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Liber Tertius: Generalem Inspectionem Siue Consyde-Rationem Scotiae.
A dedication page from John Speed's 1616 Atlas - Latin edition.On the verso is the Royal coat of arms: “Dieu Et Mon Droit”. Hand colored.
Place & Date: London, 1616
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2018
Leo Belgicus.
Among the greatest decorative works of early cartography is a series of arresting maps showing The Netherlands and Belgium in the shape of a lion. The various versions of...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1617
Selling price: $15000
Sold in 2011
Leo Belgicus.
Engraved by the master engraver Hendrik Floris van Langren. Second state (only 2 copies known of the first state). Among the greatest decorative works of early cartograph...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1617
Selling price: $10000
Sold in 2018
[Title page] Theatri Geographiae Veteris Tomus prior in quo. . .
This is the lovely title page to Bertius' edition of Ptolemy's 'Geographia' that was copied from Mercator's edition from 1578. The two great Greek geographers stand benea...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca 1618
Selling price: $160
Sold in 2019
THEATRI PRAECIPUARUM TOTIUS MUNDI URBIUM LIBER SEXTUS, ANNO MDCXVIII.
Title page to volume six of Braun G. & Hogenberg F. 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum'. With the related dedication sheet , dedicated to King Ferdinand of Bohemia.The Civitat...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1618
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2021
[Title page part two] Itinerarium Hierosolymitanum et Syriacum. . .
Title page with copper engraved view of Jaffa (85x120mm) within letter press, taken from the rare book Itinerarium Hierosolymitanum et Syriacum, in quo variarum Gentium M...
Place & Date: Antwerp, Verdussen, 1619
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2009
[No Title] Gerardus Mercator natus rupelmundae III . . .
The double portraits of two of the greatest men in cartography, Gerard Mercator of Rupelmund and Judocus Hondius of Flandria. A superb example of the engravers skill of C...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1619
Selling price: $1300
Sold in 2019
Atlas sive Cosmographicae Meditationes . . . (Title page)
Architectural frontage with personifications of the four Continents, Atlas, Peruana and Magalanica. This is the updated version with the lower text panel stippled and ove...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1619
Selling price: $475
Sold in 2019
[Title page] Belgii Inferioris Geographicae Tabulae.
A lovely frontispiece in the Dutch Renaissance style with the title surrounded with strapwork designs, garlands, fruit, fish and cherubs. From the Atlas sive Cosmographie...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca 1619
Selling price: $110
Sold in 2020
Abrahamus Orteilius 48
Small portrait of Abraham Ortelius (Abraham Ortel), famous cartographer born in Antwerp and after studying Greek, Latin and mathematics set up business there with his sis...
Place & Date: c.1620
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2020
[Title page] Wereld Spiegel Waer in Vertoont word De Beschrijvinge der Rijken Staten, etc. . .]
Title page engraved by Adriaan Matham after a design of Boons. Showing representations of 4 continents, Price Maurits and other rulers. Included in the rare book : "...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1621
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2017
A relation of a journey begun . . . An: Dom: 1610. Fovre bookes. Containing a description of the Turkish Empire, of Ægypt, of the Holy Land, of the remote parts of Italy, and ilands adioyning
Title page from "A relation of a journey begun An: Dom: 1610. Fovre bookes. Containing a description of the Turkish Empire, of Ægypt, of the Holy Land, of the remot...
Place & Date: London, 1621
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2019
Germania inferior id es XVII Provinciarum. 1622.
The attractive frontispiece of Petrus Kaerius' atlas of the Seventeen Provinces of the Netherlands.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1622
Selling price: $575
Sold in 2008
[Portrait of Jacques Le Maire with map of Strait Le Maire ]
Portrait of Jacques Le Maire. Frontispiece to the first French text edition of Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas Description des Indes Occidentales Qu'on appelle aujourdhu...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1622
Selling price: $210
Sold in 2017
[Title page] Thesauri Philo-Politci pars Altera. . .
Very skillfully engraved title page from a rare work printed by Eberhard Kieser: Thesaurus Philo-Politicus. Das ist Politisches Schatzkästlein guter Herren und bestendig...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1624
Selling price: $55
Sold in 2013
[Title page] Thesauri Philo-Politci Quarta pars. . .
Very skillfully engraved title page from a rare work printed by Eberhard Kieser: Thesaurus Philo-Politicus. Das ist Politisches Schatzkästlein guter Herren und bestendig...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1624
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2013
[Title page] Thesauri Philo-Politci pars Altera. . .
Very skillfully engraved title page from a rare work printed by Eberhard Kieser: Thesaurus Philo-Politicus. Das ist Politisches Schatzkästlein guter Herren und bestendig...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1624
Selling price: $75
Sold in 2016
[Title page] Thesauri Philo-Politci pars . . .
Very skillfully engraved title page from a rare work printed by Eberhard Kieser: Thesaurus Philo-Politicus. Das ist Politisches Schatzkästlein guter Herren und bestendig...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1624
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2019
[Title page] Thesauri Philo-Politci pars Altera. . .
Very skillfully engraved title page from a rare work printed by Eberhard Kieser: Thesaurus Philo-Politicus. Das ist Politisches Schatzkästlein guter Herren und bestendig...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1624
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2017
[Title page] Thesauri Philo-Politci pars Altera. . .
Very skillfully engraved title page from a rare work printed by Eberhard Kieser: Thesaurus Philo-Politicus. Das ist Politisches Schatzkästlein guter Herren und bestendig...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1624
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2020
[Title page] Thesauri Philo-Politci Quarta pars. . .
Very skillfully engraved title page from a rare work printed by Eberhard Kieser: Thesaurus Philo-Politicus. Das ist Politisches Schatzkästlein guter Herren und bestendig...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1625
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2013
Daniel Meisnerus Comment..
Very skilfully engraved portrait of Daniel Meisner from a rare work printed by Eberhard Kieser: Thesaurus Philo-Politicus. Das ist Politisches Schatzkästlein guter Herre...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1626
Selling price: $360
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[Title page] Politisches Schatz Kästlein Siebender Theil. . .
Very skillfully engraved title page from a rare work printed by Eberhard Kieser: Thesaurus Philo-Politicus. Das ist Politisches Schatzkästlein guter Herren und bestendig...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1626
Selling price: $65
Sold in 2013
[Title page] Thesauri Philo-Politci Pars octava po-strema. . .
Very skillfully engraved title page from a rare work printed by Eberhard Kieser: Thesaurus Philo-Politicus. Das ist Politisches Schatzkästlein guter Herren und bestendig...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1626
Selling price: $55
Sold in 2013
[Title page] Thesauri Philo-Politci Tertia Pars. . .
Very skillfully engraved title page from a rare work printed by Eberhard Kieser: Thesaurus Philo-Politicus. Das ist Politisches Schatzkästlein guter Herren und bestendig...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1626
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2013
[Title page] Thesauri Philo Politci pars septima. . .
Very skillfully engraved title page from a rare work printed by Eberhard Kieser: Thesaurus Philo-Politicus. Das ist Politisches Schatzkästlein guter Herren und bestendig...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1626
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2017
[Title page] Libellus Novus Politicus.. Pars Septima.
Very skilfully engraved title page from a rare work printed by Eberhard Kieser: Thesaurus Philo-Politicus. Das ist Politisches Schatzkästlein guter Herren und bestendige...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1626
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2018
[Title page] Libellus Novus Politicus.. Pars Sexta.
Very skillfully engraved title page from a rare work printed by Eberhard Kieser: Thesaurus Philo-Politicus. Das ist Politisches Schatzkästlein guter Herren und bestendig...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1626
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2020
[Title page] Politica - Politica.
Very skilfully engraved title page from a rare work printed by Eberhard Kieser: Thesaurus Philo-Politicus. Das ist Politisches Schatzkästlein guter Herren und bestendige...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1626
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2020
The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine (Title Page & Frontispiece Together)
Offered here together are the titlepage and frontispiece from John Speed's 1627 edition of “Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine”, his monumental atlas of the Brit...
Place & Date: London, 1627
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2015
The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine.
The decorative title page from John Speed's Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine Published by George Humble in 1627.
Place & Date: London, 1627
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2018
[Lot of 3 portraits of Petrus Bertius.]
Three portraits of Petrus Bertius. The largest engraved by Nicolas II de Larmessin, who was born in 1632 and died in 1694, was a French engraver and publisher based in Pa...
Place & Date: Paris, 1629
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2022
[Title page] Belgii inferioris Geographicae tabule.
Very fine title page. Prepared by Gerard Mercator. Size of the engraving 227x 164mm, size of the paper 470x300mm.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2012
[Title page] Thesauri Philo-Politci Pars Quinta Tomi secundi. . .
Very skillfully engraved title page from a rare work printed by Eberhard Kieser: Thesaurus Philo-Politicus. Das ist Politisches Schatzkästlein guter Herren und bestendig...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1630
Selling price: $55
Sold in 2013
[Title page] Thesauri Philo-Politci Pars Sexta. . .
Very skillfully engraved title page from a rare work printed by Eberhard Kieser: Thesaurus Philo-Politicus. Das ist Politisches Schatzkästlein guter Herren und bestendig...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1630
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2013
Gerardus Mercator natus Iudocus Hondius. .
Arguably the finest engraved portrait of early map makers. In the well-executed design, Gerard Mercator and Jodocus Hondius are seated within an architectural cartouche o...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Selling price: $2200
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Gerardus Mercator natus ruppelmundae...
Arguably the finest engraved portrait of early map makers. In the well-executed design, Gerard Mercator and Jodocus Hondius are seated within an architectural cartouche o...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Selling price: $1100
Sold in 2015
[Portrait of Gerard Mercator and Jodocus Hondius.]
Arguably the finest engraved portrait of early mapmakers. In the well-executed design, Gerard Mercator and Jodocus Hondius are seated within an architectural cartouche of...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Selling price: $1600
Sold in 2015
Thesauri Philopolitici Tomi Secundi Pars Quarta (Title Page)
Striking, highly decorative title page from a rare work by Daniel Meisner "Thesauri Philo-Politici Oder Politisches Schatzkästlein guter Herren und bestendiger Freu...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1630
Selling price: $66
Sold in 2018
[Title page] Gerardus Mercator Natus Rupelmundae III Non. Mart II Anno CICICXII..
Beautifully engraved double portrait of Gerard Mercator and his successor Jodocus Hondius the elder, sitting together at a table and surrounded by maps, books and globes....
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Selling price: $1800
Sold in 2019