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Das gantz Franckreich, so vorzeiten Narbonensis, Lugdunensis, Belgica und Celtica, ist genennt worden.
This nicely colored, charming early woodcut map of France was published in the 1588-edition of Sebastian Münster’s Cosmographia. Mountains, villages, churches and wood...
Place & Date: Basle, S.H. Petrie, 1588
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2014
Teutschlandt mit seinem gantzen begriff und eingschlosznen Landschafften.
Early Munster's map of Germaniae or Northern Europe. The map is south-oriented with "west" on the right side and "east" on the left side. Bamberg and ...
Place & Date: Basle, S.H. Petrie, 1588
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2014
New Griechenlandt / mit andern anstossendener Landern / wie es zu unsern zeiten beschribenist.
Nicely colored and fascinating 1588 map of Greece and the western part of Turkey. After many new discoveries and explorations, by 1588 a new edition of the Cosmographia h...
Place & Date: Basle, S.H. Petrie, 1588
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2014
Schwaben und Bayerlandt darbey auch Begriffen der Otenwald, Nortgow.
An attractive early woodcut map A map of Swabia, one of the ten Imperial Circles of the Holy Roman Empire. Orientated with north at the bottom, it marks Strassburg, Bambe...
Place & Date: Basle, S.H. Petrie, 1588
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2020
Engellandt / mit dem anstossenden Reich Schottlandt / so vor zeiten Albion und Britannia haben geheissen.
Early map of England and the British Isles. The map is oriented with west at the top and provides a fine early depiction of the British Isles, based upon Ortelius' map of...
Place & Date: Basle, S.H. Petrie, 1588
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2014
Hispanien nach aller seiner Gelegenheit / in Bergen Stetten / Volkeren Konigreichen Wasseren und Inseln.
Very early map of the Iberian Peninsula with the Baleares to the east. In the Mediterranean and the Ocean are three historic sailing vessels and a spouting sea monster wh...
Place & Date: Basle, S.H. Petrie, 1588
Selling price: $145
Sold in 2014
Hafnia vulgo Kopenhagen.
Two fantastic birds-eye views of Copenhagen, one from land and from the seaside showing the harbor. Highly detailed with numerous buildings, windmills, sailing ships, and...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca. 1588
Selling price: $243
Sold in 2015
Chinae, olim Sinarum Regionis, nova descriptio. Auctore Ludovico Georgio.
The first map of China ever to appear in a Western atlas, west to the top. When this map appeared, it was by far the most accurate one of China.Japan is shown on a curiou...
Place & Date: Antwerp, after 1588
Selling price: $4300
Sold in 2015
Bethunae urbis Artesiae Genvina Descrip.
An uncommon view of Bethune, located in Pas-de-Calais. Shows the city behinds its walls, with numerous detailed buildings, some named above.The view provides a fine depic...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1588
Selling price: $175
Sold in 2016
Danorum Marca, uel Cimbricum. aut Daniae Regnum..
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: $1100
Sold in 2016
![NOVESIUM [NEUSS]](/uploads/cache/37623-250x250.jpg)
NOVESIUM [NEUSS]
One of the finest and most sought-after views of Neuss. From volume one of the greatest publication in this genre!. The Civitates was compiled and written by George Braun...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1588
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2019
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[Asia Minor]
Wood block printed map with German text beneath and to verso of map. Map shows Turkey and many of the Greek Islands, Crete, Cyprus, Syria, Asia Minor and Thracia.
Place & Date: Basle, 1588
Selling price: $12
Sold in 2023
Romaniae..
Map of South East Europe. Prepared by Jacob Gastaldi. Including Romania, Bulgaria and in lower right Istanbul. With imposing title cartouche.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1588
Selling price: $135
Sold in 2018
Alten Stettin. (Szczecin)
A stunning bird's-eye view of Szczecin (German: Stettin) in Poland. Published in the 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum', the first series of printed town plans. Frans Hogenberg (...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1588
Selling price: $750
Sold in 2016
Ptolemeisch General Tafel/die halbe Kugel der Welt begreissende.
A Ptolemaic world map by the German cartographer Sebastian Münster. Ptolemy wrote two major works in the 2nd century, one being the Geographia, the first world atlas. Re...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1588
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2019
Asia wie es Jetziger Zeit nach den Furnemesten Herrschafften Abgetheilet und Beschriben ist.
Münster’s decorative final map of Asia, from a German edition of Münster’s "Cosmographia", one of the most influential geographical works of the 16th Cent...
Place & Date: Basle, 1588
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2018
Chios.
The engraving shows the seaport of Chora, the capital of Chios, as seen from the east in a bird's-eye view.
Place & Date: Cologne, ca 1588
Selling price: $420
Sold in 2018
Brugae Flandricarum Urbium Ornamentia.
The city of Bruges in western Flanders is shown in a plan-like bird's-eye view from a northwesterly direction, ringed by numerous windmills. At the center can be seen the...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca 1588
Selling price: $490
Sold in 2020
Bononia Alma Studior Mater.
A beautiful bird's-eye plan of Bologna - seat of sciences. With fortified with moats and walls, the city is seen from the north in this high bird's-eye view. At the cente...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca 1588
Selling price: $440
Sold in 2020
Arx Segeberga. . .
TRANSLATION OF CARTOUCHE TEXT: The castle of Segeberg, formerly Aelberga, embellishes Wagrien, the famous region in Holstein. This our work has been adorned with this vie...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca 1588
Selling price: $325
Sold in 2020
Americae Sive Novi Orbis Nova Descriptio. / Die newen inseln so hinder Hispaniam gegen Orient . . .
Sebastian Münster (1489-1552) is one of the most renowned cartographers of the sixteenth century, Mercator and Ortelius are considered at the same level. Munster's two m...
Place & Date: Basle, 1588
Selling price: $1205
Sold in 2019
Asia wie es Jetziger Zeit nach den Furnemesten. . .
Sebastian Münster (1489-1552) is one of the most renowned cartographers of the sixteenth century, Mercator and Ortelius are considered at the same level. Munster's two m...
Place & Date: Basle, 1588
Selling price: $490
Sold in 2020
Africae tabula nova / Africa, Lybia, Morenlandt, mit allen Königreichen so jetziger zeit darumb gefunden werden. . .
Sebastian Münster (1489-1552) is one of the most renowned cartographers of the sixteenth century, Mercator and Ortelius are considered at the same level. Munster's two m...
Place & Date: Basle, 1588
Selling price: $430
Sold in 2019
Hispanien nach aller seiner Gelegenheit / in Bergen Stetten / Volkeren Konigreichen Wasseren und Inseln.
A very early map of the Iberian Peninsula with the Balearics to the east. In the Mediterranean and the Ocean are three historic sailing vessels and a spouting sea monster...
Place & Date: Basle, 1588
Selling price: $160
Sold in 2019
Germania.
An attractive map centered on Germany. The sea is decorated with a vessel and a sea monster.From a rare Spanish text edition.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1588
Selling price: $325
Sold in 2009
World map: 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: $825
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Das Heilig Landt mit auscheilung der zwolff Geschlechter.
The Holy Land as divided among the 12 Tribes. Although the title speaks about the Tribes, they are not shown on the map itself, only the division into Galilee, Samaria an...
Place & Date: Basle 1588
Selling price: $150
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Syria, Cypern, Palestina, Mesopotamia..
A famous wood block map of the Near East, including Cyprus, Palestine, Iran and Iraq, etc. From his Cosmographia , that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge. In 1588...
Place & Date: Basle c.1588
Selling price: $210
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Danorum Marca, uel Cimbricum. aut Daniae Regnum..
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: $950
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Nobilis Hannoniae Comitatus Descrip. 1579.
Abraham Ortelius(1527-98), Dutch cartographer and publisher of the first modern atlas, ' Theatrum Orbis Terrarum' in 1570. Editions till 1612. Also an atlas of ancient ca...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1588
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2018
Anglia
Miniature map covering England and Wales. French text on verso. This map is oriented with north to the right. The map is beautifully engraved with stippled seas and ships...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1588
Selling price: $150
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Scotia
Miniature map covering the northern part of England and Scotland. French text on verso. This map is oriented with north to the right. The map is beautifully engraved with...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1588
Selling price: $220
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Tercera Insula
Nice miniature map showing the island and the important port of Angra. The map is beautifully engraved with stippled seas and two sailing ships and two tiny sea monsters.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1588
Selling price: $50
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Daniae regni Typus
Miniature map covering Denmark including that part of Sweden that was then controlled by Denmark. The map is beautifully engraved with stippled seas and a sailing ship.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1588
Selling price: $100
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Septentrionalium regionum descriptio
Handsome miniature map based on Ortelius' important map of the Arctic regions with the mythical islands of Drogeo and Frieslant. The map is beautifully engraved with stip...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1588
Selling price: $260
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Gallia Belgica.
Miniature map covering Belgium and the Netherlands. The map is beautifully engraved with stippled seas.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1588
Selling price: $65
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Persia
Nice miniature map showing the Persian Empire. The map is beautifully engraved with stippled seas.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1588
Selling price: $105
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Tartaria sive magni chami regni typus.
This small map is the reduced version of the earliest map to focus on the North Pacific. While designed to illustrate the expansive Kingdom of the Great Khan in Asia, its...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1588
Selling price: $140
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Candia olim Creta
Nice miniature map of the island that shows several place names and the mythological Labyrinth where the Minotaur was confined. The map is beautifully engraved with stipp...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1588
Selling price: $160
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Descript. Frisiae
Charming little map of the northern part of The Netherlands, the Provinces of Friesland, Groningen and part of Drenthe. The map is beautifully engraved with stippled seas...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1588
Selling price: $230
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Graecia.
Delightful little map of Greece. The map is beautifully engraved with stippled seas.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1588
Selling price: $140
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Geldria
Charming little map of a part of The Netherlands, the Province of Gelderland. The map is beautifully engraved with stippled sea and a sailing ship.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1588
Selling price: $90
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Barbariae et biledulgerid nova descriptio
Miniature map of the Barbary coast and parts of Italy and Spain. The map is beautifully engraved with stippled seas.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1588
Selling price: $65
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Aegiipti recentior descriptio
Miniature map showing the Nile valley in great detail with numerous place names. The map is beautifully engraved with stippled seas.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1588
Selling price: $70
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Valentia regnum.
Nice miniature map of Valencia. Latin text on verso.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1588
Selling price: $170
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Andaluzia.
Nice miniature map of Andalusia. Latin text on verso.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1588
Selling price: $110
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Regni Hispaniae.
Charming miniature map fully engraved with rivers and cities, a stippled sea, strapwork title cartouche and a tiny ship. Latin text on verso.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1588
Selling price: $120
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Pomeraniae wandalicae regnionis tipus.
Nice map features Pomerania and is based on the Peter Artopaus map published in 1550 by Sebastian Munster. With a nice title cartouche and 2 monsters in the sea. Latin te...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1588
Selling price: $120
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Normandia.
Miniature map of the coast of France at Normandy. Latin text on verso.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1588
Selling price: $100
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Americae Sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio.
Third plate, state 1. In 1587, a new plate was engraved which appeared in editions from 1588 onward. Of the three maps, this one is perhaps the most important. Geographic...
Place & Date: Anvers, 1588
Selling price: $5000
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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, 1588
Selling price: $150
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Cestria Vulgo Chester, Angliae Civitas
This desirable, highly decorative depiction presents the city of Chester on the banks of the River Dea. Based on the survey of William Smith, the bird's-eye plan shows th...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca. 1588
Selling price: $850
Sold in 2008
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[World map] General Taffel der gantzen Welt.
The title is in gothic German and the corners are decorated by a florid vine leaf pattern. Modern world map after Ortelius.
Place & Date: Basle 1588
Selling price: $1500
Sold in 2008
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Americae sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio [Spanish text edition]
One of the most famous and decorative maps of America. In 1587, a new plate was engraved which appeared in editions from 1588 onwards. Of the three maps, this one is perh...
Place & Date: Antwerp, (1587) 1588
Selling price: $4000
Sold in 2011
Gallia Belgica.
Miniature map covering Belgium and the Netherlands. The map is beautifully engraved with stippled seas. Hard to find now-a-days in original colors.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1588
Selling price: $260
Sold in 2008
Descrittione di M. Lodovico Guicciardini, gentil- huomo fiorentino, di tutti Paesi Bassi . . .
Italian text edition of this famous description of the Low Countries. The book is illustrated with 53 double page town plans, 12 maps and 13 one page views.Ludovico Guicc...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1588
Selling price: $5600
Sold in 2010
Typus Orbis Terrarum.
A 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 reducti...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1588
Selling price: $9100
Sold in 2010
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, 1588
Selling price: $6500
Sold in 2010
Turcicum Imperium.
Miniature map of Turkish Empire. From the second series of miniature atlas of Ortelius' Epitome. A new series of pocket-size atlases was begun by Philip Galle in 1588. It...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1589
Selling price: $90
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Graecia.
Miniature map of Greece. From the second series of miniature atlas of Ortelius' Epitome. A new series of pocket-size atlases was begun by Philip Galle in 1588. It seems t...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1589
Selling price: $90
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India Orient.
Miniature map of the Far East with Indonesia, Japan, Pacific and New Guinea. From the second series of miniature atlas of Ortelius' Epitome. A new series of pocket-size a...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1589
Selling price: $95
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Maris Pacifici.
The first printed map of the Pacific. Acknowledged to be one of the most beautiful and decorative maps which appeared in the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, it was also one of t...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1589
Selling price: $6050
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Typus Orbis Terrarum.
Fine example of the extremely rare second state world map, issued in the first regularly produced world atlas. The map is a careful reduction of Mercator's landmark wall-...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1589
Selling price: $7000
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Brescia Episcopanus Mediolanu Ducatus.
Brescia by Mercator, first edition !
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1589
Selling price: $475
Sold in 2010
Helvetiae Descriptio, Aegidio Tschudo Auctore
This is the rare pocket edition of Abraham Ortelius maps, prepared and engraved by Philippe Galle in Antwerp in 1589. It depicts Switzerland, and. it has a neat title and...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1589
Selling price: $65
Sold in 2021
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, 1580/1589
Selling price: $1400
Sold in 2020
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, 1580/1589
Selling price: $1500
Sold in 2018
Colding Schloss und Stat.
A bird's eye view of Kolding castle and town from Braun & Hogenberg. The port of Kolding on the Danish Jutland Peninsula is seen in cavalier perspective from the sout...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1589
Selling price: $190
Sold in 2019
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Cairus, quae olim Babylon, . . . [Cairo]
Contemporaneous bird's-eye and surroundings showing the Pyramids and the Sphinx. Egypt had fallen to the Turks during the reign of Selim I at the beginning of the 16th c...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1590
Selling price: $800
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Americae pars, Nunc Virginia dicta, primum ab Anglis. . .
John White's map, elegantly designed and superbly engraved, revolutionized geographic knowledge of the region. Although White left the Chesapeake poorly explored, much of...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1590
Selling price: $12010
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Von dem Hertogthumb Braband. . . [Brabant]
On recto an early birds-eye view of Luik in Belgium.From a German text edition of his Geographia , that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge.
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1590
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2012
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Contrastung der Statt Löven. . . [Leuven]
On verso an early birds-eye view of Leuven and on recto a plan of Tongeren in Belgium, with a lettered key underneath.From a German text edition of his Geographia , that ...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1590
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2012
Smolensk.
View of the siege of Smolensk. "Schmolenska" by the Polish army in1609-1611. The Dnieper River in the background. From Hogenberg's "Geschichtsblättern&quo...
Place & Date: Cologne,1590
Selling price: $2050
Sold in 2012
Messina.
A of the city of Messina on Sicily by Matteo Florimi (1540-1613). Below the view is a numbered key (1-167) with a key to locations.Florimi was a print-and-book dealer an...
Place & Date: Sienna, c. 1590
Selling price: $1200
Sold in 2014
Neapolis.
On recto an early birds-eye view of Naples. On verso a city view of Tivoli. From a Latin text edition of his Geographia , that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge.S...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1590
Selling price: $67
Sold in 2012
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 a Lati...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1590
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2012
Tab. I. Europae Continens Albion, Britanniam, et Hiberniam.
Mercator’s map of Great Britain, based on Ptolemy’s Geographia. This map is from the 1584 edition of his Tabulae Geographicae. The ancient map of the British Isles ha...
Place & Date: Cologne, Amsterdam, 1590
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2012
Moscovia. Questa Citta è la principale de la provincia di Russia. . .
Very rare Lafreri school-type plan of Moscow from a slightly elevated viewpoint across the frozen Moskva River. The print is based on a view by the Austrian Sebastian Her...
Place & Date: Siena, 1590
Selling price: $4150
Sold in 2012
Prussiae vera descriptio.
Map of Poland, oriented to the North. Prepared by the cartographer Caspar Henneberger. From "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum Abrahami Ortelii Antverp".
Place & Date: Antwerpen, 1590
Selling price: $360
Sold in 2015
Principale della provincia citta del peru il cuscho.
On recto an early birds-eye view of Cusco. On verso tittle page and a plan of Mexico City "Urbs themistiana hispaniae" (165x162mm.)From a German text edition of...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1590
Selling price: $90
Sold in 2014