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![Asia secunda pars terrae in forma Pegasi. [Asia is presented as the mythical winged horse Pegasus.]](/uploads/cache/44699-250x250.jpg)
Asia secunda pars terrae in forma Pegasi. [Asia is presented as the mythical winged horse Pegasus.]
Wood block map of Asia in the form of a Pegasus. The seas are adorned with sea monsters and many major cities are indicated and named. There are several states, of this m...
Place & Date: Magdeburg c. 1581
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2019
Urbium Precipuarum Totius Mundi.
Fine illustrated titlepage from "Urbium Precipuarum Totius Mundi Urbium", Volume III of "Civitates Orbis Terrarum" by Georg Braun and Frans Hogenberg....
Place & Date: Cologne, 1581
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2020
![URBIBUM PRAECIPUARUM TOTIUS MUNDI, LIBER TERTIUS [TITLE PAGE,VOL.3].](/uploads/cache/85257-250x250.jpg)
URBIBUM PRAECIPUARUM TOTIUS MUNDI, LIBER TERTIUS [TITLE PAGE,VOL.3].
A copper engraved Title page to Vol.3 of 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum'. Including the dedications sheet [view suppl. picture]. The 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum', or the "B...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1581
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2021
Title page : "Livre quatriesme des principales villes du monde"..
Decorative and finely engraved title page from Braun's Town Book, part 4.
Place & Date: Cologne 1582
Selling price: $250
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Title page: Descrittione.. di tutti i Paesi Bassi..
Title page from one of the most important travel book of the Low Countries. Architectural border with heraldic figures. In the center the printer's device of the printer ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1582
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2009
Title page: Descrittione.. di tutti i Paesi Bassi..
Title page from one of the most important travel book of the Low Countries. Architectural border with heraldic figures. In the center the printer's device of the printer ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1582
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2009
Title page: Descrittione.. di tutti i Paesi Bassi..
Title page from one of the most important travel book of the Low Countries. Architectural border with heraldic figures. In the center the printer's device of the printer ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1582
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2009
![[Title page] Civitates Orbis Terrarum, Liber Primus.](/uploads/cache/43265-250x250.jpg)
[Title page] Civitates Orbis Terrarum, Liber Primus.
Striking allegorical title page, from Volume 1 of Braun & Hogenberg's Civitatus Orbis Terrarum.It shows a façade with a statue of the Magna Mater (Great Mother), the...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1582
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2020
![[Title page] Civitates orbis Terrarum.](/uploads/cache/43274-250x250.jpg)
[Title page] Civitates orbis Terrarum.
The most decorative frontispiece of the 1st part of the 'Civitatus Orbis Terrarum'. Flanked by Minerva (or Athena, identified by her owl) named Arcium Inventrix (Founder ...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1582
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2019
![[Title page] De Praecipuis, Totius Universi Urbibus, Liber Secundus.](/uploads/cache/43275-250x250.jpg)
[Title page] De Praecipuis, Totius Universi Urbibus, Liber Secundus.
Allegorical title page, from Volume 2 of Braun & Hogenberg's Civitatus Orbis Terrarum.At the top are figures representing Religion and Politics, placed on either side...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1582
Selling price: $210
Sold in 2022
Title page: Descrittione.. di tutti i Paesi Bassi..
Title page from one of the most important travel book of the Low Countries. Architectural border with heraldic figures. In the center the printer's device of the printer ...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1583
Selling price: $100
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Labore et Constantia.
Printer\'s mark of the Antwerp printer Christopher Plantijn Labore et Constantia. with divider, set in a decorative border with fruits and figures.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1583
Selling price: $180
Sold in 2008
Urbium Praecipuarum Mundi Theatrum Liber Quartus.
Georg Braun and Franz Hoogenberg, published the highly successful "Civitas Orbis Terrarum' in 6 volumes, 1572-1618. It was the first atlas of town views and plans of...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1583
Selling price: $325
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Titlepage: Nomenclator Ptolemaicus..
Not bound but a section of the 1584 atlas, Nomenclator still held together. With dated title page Nomenclator and containing a register of place names in antiquity. In 15...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1584
Selling price: $225
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Leo Belgicus.
The very first version of the 'Lion' map from its creator Michael von Aitzing. The Netherlands is here for the first time depicted as a lion, a symbol of bravery and stre...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1586
Selling price: $4900
Sold in 2016
Title page from Civitatus Orbis Terrarum vol. 3
Lavish, decorative title page from Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg great 16th century atlas of town and city views.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, c1588
Selling price: $180
Sold in 2014
Title page from Civitatus Orbis Terrarum vol.4.
Decorative title page from the fourth edition of Braun and Hogenberg's lavishly illustrated 16th century town book.
Place & Date: Frankfurt c.1588
Selling price: $230
Sold in 2014
LIBER QUARTUS, URBIBUM PRAECIPUARUM TOTIUS MUNDI.
A fine example of the title page to the BRAUN & HOGENBERG 'CIVITATES..' VOL.4, together still joined the dedication sheet. The Civitates Orbis Terrarum (Atlas of Citi...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1588
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2020
Abrahamus Ortelius Antwerpianus cosmographus natus..
Rare head and shoulder portrait of Abraham Ortelius.
Place & Date: Antwerp c.1590
Selling price: $250
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![[Title page ] Galliae tabule geographicae. Per Gerardum Mercatorem..](/uploads/cache/61301-250x250.jpg)
[Title page ] Galliae tabule geographicae. Per Gerardum Mercatorem..
Very fine title page by Gerard Mercator, composed of an elaborate strapwork design with the portrait of a king at top.
Place & Date: Duisburg, 1590
Selling price: $170
Sold in 2015
Venations Ferarum, Auium, Piscium. . .
Title page from "Venationes Ferarum, Avium, Piscium" or "Hunting Wild Beasts, Birds, Fish". The plate was engraved by Jan Collaert 1566-1628 published...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1590
Selling price: $380
Sold in 2013
![[Ship Victoria of Ferdinand Magellan]](/uploads/cache/32588-250x250.jpg)
[Ship Victoria of Ferdinand Magellan]
On recto a description of the expedition of Ferdinand Magellan with a wood block printed depiction of his ship "Victoria" (69x65mm.)From a Latin text edition of...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1590
Selling price: $26
Sold in 2013
![[Ptolemée]](/uploads/cache/32591-250x250.jpg)
[Ptolemée]
On verso a wood block print showing Ptolemy sitting at a table surrounded with surveying instruments and an atlas. (53x75mm.) From a Latin text edition of his Geographia ...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1590
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2013
Theatre des principales villes tout l'univers. Second volume. (Title page)
The most decorative frontispiece of the 2nd part of the "Civitatus Orbis Terrarum" The title shows Cybele, sive Vesta , Penatas and Lares , Roman gods of the ho...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1590
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2015
Abrahamus Ortelius Antverpianus.
Portrait of Abraham Ortelius, made by Philippe Galle. Abraham Ortelius (April 14, 1527 - June 28, 1598) was a Flemish cartographer and geographer. Beginning as a map-engr...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1590
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2022
Spectandum Dedit Ortelius Mortalib. orbem Orbi Spectandum Galleus Ortelium. Papius
A beautiful colored portrait of Abraham Ortelius as Frontispiece to his 'Theatrum Orbis'. Engraved by Phillipe Galle.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1592
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2015
Asia is presented as the mythical winged horse Pegasus.
Copper engraved map of Asia in the form of a Pegasus. This is a very rare issue of the map from a Czech edition. The original woodcut map was re-engraved on copper with a...
Place & Date: Magdeburg, 1592
Selling price: $3500
Sold in 2010
Germania geographicis tabulis illustrata. .
Very rare and beautiful title page from the second edition of Cornelis de Jode rare atlas.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1593
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2015
Title page : Europae totius orbis terrarum partis praestantissimae ..
Quad's title page of his rare work Europae totius orbis terrarum partis praestantissimae..Engraved by Henricus Nagel. Latin text on verso.
Place & Date: Cologne 1594
Selling price: $505
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Titlepage: Parergon, in quo Veteris geographiae aliquot tabulae.
Title page to the section of the Ortelius atlas part, Parergon with original hand-colored decoration. The printer Plantin originally used the wood block for the first pag...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1595
Selling price: $450
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Gerardus Mercator Imprimis nostro
Portrait of Gerard Mercator taken from " Imagines L. doctorum virorum Galle, P. Imagines L. doctorum virorum, qui bene de studiis literarum merure, cum singulorum el...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1595
Selling price: $175
Sold in 2023
Americvs Vespvccivs Florentinvs..
A very good impression, printed with tone and displaying very good contrasts and clarity of details. From a series composed in 1592, to celebrate the centenary of the dis...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1596
Selling price: $600
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Christophorvs Colvmbvs Ligvr..
A very good impression, printed with tone and displaying very good contrasts and clarity of details. From a series composed in 1592, to celebrate the centenary of the dis...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1596
Selling price: $600
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Americvs Vespvccivs Florentinvs..
From a series composed in 1592, to celebrate the centenary of the discovery of the New World by Columbus, and the following explorations by Vespucci and Magellan. The eng...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1596
Selling price: $950
Sold in 2018
America Retectio.
The print shows an allegory of Neptune supporting the globe, which is flanked by Flora, representing Florence, and Janus, representing Genoa (birthplaces of Vespucci and ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1596
Selling price: $550
Sold in 2018
Ferdinandes Magellanes Lusitanus. . .
Showing Magellan involved in navigational pursuits, although he suffers from a broken mast, the fires of Tierra de Fuego burn on the coast to the left, in all three plate...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1596
Selling price: $950
Sold in 2018
Two title pages to a book:
by Dionysii Gothefridii I.C. (part 1 and 2). Printed in 1598 by W.Lemarie. Renaissance borders on 4 sides
Place & Date: 1598
Selling price: $10
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(Title page) Urbium Praecipuarum Mundi Theatrum Quintum
The most decorative frontispiece of the 5th part of the 'Civitatus Orbis Terrarum'. Showing heraldic figures, representations of the four continents and 5 European and on...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1598
Selling price: $400
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Europa Regina
This is one of the most famous of cartographic oddities showing Europe in the shape of a woman. The representation of Europa Regina or Queen of Europe, was first drawn by...
Place & Date: Basel 1598
Selling price: $950
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Theatre de l'Univers, contenant les Cartes de tout le Monde, avec une brieve Declaration d'icelles.
A very decorative title page from the 1598 French edition of Ortelius' Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first modern Atlas.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1598
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2019