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Geldria.
A very rare first state of Gerard de Jode's map of the Dutch Duchy of Geldria, after Johannes van Deurecom:' 'Ioannes Duetecu[m] [and] Lucas, à Duetecum fecerunt’ Fro...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1578
Selling price: $1500
Sold in 2022
Africa mit seinen besundern Leandern / Thieren / und wunderbarlichen Dingen. (...)
A very early and attractively coloured map of Africa. A full leaf from the Cosmographei, published in Basel by Heinrich Petri in 1578. With a beautiful woodcut initial le...
Place & Date: Basel, 1578
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2021
Beschreibung Engellands und Schottlandts
A very early and attractively coloured map of the UK, Engeland, Schotland, Ireland, and Wales, on a full leaf. A wonderful woodcut with picturesquely cut cities, seas and...
Place & Date: Basel, 1578
Selling price: $170
Sold in 2021
Cosmographey Oder beschreibung Aller Länder herrschafftenn vnd fürnemesten Stetten des gantzen Erdbodens: sampt jhren Gelegenheiten, Eygenschafften, Religion, Gebreuchen, Geschichten vnnd Handthierungen, etc.
The portrait of Sebastian Münster aged 60, as part of a separate typographical titlepage, printed subsequently in red and black.
Place & Date: Basel, 1578
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2022
Italia mit den Dreien Furnemsten Inseln Corsica / Sardinia und Sicilia.
One of the earliest woodblock map of Italy. It shows the area from Marseille to Albania, including the Adriatic Sea, also the islands of Sicily, Corsica and Sardinia. The...
Place & Date: Basel, 1578
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2023
Africae ut terra mariq, lustrata est, proprijssima..
Map of the continent of Africa from the extremely rare first edition. With ''cum priuilegio'' added. Engraved by Joannes and Lucas van Deutecum, who's signature is in the...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1578
Selling price: $9050
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Europae totius orbis partium amoenissimae..
Map of Europe from the extremely rare first edition.With ''cum priuilegio'' added.Engraved by Joannes and Lucas van Deutecum, who's signature is in the lower left corner...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1578
Selling price: $6125
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Asiae novissima tabula.
Map of Asia, including the most western part of America from the extremely rare first edition. De Jode describes this map as new, as he extended the map westward from Ort...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1578
Selling price: $6000
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Terrae Sanctae quae Promissionis terra, est Syriae pars,..
Map of Holy land from the extremely rare first edition.. This map shows the Mediterranean at the top while the entire lower right offers a detailed view of Jerusalem. Eng...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1578
Selling price: $2900
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Americae Pervvi aqve ita vt postremvm detecta traditvr recens delineatio.
Map of Central and South America from the extremely rare first edition.. This map shows South America, part of Mexico, Caribbean and the southern tip of Florida. In lower...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1578
Selling price: $11625
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Tertiae Partis Asiae..
Map of India, Malaysia, China's south coast, Philippines, northern part of Sumatra, Borneo. From the extremely rare first edition.. Engraved by Joannes and Lucas van Deut...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1578
Selling price: $4875
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GERMANIA universa, Europae totius..
Map of Germany, Poland, Austria and the Netherlands from the extremely rare first edition.With ''cum priuilegio'' added. Engraved by Joannes and Lucas van Deutecum, who's...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1578
Selling price: $1000
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Angliae Scotiae et Hibernie nova descriptio.
FIRST EDITION of this fine example of De Jode's rare map of the British Isles, oriented with West at the top. The map was based on Mercator's wall map from 1554. From the...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1578
Selling price: $2650
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Helvetiae sev sviciae qvae mvltis confoederatorvm terra dicitvr primmae Germanorvm provinciae Galliae Italiae qvae contigvae chorographia vera et elegans avtore.
FIRST EDITION of this fine example of De Jode's rare map of Switzerland. From the first edition of De Jode's Speculum Orbis Terrarum, the second general atlas of the worl...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1578
Selling price: $1800
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Portvgalliae qvae olim Lvsitania Vernando Alvaro Secco avtore recens descriptio.
FIRST EDITION of this fine example of De Jode's rare map of Portugal. From the first edition of De Jode's Speculum Orbis Terrarum, the second general atlas of the world, ...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1578
Selling price: $1650
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Italia totius orbis olim domatricis nova et exactiss descriptio Jacobo Castaldo auctore.
Map of Italy from the extremely rare first edition, here the state without the privilege. Engraved by Joannes and Lucas van Deutecum, who's signature is in the lower left...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1578
Selling price: $4500
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Sumatra ein grosse insel..
Map of island of Taprobana, which was variously thought to be Ceylon or Sumatra. This map depicts Ceylon with the typical misconceptions of Ptolemy showing a small part o...
Place & Date: Basle, 1578
Selling price: $240
Sold in 2009
Constantinopel
Detailed bird's-eye view of the Golden Horn of Constantinople. The city plan depicts the markets, homes, palaces and churches, including the famous Hagia Sophia, shown pr...
Place & Date: Basle, 1578
Selling price: $425
Sold in 2009
Neuw Griechenlandt ..
An early double-page woodblock map of Greece, the Aegean Sea and western Turkey. It locates Athens, Constantinople, Arcadia, Crete, Rhodes, Bursa (Byrsa), and more, exten...
Place & Date: Basle 1578
Selling price: $260
Sold in 2008
Das Heilig Judisch Land mit Ausztheilung der Zwolff Geschlechter.
Munster based this map of the Holy Land on maps by Mercator and Ziegler and filled it with numerous woodcut vignettes. The unusual orientation of the map places west at t...
Place & Date: Basle 1578
Selling price: $260
Sold in 2009
Die heilige statt Jerusalem contrafehtet nach form und gestalt..
Bold woodcut view of Jerusalem from an edition of Munster's Cosmographia. Well-detailed birds-eye view from outside the walls with numerous buildings and temples named. O...
Place & Date: Basle, 1578
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2009
Africa
Strongly engraved woodblock map of the continent depicts the Nile's origins in twin lakes originating in the Motes Lunae, or Mountains of the Moon, based on Ptolemy's acc...
Place & Date: Basle, 1578
Selling price: $130
Sold in 2008
Appendix III Tabulae Afr:
Ptolemaic map of Egypt bu Mercator.
Place & Date: Cologne, 1578
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2010
Europae II Tab:
Ptolemaic map of Spain by Mercator.
Place & Date: Cologne, 1578
Selling price: $275
Sold in 2010
Asiae Tab.VI.
Finely engraved, this classical map of the Arabia peninsula after Ptolemy from the renowned Gerhard Mercator. The map shows the Gulf of Persia in an almost rectangular f...
Place & Date: 1578
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2015
Nova et Castigator Comitatus Hollandiae Descriptio . . .
A second state of the first plate of the province of North and South Holland in the Netherlands. With the engraved signature of Joannes and Lucas van Deutecum in the lowe...
Place & Date: Antwerp, ca. 1578
Selling price: $2350
Sold in 2015
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[Europe in the shape of a Queen.]
From 'Cosmographia, das ist: Beschreibung der Gantzen Welt,...'; German edition. wood engraving; overall size 34 x 21 cm. On verso: German text with high-lightened capita...
Place & Date: Basle, c1578
Selling price: $1450
Sold in 2016
Engellandt/ mit dem anstossenden Reich Schottlandt/ so vorzeiten Albion und Britannia haben geheissen.
From 'Cosmographia, das ist: Beschreibung der Gantzen Welt,...'; German edition. wood engravings set into text; overall size 33 x 20 cm. on verso: engraved title. Münst...
Place & Date: Basle, c. 1578
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2015
Beschreibung Engellandts und Schottlandts.
From 'Cosmographia, das ist: Beschreibung der Gantzen Welt,...'; published in Basle, c1578, German edition.wood engraving set into text; overall size 33 x 20 cm. On verso...
Place & Date: Basle, c. 1578
Selling price: $210
Sold in 2015
Trevirensis Episcopatus Exactissimo Decriptio Per Iohannem Scilde.
Map of Trier, prepared by J. van Schilde and engraved by Johan van Doetichum. From the first edition of De Jode's Speculum Orbis Terrarum, the second general atlas of the...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1578
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2015
Das Engellandt/ mit dem anstossenden Reich Schottland/ so vorzeiten Albion und Britannia/ haben geheissen.
A woodcut map; on laid paper. This map is from the last German edition of the well-published 'Cosmographia', with Scotland orientated to the West. The map is decorated wi...
Place & Date: Basle, 1578
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2016
Amstelredamum, Nobile Inferioris Germaniae Oppidum . . . (Amsterdam)
Very desirable and early town-plan of Amsterdam from a north-easterly direction. With a numbered key (1-28) in lower left corner. "On the left-hand side we can see h...
Place & Date: Cologne, (1572) 1578
Selling price: $480
Sold in 2017
Byzantium, Nunc Constantinopolis..
One of the finest and most sought-after views of Istanbul. Viewed from the village of Scutari, the City is shown with all its fortifications, the original Genoese distric...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1578
Selling price: $1750
Sold in 2017
Barhasste Contraschtung der Statt Haerlem.
Very attractive and detailed birds-eye plan of Haarlem, Holland showing the full extent of rivers and moated fortification. It is set in a page of Old German text with te...
Place & Date: Basel, 1578
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2018
Von der Statt Cales.
Very attractive and detailed birds-eye plan of Calais, France showing the full extent of rivers and moated fortification. It is set in a page of Old German text with text...
Place & Date: Basel, 1578
Selling price: $15
Sold in 2017
Byzantium, Nunc Constantinopolis..
One of the finest and most sought-after views of Istanbul. Viewed from the village of Scutari, the City is shown with all its fortifications, the original Genoese distric...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1578
Selling price: $2000
Sold in 2020
America. Die Neüwen Inseln so hinder Hispanien gegen Orient, bey dem Landt Indie ligen.
A very rare state of the earliest separate map to show both North and South America. One of the first maps also to include Japan, and the first to refer to "Mare Pac...
Place & Date: Basel, 1578
Selling price: $2100
Sold in 2018
Africa / Libya / Mörenlandt / mit allen Königreichen / so zu unsern zeiten darin gefunden werden.
A wonderfully decorative and extremely interesting map of the continent of Africa by Sebastian Münster. The map features a galleon, mountains, rivers, assorted kings cro...
Place & Date: Basel, 1578
Selling price: $1200
Sold in 2018
Europa, das ein Drittheil der Erden / nach gelegenheit unsern zeiten.
At the time Sebastian Münster published this map, it was not yet conventional to orient the North at the top. The uncommon orientation to the South for this map was deri...
Place & Date: Basel, 1578
Selling price: $800
Sold in 2018
Asia, die Länder Asie nach ihrer gelegenheit biss in Indiam werden in dieser Tafeln verzeichnet.
This is one of the earliest maps of the whole continent of Asia, based on the recent geographical discoveries by Portuguese navigators. The outline of the Asian mainland ...
Place & Date: Basel, 1578
Selling price: $1400
Sold in 2018
Ptolemaisch general tafel, begreiffend die halbe Kugel der Welt.
A lovely full color example Sebastian Münster's Ptolemaic world map, from the "Cosmographia" of 1578. Relief is shown pictorially. The Ptolemaic map shows the ...
Place & Date: Basel, 1578
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2018
Das Erst General, inhaltend die beschreibung und den Circkel des gantzen Erdrichs und Möres.
A beautiful oval full color example of Sebastian Münster's new world map, from the "Cosmographia" of 1578. Relief is shown pictorially. The map is embellished ...
Place & Date: Basel, 1578
Selling price: $2100
Sold in 2018
Mörwunder und seltzame Thier, wie die in Mitnächtigen Ländern gefunden werden.
In the early days of the era of discoveries, many ships would depart, never be seen again. Sailors that managed to return used to speak of encounters with large fish that...
Place & Date: Basel, 1578
Selling price: $1450
Sold in 2018
Flissinga munitissimu Zelandiae. . .
A fine bird's-eye view of the town of Vlissingen in Zeeland. It is situated at the mouth of the western Schelde. You see an excellent overview of the town's layout, and i...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1578
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2020
Diversi Dithmarsorum et vicinarum gentium habitus.
An interesting and unusual print of the various costumes from Dithmarschen and the surrounding areas. This print is made up of three rows of assorted costumed peoples. So...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1578
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2020
Gmunden.
A wonderful bird's-eye view of the small town of Gmunden, in the upper Archduchy of Austria, well situated by a lake. The surrounding mountains supply salt, from which a ...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1578
Selling price: $310
Sold in 2020
Africa / Libya / Morenlandt / mit allen Königreichen / so zu unsern zeiten darin gefunden werden.
A decorative Münster's map of Africa, the first map of the African Continent. The map features a galleon, mountains, rivers, assorted kings crowns, denoting various king...
Place & Date: Basel, 1578
Selling price: $950
Sold in 2021
Primae Partis Asiae.
The Very Rare First State. Turkey/ Holy Land/ Iran/ Iraq/ Arabia/ Afganistan.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1578
Selling price: $2500
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Asia secunda pars terrae in forma Pegasir.
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 map.Bünting...
Place & Date: Magdeburg,. 1579
Selling price: $2000
Sold in 2012
Indiae Orientalis Insularumque Adiacientium Typus.
Famous milestone map of South-East Asia, China, Japan, Indonesia, and the Philippines. The map also includes parts of the West Coast of North America, including several m...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1579
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2012
Ducatus Osroiczensis et zatoriensis descriptio.
Charming miniature version of Ortelius' map covering Lesser Poland. French text on verso.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1579
Selling price: $110
Sold in 2012
Africae Tabula Nova.
From the 'Typus Orbis Terrarum', Latin Text - Striking continental map designed by Ortelius from elements of contemporary maps by Gastaldi, Mercator, and Forlani. It is c...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1579
Selling price: $1600
Sold in 2012
Anglia et Hibernia Nova. . .
One of the earliest maps of Great Britain.Girolamo Ruscelli's edition of Ptolemy's Geographia included newly engraved copperplates by Giulio and Livio Sanuti. From the se...
Place & Date: Venice, 1579
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2013
Americae sive Novi Orbis Nova Descriptio.
A derivative of Mercator's large map published the year before, this is the second plate of Ortelius's map of the Americas, with the ship in the Pacific sailing East ward...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1579
Selling price: $3500
Sold in 2016
Europae.
A classic map of Europe derived from Mercator's work; Russia from Jenkinson's map; Scandinavia from Olaus Magnus. The relatively modest cartouche shows a partially covere...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1579
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2013
Asia secunda pars terrae in forma Pegasi.
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, ca. 1579
Selling price: $2200
Sold in 2021
Austriae Ducatus Chorographia, Wolfgango Lazio Auctore.
A highly decorative early map of the duchy of Austria, engraved after the cartographic source by Wolfgang Lazius.Centered on the stretch of the Danube from Linz to Bratis...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1579
Selling price: $185
Sold in 2014
Hispaniae novae sive magnae recens et vera descriptio. 1579
This was the standard map of the area for a generation, copied by De Bry, Quad and Hondius. Even though Herrera (Spain's Royal Cosmographer) and Wytfliet worked 20 years ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1579
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2016
Anjou : Andegavensium ditionis vera et integra descriptio.
Attractive map of the Loire River valley centred on Angers. The map displays the river system with mountains and forests and hundreds of tiny villages. Large strapwork t...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1579
Selling price: $160
Sold in 2015
Scotiae Tabula.
From the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1579. A fine map of Scotland with north to the right of the page. Ortelius derived this map from Mercator's 1564 map of the British Isle...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1579
Selling price: $650
Sold in 2018
Italiae Novissima Descriptio, Auctore Iacopo Gastaldo Pedemontano.
A beautiful map of Italy based on an earlier work done by Gastaldi. Features a vignette of Neptune and a female mermaid companion, sea monsters ships and decorative carto...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1579
Selling price: $800
Sold in 2020
Americae Sive Novi Orbis Nova Descriptio.
Beautifully colored map of the Americas from the 1579 edition of Ortelius’ Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first modern atlas of the world. In this second edition, the or...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1579
Selling price: $3150
Sold in 2015
Italiae Novissima descriptio. . .
Very fine map of Italy after Giacomo Gastaldi. Embellished with a title cartouche, vessels, sea monsters and sea gods. Latin text on verso.Abraham Ortelius (1527-1598) wa...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1579
Selling price: $1230
Sold in 2015
Africae Tabula Nova.
Beautifully colored map of Africa from the 1579 edition of Ortelius’ Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first modern atlas of the world. The map of Africa was one of the few...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1579
Selling price: $750
Sold in 2015
Asiae Nova Descriptio.
Beautifully colored map of Asia from the 1579 edition of Ortelius’Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first modern atlas of the world. The map is based upon Ortelius's wall ma...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1579
Selling price: $900
Sold in 2015
Europae.
Beautifully colored map of the Europe from the 1579 edition of Ortelius’Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first modern atlas of the world. Ortelius’ map of Europe became t...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1579
Selling price: $900
Sold in 2015
(Portrait of Ortelius )
Beautifully colored portrait of Ortelius of from the 1579 edition of Ortelius’ Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first modern atlas of the world.In this edition the portrai...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1579
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2015
Asiae Nova Descriptio.
Second state. Ortelius' fine map of Asia well represents the continent at a time when Europeans were expanding their power in the far east. The Indian subcontinent and Ma...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1579
Selling price: $1300
Sold in 2016
Salisburgensis Iuridictionis.
Striking map and town view of Salzburg, prepared by the Salzburg-born cartographer Marcus Secsnagel (1520-1580). Title cartouche on the lower right corner. Famous Abraham...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1579
Selling price: $135
Sold in 2018
Russiae, Moscoviae et Tartariae Descriptio..
A map of Russia, engraved by Frans Hogenberg, from an original of 1562, by Anthony Jenkinson, a four-sheet map of Russia published in 1562 for the English Muscovy Company...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1579
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2016
Barbariae et Biledulgerid, nova descriptio.
North-West Africa. Koeman speculated: In view of the important trading relationship between Antwerp and Africa, it is not impossible that the original was a manuscript ma...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1579
Selling price: $220
Sold in 2017
ROMANI IMPERII IMAGO.
A highly decorative map of Europe, from Abraham Ortelius' Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first modern atlas of the world. This image of Europe and its history was developed...
Place & Date: Antwerp, ca. 1579
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2017
Peregrinationis Divi Pavli Typus Corographicus...
A gorgeous Ortelius map of the travels of St. Paul the Apostle through the Mediterranean, extending west to Italy and east to the Euphrates, including parts of the Red Se...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1579
Selling price: $575
Sold in 2017
Italiae Novissima descriptio. . .
A very fine map of Italy by Abraham Ortelius, after Giacomo Gastaldi. Embellished with a title cartouche, vessels, sea monsters and mermaids and Neptune. The map is fille...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1579
Selling price: $375
Sold in 2018
Asiae Nova Descriptio.
Second state. Ortelius' fine map of Asia well represents the continent at a time when Europeans were expanding their power in the far east. The Indian subcontinent and Ma...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1579
Selling price: $1400
Sold in 2018
Anglia, Scotiae et Hiberniae, Sive Brittannicar: Insularum Descriptio
A classic and famous map of the British Isles with North to the right.Probably the earliest map of the British Isles that are still available. Despite the fact, that the ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1579
Selling price: $750
Sold in 2019
Americae sive Novi Orbis Nova Descriptio.
A rare miniature map of North and South America based on Ortelius' larger map, ornamented with two sailing ships and a delicate floral framing. This is the second edition...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1579
Selling price: $550
Sold in 2020
Americae Sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio.
This is the third edition of Ortelius' map landmark map of the Americas showing the western hemisphere, and showing a prominent bulge in the South American coastline. An ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1579
Selling price: $3500
Sold in 2022
Cambriae Typus..
Ancient map of Wales, prepared by Humphrey Lhuyd. With fine cartouche, ship and a sea monster.
Place & Date: Antwerp 1579
Selling price: $390
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Americae Sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio.
This is the second copperplate of Ortelius' map showing the western hemisphere, showing the largest ships in the Pacific sailing eastward and the prominent bulge in the S...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1579
Selling price: $4426
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