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Lucenburgum.
Very decorative and detailed view of the town of Luxembourg, including the Prince's Peter place.
Place & Date: Cologne, 1580
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2008
Antiquae urbis Romae imago accuratiss.
A view showing ancient Rome. From the greatest publication in this genre!.
Place & Date: Cologne, 1580
Selling price: $1500
Sold in 2013
Roterodamum. . . (Rotterdam)
One of the oldest plans of the city. On top coat of arms.From the greatest publication in this genre!. The Civitates was compiled and written by George Braun, Canon of Co...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1580
Selling price: $750
Sold in 2018
Die Stadt Enchuijsen. . .
Plan of Enkhuizen, birthplace of Lucas Waghenaer. Lower left title cartouche with coat of arm and extensive key to principal places and houses in town. Enkhuizen was one ...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1580
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2013
Danzich.
Miniature woodcut view of Gdansk from a German text edition of Munster?s Cosmographia. Text beneath image and continued on verso.
Place & Date: Basle, 1580
Selling price: $45
Sold in 2009
Vegel. Velis Malaga
Early views of Vegel and Malaga, a bird\'\'s eye view from the greatest publication in this genre ! The Civitates was compiled and written by George Braun, Canon of Colog...
Place & Date: Cologne, c.1580
Selling price: $270
Sold in 2008
Emuda, vulgo Embden.
Early view of Emden, a bird''s eye view from the greatest publication in this genre ! The Civitates was compiled and written by George Braun, Canon of Cologne Cathedral. ...
Place & Date: Cologne, c.1580
Selling price: $260
Sold in 2008
Groeninga. Broversavia. Goricum.
Early views of Groningen, Brouwershaven and Gorinchem, a bird''s eye view from the greatest publication in this genre ! The Civitates was compiled and written by George B...
Place & Date: Cologne, c.1580
Selling price: $285
Sold in 2010
Mons. Arras.
Early views of Mons and Arras, a bird's eye view from the greatest publication in this genre ! The Civitates was compiled and written by George Braun, Canon of Cologne Ca...
Place & Date: Cologne, c.1580
Selling price: $320
Sold in 2008
![Vienna. / Buda. [Budapest]](/uploads/cache/99015-250x250.jpg)
Vienna. / Buda. [Budapest]
Early views of Vienna and Budapest, a bird\'s eye view from the greatest publication in this genre ! The Civitates was compiled and written by George Braun, Canon of Colo...
Place & Date: Cologne, c.1580
Selling price: $480
Sold in 2008
Die Stat Swybuschin in nider Schlesien
Attractive birdeye view of Swiebodzin in Poland, Silesia. Beautiful color. From a Latin edition of "Civitates orbis terrarum".
Place & Date: Cologne, 1580
Selling price: $550
Sold in 2009
Genua... / Florentia.
A fine set of two views on one sheet, the upper showing Genoa. The lower view shows a perspective of the city of Florence.From the greatest publication in this genre!. T...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1580
Selling price: $1100
Sold in 2020
Moscavw. Moscovia, Urbs regionis eiusde nominis metropolitica, duplo maior. . .
Showing Moscow within the walled city and figures in the foreground. Title cartouche in the lower right corner Moscovia, Urbs. Regionis ciusde nominis metropolitica, dup...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1580
Selling price: $2600
Sold in 2009
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, 1580
Selling price: $1850
Sold in 2008
Algeri.
Rare view of the city of Algiers, with its fortifications, harbor and adjacent area by M.Florimi. With key a-Z, 1-48 of the principal buildings.Florimi\'s works are among...
Place & Date: Siena, ca. 1580
Selling price: $1550
Sold in 2008
Hungariae descriptio, Wolfgango Lazio Auct
Original old color copper engraved map of Hungary by A. Ortelius. The map is based on Wolfgang Lazius 5 sheet wall map of 1556. From the 1580 German edition of "Thea...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1580
Selling price: $280
Sold in 2009
![[Amsterdam]](/uploads/cache/26044-250x250.jpg)
[Amsterdam]
Very early birds-eye view of Amsterdam. From his Cosmographia, that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge. An exciting print.Sebastian Münster was born in Nierder-In...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1580
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2008
![[Edinburgh]](/uploads/cache/26202-250x250.jpg)
[Edinburgh]
Early panoramic view of Edinburgh. From his Cosmographia, that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge. An exciting print.Sebastian Münster was born in Nierder-Ingelhe...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1580
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2009
![[Africa].](/uploads/cache/26203-250x250.jpg)
[Africa].
Very early map of Africa. From his Cosmographia, that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge. An exciting print.Sebastian Münster was born in Nierder-Ingelheim, near ...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1580
Selling price: $70
Sold in 2008
![[Asia Minor - Turkey]](/uploads/cache/26204-250x250.jpg)
[Asia Minor - Turkey]
Very early map of the Asian part of Turkey. From his Cosmographia, that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge. An exciting print.Sebastian Münster was born in Nierde...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1580
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2011
Candia feu Creta insula.
Very early map of the island of Crete. From his Cosmographia, that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge. An exciting print.Sebastian Münster was born in Nierder-Ing...
Place & Date: Basle 1550-1580
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2008
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[Poland]
Map of Poland. From his Cosmographia, that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge. An exciting print.Sebastian Münster was born in Nierder-Ingelheim, near Mainz on 20...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1580
Selling price: $45
Sold in 2008
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[Greece]
Map of Greece. From his Cosmographia, that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge. An exciting print.Sebastian Münster was born in Nierder-Ingelheim, near Mainz on 20...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1580
Selling price: $70
Sold in 2008
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[Poland]
Little map of Poland. From his Cosmographia, that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge. An exciting print.Sebastian Münster was born in Nierder-Ingelheim, near Main...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1580
Selling price: $95
Sold in 2009
Gotland oder Gothen.
Map of Scandinavia. From his Cosmographia, that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge. An exciting print.Sebastian Münster was born in Nierder-Ingelheim, near Mainz ...
Place & Date: Basle 1550-1580
Selling price: $70
Sold in 2010
Sarmatia Asie.
The map is showing the area of Armenia and Kazakhstan. From his Cosmographia, that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge. An exciting print.Sebastian Münster was bor...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1580
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2008
![[Cyprus]](/uploads/cache/26211-250x250.jpg)
[Cyprus]
Two woodcuts on one page. In upper part a map of Cyprus, in lower part a jumping deer and a sheep drinking water. The drinking sheep with old pen scratches. From his Cosm...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1580
Selling price: $185
Sold in 2008
Von dem Land Europa. . .
Early map of Europe. From his Cosmographia, that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge. An exciting print.Sebastian Münster was born in Nierder-Ingelheim, near Mainz...
Place & Date: Basle 1550-1580
Selling price: $70
Sold in 2008
![[Map of the Holy Land, including Cyprus]](/uploads/cache/26213-250x250.jpg)
[Map of the Holy Land, including Cyprus]
Attractive full page longitudinal map of Palestine, Syria and Cyprus, cut by Hans Rudolf Manuel Deutsch. The shore line running from Southern Anatolia to the Nile Delta. ...
Place & Date: Basle 1550-1580
Selling price: $70
Sold in 2008
der Statt Themistitan in den newen Inseln gelegen / figurierung.
Plan of Mexico City (\"Der Statt Themistitan...\"). From his Cosmographia, that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge. An exciting print.Sebastian Münster ...
Place & Date: Basle 1550-1580
Selling price: $70
Sold in 2008
Asiae nova descriptio.
Beautiful colored map of Asia. From the 1580 German edition of Theatrum Orbis Terrarum by Abraham Ortelius. The cartographical source of this map comes from Ortelius own ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1580
Selling price: $1600
Sold in 2009
Cairus Quae Olim Babylon Aegypti Maxima Urbs.
Attractive bird-eye view of Cairo in Egypt with the Nile river, the Great Pyramids and Sphinx of Giza. Beautiful original color. German text on verso. From a German editi...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1580
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2009
![[Von dem Königreich Poladt das in Sarmatia auch..]](/uploads/cache/22816-250x250.jpg)
[Von dem Königreich Poladt das in Sarmatia auch..]
Early map of the coast of Poland. Wood block printed map (12x15cm.) set in a page with German text..
Place & Date: Basle, 1580
Selling price: $85
Sold in 2008
De Germania Colmariensis ciuitatis & circumiacentis agri pictura ad uiuum expressa.
Early bird\'s eye view of Colmar. From a French text edition of S. Münster\'s Cosmographia, which was a complete summary of Renaissance knowledge.
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1580
Selling price: $45
Sold in 2009
Lutetia Parisiorum urbs, toto orbe celeberrima notissimaque, caput regni Franciae.
Early bird\'s eye view of Paris, called at the time Lutetia. From a French text edition of S. Münster\'s Cosmographia, which is a short and complete summary of Renaissan...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1580
Selling price: $190
Sold in 2008
De Germania Basiliensis ciuitatis contrasactura, adumbrata ad genuinu eius situm, quem anno 1549 habuit.
Early bird's eye view of Basle. From a French text edition of S. Münster's Cosmographia, which is a short and complete summary of Renaissance knowledge.
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1580
Selling price: $55
Sold in 2011
De Germania Ursina ciuitas, uulgo Bernensis, ad hunc Christi annum 1549. exarata.
Early bird\'s eye view of Bern. From a French text edition of S. Münster\'s Cosmographia, which is a short and complete summary of Renaissance knowledge.
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1580
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2010
De Italia Florentia nobilissima Hethruriae ciuitas, deformata nostra tempora.
Early bird\'s eye view of Florence. From a French text edition of S. Münster\'s Cosmographia, which is a short and complete summary of Renaissance knowledge.
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1580
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2009
Affricae tabula nova / Africa, Lybia, Morenlandt, mit allen K÷nigreichen so jetziger Zeit darumb gefunden werden
Attractive woodcut map showing the African continent. From a German edition of Cosmographia by Sebastian Munster printed from Petri in Basel 1580. \"This map ... was...
Place & Date: Basle, 1580
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2009
Lucenburgum.
Very decorative and detailed view of the town of Luxembourg, the monument of Igel and the Palace of Mansfeld.
Place & Date: Cologne, 1580
Selling price: $505
Sold in 2009
ANFA. / AZAAMURUM. / DIU. / GOA.
Four fine coastal views of these fortified cities, which were important to European trade with Asia. Goa (130x465mm.) and Diu on the western coast of India, together with...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1580
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2011
Descriptio Germaniae Inferioris.
The oval map is surrounded by a strapwork frame and the title, adorned with ribbons, is held aloft by two winged cherubs.Ortelius based this and several other maps of the...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1580
Selling price: $1200
Sold in 2009
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, 1580
Selling price: $2500
Sold in 2009
Africae. . .
Münster's smaller woodcut map of Africa, printed area 130 x 160mm, set in a large page of text. From an Latin text edition of the Cosmography. One of the earliest obtain...
Place & Date: Basle, c. 1580
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2009
Liber V. De Novis insulis quomodo, quando & per quem illae inuentae sint.
Map of unspecified islands in the New World, printed area 105 x 160mm, set in a large page of text. From an Latin text edition of the Cosmography. One of the earliest obt...
Place & Date: Basle, c. 1580
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2009
ANFA. / AZAAMURUM. / DIU. / GOA.
Text on the back in Latin.Four fine coastal views of these fortified cities, which were important to European trade with Asia. Goa (130x465mm.) and Diu on the western coa...
Place & Date: Cologne 1580
Selling price: $230
Sold in 2009
Byzantium nunc Constantinopolis.
One of the most sought-after views of Istanbul. Perspective from the village of Scutari, with all its fortifications, the original Genoese district of Galata. Galleons an...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1580
Selling price: $1200
Sold in 2013
De Graecia Constantinopolitanae urbis effigies, quamhodie sub Turccae inhabitatione habet.
Early bird's eye view of Constantinople. From a French text edition of S. Münster's Cosmographia, which is a short and complete summary of Renaissance knowledge.
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1580
Selling price: $230
Sold in 2009
Die Statt Breßlaw
Nice woodcut view of Wroclaw in Silesia, Poland from "Theatrum Urbium" by Abraham Saur on the full text sheet. Printed in Frankfurt around 1580.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1580
Selling price: $110
Sold in 2009
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[ Spain and Portugal. ]
On recto an early representation of Spain and Portugal. On verso eight coat of arms and a view of a medieval village.From a French text edition of his Cosmographia , that...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1580
Selling price: $55
Sold in 2009
Bruxella.
A bird's-eye-view of the town.From the greatest publication in this genre! The Civitates was compiled and written by George Braun, Canon of Cologne Cathedral. Braun gathe...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1580
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2009
Tartariae sive Magni Chami Imperium.
This is a very early depiction of the northern Pacific, with the first mapping of Northwest Coast of America and probably the first map to name California 'C. Califormio'...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1580
Selling price: $1600
Sold in 2009
Regni Hispaniae Post Omnium Editiones Locuplettissima Descriptio
Original old colored map of Spain and Portugal by A. Ortelius. Showing the Iberian Peninsula with Balearic Islands and parts of northern Africa. With one large cartouche,...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1580
Selling price: $700
Sold in 2013
Windsheim 1576
RECTO: A print of the city of Windsheim dated 1576. With in lower portion by a woodcut of a Pope . Bad Windsheim is a small historic city in Bavaria, Germany, west of Nur...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1580
Selling price: $10
Sold in 2021
ALGERII Sarace norum urbis fortissimae.
An attractive town-plan of the Alger, including a numbered key legend in the lower part. From the greatest publication in this genre!. The "Civitates" was compi...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1580
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2017
Persici.
Abraham Ortelius' map of the Persian empire. The map of the Persian Empire depicts nowadays Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, the Caspian Sea and the north eastern tip of the...
Place & Date: Antwerp, c. 1580
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2020
![[Map of Scandinavia]](/uploads/cache/91426-250x250.jpg)
[Map of Scandinavia]
Small Scandanvia woodcut map by Sebastian Münster.
Place & Date: Basel, c. 1580
Selling price: $55
Sold in 2010
Sevilla / Cadiz / Malaga.
Very decorative set of views of Seville, Cadiz and Malaga, from the greatest publication in this genre!. On verso another print of Seville engraved by Meusnier in 1668: &...
Place & Date: Cologne 1580
Selling price: $700
Sold in 2010
Le pourtraict de la ville de Basle . . .
Panoramic view of Basel. Engraved by Hans Rudolf Manuel Deutsch (1525-1571) was a painter, designer and poet. Probably apprenticed with Maximilian Wischack in Basel in th...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1580
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2010
Austriae Descrip. Wolfgangum Lazium.
An stunning map of Austria from Ortelius' Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first modern atlas of the world. Two decorative cartouches, wide margins, and original hand colorin...
Place & Date: Antwerp, ca. 1580
Selling price: $310
Sold in 2010
![Caletensium Et Bononiensium Ditionis Accurata Delineatio [with] Veromanduorum Eorum Que Confinium Exactissima Descriptio.](/uploads/cache/91526-250x250.jpg)
Caletensium Et Bononiensium Ditionis Accurata Delineatio [with] Veromanduorum Eorum Que Confinium Exactissima Descriptio.
Two finely detailed maps by Ortelius. The map on the left shows the Belgian and French Coastal regions, while the map on the right focuses on a small region surrounding S...
Place & Date: Antwerp, ca. 1580
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2010
![Hispalensis Conventus Delineatio [Andalusia]](/uploads/cache/91530-250x250.jpg)
Hispalensis Conventus Delineatio [Andalusia]
This splendid map by Ortelius is from Theatrum Orbis Terrarum , the first modern atlas. With striking detail, this map showcases the hills of Andalusia, three cartouches,...
Place & Date: Antwerp, ca. 1580
Selling price: $310
Sold in 2010
![Rhetiae alpestris descriptio in qua hodie Tirolis Comitatus [with] Goritiae, Karstii, Chaczeolae, Carniolae, Histriae, et Windorum Marchae Descrip.](/uploads/cache/91537-250x250.jpg)
Rhetiae alpestris descriptio in qua hodie Tirolis Comitatus [with] Goritiae, Karstii, Chaczeolae, Carniolae, Histriae, et Windorum Marchae Descrip.
A nice full-color example of two regional maps by Abraham Ortelius. On the left is a map of Tyrol, Austria; on the right a map of the Northern Yugoslavia.
Place & Date: Antwerp, ca. 1580
Selling price: $127
Sold in 2010
![[Map of Poland] Brieve description du royaume de Poloigne.](/uploads/cache/29076-250x250.jpg)
[Map of Poland] Brieve description du royaume de Poloigne.
Early map of Poland, surrounded on two sides with a brief description of Poland "Brieve description du royaume de Poloigne".Taken from a French edition of Sebas...
Place & Date: Basle, 1580
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2010
Constantinopel. . .
A fine detailed woodcut bird's-eye view of Istanbul as seen from the usual perspective showing it out on a spur, with Pera across the water to the right. The city plan de...
Place & Date: Basle, 1580
Selling price: $600
Sold
SANTANDER.
One of the earliest available birds-eye view town-plans of Santander in Cantabria - northern Spain. The view shows a couple in traditional costume in the foreground, wit...
Place & Date: Cologne, c 1580
Selling price: $325
Sold in 2010
![Hermannus Hammelman Wesalia in Ducatu Cliuensi. . . [Wesel]](/uploads/cache/04707-250x250.jpg)
Hermannus Hammelman Wesalia in Ducatu Cliuensi. . . [Wesel]
Bird's eye town-plan of the city of Wesel in 'Nordrhein Westphalia'. The plan is equipped with many houses, streets, buildings, gardens and fortifications around the town...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1580
Selling price: $260
Sold in 2011
Aegypti recentior descriptio./ Carthaginis..
Two maps on one sheet. Upper part of the sheet (180x230mm) map of the northern part of Egypt with the Nile Delta. Lower part map of the north east corner of Africa with T...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1580
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2010
Venetiarum amplissima & maritima urbs cum multis circumiacentibus insulis.
Bird's-eye view of Venice. From a French text edition of S. Münster's Cosmographia, which is a short and complete summary of Renaissance knowledge.
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1580
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2011
Sumatra Ein Grosse Insel / So Von Den alten Geographen Taprobana
An interesting map of Sumatra and the southern part of Malaysia. Singapore is identified at the tip of Malay peninsula as Cingafufa. Large textual cartouche which quotes ...
Place & Date: Basle, 1580
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2011
Tingis, Lusitanis, Tangiara. / Tzaffin. / Septa. / Arzilla.
Views of the five northern and western African coastal on one sheet: Latin text.From the greatest publication in this genre!. The Civitates was compiled and written by G...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1580
Selling price: $385
Sold in 2011
![Tabula Asiae XII [Sri Lanka -- with Elephant]](/uploads/cache/00684-250x250.jpg)
Tabula Asiae XII [Sri Lanka -- with Elephant]
Attractive woodblock map, depicting Sri Lanka as known to Ptolemy. Left of the map a large elephant with descriptive text identifies the island of Taprobana with Sumatra ...
Place & Date: Basle, 1580
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2017
Descriptio Germaniae Inferioris.
The oval map is surrounded by a strapwork frame and the title, adorned with ribbons, is held aloft by two winged cherubs.Ortelius based this and several other maps of the...
Place & Date: Antwerp, ca. 1580
Selling price: $700
Sold in 2012
Indiae Orientalis, Insularumque Adiacientium Typus. . .
Finely handcolored example of Ortelius' map of SE Asia, Japan, and the Philippines, etc. The map includes Beach and other information drawn from Marco Polo.The map also i...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1580
Selling price: $1850
Sold in 2012
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 Genouse distric...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1580
Selling price: $2000
Sold in 2012
![[Asia Minor - Turkey]](/uploads/cache/32897-250x250.jpg)
[Asia Minor - Turkey]
Very early map of the Asian part of Turkey. From his Cosmographia, that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge. An exciting print.Sebastian Münster was born in Nierde...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1580
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2017
Corsica.
Early map of Corsica, oriented east to the top.
Place & Date: Antwerp, ca. 1580
Selling price: $480
Sold
Amstelredamum, nobile Inferioris Germaniae. . .
A bird's-eye town-plan of Amsterdam, surrounded by a stormy sea. With a strapwork title cartouche, and 2 figures below the extensive key.From the greatest publication in ...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1580
Selling price: $900
Sold in 2013
Praga, Bohemiae Metropolis. . . / Egra.
A fine set of two town-views on one sheet, the upper view showing the Czech Capital of Prague. The Imperial Palace appears to the left with the old and new cities below e...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1580
Selling price: $675
Sold in 2013
Palatium Imperatorum Pragae Quod Vulgo Ratzin Appelatur / Praga Regni Bohemiae metropolis. . .
A fine set of two town-views on one sheet, the upper view depicts the Archiepiscopal Palace, Hradcany Castle and St. Vitus Cathedral. The lower panorama shows the city fr...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1580
Selling price: $800
Sold in 2013