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Graeciae Universae Secundum Hodiernum Situm Neoterica descriptio.
Ortelius' fine map of Greece, based on Jacobo Gastaldi's map of 1560. The early imprint with the uncorrected scale bar numeral ..80-90-10.
Place & Date: Antwerp 1575
Selling price: $240
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Americae Sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio.
This is the third state of the first copperplate of Ortelius' map showing the western hemisphere, showing the prominent bulge in the South American coastline. An importan...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1575
Selling price: $3925
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Description Générale de toute la France.
Detailed and uncommon wood block map of France after Ortelius, from François Belleforest's Paris version of Münster's cosmography : Histoire Universe du Monde ..
Place & Date: Paris 1575
Selling price: $400
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Typus Orbis Terrarum.
An early issue (printed before 1575) of this influential, and famous World map, issued in the first regularly produced world atlas. The map is a careful reduction of Merc...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1570-1575
Selling price: $4880
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Middelburgum Selandiae Opp:
Originally colored birds's-eye view of the city of Middelburg. Coats of arms of the province of Zeeland. With ships in the city port. Churches and city walls with gates a...
Place & Date: 1575
Selling price: $350
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La Sainte cité de Jérusalem jadiz métropolitaine du royaume des juifz...
A particularly attractive example of this early wood cut view of Jerusalem. The city appears well laid out, and is surrounded by a vast wall.Included in a French text edi...
Place & Date: Paris, 1575
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2014
Turcici Imperii Descriptio.
Map of the Middle East, extending from Greece to Arabia and covering the Cradle of Civilisation region. This is rare FIRST PLATE only used until 1579. Based on Gastaldi's...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1575
Selling price: $2200
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Hollandiae Antiquorum.
This map was published by Ortelius on the basis of the map drawn by Jacob van Deventer in abt. 1550. In the Spanish text on verso Ortelius marvels that such a small count...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1574-1575
Selling price: $1150
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Flandria.
Map of Flanders. Very decorative, egg-shaped map. This is the early state with the farmer's wife and three ships in the North Sea.
Place & Date: Antwerp 1574-1575
Selling price: $1150
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Transilvania.
Detailed map of Hungary prepared by Sambucas in 1566, who itself based his map on Honter's map of 1532.Latin text on verso.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1575
Selling price: $170
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Soest.
Fine panoramic view of the town of Soest. From the greatest publication in this genre!. The "Civitates" was compiled and written by George Braun, Canon of Colog...
Place & Date: Cologne 1575
Selling price: $250
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Monasterium.. / Osnabrugum.. / Wesalia Inferior.
Three prospects of Osnabruck, Münster and Wesel in Northern Germany above each other on one sheet.From the greatest publication in this genre!. The "Civitates"...
Place & Date: Cologne 1575
Selling price: $240
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Cliviam../ Duisburgum.. / Embrica.. / Gennapium..
Four prospects clockwise showing : Cliviam (Kleve ) Duisburgum (Duisberg) Embrica (Emmerich) Gennapium (Gennip in The Netherlands).From the greatest publication in this g...
Place & Date: Cologne 1575
Selling price: $575
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Nurnberga
Fine panoramic view of Nuremberg.From the greatest publication in this genre!. The "Civitates" was compiled and written by George Braun, Canon of Cologne Cathed...
Place & Date: Cologne 1575
Selling price: $425
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Lubeca Urbs Imperialiss Libera.. / Hamburga, Florentisimum inferioris Saxoni..
Two prospects of Hamburg and Lubeck in Northern Germany above each other on one sheet.From the greatest publication in this genre!. The "Civitates" was compiled...
Place & Date: Cologne 1575
Selling price: $300
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Hamburgum.
Plan of Hamburg in Northern Germany.From the greatest publication in this genre!. The "Civitates" was compiled and written by George Braun, Canon of Cologne Cat...
Place & Date: Cologne 1575
Selling price: $400
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Civitas Francofordiana Ad Mo:
Plan of Frankfurt in central Germany.From the greatest publication in this genre!. The "Civitates" was compiled and written by George Braun, Canon of Cologne Ca...
Place & Date: Cologne 1575
Selling price: $550
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Soest. / Warborch.
Two prospects of Soest and Warborch in Northern Germany above each other on one sheet.From the greatest publication in this genre!. The "Civitates" was compiled...
Place & Date: Cologne 1575
Selling price: $300
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Russiae, Moscoviae et Tartariae Descriptio.
Engraved by Frans Hogenberg from an original of 1562 by Anthony Jenkinson of the English Muscovy Company. The many vignettes are based on the reports of Marco Polo's expl...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1575
Selling price: $1600
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Moscauw.
It shows the city of Moscow from a slightly elevated viewpoint across the frozen Moskva River.The walled center of the city is depicted with its many churches and filled ...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1575
Selling price: $1800
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A complete set of Ortelius' World and Continents.
An attractive set of these decorative and important maps published at Antwerp in Ortelius' Theatrum. The maps are very early impressions, with no plate cracks in America ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, Chr. Plantin, 1571-1575
Selling price: $19300
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Cliviam../ Duisburgum.. / Embrica.. / Gennapium..
Four prospects clockwise showing : Cliviam (Kleve ) Duisburgum (Duisberg) Embrica (Emmerich) Gennapium (Gennip in The Netherlands).From the greatest publication in this g...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1575
Selling price: $425
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Europae. La carte d'Europe.
In 1575 Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia was translated into French and published in Paris by François de Belle-Forest. The Europe map being a folding woodcut copy of O...
Place & Date: Paris, 1575
Selling price: $2000
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Flandria.
Very decorative, egg-shaped map. This is the early state with the farmer's wife and three ships in the North Sea.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1574-1575
Selling price: $1200
Sold in 2008
Europae. La carte d'Europe.
In 1575 Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia was translated into French and published in Paris by François de Belle-Forest. The Europe map being a folding woodcut copy of O...
Place & Date: Paris, 1575
Selling price: $750
Sold in 2008
Asiae nova descriptio.
The much rarer first plate of Ortelius' fine map of Asia. The first plate has "La Farfana", in the lower right corner. It is estimated that only 1575 copies are...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1575 - 1575
Selling price: $1750
Sold in 2008
Moscavw. Moscovia, Urbs, regionis eiusde nominis metropolitia, duplo maior. . .
It shows the city of Moscow from a slightly elevated viewpoint across the frozen Moskva River. The walled center of the city is depicted with its many churches and filled...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1575
Selling price: $3100
Sold in 2008
Illustris Civitatis Conimbriae in Lusitania. . .
A rare and exceptional copper plate engraving of the city of Coimbra in N. Central Portugal. The town is home to the tenth oldest continuously extant university in the w...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca, 1575
Selling price: $925
Sold in 2011
Noua Bracarie Auguste Descriptio.
A rare, beautifully engraved bird's-eye view of Braga, one of the world's most famous ecclesiastical centers. The city has a rich history and served as the capital of th...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca, 1575
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2011
Nurnberga, urbs noblissima, totius quasi Germanie . . .
Fine panoramic view of Nuremberg.From the greatest publication in this genre!. The "Civitates" was compiled and written by George Braun, Canon of Cologne Cathed...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1575
Selling price: $550
Sold in 2008
Cantebrigia...
A sought after and highly decorative early bird's-eye plan of the ancient university town of Cambridge. From Braun & Hogenberg's monumental work, CIVITATES ORBIS TERR...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca. 1575
Selling price: $1050
Sold in 2008
Transilvania.
Detailed map of Hungary prepared by Sambucas in 1566, who itself based his map on Honter's map of 1532.Latin text on verso.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1575
Selling price: $180
Sold in 2008
Europae. La carte d\'Europe.
In 1575 Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia was translated into French and published in Paris by François de Belle-Forest. The Europe map being a folding woodcut copy of O...
Place & Date: Paris, 1575
Selling price: $1300
Sold in 2008
Hierosolymia, Clarissima totius Orientis civitas.
Two bird's eye perspectives town-plans on one sheet. The left plan shows ancient Jerusalem at the time of Christ. A contemporary view of Jerusalem appears to the right wi...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1575
Selling price: $750
Sold in 2015
Vegel. / Velis Malaga.
Two panoramic town-views of Vejer de la Frontera (top half) and Vélez-Málaga (bottom half) on one page.From the greatest publication in this genre!. The Civitates was ...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1575
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2009
Regni Bohemiae descriptio.
Fine and early map of Czechoslovakia after Johann Criginger and used by A.Ortelius in his atlas 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum [Atlas of the Whole World].Fine map with Prague n...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1575
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2011
Tunes Urbs
Attractive city view of Tunis in Tunisia / Africa. Showing the Imperial attack on Tunis in 1573. Latin text on verso.
Place & Date: 1575
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2009
Calechut Celeberrimum Indiae Emporium
Birdeye view of Kozhikode (Calicut) with ships and elefants.
Place & Date: Cologne, 1575
Selling price: $210
Sold in 2009
[ Italy ]
On verso a small map of Italy.From a French text edition of his Cosmographia , that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge. In 1575 Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia w...
Place & Date: Basle, ca.1575
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2009
[ Noe's Ark caught in a storm ].
On verso a woodcut of Noe's Ark caught in a storm.From a French text edition of his Cosmographia , that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge. In 1575 Sebastian Müns...
Place & Date: Basle, ca.1575
Selling price: $10
Sold in 2018
[ Milan ]
On verso a woodcut representing a view of the city of Milan. On recto a portrait of an Emperor and a woodcut of a countryside with a village.From a French text edition of...
Place & Date: Paris, ca.1575
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2018
Misena Hermun Durorum Urbs.
Braun & Hogenberg of Meissen.
Place & Date: Kologne, 1575
Selling price: $325
Sold in 2009
Presbiteri Iohannis, Sive, Abissinorum Imperii Descriptio.
Despite the title this map extends far beyond Prester John's supposed kingdom. It covers Africa from the fabled mountains of the moon in the centre of the continent north...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1575
Selling price: $1500
Sold in 2010
Dordravum vulgo Dortt.. (Dordrecht)
A panoramic town-view of Dordrecht with noble figures in the foreground.From the greatest publication in this genre!. The ,Civitates, was compiled and written by George B...
Place & Date: Cologne 1575
Selling price: $351
Sold in 2009
Urbis Campensis. (Kampen)
Fine panoramic town-view of the town of Kampen. From the greatest publication in this genre!. The ,Civitates, was compiled and written by George Braun, Canon of Cologne C...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1575
Selling price: $210
Sold in 2011
Cairus, quae olim Babylon, Aegypti Maxima urbs
This striking bird's-eye view of Cairo and the surrounding countryside includes depictions of the pyramids and the Sphinx. Several people are depicted in the foreground i...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca 1575
Selling price: $700
Sold in 2010
Soest.
Fine panoramic of Soest, in North Rhine-Westphalia. From the greatest publication in this genre!. The "Civitates" was compiled and written by George Braun, Can...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1575
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2011
Asie.
Uncommon wood-cut map of Asia. New Guinea has disappeared and Japan is represented as a turtle-shaped island. An important innovation is the appearance of the Straits of ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1575
Selling price: $1550
Sold in 2010
Le Grand Caire .
The first and only edition. Scarce map of Cairo by Francois De Belleforest, which appeared in the 1575 French edition of Munster's Cosmographia.Derived from the famous Br...
Place & Date: Paris, 1575
Selling price: $700
Sold in 2013
Grodna (Hrodna or Grodno)
This is a stunning view of what is now referred to today as Hrodna or Grodno, a city in Belarus. This image showings the city situated on the banks of the Neman River (ca...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1575
Selling price: $800
Sold in 2011
Indiae Orientalis, insularumque adiacentium typus.
Fine example of Ortelius' map of SE Asia, Japan, and the Philippines, etc. The map includes Beach and other information drawn from Marco Polo, portion of the West Coast o...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1575
Selling price: $3400
Sold in 2011
Nouvelle description de Poloigne et Hongrie.
Early wood block printed map of Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria with the River Danube. The Black Sea in the lower right corner with Constantinople.
Place & Date: Basle, 1552 - 1575
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2011
Presbiteri Iohannis.
Stunning map of the kingdom of the mythical Christian king who according to legend provided a stronghold against Barbarians and was an ally to the crusaders. Ortelius des...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1575
Selling price: $1200
Sold in 2014
Carta cosmographica, con los nombres propiedad y vertu delos vientos.
A beautiful woodblock map in cordiform of the World by Frisius for Apian's 'Cosmographia'. This is the 2nd state, Spanish edition with 'Angl' and 'Scot' against the outli...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1575
Selling price: $2800
Sold in 2019
Parens, siue Parentium Vulvo Pareenzo Histrie Opp.
A woodcut from: Braun & Hogenberg's, Civitates Orbis Terrarum. It is of Parens or Parentium, commonly Porec, town in Istria. COMMENTARY BY BRAUN: "Porec is a to...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1575
Selling price: $125
Sold in 2020
Nurnberg - Norenberga, Urbs nobilissima . . . [Nuremberg]
A panoramic view of Nuremberg by Braun and Hogenberg. TRANSLATION OF CARTOUCHE TEXT: The well-known city of Nuremberg is effectively the centre of all Germany and is dist...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1575
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2020
LOXA (Loja, Granada).
An early view of Loja, a bird''s eye view from the greatest publication in this genre ! The 'Civitates' was compiled and written by George Braun, Canon of Cologne Cathedr...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1575
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2020
NOVESIUM vulgo Neus. . .[on sheet with:] VERONA, nunc Bonna,. . .[and] BVRULA, vulgari idiomate Broell; 1575. [and] SONTINA, Zunss Oppidum ad Rheni ripas. . .
An antique map with four bird's-eye views by Braun and Hogenberg: Neuss, Bonn, Brühl and Zons.NEUSS. CARTOUCHE READS:" Novesium, in German Neuss, a Rhenish city of ...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1575
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2020
LUBECA Urbs Imperialis . . Inclytae Hanseaticae Societatis Caput [on sheet with] HAMBURGA, Florentissimum Inferioris Saxoniae Emporium.
An antique, decorative map with two bird's-eye views by Braun and Hogenberg: Lubeck and Hamburg. LÜBECK. TRANSLATION OF CARTOUCHE TEXT: The Free Imperial City of Lübeck...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1575
Selling price: $375
Sold in 2020
EMUDA vulgo Embden Urbs Frisiae orientalis primaria. (Emden)
A decorative map showing a striking bird's-eye view plan of Emden by Braun and Hogenberg. CARTOUCHE: Emuda, in German Emden, capital of East Frisia. COMMENTARY BY BRAUN: ...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1575
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2020
Arzilla Maxima Quodam Africe Urbs. . .
A city view of Asilah by Braun & Hogeburg. TRANSLATION OF CAPTION: Asilah, formerly the largest city in Africa, is today confined within the narrowest bounds by the C...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1575
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2020
Huum Opp. Condrusorum Caput. . . [Huy]
A bird's-eye view of Huy by Braun and Hogenberg, with a key to locations. The 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum', or the "Braun & Hogenberg", is a six-volume town a...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1575
Selling price: $230
Sold in 2020
Fribergum Misinae. [Freiberg (Saxony)]
A bird's-eye view plan of Freiberg (Saxony) by Braun and Hogenberg, with a key to locations. COMMENTARY BY BRAUN (on verso): "Freiberg is a famous and very beautiful...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1575
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2020
Misena Hermundurorum Urbs. [Meissen]
A bird's-eye view of Meissen by Braun and Hogenberg, with key to locations. CARTOUCHE: Misena, city of Hermunduri. COMMENTARY BY BRAUN: "This city is surrounded by v...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1575
Selling price: $385
Sold in 2020
Hala, ad Cocharum Flumen in Suevia Op. [Schwäbisch Hall]
A decorative bird's-eye view of Schwäbisch Hall by Braun and Hogenberg, with key to locations..
Place & Date: Cologne, 1575
Selling price: $230
Sold in 2020
Tunes Oppidum Barbarie & Regina fedes 1535 ... [on sheet with] Africa olim Aphrodisum [and] Penon de Veles.
Three bird's-eye views of Tunis, Mahdia and Penon de Veles on one sheet. From the greatest publication in this genre!. The Civitates was compiled and written by George Br...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1575
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2020
Tunes, Oppidum Barbarie &, Regia Sedes... [on sheet with] Africa, olim Aphrodisium [and] Penon de Veles.
A bird's-eye panoramic view of Tunis in 1535 at top, Mahdia, south of Susa, in 1540 at lower left, and the island fortress of Penon de Veles in 1564 at lower right.From t...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1575
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2020
De la Cosmographie Universelle, Liure III. La ville d'Eger . . .
Double page view of the city Eger in Hungary. From a French text edition of his Cosmographia, that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge. With contemp. annotation in ...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1575
Selling price: $15
Sold in 2020
Two genii holding a coat of arms.
Lucas van Leyden (1494 - 1533), also named either Lucas Hugensz or Lucas Jacobsz, a Dutch engraver and painter, born and mainly active in Leiden. Lucas van Leyden was amo...
Place & Date: 1527-ca. 1575
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2021
Page from La Cosmographie Universelle . . . (Page 70)
Text page with woodblock illustration showing Adam and Eve (110 x 155 mm.) In 1575 Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia was translated into French and published in Paris by ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1575
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2022
Page from La Cosmographie Universelle . . . (Page 54)
Text page with woodblock illustration showing a full lenght portait of Ptolomy (size 105 x 63 mm.) In 1575 Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia was translated into French an...
Place & Date: Paris, 1575
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2022
Page from La Cosmographie Universelle . . . (Page 34)
Text page with woodblock illustration showing a globe ( size 185 x 165 mm.) In 1575 Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia was translated into French and published in Paris by...
Place & Date: Paris, 1575
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2021
Page from La Cosmographie Universelle . . . (Page 38)
Text page with small wookblock illustration showing Ptolomeus holding a sextant (size 105 x 63 mm. In the verso an illustration of a astrolabe, size 80 x 75 mm. In 1575 ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1575
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2021
Page from La Cosmographie Universelle . . . (Page 6)
Text page with a woodblock illustration showing God's creation of the earth (117 x 150 mm.) In 1575 Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia was translated into French and publ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1575
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2021
Oenipons, sive Enipontius vulgo Insspruck, Tirolensis Comitatus Urbs Amplissima MDLXXV.
A fine copper engraved birds-eye/panoramic view of Innsbruck by Braun and Hogenberg. From: 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum, ... Part 2: De Praecipuis, Totius Universi Urbibus, ...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1575
Selling price: $280
Sold in 2021
Cliviam, Ducatus Clivensis elegans opp: - Duisburgum, Oppidum Antiquissimum Vetus Francoru Regia - Embrica, Clivensis ditionis oppidum Ecclesia collegiata... - Gennapium, Ducatus Clivensis, Opp:.[Kleve, Duisbu.
A fine copper engraving with four important early views of - Kleve, Duisburg, Emmerich, and Gennep - on a single sheet. From: 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum, ... Part 2'. Köl...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1575
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2021
Nurnberg - Norenberga, Urbs nobilissima, . . [Nürnberg]
A fine copper engraved antique panoramic view of Nürnberg, by Georg Braun and Frans Hogenberg. From Vol.2 of the 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum'. TRANSLATION OF CARTOUCHE TEX...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1575
Selling price: $700
Sold in 2021
Constantia, vulgo Costnitz Memorabile Sueuie Opp. - S. Galli Opp. et Monasterium Helvetiorum, [Konstanz - Sankt Gallen]
Two bird's-eye panoramic views on one sheet: Constance and Sankt Gallen, by Georg Braun and Frans Hogenberg. From: 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum, ... Part 2'. Köln, 1575. CO...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1575
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2021
INGILTERRA ET SCOTIA.
One of the earliest modern Maps of England, Wales & Scotland. A very rare early map of England, Wales and Scotland, with topography and main settlements, depicted pic...
Place & Date: Venice, 1570-1575
Selling price: $1750
Sold in 2022
Candia [on sheet with] La Cita de Corphu.
A pair of copper engraved views of the Venetian cities of Iraklion, Crete, and Corfu from the second volume of Braun & Hogenberg's "Civitas Orbis Terrarum."...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1575
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2021