Iran and Arabia in central Asia. Ortellius map taken from the first French edition of Le Miroir du Monde, published by Galle & Heyns in 157...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1577
Selling price: $41
Sold in 2021
![Calechut Celeberrimum Indiae Emporium [on sheet with] Ormus [and] Canonor [and] S. Georgii Oppidum Mina.](/uploads/cache/46221-250x250.jpg)
Calechut Celeberrimum Indiae Emporium [on sheet with] Ormus [and] Canonor [and] S. Georgii Oppidum Mina.
Four very desirable and early town-plan of Kozhikode, Hormuz, Kannur and Almina. "KOZHIKODE (CALICUT) : "The city is viewed from the sea, just as it would have...
Place & Date: Cologne, (1572) 1577
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2022
Asiae novissima tabula.
Map of Asia, including the most western part of America from the extremely rare first edition. De Jode describes this map as new, as he extended the map westward from Ort...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1578
Selling price: $6000
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Terrae Sanctae quae Promissionis terra, est Syriae pars,..
Map of Holy land from the extremely rare first edition.. This map shows the Mediterranean at the top while the entire lower right offers a detailed view of Jerusalem. Eng...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1578
Selling price: $2900
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Tertiae Partis Asiae..
Map of India, Malaysia, China's south coast, Philippines, northern part of Sumatra, Borneo. From the extremely rare first edition.. Engraved by Joannes and Lucas van Deut...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1578
Selling price: $4875
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Sumatra ein grosse insel..
Map of island of Taprobana, which was variously thought to be Ceylon or Sumatra. This map depicts Ceylon with the typical misconceptions of Ptolemy showing a small part o...
Place & Date: Basle, 1578
Selling price: $240
Sold in 2009
Constantinopel
Detailed bird's-eye view of the Golden Horn of Constantinople. The city plan depicts the markets, homes, palaces and churches, including the famous Hagia Sophia, shown pr...
Place & Date: Basle, 1578
Selling price: $425
Sold in 2009
Das Heilig Judisch Land mit Ausztheilung der Zwolff Geschlechter.
Munster based this map of the Holy Land on maps by Mercator and Ziegler and filled it with numerous woodcut vignettes. The unusual orientation of the map places west at t...
Place & Date: Basle 1578
Selling price: $260
Sold in 2009
Die heilige statt Jerusalem contrafehtet nach form und gestalt..
Bold woodcut view of Jerusalem from an edition of Munster's Cosmographia. Well-detailed birds-eye view from outside the walls with numerous buildings and temples named. O...
Place & Date: Basle, 1578
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2009
Asiae Tab.VI.
Finely engraved, this classical map of the Arabia peninsula after Ptolemy from the renowned Gerhard Mercator. The map shows the Gulf of Persia in an almost rectangular f...
Place & Date: 1578
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2015
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, 1578
Selling price: $1750
Sold in 2017
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, 1578
Selling price: $2000
Sold in 2020
Asia, die Länder Asie nach ihrer gelegenheit biss in Indiam werden in dieser Tafeln verzeichnet.
This is one of the earliest maps of the whole continent of Asia, based on the recent geographical discoveries by Portuguese navigators. The outline of the Asian mainland ...
Place & Date: Basel, 1578
Selling price: $1400
Sold in 2018
Primae Partis Asiae.
The Very Rare First State. Turkey/ Holy Land/ Iran/ Iraq/ Arabia/ Afganistan.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1578
Selling price: $2500
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Holy Land. Die Tafel gibt ein klein anzeigung...
Early, attractive woodcut map of the Holy Land with Cyprus. On the full page. From the German edition of Sebastian Münster's Cosmography, titled Cosmographey oder beschr...
Place & Date: Basel, 1578
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2020
Turcici Imperii descriptio.
This is the best known of all the sixteenth-century maps of the Middle East, extending from Greece to Arabia and covering the Cradle of Civilisation region. Large and dec...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1579
Selling price: $1000
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![Hiervsalem. [Jerusalem]](/uploads/cache/25314-250x250.jpg)
Hiervsalem. [Jerusalem]
Uncommon plan of Jerusalem from Francesco Valegio's townbook: Raccolta di le piv illustri et farmose citta di tutto il mondo.
Place & Date: Venice, ca. 1579
Selling price: $160
Sold in 2008