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Indiae Orientalis, Insularumque Adiacientium Typus. . .
Finely hand colored example of Ortelius' map of SE Asia, Japan, and the Philippines, etc from the rare French text edition of 1587. The map includes Beach and other infor...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1587
Selling price: $2000
Sold in 2018
Chinae, olim Sinarum Regionis, nova descriptio. Auctore Ludovico Georgio.
WITHOUT TEXT ON VERSO. The first map of China ever to appear in a Western atlas, west to the top. The second state with "Las Philipinas" somewhere in 1587 added...
Place & Date: Antwerp, ca. 1587
Selling price: $2500
Sold in 2019
Orbis Terrae Compendiosa Descriptio.
Gerard Mercator's great world map of 1569 was condensed into double hemispherical form by his son Rumold. It first appeared in 1587 and was incorporated into his long-liv...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1587
Selling price: $5100
Sold in 2019
Peregrinationis Divi Pauli Typus Corographicus...
Ortelius's map of Paulus's travels from his Atlas Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. It covers the Mediterranean Sea from Italy and Sicily until the Near East and Egypt, with Cypru...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1587
Selling price: $180
Sold in 2019
Graecia, Sophiani.
A detailed and decorative map of Greece and parts of Turkey, including many islands. Filled with place names and topographical details. Shows Troas (Troy). From the famou...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1587
Selling price: $275
Sold in 2019
Insularum Aliquot Maris Mediterranei Descriptio.
The decorative composite map of six Mediterranean islands. The larger Sicily map is surrounded by maps of Sardinia, Corfu, Zerbi, Elba, and Malta. Each map is well detail...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1587
Selling price: $800
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Turcici Imperii Descriptio.
Map of the Middle East, extending from Greece to Arabia and covering the Cradle of Civilisation region. This is a new plate copied from another Ortelius map of 1570 with ...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1587
Selling price: $675
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Orbis Terrae Compendiosa Descriptio.
Separately issued. Gerard Mercator's great world map of 1569 was condensed into double hemispherical form by his son Rumold. It first appeared in 1587 and was incorporate...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1587
Selling price: $5500
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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 1587
Selling price: $190
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Lutzenburgensis Ducatus veriss descript.
Prepared by Jacob Surhon who made a manuscript map of Luxembourg for which he received 500 Livres from Charles V in 1551.For security reasons the map was not published. O...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1587
Selling price: $650
Sold in 2014
Palestinae sive totius terrae promissionis nova..
Ortelius famous map of Palestine based on Tilemann Stoltz\'s map, published in 1566. The shoreline runs from Berytus (Beirut) to the Nile Delta, reaching inland east of t...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1587
Selling price: $900
Sold in 2008
Wratislavia
Beautiful birdeye view of Wroclaw (Breslau) in Lower Silesia, Poland by Braun & Hogenberg from "Civitated Orbis Terrarum". Dated in plate 1587. ...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1587
Selling price: $700
Sold in 2009
Typus Orbis Terrarum.
An state two (without date) of the second plate of this influential, and famous World map, issued in the first regularly produced world atlas. The map is a careful reduct...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1587
Selling price: $6100
Sold in 2009
Moraviae, quae olim Marcomannorum Sedes, Corographia, A.D. Pavlo Fabritio Medico et Mathematico Descripta, et a Generosis Moraviae Baronibus Quibusdam corecta.
Very attractive full color map of Moravia, Slovakia prepared by Paul Fabritius in 1569. Showing fortified cities, towns, rivers, etc. With a fine Renaissance strapwork ca...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1587
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2013
Regni Bohemiae Descriptio.
Standard map for the Czech Republic from the famous 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum [Atlas of the Whole World]': published in Antwerp. With two large strapwork cartouches. The ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1587
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2010
Lutzenburgensis Ducatus veriss descript .
Published by Abraham Ortelius (1527-98) in Antwerp, 1587. Written in a simple cartouche lower left: Lvtzenbvrgen Sis Dvatvs Veriss Descript. Iacobo Surhonio Montano aucto...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1587
Selling price: $170
Sold in 2010
Eryn - Hiberniae, Britannicae Insulae, Nova Descriptio - Irelandt
A beautiful map of Ireland from Ortelius' "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum" or Atlas of the whole world. This is one of the earliest maps of Ireland to present it with ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1587
Selling price: $1300
Sold in 2011
Moraviae, quae olim Marcomannorum Sedes, Corographia, A.D. Pavlo Fabritio Medico et Mathematico Descripta; et a Generosis Moraviae Baronibus Quibusdam corecta.
Very attractive map of Moravia, Slovakia prepared by Paul Fabritius in 1569. Showing fortified cities, towns, rivers, etc. With a fine Renaissance strapwork cartouche, an...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1587
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2011
Orbis Terrae Compendiosa Descriptio.
Full title on a bar above the map in two lines: 'Orbis Terrae Compendiosa Descriptio Quam ex Magna Universali Gerardi Mercatoris. Domino Richardo Gartho, Geographic ac ce...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1587
Selling price: $3000
Sold in 2020
Orbis Terrae Compendiosa Descriptio
Extremely decorative, double-hemisphere world map colored by a contemporary hand. It shows elaborate strapwork borders, an armillary sphere, a compass rose, a galleon and...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, after 1587
Selling price: $3200
Sold in 2023
Franicher Nobiliu Hominum, in Frisia occidental, ut Plurimum Saedes.
A detailed bird’s-eye plan of Franeker located in Friesland, Germany. The cartographer was Jacob van Deventer and the plan is from Braun & Hogenberg. This is the r...
Place & Date: Koln, 1588
Selling price: $22
Sold in 2021
Epitome. Du Theatre du Monde d'Abraham Ortelius.
Third French text edition in an oblong format of this illustrated treatise of geography, which is considered as the first modern pocket-atlas. The atlas was printed by Pl...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1588
Selling price: $3500
Sold in 2020
Urbis Campensis..
A bird's eye view of the town of Kampen. From the first town book.
Place & Date: Cologne, 1581-1588
Selling price: $70
Sold in 2020
![[WERDEN+ESSEN] Civitatis WERDENAE Exactiss: Descrip: [on sheet with:] Civitatis ESSENSIS Exactiss. Descrip.](/uploads/cache/84004-250x250.jpg)
[WERDEN+ESSEN] Civitatis WERDENAE Exactiss: Descrip: [on sheet with:] Civitatis ESSENSIS Exactiss. Descrip.
A nice decorative map with two panoramic views by Braun and Hogenberg: Werden and Essen.Werden is seen from the northwest, coming from the direction of Essen, in its loca...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1588
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2020
Neus (Neuss)
Bird's-eye view of Neuss, published in the famous Stedenboek by Braun and Hogenberg. TRANSLATION OF CARTOUCHE TEXT RIGHT: The Roman king Philip captured Neuss around 1206...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1588
Selling price: $240
Sold in 2021
Hamburgum (Hamburg)
Bird's-eye city plan of Hamburg with key to 27 locations.COMMENTARY BY BRAUN: "The Cimbrian Peninsula, the northernmost region of Germany, went by the name of Hutlan...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1588
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2020
Monachium Utriusque Bavariae Civitas Primar. (Munich, München)
View of Munich by Braun and Hogenberg, after Georg Hoefnagel. With key to locations. TRANSLATION CARTOUCHE TOP: Munich, capital of the two Bavarias.CARTOUCHES BOTTOM LEFT...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1588
Selling price: $800
Sold in 2020
![Sneecha, vulgo Sneeck ... [on sheet with] Doccum [and] Sloten [and] Ylsta. (Sneek, Doccum, Sloten, IJlst)](/uploads/cache/84373-250x250.jpg)
Sneecha, vulgo Sneeck ... [on sheet with] Doccum [and] Sloten [and] Ylsta. (Sneek, Doccum, Sloten, IJlst)
Antique map with four bird's-eye view plans by Braun and Hogenberg: Sneek, Doccum, Sloten, IJlst.SNEEK with CARTOUCHE: Sneecha, commonly known as Sneek. A town in West Fr...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1588
Selling price: $180
Sold in 2020
![Bolzvardia vetus in Frisia Foederis Anzae teurinicae Op. [on sheet with] Stavria, vulgo Stavere ... [and] Harlinga [and] Hindelop. (Bolsward, Stavoren, Harlingen, Hindelopen)](/uploads/cache/84374-250x250.jpg)
Bolzvardia vetus in Frisia Foederis Anzae teurinicae Op. [on sheet with] Stavria, vulgo Stavere ... [and] Harlinga [and] Hindelop. (Bolsward, Stavoren, Harlingen, Hindelopen)
Four bird's-eye views - plans by Braun and Hogenberg: Bolsward, Stavoren, Harlingen and Hindelopen. The four views are made after Jacob van Deventer.BOLSWARD CARTOUCHE: B...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1588
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2020
![Crempa Holsatiae Opp. ... [on sheet with] Reinholdsburga - Rendesburga. (Krempe - Rendsburg)](/uploads/cache/84375-250x250.jpg)
Crempa Holsatiae Opp. ... [on sheet with] Reinholdsburga - Rendesburga. (Krempe - Rendsburg)
Two bird's-eye views by Braun and Hogenberg: Krempe and Rendsburg.KREMPE : TRANSLATION OF CARTOUCHE TEXT: Krempe, at the instigation of Joannes Rantzau, Knight of the Gol...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1588
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2020
Arx Segeberga, Quondam Aelberga, Wagriam, Nobilem Holsatiae Regionem.. (Castle of Segeberg)
This lovely panoramic view depicts the Castle of Segeberg, built in the 12th century upon the Kalkberg, a 91-meter high rock. A small town surrounds the castle. In the fo...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1588
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2021
Munden - Mundensis, ad Visurgum flu: Saxoniae Urbis, genuina delineatio. (Hannoversch Münde)
Bird's-eye view of Hannoversch Münden by Braun and Hogenberg.TRANSLATION OF CARTOUCHE TEXT: A true-to-life drawing of the Lower Saxton town of Hannoversch Münden on the...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1588
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2020
Schleiswygh. (Schleswig)
Bird's-eye view of Schleswig by Braun and Hogenberg.TRANSLATION OF CARTOUCHE TEXT: Gottorp. The castle of Gottorp, which came into the possession of the Dukes of Holstein...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1588
Selling price: $230
Sold in 2021
![Ober Wesell [on sheet with] Boppart. (Oberwesel - Boppard)](/uploads/cache/84379-250x250.jpg)
Ober Wesell [on sheet with] Boppart. (Oberwesel - Boppard)
Two bird's-eye views by Braun and Hogenberg: Oberwesel and Boppard.OBERWESEL with TRANSLATION OF CARTOUCHE TEXT: Accurate drawing of the town of Vosavia, or Ficelia, on t...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1588
Selling price: $220
Sold in 2020
Wesalia in Ducatu Clivensi Urbs Clara Opibus. (Wesel)
Bird's-eye view plan of Wesel.TRANSLATION OF CARTOUCHE TEXT: Hermannus Hammelman. Wesel in the Duchy of Cleves, famous for its wealth, high status, buildings and trade, w...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1588
Selling price: $230
Sold in 2021
![Lippe [on sheet with] Dortmund. (Lippstadt and Dortmund)](/uploads/cache/84382-250x250.jpg)
Lippe [on sheet with] Dortmund. (Lippstadt and Dortmund)
Two bird's-eye views on one sheet: Dortmund and Lippstadt, by Braun and Hogenberg.LIPPSTADT with TRANSLATION OF CARTOUCHE TEXT: Although the town of Lippe is subject to t...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1588
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2020
Arnsberg.
Bird's-eye view of Arnsberg by Braun and Hogenberg.COMMENTARY BY BRAUN: "The fair and noble land of Westphalia between the Weser and the Rhine stretches all the way ...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1588
Selling price: $230
Sold in 2020
Soest.
Bird's-eye view of Soest, by Braun and Hogenberg.COMMENTARY BY BRAUN (on the verso): "After Münster, Soest is the wealthiest and largest city in Westphalia. [...] I...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1588
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2020
Chilonium, vulgo Kyell. (Kiel)
Bird's-eye view of Kiel by Braun and Hogenberg.TRANSLATION OF CARTOUCHE TEXT: Chilonium, commonly called Kiel, an elegant old city in Holstein on an isthmus in the Baltic...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1588
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2020
![Husemum Ducatus Slesvicensis ad Sinum Heveram Opp. [on sheet with] Haderslebia in Ducatu Slesvicensi. (Husum and Haderslev)](/uploads/cache/84386-250x250.jpg)
Husemum Ducatus Slesvicensis ad Sinum Heveram Opp. [on sheet with] Haderslebia in Ducatu Slesvicensi. (Husum and Haderslev)
Two bird's-eye views by Braun and Hogenberg: Husum and Haderslev.HUSUM with CARTOUCHE LEFT: Husum, town in the Duchy of Schleswig on the Hever coast.CARTOUCHE RIGHT: Reco...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1588
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2020
Hafnia vulgo Kopenhagen. (Copenhagen)
Two views of Copenhagen, by Georg Braun & Frans Hogenberg.
Place & Date: Cologne, 1588
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2020
Topographia insulae Hvenae in celebri porthmo regni Daniae, quem vulgo oersunt vocant : effigiata Coloniae 1586 (Hven/Uraniborg - Tycho Brahe)
An antique map showing Uraniborg, which was a Danish astronomical observatory and alchemy laboratory established and operated by Tycho Brahe. It was built c. 15...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1588
Selling price: $625
Sold in 2020
![Helsheborch [on sheet with] Lunden [and] Elbogen [and] Landeskron. (Helsingborg, Lund, Malmö, Landskrona)](/uploads/cache/84389-250x250.jpg)
Helsheborch [on sheet with] Lunden [and] Elbogen [and] Landeskron. (Helsingborg, Lund, Malmö, Landskrona)
Four bird's-eye views of Swedish towns by Braun and Hogenberg : Helsingborg, Lund, Malmö and Landskrona.HELSINGBORG with COMMENTARY BY BRAUN (on verso): "Helsingbor...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1588
Selling price: $1450
Sold in 2020
Freti Danici or Sundt Accuratiss Delineatio.
Bird's-eye view of The Sound with Helsingborg, Landskrona and Elbogen, by Georg Braun and Frans Hogenberg. Inset with a view of Kronenborg Castle.Translation of cartouche...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1588
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2020
![Eisleben - Eislebia Comitatus Mansfeldiae Opp. [with] Tubingen - Tubinga.](/uploads/cache/84498-250x250.jpg)
Eisleben - Eislebia Comitatus Mansfeldiae Opp. [with] Tubingen - Tubinga.
Two bird's-eye views by Braun and Hogenberg on one sheet: Eisleben and Tübingen. EISLEBEN CARTOUCHE: Eisleben, a city in the County of Mansfeld. COMMENTARY BY BRAUN (on ...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1588
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2020
Urbis Campensis..
A bird's eye view of the town of Kampen.
Place & Date: Cologne, 1581-1588
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2020
LIBER QUARTUS, URBIBUM PRAECIPUARUM TOTIUS MUNDI.
A fine example of the title page to the BRAUN & HOGENBERG 'CIVITATES..' VOL.4, together still joined the dedication sheet. The Civitates Orbis Terrarum (Atlas of Citi...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1588
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2020
Cantuarbury.
A detailed city map in a 'bird's-eye view' of Canterbury, in original hand coloring, with the cathedral. Title at top centre, with left the crowned coat of arms of Englan...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1588
Selling price: $475
Sold in 2020
STOCKHOLM - STOCHOLM.
An old, antique map with two bird's-eye/panoramic views(North and South) of Stockholm, by Georg Braun and Frans Hogenberg, after Hieronymus Scholäus. Showing its active ...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1588
Selling price: $1300
Sold in 2021
TORNACUM (Tournai, Belgium).
A detailed antique copper engraved view of the second oldest city in Belgium with its fortifications in decorative color. The view is supplemented by three city coats of ...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1588
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2021
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Danorum Marca, uel Cimbricum. aut Daniae Regnum. . .[DENMARK]
The oldest preserved map of Denmark of Danish origin. Drawn by Marcus Jordan at the request of Duke Heinrich Rantzau, viceroy of Schleswig-Holstein. It is a new perceptio...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1588
Selling price: $1850
Sold in 2021
Lier - Lira, elegans et amoenum Brabantiae Opp: adeo, Ut multorum huius tractus nobilium in ocio degentium, a curise turba, iundissimus sit recessus.
Antique copper engraved map - a bird's-eye view plan of Lier by Braun and Hogenberg. An attractive map of the Brabantine town, belonging to the diocese of Antwerp. The to...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1588
Selling price: $160
Sold in 2021
Alten Stettin.
A very decorative view of the city of Szczecin in Poland (its name was Stettin for much of its history). This city was a major port next to the mouth of the Oder River. O...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1588
Selling price: $430
Sold in 2021
Illyricum
Ortelius' map of the region from Triest and Villach in the west, to Brod in the east, along the course of the Sava, centered on Zagreb and Novograd. Includes nice detail ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1588
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2021
Ierusalem, et suburbia eius. . .
Plan of ancient Jerusalem and its suburbs as it looked at the time of Jesus Christ. TRANSLATION OF CAPTION: Jerusalem and its suburbs, as it flourished in the time of Chr...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1588
Selling price: $2500
Sold in 2022
Americae Sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio
Woodcut map by based on Abraham Ortelius' classic map of 1570, with the huge bulge in the southwest coastline of South America, the Ortelian western coastline of North Am...
Place & Date: Basel, ca.1588
Selling price: $1200
Sold in 2022
Syria / Cypern / Palestina Mesopotamia / Babylonia / zwen Arabia / mit Bergen / Wasseren und Stetten.
A famous wood block map of the Near East, including Cyprus, Palestine, Iran and Iraq, etc. From his "Cosmographia", that great compendium of Renaissance knowled...
Place & Date: Basle, c.1588
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2012
Rotterdam / Roterodamum Hollandiae Opp.
Large and detailed birds-eye view of Rotterdam, with figures in the foreground, and the harbour and city behind. With sailing ships, windmills, numerous buildings, and th...
Place & Date: Cologne, c1588
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2012
EDENBURG / EDENBURGUM, SCOTIAE METROPOLIS 1588
From an engraving in Ralph Holished’s Chronicles [1574], the Scottish Capital of Edinburgh during the reign of Mary Queen of Scots. Viewed from the South, it includes t...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1588
Selling price: $900
Sold in 2012
Oxonium nobile Anglie oppidum...; Vindesorium celeberrimum Anglie castrum... 1588
Decorative pair view of Oxford and view of Windsor Castle, from Braun & Hogenberg's "Civitatus Orbis Theatrum", the most famous atlas of city views publishe...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1588
Selling price: $650
Sold in 2012
Livio Sanuto. Geografia di M. Livio Sanvto distinta in XII libri. Ne' quali, oltra l'esplicatione di molti luoghi di Tolomeo e della Bussola, ...
Livio Sanuto. Geografia di M. Livio Sanvto distinta in XII libri. Ne' quali, oltra l'esplicatione di molti luoghi di Tolomeo e della Bussola, e dell' Aguglia; si dichiara...
Place & Date: Venice, Damiano Zenaro, 1588
Selling price: $17750
Sold in 2019
Americae Sive Novi Orbis Nova Descriptio. Die newen inseln so hinder Hispaniam gegen Orient, bey dem landt Indie gelegen
Nicely colored map of North and South America. Two elongated oval cartouches across the top with gothic German text and a finely decorated title cartouche to the bottom l...
Place & Date: Basle, Henri Petrie, 1588
Selling price: $1250
Sold in 2013
Europa, das ein drittheil der erden, nach gelegenheit unserer zeit beschrieben.
Decorative full color example of Munster's final map of Europe, from a German edition of Munster's Cosmographia, one of the most influential geogaphical works of the 16th...
Place & Date: Basle, S. H. Petrie, 1588
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2013
Africae tabula nova / Africa, Lybia, Morenlandt, mit allen Königreichen so jetziger zeit darumb gefunden werden. . .
Attractive woodcut map showing the African continent. From the 1588-German edition of Cosmographia by Sebastian Münster. German text on verso. This woodblock map is eleg...
Place & Date: Basle, S.H. Petrie, 1588
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2014
Asia wie es Jetziger Zeit nach den Furnemesten Herrschafften Abgetheilet und Beschriben ist .
Nice full color example Sebastian Munster's second map of Asia, first published in 1588.It is filled with numerous small woodcut vignettes of towns and a lone sea monster...
Place & Date: Basle, S. H. Petrie, 1588
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2013
Die erst General Tafel, die Beschreibung und den Circkel des gantzen Erdreichs und meers innhaltende. . .
Lovely full color example Sebastian Münster's oval map of the World, first published in 1588. It is filled with small monsters, sailing ships and fishing boats in the se...
Place & Date: Basle, 1588
Selling price: $1150
Sold in 2014
Ptolemeisch General Tafel, die halbe Kugel der Welt begreissende. . .
Lovely full color example Sebastian Münster's Ptolemaic world map, a redrawn map published in 1588. Relief is shown pictorially. The woodcut technique with its insertio...
Place & Date: Basle, 1588
Selling price: $850
Sold in 2014
Gemeine Beschreibung aller Mitnachtigen Lander/ alsz Schweden / Gothen / Norwegien / Dennmark &c
Interesting wood block printed map of Europe, Scandinavia, England, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Iceland, The Baltics, Greenland, and America.The map shows two Greenlands, on...
Place & Date: Basle, 1588
Selling price: $950
Sold in 2014
![[Europe] Europa das ein Drittheil der Erde nach gelegenheit unserer zeit beschrieben.](/uploads/cache/34182-250x250.jpg)
[Europe] Europa das ein Drittheil der Erde nach gelegenheit unserer zeit beschrieben.
Decorative example of Munster's final map of Europe, from a German edition of Munster's Cosmographia, one of the most influential geographical works of the 16th Century. ...
Place & Date: Basle, S.H.Petri, 1588
Selling price: $210
Sold in 2014
Title page from Civitatus Orbis Terrarum vol. 3
Lavish, decorative title page from Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg great 16th century atlas of town and city views.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, c1588
Selling price: $180
Sold in 2014
Title page from Civitatus Orbis Terrarum vol.4.
Decorative title page from the fourth edition of Braun and Hogenberg's lavishly illustrated 16th century town book.
Place & Date: Frankfurt c.1588
Selling price: $230
Sold in 2014
Die erste General Tafel.
The title is in gothic German and the corners are decorated by a florid vineleaf pattern. Modern world map after Ortelius.
Place & Date: Basle, 1588
Selling price: $800
Sold in 2014
Das Heilig Landt mit Ausztheilung der Zwolff Geschlechter.
Classic woodblock map of the region showing numerous towns along the fertile coast and mountains, rivers and lakes. Although the title mentions the 12 tribes, they are no...
Place & Date: Basle, S.H. Petrie, 1588
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2014
Syria, Cypern, Palestina, Mesopotamia, Babylonia, zwey Arabia mit Bergen, Waesseren und Stetten.
A famous woodblock map of the Near East, including Cyprus, Palestine, Iran, Iraq, etc. From his 'Cosmographia,' that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge. In 1588, n...
Place & Date: Basle, S.H. Petrie, 1588
Selling price: $110
Sold in 2014
Sumatra ein Grosse Insel so von den Alten Geographen Taprobana Genennet Worden.
Early, desirable map of the island of Sumatra and the southern part of Malaysia. It is one of the earliest maps to focus on this region. Shown near today's Singapore on t...
Place & Date: Basle, S.H. Petrie, 1588
Selling price: $280
Sold in 2014
Landtafel des Ungerlands, Polands, Reussen, Littaw, Walachen und Bulgaren.
Early edition Munster's map of Poland, Lithuania, the Ukraine, Moscovy and the Balkans, extending from Prussia, Vilna and Smolensky in the north to Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cons...
Place & Date: Basle, 1588
Selling price: $170
Sold in 2014
Bohemer Koenigreich mit Bergen und Waelden gerings umb beschlossen.
Detailed map of Bohemia, centered on Prague, from the 1588-German edition of Munster's Cosmography. Mountains, villages, churches and woods are attractively drawn pictori...
Place & Date: Basle, S.H. Petrie, 1588
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2020
Franckenlandt am Mayn, beschriben nach aller Gelegenheit, in Stetten, Bergen, Wässern, Wäldern, und anstossenden Ländern
Detailed map of Southern Germany around the river Main, from the 1588-German edition of Munster's Cosmography. Mountains, villages, churches and woods are attractively dr...
Place & Date: Basle, S.H. Petrie, 1588
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2019
Schlesia nach aller Gelegenheit / in stetten / wassern und bergen / mit sampt andern anstossenden Laendern.
An attractive woodblock map centered on Bresla (Wroclaw) with pictorial representations of forests, towns and mountains. The region is Silesia, Poland. German text and il...
Place & Date: Basle, S.H. Petrie, 1588
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2021
Italia Mit Den Dreyen Furnempften Inseln / Corsica / Sardinia / und Sicilia
This charming wood block printed map of Italy, Corsica, Sicily and Sardinia was published in the 1588-edition of Sebastian Münster’s Cosmographia. Mountains, villages,...
Place & Date: Basle, S.H. Petrie, 1588
Selling price: $130
Sold in 2014