Prima Asiae Tabula.
Copperplate printed map of Turkey and including Cyprus from the "Atlas In Hoc Operae Haec Continetur…" printed by Bernardinus Venetus de Vitalibus. The map sh...
Place & Date: Rome, 1478 or 1490
Selling price: $3500
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![[Constantinopolis expugnatio a turchis. Folio CCXLIX ]](/uploads/cache/11244-250x250.jpg)
[Constantinopolis expugnatio a turchis. Folio CCXLIX ]
Panoramic of Istanbul to show the capture of the city by the Turks in 1453. A imaginary view: however the earliest obtainable view of this period.Page from the richest i...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $1200
Sold in 2014
Constantinopel.
A large view representing a fire at Constantinople showing the famous mosque, Aya Sophia. Originally a Christian church during the Roman Empire, the church was burned in ...
Place & Date: Nurenberg 1493
Selling price: $500
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Troya.
Imaginary view of Troy. From the richest illustrated Incunabula, the famous: Nuremberg Chronicle , published the year that Columbus returned to Europe after discovering A...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $60
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Constantinopel.
A large view representing a fire at Constantinople showing the famous mosque, Aya Sophia. Originally a Christian church during the Roman Empire, the church was burned in ...
Place & Date: Nurenberg 1493
Selling price: $700
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Tercia Etas Mudi. Troya. Folio XXXVI
A imaginary view of Troy: however the earliest obtainable view of this period. The castle is presented at the top of the city, protected by the high walls. Troy, also kno...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $650
Sold in 2013
![Tracia & De Turchis. [Thrace recto & De Turchis verso].](/uploads/cache/25746-250x250.jpg)
Tracia & De Turchis. [Thrace recto & De Turchis verso].
Attractive woodblock leaf in Latin text with large imaginary views of Thrace (Tracia) on the recto and the Dardanelles ( De Turchis) on the verso. Hartmann Schedel's Nure...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2008
Tercia Etas Mundi. Folium.XXXVI (Troy)
The Latin text page is illustrated with an imaginary of Troy, Turkey. VERSO are portraits of poets and teachers. The ancient city of Troy, also known as Troya, Troia, an...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2017
![Constantinopolis. Folium CXXX. [Istanbul]](/uploads/cache/33139-250x250.jpg)
Constantinopolis. Folium CXXX. [Istanbul]
A spectacular woodcut panorama town-view of the ancient city of Constantinople, purporting to show the pre-Turk city (for example naming St Sophia). (235x522mm).One of th...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $2000
Sold in 2017
![[Text page Sexta etas mundi CCLVII].](/uploads/cache/33142-250x250.jpg)
[Text page Sexta etas mundi CCLVII].
A large town view representing Constantinople (Istanbul)showing the famous mosque, Aya Sophia. Originally a Christian church during the Roman Empire, the church was burne...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2013
![Portugalia / Istanbul CCXC. [With mentioning of Portuguese voyage of discovery along the coast of Africa ]](/uploads/cache/33147-250x250.jpg)
Portugalia / Istanbul CCXC. [With mentioning of Portuguese voyage of discovery along the coast of Africa ]
The verso of this page CCXC is of particular interest for its brief account (not appearing in the subsequent German edition of the same year) of the “Portuguese voyage ...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2020
![[Text page Sexta etas mundi CCLVII].](/uploads/cache/34261-250x250.jpg)
[Text page Sexta etas mundi CCLVII].
A large town view representing Constantinople (Istanbul) showing the famous mosque, Aya Sophia. Originally a Christian church during the Roman Empire, the church was burn...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $850
Sold in 2014
Sexta Etas Mudi. (With view of Sabatz.) Folio CCLIII
An imaginary view of Sabatz, Turkey: however the earliest obtainable view of this period.Further including presentations of the popes Sixtus IV and Innocentius VIII. Page...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2023
Sexta Etas Mudi. Sabatz. Folio CCLIII (with view of Sabatz, Turkey)
A imaginary view of Sabatz, Turkey: however the earliest obtainable view of this period.Further including presentations of the popes Sixtus IV and Innocentius VIII. Page ...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2017
CONSTANTINOPOLIS, view (Turkey, Istanbul).
A gorgeous example of Hartmann Schedel's incunable view of Constantinople / Istanbul from a Latin edition of Schedel's ' Liber Chronicum,' perhaps the single most influen...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1493
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2020
Troya.
Woodcut imaginary view of Troy published in the so-called pirate edition of the "small Schedel" in Augsburg, 1497, Latin edition. Originally the Chronicle Nurem...
Place & Date: Augsburg, Johann Schönsperger. 1497
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2016
Tabula V Asiae.
Woodcut map after Ptolemy by Lorenz Fries published by Grueninger in Strasbourg 1525. The map is from the first edition as a reduced recut of Martin Waldseemueller’s ma...
Place & Date: Strasbourg, 1525
Selling price: $750
Sold in 2017
Tabula Asiae I (Turkey)
The first edition of Munster's map of Turkey, based upon Claudius Ptolemy which appeared in his "Geographia Universalis", first published in 1540. The Geographi...
Place & Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1545
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2016
Constantinopel
A detailed bird's-eye view of the 'Golden Horn' of Istanbul (Constantinople). The city plan depicts the markets, homes, palaces and churches, including the famous Hagia S...
Place & Date: Basel, H.Petri, ca. 1550
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2019
![Tabula Asiae I [Asia Minor]](/uploads/cache/35960-250x250.jpg)
Tabula Asiae I [Asia Minor]
An attractive woodcut map of Asia Minor by the famous cartographer Sebastien Münster, published in his Ptolemy edition of Basle in 1552. Map has a lot of interesting and...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1552
Selling price: $75
Sold in 2017
URBIS CONSTANTINOPOLITANAE descriptio, incerto autore.
An engraved map of Asia Minor, showing Pontus Euxinus, the Byzantine Empire, the Aegean Sea and a King Figure in a throne. Page from Notitia vtraqve cvm orientis tvm Occi...
Place & Date: Basle, 1552
Selling price: $71
Sold in 2019
![[Lot of 34 leaves relating to Greece and Turkey]](/uploads/cache/48274-250x250.jpg)
[Lot of 34 leaves relating to Greece and Turkey]
Thirty-four text pages with wood block illustrations about Greece and Turkey with small maps, views, animals.... From the 1552 Latin text edition of Münster's Cosmograph...
Place & Date: Basel, 1552
Selling price: $51
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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...
Place & Date: Basle, 1554
Selling price: $135
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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...
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
Selling price: $170
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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...
Place & Date: Lyon, 1564
Selling price: $650
Sold in 2013
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...
Place & Date: Venice 1568
Selling price: $205
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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...
Place & Date: Venice, Zaltieri, (1567) 1569
Selling price: $890
Sold in 2015
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...
Place & Date: Rome, 1570
Selling price: $2700
Sold in 2012
La famosa citta de Constantinopoli.
A separately published decorative and very rare panoramic of of present-day Istanbul, viewed from the village of Scutari. The City is shown with all its fortifications, ...
Place & Date: Venice, c. 1570
Selling price: $4000
Sold in 2013
Constantinopel.
An early, fine, extremely detailed woodcut depicting a bird's-eye view of Istanbul as seen from the perspective showing it out on a spur, with Pera across the water to th...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1570
Selling price: $200
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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 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
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
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
![[Asia Minor]](/uploads/cache/35967-250x250.jpg)
[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
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
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
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
![[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