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Aphricae tabula secunda continet

Untitled trapezoidal Ptolemaic woodcut map of North Africa. From the 1541 Vienne (Dauphiné) edition of Ptolemy\'s Geographia published by Gaspar Trechsel and sold by H...

$500 / ≈ €468
Maker / Publisher: Fries, L.
Place & Date: Vienne, 1541
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2009

 


Tabula nova Siciliae, Sardiniae, & Corsicae

An early woodcut Ptolemaic map of Corsica, Sardinia, Sicily, and southern Italy. With several towns and islands named. The active volcano Etna is shown with flames.

$120 / ≈ €112
Maker / Publisher: FRIES, L.
Place & Date: Vienne, 1541
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2016

 


(Balearic Islands: Majorca, Minorca, Ibiza, Formentera)

The first separate printed maps of the Balearics, and the first regional map to name "Catalunya" (Catalonia) on the Spanish mainland! A wood cut page with Ital...

$450 / ≈ €421
Maker / Publisher: BORDONE, B.
Place & Date: Venice, 1528-1547
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2015

 


Sicilia Sardinia Nova Tabula.

Gastaldi's modern map of Sicily and Sardinia. From Giacomo Gastaldi's Atlas of 1548 which has been called the most comprehensive atlas, produced between Martin Waldseemü...

Maker / Publisher: GASTALDI, G.
Place & Date: Venice, 1548
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2023

 


Tabula Europae VII. (Sicily, Sardinia and Malta)

Gastaldi's map showing Sicily, Sardinia and Malta. Based upon Ptolemy.Embellished is a sailing ship, sea monster and several curious animals.It is one of the earliest obt...

Maker / Publisher: GASTALDI, G.
Place & Date: Venice, 1548
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2023

 


Corsica.

Woodblock map of Corsica surrounded by ships and fierce sea monsters. On a full sheet of German text.

$100 / ≈ €94
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER,S.
Place & Date: Basle 1562
Selling price: $100
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Neapolis. / Tiloi.

Text page with two town views of Naples and "Tiloi". It is a typical woodcut illustration that makes these Münster maps fascinating and sought after by map col...

$80 / ≈ €75
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basel, 1562
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2008

 


Corsica.

Nice miniature map of Corsica with monsters and ships in the sea. It is a typical woodcut illustration that makes these Münster maps fascinating and sought after by map ...

$80 / ≈ €75
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basel, 1562
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2008

 


Sardinia Insula.

An early woodcut depicting the Italian island of Sardinia, by Sebastian Münster. It also shows the southern part of Corsica. From one of the German editions of the famou...

Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basel, ca 1570
Selling price: $128
Sold in 2023

 


Tabula Siciliae et Sardiniae. (Sicily and Sardinia)

Double-page woodcut Ptolemaic-style map by Sebastian Münster figuring Sicily and Sardinia, published in the edition of Strabo by Henri Petri in 1571."Strabonis reru...

$155 / ≈ €145
Maker / Publisher: STRABO / MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basle, Henri Petri, 1571
Selling price: $155
Sold in 2018

 


MAIORCA.

One of the earliest separate maps of Majorca (Mallorca)! First issue from 1572. The map shows major cities and several sea monsters. A compass rose orients the map with s...

$200 / ≈ €187
Maker / Publisher: PORCACCHI, T.
Place & Date: Venice, c1572
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2013

 


Europae Tabula VII.

Map representing Sardinia and Sicily. Also showing Malta, southern part of Corsica, northern part of Africa and western part of Italy.From La Geografia Di Clavdio Tolomeo...

$130 / ≈ €122
Maker / Publisher: PTOLEMY,C./RUSCELLI,G.
Place & Date: Venise 1574
Selling price: $130
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Calaris [on sheet with] Malta [and] Rhodus [and] Famagusta.

One sheet with very desirable and early town-plans of four Mediterranean island capitals—Cagliari (Sardinia), Valletta (Malta), Rhodes, and Famagusta (Cyprus). "C...

$550 / ≈ €515
Maker / Publisher: BRAUN,G. / HOGENBERG, F.
Place & Date: Cologne, (1572) 1577
Selling price: $550
Sold in 2015

 


Sardinia insula

Very early and decorative map of Sardinia with in top the southern most tip of Corsica.From his Cosmographia, that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge.Very decorati...

$275 / ≈ €257
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER,S.
Place & Date: Basel 1580
Selling price: $275
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Corsica.

Early map of Corsica, oriented east to the top.

$480 / ≈ €449
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, ca. 1580
Selling price: $480
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[Lot with 12 maps of the Mediterraneans and Egypt.] Aegypti Recenttior Carthageni / General Karte des Roemischen Reichs

A map of the Middle East and the Mediterranean. Taken from 'Algemeine Welthistorie (der Neuern Zeiten)', edited by S.J. Baumgarten, J.S.Semler a.o.  Abraham Ortelius...

$198 / ≈ €185
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, c. 1580
Selling price: $198
Sold in 2022

 


Creta Iouis magni, medio iacet insula ponto.

Fantastic map of islands of the Mediterranean by Ortelius; a large map of Crete is at the bottom half of the sheet, with smaller maps of Corsica, the Greek Islands and Sa...

$200 / ≈ €187
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1584
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2010

 


Tafel Der Lender Darin Der Apostel Paulus Geprediget Hat.

The Eastern Mediterranean, from the "Itinerarium Sacrae Scripturae", showing Italy, Sicily, Greece, Cyprus, Asia Minor, the Holy Land and North Africa, with cit...

$400 / ≈ €374
Maker / Publisher: BUNTING, H.
Place & Date: Magdeburg, 1585
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2014

 


Insularum Aliquot Maris Mediterranei Descriptio.

Insularum Aliquot Maris Mediterranei Descriptio. Cum priuilegio'Sicily, Sardegne, Corfv, Zerbi, Elba, Malta. Six early maps on one sheet. Including the islands of Sicily,...

$650 / ≈ €608
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1587
Selling price: $650
Sold in 2017

 


Peregrinationis Divi Pauli Typus Corographicus...

Ortelius's map of Paulus's travels from his Atlas Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. It covers the Mediterranean Sea from Italy and Sicily until the Near East and Egypt, with Cypru...

$180 / ≈ €168
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1587
Selling price: $180
Sold in 2019

 


Descrittione Dell' Isola Di Corsica

Rare early map of the French island Corsica and a small part of Sardinia. Published around 1590 in "L'isole piu famose del mondo." Very detailed naming many s...

$160 / ≈ €150
Maker / Publisher: PORCACCHI, T.
Place & Date: Padova, ca. 1590
Selling price: $160
Sold in 2009

 


Descrittione Dell' Isola Di Corsica.

Rare early map of the French island Corsica and a small part of Sardinia. Published around 1590 in "L'isole piu famose del mondo." Very detailed map, naming man...

$180 / ≈ €168
Maker / Publisher: PORCACCHI, T.
Place & Date: Padova, ca. 1590
Selling price: $180
Sold in 2011

 


Descrittione dell' Isola dell'Elba.

The map depicts the Italian Mediterranean island of Elba. The map is orientated towards the north-west. From "L'Isole Piu Famose del Mondo", printed in Venice. ...

$150 / ≈ €140
Maker / Publisher: PORCACCHI, Tomaso.
Place & Date: Venice, 1590
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2019

 


Peregrinationis divi Pauli typus corographicus

Hand colored map of the Eastern Mediterranean by Abraham Ortelius. Covering the Mediterranean Sea between Israel and Sicily with Cyprus, Italy, Greece and Turkey. With tw...

$700 / ≈ €655
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1592
Selling price: $700
Sold in 2010

 


Natoliam Moderni dicunt tam partem quam Asiam minrem appelauere veteres (with Cyprus)

Engraved by Van Deutecum, this is a spectacular example of the 1593 edition of the very rare De Jode's map of the Eastern Mediterranean and Asia Minor. It has two title c...

$2900 / ≈ €2714
Maker / Publisher: DE JODE, C.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1593
Selling price: $2900
Sold in 2014

 


Creta Iouis magni../Corsica../ Sardinia..

Islands are shown with place names and important locales as they existed in the Classical Period. Ortelius mentions as his classical sources Strabo, Palenses, Athenaeus, ...

$270 / ≈ €253
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS,A.
Place & Date: Antwerp 1595
Selling price: $270
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Aeneae Troiani navigatio..

After the destruction of Troy, Aenaeas is reported to have roamed the seas for seven years, as described in the writings of Xenophon, Ovidius, Lycrophonous, but most exte...

$320 / ≈ €299
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS,A.
Place & Date: Antwerp 1595
Selling price: $320
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Peregrinationis Divi Pauli Typus Corographicus . . .

A splendid map depicting the travels of Paulus. With two fine scenes in top. Showing the countries along the Mediterranean, including Cyprus and Italy. Based on Mercator'...

$1300 / ≈ €1216
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1595
Selling price: $1300
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Peregrinationis Divi Pauli Typus...

A splendid map depicting the travels of Paulus. With two fine scenes in top. Showing the countries along the Mediterranean, including Cyprus and Italy. Based on Mercator'...

$600 / ≈ €561
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1595
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2014

 


Tafel der Lender / darin der Apostel Paulus geprediget hat.

Woodcut showing the Eastern Mediterranean from the "Itinerarium Sacrae Scripturae", showing Italy, Sicily, Greece, Cyprus, Asia Minor, the Holy Land and North A...

$340 / ≈ €318
Maker / Publisher: BÜNTING, H.
Place & Date: Magdeburg, 1595
Selling price: $340
Sold in 2017

 


[Lot of 9 maps/ prints of Egypt ] Aegypti Recentior Descriptio / Carthaginis Celeberrimi Sinus Typus.

Abraham Ortelius' maps of Egypt and Carthago on one sheet.Abraham Ortelius(1527-98), Dutch cartographer and publisher of the first modern atlas, ' Theatrum Orbis Terrarum...

Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1595
Selling price: $160
Sold in 2023

 


Insularum Aliquot Maris Mediterranei Descriptio.

Six maps on one sheet. In the center a map of Sicily, surrounded by maps of Sardinia, Djerba, The island of Elbe, Corfu and Malta.

$350 / ≈ €328
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp 1598
Selling price: $350
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CALARIS, MALTA, RHODUS, FAMAGUSTA.

Four separate views of historical Mediterranean islands on one sheet. Malta, Calaris, Rhodes ( Rhodus ), Famagusta.From the greatest publication in this genre! The Civita...

$660 / ≈ €618
Maker / Publisher: BRAUN,G. / HOGENBERG, F.
Place & Date: Cologne 1598
Selling price: $660
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Insularum Aliquot Maris Mediterranei Descriptio.

Six maps on one sheet. In the center a map of Sicily, surrounded by maps of Sardinia, Djerba, The island of Elbe, Corfu and Malta.

$770 / ≈ €721
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp 1598
Selling price: $770
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Insularum Aliquot Maris Mediterranei Descriptio.

Six maps on one sheet. In the center a map of Sicily, surrounded by maps of Sardinia, Djerba, The island of Elbe, Corfu and Malta.

$650 / ≈ €608
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp 1598
Selling price: $650
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MALTA, CALARIS, RHODES, FAMAGUSTA.

Four separate views of historical Mediterranean islands on one sheet. MALTA, CALARIS, RHODES ( Rhodus ), FAMAGUSTA.From the greatest publication in this genre!. The Civit...

$1150 / ≈ €1076
Maker / Publisher: BRAUN,G. / HOGENBERG, F.
Place & Date: Cologne, 1598
Selling price: $1150
Sold in 2008

 


Insularum Aliquot Maris Mediterranei Descriptio.

Six maps on one sheet. In the center a map of Sicily, surrounded by maps of Sardinia, Djerba, The island of Elbe, Corfu and Malta.

$700 / ≈ €655
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1598
Selling price: $700
Sold in 2018

 


Majorcae et Minorcae descrip.

Superb miniature map of the Balearics. Including a sailing ship, sea monsters, and the title cartouche. With French text on verso.Published in his "Caert-Thresoor&qu...

$210 / ≈ €197
Maker / Publisher: LANGENES, B.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c. 1600
Selling price: $210
Sold in 2017

 


Corsica.

A fine miniature map of the island of Corsica. North to the left.

$150 / ≈ €140
Maker / Publisher: BERTIUS,P.
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1606
Selling price: $150
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Sardinia.

Early depiction of the island of Sardinia. A number of place-names and with mountains in relief appearance. Text on the back in French.Mercator was born in Rupelmonde in ...

$411 / ≈ €385
Maker / Publisher: MERCATOR,G./ HONDIUS,J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $411
Sold in 2011