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Natoliae Quae Olim Asia Minor, Nova de Scriptio.
Detailed map of Turkey, including Cyprus by Abraham Ortelius, from his "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum", the first modern atlas of the world.East to the top. Latin tex...
Date: Antwerp, 1587
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Indiae Orientalis, Insularumque Adiacientium Typus. . .
Finely hand colored example of Ortelius' map of SE Asia, Japan, and the Philippines, etc from the rare French text edition of 1587. The map includes Beach and other infor...
Date: Antwerp, 1587
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Chinae, olim Sinarum Regionis, nova descriptio. Auctore Ludovico Georgio.
WITHOUT TEXT ON VERSO. The first map of China ever to appear in a Western atlas, west to the top. The second state with "Las Philipinas" somewhere in 1587 added...
Date: Antwerp, ca. 1587
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Das Heilig Landt mit auscheilung der zwolff Geschlechter.
The Holy Land as divided among the 12 Tribes. Although the title speaks about the Tribes, they are not shown on the map itself, only the division into Galilee, Samaria an...
Date: Basle 1588
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Syria, Cypern, Palestina, Mesopotamia..
A famous wood block map of the Near East, including Cyprus, Palestine, Iran and Iraq, etc. From his Cosmographia , that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge. In 1588...
Date: Basle c.1588
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Persia
Nice miniature map showing the Persian Empire. The map is beautifully engraved with stippled seas.
Date: Antwerp, 1588
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Tartaria sive magni chami regni typus.
This small map is the reduced version of the earliest map to focus on the North Pacific. While designed to illustrate the expansive Kingdom of the Great Khan in Asia, its...
Date: Antwerp, 1588
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Syria / Cypern / Palestina Mesopotamia / Babylonia / zwen Arabia / mit Bergen / Wasseren und Stetten.
A famous wood block map of the Near East, including Cyprus, Palestine, Iran and Iraq, etc. From his "Cosmographia", that great compendium of Renaissance knowled...
Date: Basle, c.1588
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Asia wie es Jetziger Zeit nach den Furnemesten Herrschafften Abgetheilet und Beschriben ist .
Nice full color example Sebastian Munster's second map of Asia, first published in 1588.It is filled with numerous small woodcut vignettes of towns and a lone sea monster...
Date: Basle, S. H. Petrie, 1588
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Das Heilig Landt mit Ausztheilung der Zwolff Geschlechter.
Classic woodblock map of the region showing numerous towns along the fertile coast and mountains, rivers and lakes. Although the title mentions the 12 tribes, they are no...
Date: Basle, S.H. Petrie, 1588
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Syria, Cypern, Palestina, Mesopotamia, Babylonia, zwey Arabia mit Bergen, Waesseren und Stetten.
A famous woodblock map of the Near East, including Cyprus, Palestine, Iran, Iraq, etc. From his 'Cosmographia,' that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge. In 1588, n...
Date: Basle, S.H. Petrie, 1588
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Sumatra ein Grosse Insel so von den Alten Geographen Taprobana Genennet Worden.
Early, desirable map of the island of Sumatra and the southern part of Malaysia. It is one of the earliest maps to focus on this region. Shown near today's Singapore on t...
Date: Basle, S.H. Petrie, 1588
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Chinae, olim Sinarum Regionis, nova descriptio. Auctore Ludovico Georgio.
The first map of China ever to appear in a Western atlas, west to the top. When this map appeared, it was by far the most accurate one of China.Japan is shown on a curiou...
Date: Antwerp, after 1588
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![[Asia Minor]](/uploads/cache/35959-250x250.jpg)
[Asia Minor]
Wood block printed map with German text beneath and to verso of map. Map shows Turkey and many of the Greek Islands, Crete, Cyprus, Syria, Asia Minor and Thracia.
Date: Basle, 1588
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Asia wie es Jetziger Zeit nach den Furnemesten Herrschafften Abgetheilet und Beschriben ist.
Münster’s decorative final map of Asia, from a German edition of Münster’s "Cosmographia", one of the most influential geographical works of the 16th Cent...
Date: Basle, 1588
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Asia wie es Jetziger Zeit nach den Furnemesten. . .
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...
Date: Basle, 1588
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Ierusalem, et suburbia eius. . .
Plan of ancient Jerusalem and its suburbs as it looked at the time of Jesus Christ. TRANSLATION OF CAPTION: Jerusalem and its suburbs, as it flourished in the time of Chr...
Date: Antwerp, 1588
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Turcicum Imperium.
Miniature map of Turkish Empire. From the second series of miniature atlas of Ortelius' Epitome. A new series of pocket-size atlases was begun by Philip Galle in 1588. It...
Date: Antwerp 1589
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India Orient.
Miniature map of the Far East with Indonesia, Japan, Pacific and New Guinea. From the second series of miniature atlas of Ortelius' Epitome. A new series of pocket-size a...
Date: Antwerp 1589
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Asiae Nova Descriptio.
Second state. 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 Ma...
Date: Antwerp, 1580/1589
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Asiae Nova Descriptio.
Second state. 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 Ma...
Date: Antwerp, 1580/1589
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Pontus Euxinus Aequor Iafonio pulfatum remige premum.
Prepared by Ortelius after Mercator, and additional ancient sources as Plinius, Ovidius, Strabo, Apollonius, Procopius and Apppianus.This map belongs to a serie of histor...
Date: Antwerp 1590
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Terra Sancta.
This is the most modern of Ortelius' maps of the Holy Land. It focuses specifically on the Holy Land and is oriented with east of the top. Ortelius used as a model the wa...
Date: Antwerp 1590
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Natoliae..Aegypti recentior..Carthaginis (3 maps on 1 sheet)
3 Maps on one sheet. Map to the left east to the top. Detailed map Turkey, including Cyprus and Crete. Also map of the Nile delta and another map of Tunis.
Date: Antwerp 1590
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Waerachtige beschryvinge vande wydvermaerde Conincklicke Hooft Stadt Jerusalem..
Engraved by Baptista van Doetechum for a bible printed by Jan Everts Cloppenburg. The bible maps of 1590 are the earliest of Plancius compilations to survive.Very rare pl...
Date: Amsterdam, 1590
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Tabula Geographica, in qua omnes regiones, urbes, oppida..
Engraved by Baptista van Doetechum for a bible by van Liesvelt. The bible maps of 1590 are the earliest of Plancius compilations to survive. Very rare map of Palestine di...
Date: Amsterdam 1590
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Natoliae..Aegypti Recentior..Carthaginis.. (3 maps on 1 sheet)
3 Maps on one sheet. Map to the left east to the top. Detailed map Turkey, including Cyprus and Crete. Also map of the Nile delta and another map of Tunis.
Date: Antwerp 1590
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Tartariae sive magni Chami regni typus.
The map identifies China and Japan, but not Korea. The body of water lying between China and Japanese archipelago is identified as MARE CIN, which means China Sea.Much of...
Date: Antwerp, 1590
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Cyprus.
Two woodcuts on one page. In upper part a map of Cyprus, in lower part a jumping deer and a sheep drinking water. The drinking sheep with old pen scratches. . From a Lati...
Date: Basle, 1550-1590
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De terris asiae minoris.
On verso a wood block printed map of Turkey (139x183). From a Latin text edition of his Geographia , that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge.
Date: Basle, 1550-1590
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![In monte casio iuxta ostracinam. . . [Israel with Cyprus]](/uploads/cache/32575-250x250.jpg)
In monte casio iuxta ostracinam. . . [Israel with Cyprus]
On recto a woodcut engraved map of Israel and Cyprus. Engraved by Hans Rudolf Manuel Deutsch, with his monogram. From a Latin text edition of his Geographia , that great ...
Date: Basle, 1550-1590
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![Nova India, ut nostro tempore est explorata & cognita. [India]](/uploads/cache/32576-250x250.jpg)
Nova India, ut nostro tempore est explorata & cognita. [India]
On recto a wood block engraved map of India.From a Latin text edition of his Geographia , that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge.
Date: Basle, 1550-1590
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[Java Maior ]
On recto a wood block printed map of Java (125x76mm.) with a short description of the island, underneath description of Madagascar , Zanzibar and "Duabus Insulis&quo...
Date: Basle, 1550-1590
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Sumatra Insula - Taproba.
On recto a wood block printed map of Sumatra within text bearing the name "Taprobana". The island is filled with many images like an elephant and a tiger, as we...
Date: Basle, 1550-1590
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![India extra Gangem, quae Europeis propinquior est. [India]](/uploads/cache/32585-250x250.jpg)
India extra Gangem, quae Europeis propinquior est. [India]
On recto an wood block printed Ptolemaic map of South East Asia, India and China (122x153mm.)From a German text edition of his Geographia , that great compendium of Renai...
Date: Basle, 1550-1590
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Tartariae sive Magni Chami Imperium.
This is a very early depiction of the northern Pacific, with the first mapping of Northwest Coast of America and probably the first map to name California 'C. Califormio'...
Date: Antwerp, c. 1590
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Turcici Imperii Descriptio.
The most famous of all the sixteenth-century maps of the Middle East. It extends from Greece to Arabia and covers the Cradle of Civilisation region. The Eastern Mediterra...
Date: Antwerp, ca 1590
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Indo di Conditione.
Full portrait of a woman and two children from India, by Cesare Vecellio (1521–1601). From "De gli habiti antichi, e moderni di diverse parti del mondo libri du du...
Date: Venice, Damian Zenaro, 1590
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Indiana Di Conditione.
Full portrait of a woman and two children from India, by Cesare Vecellio (1521–1601). From "De gli habiti antichi, e moderni di diverse parti del mondo libri du du...
Date: Venice, Damian Zenaro, 1590
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Indiana Mediocre.
Full portrait of a woman and two children from India, by Cesare Vecellio (1521–1601). From "De gli habiti antichi, e moderni di diverse parti del mondo libri du du...
Date: Venice, Damian Zenaro, 1590
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