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![[Europe]](/uploads/cache/32516-250x250.jpg)
[Europe]
On verso an early wood block printed map of Europe.From a Latin text edition of his Geographia , that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge.
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1590
Selling price: $115
Sold in 2013
![[British Isles ]](/uploads/cache/32517-250x250.jpg)
[British Isles ]
On recto an early birds-eye view of Great Britain. Cornwall is depicted as an entity on an equal footing as Wales and Scotland.From a Latin text edition of his Geographia...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1590
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2013
![[ Spain and Portugal ]](/uploads/cache/32527-250x250.jpg)
[ Spain and Portugal ]
On recto an early wood block printed map of Spain and Portugal.From a Latin text edition of his Geographia , that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge.
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1590
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2013
![[ Italy ]](/uploads/cache/32528-250x250.jpg)
[ Italy ]
On recto a wood block printed map of the center part of Italy (159x129mm.), south orientated to the top. Corsica in upper right corner.From a Latin text edition of his Ge...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1590
Selling price: $55
Sold in 2013
![Nova Africa hoc est,recens eius inuestigatio. [North Africa]](/uploads/cache/32529-250x250.jpg)
Nova Africa hoc est,recens eius inuestigatio. [North Africa]
On verso an early map of North West Africa (123x155mm.), with on recto a small map of the island of Madeira (120x78mm.) From a Latin text edition of his Geographia , that...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1590
Selling price: $85
Sold in 2013
![[Flandria - Belgium]](/uploads/cache/32530-250x250.jpg)
[Flandria - Belgium]
On recto an early wood block printed map (115x153mm.) of Flanders in present-day Belgium. On verso a tiny view of Gent.From a Latin text edition of his Geographia, that g...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1590
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2013
![[De istria Peninsula.]](/uploads/cache/32532-250x250.jpg)
[De istria Peninsula.]
On verso a wood block printed map of the triangular peninsula of Istria pointing down into the northern Adriatic. From a Latin text edition of his Geographia, that great ...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1590
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2013
De terris asiae minoris.
On verso a wood block printed map of Turkey (139x183). From a Latin text edition of his Geographia , that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge.
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1590
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2013
![[De Graecia.- Euböa or Evia ]](/uploads/cache/32552-250x250.jpg)
[De Graecia.- Euböa or Evia ]
On verso an early wood block printed map of the island of Euböa (Evia) in Greece. Below a portrait of Aristote. From a Latin text edition of his Geographia , that great ...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1590
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2017
Candia seu Creta insula.
On recto an early map of the Island of Crete (77x156mm.). From a Latin text edition of his Geographia , that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge.Read more [+]
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1590
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2020
Regni polonici contracta descriptio. sequens uero. . .
On verso a map of Poland (77x156mm.) From a Latin text edition of his Geographia , that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge.
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1590
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2013
De regno & tota regione Poloniae. . .
On recto an early map of Poland (120x153mm.), extending from the Baltic (Danzig and Riga) to Moscow, Cremania, and Moldau in the east and the Oder and Klein Poland in the...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1590
Selling price: $165
Sold in 2013
Holland. . .
On recto a map of the provinces of North and South Holland in the Netherlands. />From a Latin text edition of his Geographia , that great compendium of Renaissance kno...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1590
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2013
Siciliae insulae atque totius regni eius descriptio, secundum uarium eius habitudinem.
On verso an early map of Sicily. From a Latin text edition of his Geographia , that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge.
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1590
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2013
Regnum Neapolit. Mare mediterraneum.
On recto a map of Southern part of Italy. />From a Latin text edition of his Geographia , that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge.
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1590
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2013
Theatrum Veronense. . .
A double page illustration of the Roman Theatre of Verona, constructed in the 1st century B.C., at the foot of the Hill of St. Peter on the banks of the Adige River. />...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1590
Selling price: $33
Sold in 2013
De terris asiae minoris.
On verso a wood block printed map of the region between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea with parts of Tartary and Kazakhstan, also the neighboring Armenia in the south....
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1590
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2013
![Descriptio Italiae secundum uarios populos. . . [Italy]](/uploads/cache/32573-250x250.jpg)
Descriptio Italiae secundum uarios populos. . . [Italy]
On verso a wood block printed map of Italy.From a Latin text edition of his Geographia , that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge.
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1590
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2013
![[Amsterdam]](/uploads/cache/32574-250x250.jpg)
[Amsterdam]
On verso an early birds-eye town-plan of Amsterdam. The wood block print is showing hundreds of individual buildings and houses. Ships in the harbor and the Amstel River....
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1590
Selling price: $75
Sold in 2013
![In monte casio iuxta ostracinam. . . [Israel with Cyprus]](/uploads/cache/32575-250x250.jpg)
In monte casio iuxta ostracinam. . . [Israel with Cyprus]
On recto a woodcut engraved map of Israel and Cyprus. Engraved by Hans Rudolf Manuel Deutsch, with his monogram. From a Latin text edition of his Geographia , that great ...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1590
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2015
![Nova India, ut nostro tempore est explorata & cognita. [India]](/uploads/cache/32576-250x250.jpg)
Nova India, ut nostro tempore est explorata & cognita. [India]
On recto a wood block engraved map of India.From a Latin text edition of his Geographia , that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge.
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1590
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2013
![[Java Maior ]](/uploads/cache/32577-250x250.jpg)
[Java Maior ]
On recto a wood block printed map of Java (125x76mm.) with a short description of the island, underneath description of Madagascar , Zanzibar and "Duabus Insulis&quo...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1590
Selling price: $357
Sold in 2013
Sumatra Insula - Taproba.
On recto a wood block printed map of Sumatra within text bearing the name "Taprobana". The island is filled with many images like an elephant and a tiger, as we...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1590
Selling price: $196
Sold in 2013
![[Cuba]](/uploads/cache/32579-250x250.jpg)
[Cuba]
On recto a wood block printed map of Cuba (79x123mm.).From a Latin text edition of his Geographia , that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge.
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1590
Selling price: $190
Sold in 2013
![[Afrique]](/uploads/cache/32581-250x250.jpg)
[Afrique]
On recto a 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 Pt...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1590
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2013
![De Cyrene seu Cyrenaica. [Egypt and Ethiopia]](/uploads/cache/32582-250x250.jpg)
De Cyrene seu Cyrenaica. [Egypt and Ethiopia]
On recto an early wood block printed map of Egypt and Ethiopia and the Arabian Peninsular tio the right. (160xFrom a Latin text edition of his Geographia, that great comp...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1590
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2014
![[Egypte]](/uploads/cache/32584-250x250.jpg)
[Egypte]
On recto an early wood block printed map of Northern Egypt (176x160mm.) .From a Latin text edition of his Geographia , that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge.
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1590
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2013
![India extra Gangem, quae Europeis propinquior est. [India]](/uploads/cache/32585-250x250.jpg)
India extra Gangem, quae Europeis propinquior est. [India]
On recto an wood block printed Ptolemaic map of South East Asia, India and China (122x153mm.)From a German text edition of his Geographia , that great compendium of Renai...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1590
Selling price: $432
Sold in 2013
![[Panther]](/uploads/cache/32586-250x250.jpg)
[Panther]
On verso an early wood block printed depicting of a panther. Engraved by Rudolf Manuel Deutsch (1525 - 1571) with his monogram.Hans Rudolf Manuel Deutsch was a painter, d...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1590
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2013
![[Ship Victoria of Ferdinand Magellan]](/uploads/cache/32588-250x250.jpg)
[Ship Victoria of Ferdinand Magellan]
On recto a description of the expedition of Ferdinand Magellan with a wood block printed depiction of his ship "Victoria" (69x65mm.)From a Latin text edition of...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1590
Selling price: $26
Sold in 2013
![Pyramides Aegypti. [Pyramides in Egypt]](/uploads/cache/32590-250x250.jpg)
Pyramides Aegypti. [Pyramides in Egypt]
On verso a wood block printed depiction of three pyramids in Egypt.From a Latin text edition of his Geographia , that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge.
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1590
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2013
![[Ptolemée]](/uploads/cache/32591-250x250.jpg)
[Ptolemée]
On verso a wood block print showing Ptolemy sitting at a table surrounded with surveying instruments and an atlas. (53x75mm.) From a Latin text edition of his Geographia ...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1590
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2013
![Stoliditas struthionis [Ostrich]](/uploads/cache/32592-250x250.jpg)
Stoliditas struthionis [Ostrich]
On verso an early depiction of a ostrich .From a German text edition of his Geographia , that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge.Read more [+]
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1590
Selling price: $10
Sold in 2014
![[De Africae regionibus / Carthage]](/uploads/cache/32593-250x250.jpg)
[De Africae regionibus / Carthage]
On the verso an early birds-eye view of Tunis, which was the original city of Carthage (240x168mm.). The plan includes zoological and botanical gardens, castle Goleta, a ...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1590
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2013
![[De Africae regionibus ] Algier.](/uploads/cache/32594-250x250.jpg)
[De Africae regionibus ] Algier.
On verso an early birds-eye town-plan of Alger.From a Latin text edition of his Geographia , that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge.
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1590
Selling price: $55
Sold in 2013
De Germania de Ducatu Brabantino. . . (Brabant)
On recto a map of the province of Brabant covering present-day the Netherlands and Belgium. From a Latin text edition of his Geographia , that great compendium of Renaiss...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1590
Selling price: $17
Sold in 2013
Brittanicarum Insularum Vetus Descriptio.
Southern part of Ortelius important two-sheet map of the British Isles. Includes Ireland, Wales, the Isle of Man, and England. Shows the Hadrian's Wall. Richly decorated ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, c1590
Selling price: $550
Sold in 2013
Wie die Weiber von Dafamonguepeuc.
Engraving depicting a native American woman of Dasamonguepeuc carrying a child, from Theodorus De Bry's Les Grands Voyages.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1590
Selling price: $90
Sold in 2013
Venetia. (Venice)
Precise, beautiful bird's-eye town-plan of Venice, clearly depicting the city's architectural landmark. The surrounding lagoon is animated with a great variety of sailing...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1590
Selling price: $2100
Sold in 2013
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, c. 1590
Selling price: $1050
Sold in 2014
Brugae, Flandricarum Urbium Ornamenta. (Brugge)
Very desirable and early town-plan of Brugge. "from a northwesterly direction, ringed by numerous windmills. At the center can be seen the market square with the clo...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1590
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2014
Venetia. (Venice)
Precise, beautiful bird's-eye town plan of Venice, clearly depicting the city's architectural landmark. The surrounding lagoon is animated with a great variety of sailing...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1590
Selling price: $2500
Sold in 2014
Theatre des principales villes tout l'univers. Second volume. (Title page)
The most decorative frontispiece of the 2nd part of the "Civitatus Orbis Terrarum" The title shows Cybele, sive Vesta , Penatas and Lares , Roman gods of the ho...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1590
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2015
![[Vates Sibyllinae]](/uploads/cache/32587-250x250.jpg)
[Vates Sibyllinae]
On recto an early birds-eye view of three graces.From a German text edition of his Geographia , that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge.
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1590
Selling price: $10
Sold in 2015
![[Crocodile]](/uploads/cache/32589-250x250.jpg)
[Crocodile]
On recto a crocodile and on verso an early birds-eye Alexandria in Egypt.From a German text edition of his Geographia , that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge.
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1590
Selling price: $10
Sold in 2015
Caprarola Arx et Horti Farnesiani.
A nice view of the castle and gardens of the Farnese family, in Lazio. From the famous "Civitates orbis terrarum". Attractive original colors. French text on ve...
Place & Date: Cologne, circa 1590
Selling price: $190
Sold in 2016
Descrittione dell' Isola dell'Elba.
The map depicts the Italian Mediterranean island of Elba. The map is orientated towards the north-west. From "L'Isole Piu Famose del Mondo", printed in Venice. ...
Place & Date: Venice, 1590
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2019
Antverpia.
Prepared for Volume V of Braun & Hogenberg "Civitates Orbis Terrarum", which was first published in 1598. Two sheets joined, for a total dimension of 450mm ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, circa 1590
Selling price: $495
Sold in 2017
Pontus Euxinus Aequor Iafonio pulfatum remige premum.
Prepared by Ortelius after Mercator, and additional ancient sources as Plinius, Ovidius, Strabo, Apollonius, Procopius and Apianus.This map belongs to a series of histori...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1590
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2021
Naues a Gandauo submissae obuias Antwerpiensium naues fugant.
Striking and highly detailed rare copper engraved panoramic view of the siege of Antwerp, Belgium. In the middle we see the pontoon bridge by the Duke of Parma, Alessandr...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1590
Selling price: $130
Sold in 2016
Septentrionalium Regionum Descrip.
Influential map of the Arctic. It includes Scandinavia, Iceland, Greenland and part of the North American continent, together with the legendary islands of the north: Dro...
Place & Date: Antwerp, ca. 1590
Selling price: $1200
Sold in 2015
Turcici Imperii Descriptio.
The most famous of all the sixteenth-century maps of the Middle East. It extends from Greece to Arabia and covers the Cradle of Civilisation region. The Eastern Mediterra...
Place & Date: Antwerp, ca 1590
Selling price: $900
Sold in 2016
Islandia.
Probably the most famous (and among the most beautiful!) map of Iceland. On the south side an impressive collection of sea monsters. Polar bears on ice flows and volcanoe...
Place & Date: Anwerp, ca 1590
Selling price: $4200
Sold in 2016
EYNDHOVEN - Nach dem Eindhoven mitt kriegs macht. . . .
Earliest printed bird's-eye view of Eindhoven. Showing the siege of April 13-23 1583. On April 22nd the young Count Carel van Mansfeld was taking the town after a 9 days ...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1590
Selling price: $1300
Sold in 2023
![[Koblentz]](/uploads/cache/37202-250x250.jpg)
[Koblentz]
Attractive birds eye view of the region around Coblenz. The Rhine and Mosel Rivers, fortified castles on the hillside and the fortified city below.With a decorative title...
Place & Date: Basle 1550-1590
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2016
Dell ‘Isola Di San Lorenzo, Madagascar.
A beautiful map of Madagascar, from "L'Isole piu Famose del Mondo" - the most famous islands of the world by Thomas Porcacchi and engraved by Girolamo Porro. Th...
Place & Date: Padua, 1590
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2018
Septentrionalium Regionum Descrip.
A fascinating and important map of the North Atlantic by A. Ortelius in beautiful original colors.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1590
Selling price: $1400
Sold in 2016
Wer lustig ist zu Wissen gar. . .
Plate from the series about the " Eighty Years' War" or the independence war of Holland against Spain, we know approximately four hundred engravings by Frans Ho...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca. 1590
Selling price: $45
Sold in 2020
Hertzog Friedrich von Wirtenbergh. . .
Early print showing count Friedrich von Wirtenbergh receiving the English equestrian order on 16 November 1603 in Stuttgart.Plate from the series about the " Eighty ...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca. 1590
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2019
Beim Colnschen Sant Jeronim Machtelis. . .
Early print showing a beheading in Cologne.Plate from the series about the " Eighty Years' War" or the independence war of Holland against Spain, we know of app...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca. 1590
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2018
Hie siechstu wie gelegen seint . . Plate 261.
Early print showing an army position near the town of Dreux in France on 14 March 1590 during the French Wars of Religion.Plate from the series about the " Eighty Ye...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca. 1590
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2020
Des Konigs undder Fursten regiment . . . Plate 32.
Plate from the series about the " Eighty Years' War" or the independence war of Holland against Spain, we know of approximately four hundred engravings by Frans...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca. 1590
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2020
PARIS
Early print showing the capture of Barnabé Brisson in Paris, who was hanged on 15 November by the Spanish.Plate from the series about the " Eighty-Years War" o...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca. 1590
Selling price: $75
Sold in 2020
Indo di Conditione.
Full portrait of a woman and two children from India, by Cesare Vecellio (1521–1601). From "De gli habiti antichi, e moderni di diverse parti del mondo libri du du...
Place & Date: Venice, Damian Zenaro, 1590
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2017
Indiana Di Conditione.
Full portrait of a woman and two children from India, by Cesare Vecellio (1521–1601). From "De gli habiti antichi, e moderni di diverse parti del mondo libri du du...
Place & Date: Venice, Damian Zenaro, 1590
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2017
Indiana Mediocre.
Full portrait of a woman and two children from India, by Cesare Vecellio (1521–1601). From "De gli habiti antichi, e moderni di diverse parti del mondo libri du du...
Place & Date: Venice, Damian Zenaro, 1590
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2017
Chilonium, vulgo Kyell.
A rare, large, spectacular view of the German city of Kiel. From the famous 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum' of Braun & Hogenberg, with spectacular old colors, partly enhan...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1590
Selling price: $590
Sold in 2017
Bergen.
A spectacular, large, rare view of Bergen, from the famous 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum' of Braun & Hogenberg. Bergen was founded in 1070, during the warm medieval perio...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1590
Selling price: $1050
Sold in 2018
Monachium Utriusque Bavariae Civitas Primar.
A panoramic view of the city of Munich and its environs, as seen from the east from the famous civitates orbis terrarum of Braun & Hogenberg. Note, left in the backgr...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca 1590
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2017
Universalis Orbis Descriptio.
Very scarce woodcut map of the world on an oval projection, published in Opusculum Geographicum Rarum. Myritius reverts to a style of map more reminiscent of the 1550s an...
Place & Date: Ingolstadt, 1590
Selling price: $1500
Sold in 2019
Saxonia Vetus et Nova . . .
Text sheet with on recto an early map of Saxony, centered on Berlin and including Hamburg and Danzig as well (map : 69x134 mm). South to the top.From a Latin text edition...
Place & Date: Basle 1550-1590
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2017
![Taprobana. [Sri Lanka]](/uploads/cache/39986-250x250.jpg)
Taprobana. [Sri Lanka]
An attractive map of the island of Ceylon, or Sri Lanka, with north orientated to the right.Third edition from Porcacchi's L'isole piu famose.It features a pretty strap-w...
Place & Date: Venice, 1590
Selling price: $95
Sold in 2017
Catana urbs Siciliae clarissima patria sc.te Agathae virgin. . .
A large, beautiful print of the Italian city of Catania, in Sicily, with Mount Etna in the background, one of the most impressive volcanos in Europe. It comes from the gr...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1590
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2018
Chilonium, vulgo Kyell.
A rare, large, spectacular view of the German city of Kiel. From the famous 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum' of Braun & Hogenberg, with spectacular old color. With French t...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1590
Selling price: $590
Sold in 2019
Turcici Imperii Descriptio.
A fine map of the Middle East, extending from Greece to Arabia, and covering the “Cradle of Civilisation” region. It features the Arabian Peninsula prominently and il...
Place & Date: Antwerp, ca. 1590
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2017
Gouda, elegantiß Hollandiae...
A highly detailed 16th-century birds-eye perspective plan of Gouda, with numerous buildings, streets, places, churches, and squares, together with the city walls, the har...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca. 1590
Selling price: $205
Sold in 2017
Utriusque Frisiorum Regionis Noviss Descriptio.
From 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum [Atlas of the Whole World]'. Dare to go in Black. All early maps were printed in black and white, and many were kept that way for a long t...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1590
Selling price: $240
Sold in 2018
Asia.
An attractive map of the Asian continent by Rosaccio who was an Italian cartographer and the author of several atlases which were re-issued in various Italian cities from...
Place & Date: ca. 1590
Selling price: $110
Sold in 2018
Lapis polaris magnes.
This is a plate from a series of twenty prints illustrating new inventions and discoveries (Nova Reperta) after Jan van der Straet. Plated numbered 2. Lettered in margin,...
Place & Date: Antwerp, Philips Galle, c. 1590
Selling price: $800
Sold in 2018
Nova reperta.
Title-page from a series of twenty prints illustrating new inventions and discoveries (Nova Reperta) after Jan van der Straet. Lettered on image: 'NOVA REPERTA'; on left ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, Philips Galle, c. 1590
Selling price: $700
Sold in 2018