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Ptolemaisch general Tafel begreiffend.. halbe kugel..
A famous wood block map of the Polemic world. There are 12 wind heads surrounding the then known world, with such romantic names, in banners, as Zephyrus, Corus and Subso...
Place & Date: Basle c.1560
Selling price: $1602
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Ptolemy.
With woodblock portrait of Ptolemy using a quadrant, from a French text edition of the Cosmographia .
Place & Date: Basel 1560
Selling price: $50
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Title page to <I>Apellatio D.Martini Lutheri ad Concilium...</I>
Edited in Wittenberg. Nice renaissance borders with a man teaching and a woman reading.
Place & Date: Wittenberg, no date., c. 1560
Selling price: $55
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Antiquissimus Vulterrae regiae olim Thuscorum urbis typus ex monumentis et vestigiis antiquitatis desumptus.
Rare map representing the ancient town of Volterra, in Tuscany, which was one of the major centres of the Etruscan civilization.With an explanatory key index on the botto...
Place & Date: Pisa, ca.1560
Selling price: $530
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Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
RECTO: One 2-lines initial decorated with flower in liquid gold on colored grounds and five 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds and five line-fillers in sam...
Place & Date: France, 1540-1560
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2014
La figure de la place ou fut jadiz la cité de Rome. . .
Interesting town-plan of ancient Rome. In lower left initials H.H. Heinrich Holzmüller was a famous woodblock cutter working with Sebastian Münster. French text on left...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1560
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2010
La ville de Berne. . .
Bird's eye town-plan of Bern.
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1560
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2010
La paincture de la cité tresancienne des Nemetiens../..Spire.
Panoramic of Speyer, with in foreground the river Rhine. Lower part signed with monogram HF.
Place & Date: Basle, c.1560
Selling price: $22
Sold in 2014
Le rhein de la Gaule, pourtraicte selon la figure qu'elle a auiourdhuy.
Panoramic town-view along River Rhine in French Alsace. In lower left HSD. There is no information available for the monogamist HSD, we think he originates from Worms.Tak...
Place & Date: Basle, c.1560
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2014
Selestat ou Schletstat, cité impériale, située au milieu du pays d'Alsace. . .
Panoramic of Sélestat in the French Alsace region. In lower right corner: RMD [Rudoplh Manuel called Deutsch who was a well-known wood-cutter].Taken from Sebastian Mün...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1560
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2014
Tantum aevi longinqua Valet mutare vetustas.
Bird's-eye view of Volterra after Dominicus Vadorinius Pomaranciensis, by Domenicus Vadorinius. With the title in a small banner at upper left, banner at upper right is b...
Place & Date: Pisa, ca. 1560
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2014
L'effigie de la ville de Saleurre. . . (Solothum)
Panoramic of Solothum with on the foreground the River Aar. In lower right CS. There is no information available for the monogamist CS, he was probably German or Swiss a...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1560
Selling price: $35
Sold in 2015
La tresancienne Cité de Vangions../.. Vuormes. (Worms)
Panoramic of Worms, with in foreground the river Rhine.Read more [+]
Place & Date: Basle, c.1560
Selling price: $35
Sold in 2015
La noble & ample ville de Coloigne Agrippine... (Cologne)
Panoramic of Cologne with on the foreground the River Rhine. In lower left CS. There is no information available for the monogamist CS, he was probably German or Swiss a...
Place & Date: Basle, c.1560
Selling price: $35
Sold in 2015
Europa / das ein Drittheil der Erden / nach gelegenheit unsern zeiten.
A decorative, full color example of Munster's map of Europe. It belongs to an early German edition of Munster's 'Cosmographia', which has been one of the most influential...
Place & Date: Basle, 1560
Selling price: $1225
Sold in 2016
De Europa
A small, attractive map of Europe from the famous 'Cosmographia' by Sebastian Munster, in very nice colors.
Place & Date: Basel, ca. 1560
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2018
AFRICA MIT SEINEN BESUNDERN LÄNDERN, THIEREN, UND WUNDERBARLICHEN DINGEN
A small, attractive map of Africa from the famous 'Cosmographia', by Sebastian Münster. On a whole page of the book.
Place & Date: Basel, ca. 1560
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2016
Venice.
An early, fine bird's-eye view of the city of Venice. It comes from the famous Cosmographia, one of the most influential books of the XVI and XVII century, representing a...
Place & Date: Basle, ca 1560
Selling price: $390
Sold in 2020
Gemeine beschreibung aller Mitnaechtigen Laender, Schweden, Gothen, Nordwegien, Dennmarck, sc.
An early Sebastian Münster's woodcut map of Scandinavia, based on the 'Carta Marina' of Olaus Magnus, 1539. The map includes Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Iceland, S...
Place & Date: Basel, 1560
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2021
Landtafel des Ungerlands / Polands / Reussen / Littaw / Walachei / Bulgarei.
Early woodcut map from Münster's Cosmographia, one of the most influential geographical works of the 16th Century. It shows the area from Prussia to Constantinople and...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1560
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2023
TAVOLA NUOVA DI PRUSSIA ET DI LIVONIA.
An uncommon first edition of this early map of the region from Pomerania to Livonia, including Lithuania,a portion of Estonia, and some coastal detail of the Baltic Sea, ...
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
Selling price: $210
Sold in 2020
![Taprobana [Ceylon/Sri Lanka].](/uploads/cache/84457-250x250.jpg)
Taprobana [Ceylon/Sri Lanka].
Ptolemy's mythical island of Taprobana originally became associated with Sri Lanka. Later, as this theory was discredited, Sumatra became the next candidate. Almost a dec...
Place & Date: Basle, 1561
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2020
Sinus Arabicus (North Africa)
Woodcut from P. Mela's "De Orbis Situ Libri tres". Published by Henric Perti. Almost a decade after the death of Sebastian Münster, his publisher and stepson H...
Place & Date: Basle, 1561
Selling price: $130
Sold in 2021
India.
A woodcut from P. Mela's "De Orbis Situ Libri tres". Published by Henric Perti. Almost a decade after the death of Sebastian Münster, his publisher and stepson...
Place & Date: Basle, 1561
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2020
Tabvla Asiae XII.
[Antique map of Sri Lanka] Tabvla Asiae XII. An elegantly engraved early map of Sri Lanka, (misshapen) with left the image of an elephant.
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
Selling price: $130
Sold in 2020
View of a farm with a large barn.
The Van Doetecum brothers were active as engravers in the second half of the 16th. Century. They made many prints for the Antwerp market. They later worked in Haarlem. R...
Place & Date: 1559-1561
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2021
India Tercera Nuova Tavola
An early map of South East Asia after Gastaldi from "La Geographia: Descrittione dell' Asia", 3rd vol., p. 122; published by M. Sessa in Venezia, Italy, showi...
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2021
Tabula Asiae XII. (Taprobana)
Scarce FIRST edition of this map depicting the island of Ceylon (Taprobana), based on Gastaldi's 1548 map. An elephant with descriptive text next to the map.Ptolemy's myt...
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
Selling price: $160
Sold in 2023
Nueva Hispania tabula nova.
Uncommon first edition of this early map of New Spain, Florida and Gulf of Mexico. The map is an enlarged version of Giacomo Gastaldi's map published in 1548. Nomenclatur...
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2024
Mörewunder vnd seltzame thier
Spectacular woodcut of mythical land with sea monsters and animals. The monsters were first engraved in the ‘Carta Marina’ of 1539 by Olaus Magnus and have been us...
Place & Date: Basel, 1561
Selling price: $1500
Sold in 2022
Tavola nuova di Germania.
Map of Germany and parts of the surrounding areas. In the northwest is Flanders and Brabant. In the southwest is Lake Geneva and Budapest is in the southeast. The Vistula...
Place & Date: Venise, 1561
Selling price: $245
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Soria et Terra Santa nova tavola.
Uncommon first edition of this classical map of the Holy Land, including Cyprus. The map is an enlarged version of Giacomo Gastaldi's published in 1548Girolamo Ruscelli's...
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2016
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
Sold in 2022
Brasil nuova tavola.
Uncommon first edition of this early map of Brazil. West to the top.Girolamo Ruscelli's edition of Ptolemy's Geographia included newly engraved copperplates by Giulio and...
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2020
Tierra Nova.
Uncommon first edition of this early map of South America.Girolamo Ruscelli\'s edition of Ptolemy\'s Geographia included newly engraved copperplates by Giulio and Livio S...
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
Selling price: $650
Sold in 2009
Africa nuova tavola.
Uncommon first edition of this early map of south Africa. Madagascar is called Isola de S. Lorenzo and is oddly shaped.The origin of the Nile conforms to the Ptolemaic co...
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
Selling price: $400
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Tabula Asiae IIII.
Uncommon first edition of this classical map of the Holy Land, including Cyprus. The map is an enlarged version of Giacomo Gastaldi's published in 1548Girolamo Ruscelli's...
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
Selling price: $700
Sold in 2011
Tabvla Asiae XII.
An elegantly engraved early map of Sri Lanka, with left the image of an elephant. Ref.: Paranavitana, maps of Dutch Ceylon, p.7.
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
Selling price: $400
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Tabula Asiae XII. . .
Uncommon first edition of one of the earliest maps of Sumatra.Girolamo Ruscelli's edition of Ptolemy's Geographia included newly engraved copperplates by Giulio and Livio...
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
Selling price: $195
Sold in 2008
Tabula Europae II. . .
Uncommon first edition of one of this map of ancient Spain and the tip of Africa.Girolamo Ruscelli's edition of Ptolemy's Geographia included newly engraved copperplates ...
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
Selling price: $230
Sold in 2008
Hispania Nova Tabula. . .
Uncommon first edition of one of the earliest maps of Spain and Portugal.Girolamo Ruscelli's edition of Ptolemy's Geographia included newly engraved copperplates by Giuli...
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
Selling price: $275
Sold in 2008
Anglia et Hibernia Nova. . .
Uncommon first edition of one of the earliest maps of Great Britain.Girolamo Ruscelli's edition of Ptolemy's Geographia included newly engraved copperplates by Giulio and...
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
Selling price: $410
Sold in 2008
Tabula Europa X . . .
Uncommon first edition of this map of Ancient Greece.Girolamo Ruscelli's edition of Ptolemy's Geographia included newly engraved copperplates by Giulio and Livio Sanuti. ...
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
Selling price: $110
Sold in 2012
Tierra Nveva.
Rare first edition of the map of east coast of North America..According to Shirley, most likely engraved by the brothers Giulio and Livio Sanuto. Ptolemaic world map, con...
Place & Date: Venise, 1561
Selling price: $850
Sold in 2008
Orbis descriptio.
The map is elegantly designed and engraved on copper with typical Italian taste and skill. One of two modern world maps in Ruscelli's Atlas, based upon Gastaldi's world m...
Place & Date: Venise, 1561
Selling price: $1060
Sold in 2008
Ptolemaei Typus.
A rare first edition of a very attractive Ptolemaic world map, following the standard classical format.Girolamo Ruscelli's edition of Ptolemy's Geographia included newly ...
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
Selling price: $640
Sold in 2008
India Tercera Nuova Tavola.
Uncommon first edition of this early map of South East Asia.Girolamo Ruscelli's edition of Ptolemy's Geographia included newly engraved copperplates by Giulio and Livio S...
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
Selling price: $485
Sold in 2008
Nueva Hispania tabula nova.
Uncommon first edition of this early map of New Spain, Florida and Gulf of Mexico. The map is an enlarged version of Giacomo Gastaldi's published in 1548. Nomenclature an...
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
Selling price: $1050
Sold in 2008
Carta Marina nuova tavola.
Ruscelli's mariner's map is a slightly enlarged version of the map which appeared in Gastaldi's edition of Ptolemy thirteen years earlier. The only change seems to be the...
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
Selling price: $1300
Sold in 2008
Graetia Nuova Tavola.
Uncommon first edition of this early map of Greece.Girolamo Ruscelli's edition of Ptolemy's Geographia included newly engraved copperplates by Giulio and Livio Sanuti. Th...
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2011
Orbis descriptio.
The map is elegantly designed and engraved on copper with typical Italian taste and skill. Separate double-hemispherical maps were no innovation but this is the first tim...
Place & Date: Venise, 1561
Selling price: $900
Sold in 2011
Tabula Europae IIII
Scarce first edition of this classical map of Poland and Germany. The map is an enlarged version of Giacomo Gastaldi's published in 1548.Girolamo Ruscelli's edition of Pt...
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
Selling price: $425
Sold in 2012
Tierra Nveva.
Early map of the east coast is an enlarged version of Giacomo Gastaldi's published in 1548. Nomenclature and cartography are unchanged, with the exception of the depictio...
Place & Date: Venise, 1561
Selling price: $475
Sold in 2012
India Tercera Nuova Tavola.
Uncommon first edition of Ruscelli's map is one of the earliest modern maps of Southeast Asia. An enlarged version of Gastaldi's miniature map of 1548, the map is one of ...
Place & Date: Venice / 1561
Selling price: $425
Sold in 2013
Tabula Europae III.
Ptolemaic style map of France, the Low Countries, and the Rhine river. Includes numerous historic place names. Italian text on verso.
Place & Date: Venice, c1561
Selling price: $54
Sold in 2013
Isola Cuba Nova.
Scarce FIRST edition of this map depicting the island of Cuba - one of the earliest separately published maps of Cuba. Also includes Jamaica and northwestern Hispaniola a...
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2020
Tierra Nova.
Scarce FIRST edition of this map depicting South America, extending from Labrador to Jamaica. The map is based upon a map published by Giacomo Gastaldi in 1548. One of th...
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2017
Tabula Asiae VI. (Arabian Peninsular)
Scarce FIRST edition of this classical map depicting the Arabian Peninsula, here called Arabia Foelix, Persian Gulf and Red Sea. The map is based upon a map published by ...
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
Selling price: $360
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Europae Tabula VIII.
Ptolemaic map of eastern Europe, including a portion of Scandinavia, Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine and Russia, stretching from the Swedish island of Gotland (Gothia Insula) ...
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2015
Orbis descriptio.
The map is elegantly designed and engraved on copper with typical Italian taste and skill. One of two modern world maps in Ruscelli's Atlas, based upon Gastaldi's world m...
Place & Date: Venise, 1561
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2021
Schonladia Nuova.
Depicting Scandinavia in a trapezoidal projection, being one of the earliest obtainable modern maps of Scandinavia. The map combines Ptolemaic and modern cartographic inf...
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2017
India Tercera Nuova Tavola.
Early edition of this modern map of South East Asia. Just to the west and south of Malacca one will notice ‘Camatra’ (Sumatra) and Java. Covers the region from the Gu...
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2017
Arabia Felice Nuova Tavola.
Fine early map of this modern depiction of the Arabian peninsula, being one of the earliest modern maps of the region. The map extends from the Arabian Desert south as fa...
Place & Date: Venice, Vincenzo Valgrisi, c.1561
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2017
Tabula Asiae VI.
Scarce FIRST edition of this classical map depicting the Arabian Peninsula.
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
Selling price: $110
Sold in 2018
Ptolemaei Typus.
A rare first edition of a very attractive Ptolemaic world map, following the standard classical format.Girolamo Ruscelli's edition of Ptolemy's Geographia included newly ...
Place & Date: Venice, Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1561
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2023
Calecut Nuova Tavola.
Scarce FIRST edition of this early map of Indian peninsular, being one of the earliest modern maps of the region.Girolamo Ruscelli's edition of Ptolemy's Geographia inclu...
Place & Date: Venice, Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1561
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2021
Carta Marina nuova tavola.
Uncommon first edition of this early map of Ruscelli's mariner, slightly enlarged version of the map which appeared in Gastaldi's edition of Ptolemy thirteen years earlie...
Place & Date: Venice, Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1561
Selling price: $1100
Sold in 2018
Orbis descriptio.
Uncommon first edition of this early world map, elegantly designed and engraved on copper with typical Italian taste and skill. One of two modern world maps in Ruscelli's...
Place & Date: Venice, Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1561
Selling price: $950
Sold in 2018
Tierra Nova.
Scarce FIRST edition of this map depicting South America, extending from Labrador to Jamaica. The map is based upon a map published by Giacomo Gastaldi in 1548. One of th...
Place & Date: Venice, Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1561
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2018
India Tercera Nuova Tavola.
Uncommon first edition of this early map of South East Asia, showing the Bay of Bengal to southern China in the north, and down just below the Equator to the south. While...
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
Selling price: $800
Sold in 2021
![[Title page] La geografia di Claudio Tolomeo . . .](/uploads/cache/41576-250x250.jpg)
[Title page] La geografia di Claudio Tolomeo . . .
Title page of Girolamo Ruscelli's first edition of Ptolemy's Geographia included newly engraved copperplates by Giulio and Livio Sanuti.
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2020
INDIA TERCERA NUOVA TAVOLA.
Ruscelli's map is one of the earliest modern maps of Southeast Asia. An enlarged version of Gastaldi's miniature map of 1548, the map is one of the earliest to introduce ...
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2019
Tavola nuova di Prussia et di Livonia.
A Ptolemaic map of the region from Pomerania to Livonia includes a portion of Estonia and coastal detail on the Baltic Sea with a small section of the island of Gotland a...
Place & Date: Venice, Vincentium Valgrisium, 1562
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2012
Der Statt Istien und umbligender Landschafft gelegenheit und abcontrafactur.
Text page with a map (122x155mm.) of "Istien". It is a typical woodcut illustration that makes these Münster maps fascinating and sought after by map collector...
Place & Date: Basel, 1562
Selling price: $15
Sold in 2012
Tabula Aphricae II
Fine Ptolemaic style map of North Africa and including Sardinia, Sicily and the southern tip of Italy. It was published in 1562.
Place & Date: Venice, 1562
Selling price: $105
Sold in 2017
Isola Spagnola Nova.
One of the earliest separately published maps of Hispaniola, from an early edition of Ruscelli's version of Ptolemy's Geography, published in 1561. Ruscelli's map is a la...
Place & Date: Venice, 1562
Selling price: $70
Sold in 2019
Corsica.
Woodblock map of Corsica surrounded by ships and fierce sea monsters. On a full sheet of German text.
Place & Date: Basle 1562
Selling price: $100
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![[Southern Scandinavia to central Germany, Netherlands and East England]](/uploads/cache/25014-250x250.jpg)
[Southern Scandinavia to central Germany, Netherlands and East England]
The rare second state is dated 1562, but still lacks the imprint of Camocio. The map has no title and extends from Southern Scandinavia to Central Germany, The Netherland...
Place & Date: Venice, 1562
Selling price: $21200
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![Al Ecc[ellentissi],mo Philosopho, Mathematico, Medico, et Cauallier aureato, beniemerito Guardiano grande della / Scola de .S. Marco...](/uploads/cache/25019-250x250.jpg)
Al Ecc[ellentissi],mo Philosopho, Mathematico, Medico, et Cauallier aureato, beniemerito Guardiano grande della / Scola de .S. Marco...
The first map of Africa from the Forlani school, in a first edition. Forlani appears to have largely drawn upon the earlier work of Gastaldi. Forlani shows additional pla...
Place & Date: Venice, 1562
Selling price: $45100
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Der Statt Istien und umbligender Landschafft gelegenheit und abcontrafactur.
Text page with a map (122x155mm.) of "Istien". It is a typical woodcut illustration that makes these Münster maps fascinating and sought after by map collector...
Place & Date: Basel, 1562
Selling price: $15
Sold in 2011