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Engellandt mit dem anstossenden Reich Schottlandt so vor zeiten Albion und Britannia haben geheissen.
A decorative map of Great Britain and eastern part of Ireland. Oriented to the west. Tablet in lower right corner with a brief commentary in German. Two ships and a sea-c...
Place & Date: Basle, 1590
Selling price: $220
Sold in 2010
Thietmarsiae, Holsaticae Regionis Partis Typvs. Auctore Petro Boeckel. / Oldenbvrg Comit.
Two engraved maps on a folio sheet by Petro Boeckel of Germany. Published by Abraham Ortelius (1527-98) in his "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum".
Place & Date: Antwerp, c.1590
Selling price: $105
Sold in 2010
Pontus Euxinus Aequor Iafonio pulfatum remige premum.
Prepared by Ortelius after Mercator, and additional ancient sources as Plinius, Ovidius, Strabo, Apollonius, Procopius and Apppianus.This map belongs to a series of histo...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1590
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2010
Belegerung der statt Maestricht Anno Drij MDLXXIX Im April.
Early print showing the siege of Maastricht under command of the sick Count Parma, June 29th 1579.The plates by Hogenberg are dealing with the independence war of Holland...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1590
Selling price: $345
Sold in 2012
Tartariae sive magni Chami regni typus.
The map identifies China and Japan, but not Korea. The body of water lying between China and Japanese archipelago is identified as MARE CIN, which means China Sea.Much of...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1590
Selling price: $2000
Sold in 2012
Wie Maestricht ingenomen und erobert wirdt. . .
Early print showing the siege of Maastricht under command of the sick Count Parma, June 29th 1579.The plates by Hogenberg are dealing with the independence war of Holland...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1590
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2017
TUNES URBS ac Novae Eius Arcis et Guletae. Quae Philippo Hispan . . .
A striking old color example of Braun & Hogenberg's important early town view of Tunis. Text on verso. The image shows a siege of the port by Spanish ships under the ...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1590
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2019
Africae propriae tabula. In qua, Punica regna uides; Tyrios, et Agenoris urbem.
The most beautiful early map of the northern coast of Africa available to the collector. Prepared by Ortelius himself. A very fine example. Ortelius based this map on tha...
Place & Date: Antwerp,1590
Selling price: $360
Sold in 2020
Indiae Orientalis Insularum Que Adi Acientium Tiipus.
A lovely, miniature map of south east Asia. With Latin text on verso.from an Italian edition of Ortelius Epitome atlas. Box title.
Place & Date: Venice, ca. 1590
Selling price: $190
Sold in 2020
![Von dem Teutschen land. [Northern Germany]](/uploads/cache/45680-250x250.jpg)
Von dem Teutschen land. [Northern Germany]
A nice small map of northern Germany and a part of Poland. Shows the area between Lignitz and Torgau in the south, in the north Gdansk, the Baltic Sea and Holstein, in th...
Place & Date: Basle, ca 1590
Selling price: $4
Sold in 2021
Pharan desertum, et confinia eius cum parte Aegypti, ea videlicet terrae regio . . .
Cristian van Adrichem's map of the Holy Land, depicting the Desert of Pharan or Paran and the Wandering of the Israelites. The map is oriented to the east and covers the ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1590
Selling price: $90
Sold in 2020
Wratislavia.
Decorative town-plan of the Polish city of Wroclaw, once known as Breslau, ornated with coat of arms in the upper corners. In the lower corners we find two tables with 91...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1587-1590
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2020
Philippus Scrossy Italianisscher Capitein uber des Bapstes kriegsher zogh hinein. . . Plate 65.
Early print showing the battle between Captain Stossi and the Hugonots at la Roche-l'Abeille on 5 June 1569.Plate from the series about the " Eighty Years War" ...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca. 1590
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2023
Flensburg and Itzehoe.
Flensburg: This view from the east of the harbour city at the end of the Flensburg Fjord shows the long merchants' yards that are typical of old Flensburg - front-gabled ...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca 1590
Selling price: $110
Sold in 2022
![Brixiani Agri Typus [Brescia].](/uploads/cache/47101-250x250.jpg)
Brixiani Agri Typus [Brescia].
A very nice map of northern province of Italy, Brecia. Copied after a map prepared in 1560 by Christoforo Sorte. Very large title cartouche on the lower left corner. Abra...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1590
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2021
![Taprobana. [Sri Lanka]](/uploads/cache/47369-250x250.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-...
Place & Date: Venice, 1590
Selling price: $95
Sold in 2021
![[Lot of 11 maps of Persia] Reyno de Persia, o imperia de los Sophies/ Pereici sive Sophorum Regni Ypus](/uploads/cache/18512-(3)-250x250.jpg)
[Lot of 11 maps of Persia] Reyno de Persia, o imperia de los Sophies/ Pereici sive Sophorum Regni Ypus
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 c...
Place & Date: Antwerp, c. 1590
Selling price: $325
Sold in 2022
Abrahamus Ortelius Antverpianus.
Portrait of Abraham Ortelius, made by Philippe Galle. Abraham Ortelius (April 14, 1527 - June 28, 1598) was a Flemish cartographer and geographer. Beginning as a map-engr...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1590
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2022
![[Showing the 1588 defeat of the Spanish Armada in the English Channel]](/uploads/cache/20220907_173700-250x250.jpg)
[Showing the 1588 defeat of the Spanish Armada in the English Channel]
Beautiful engraving by Michael Eytzinger, showing the 1588 defeat of the Spanish Armada in the English Channel. Latin text on verso. Published in Leonis Belgici Descript...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca. 1590
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2022
(Possitions of a battle at Ivry (Dreux), 1590 )
Early print showing the positions of a battle at Ivry (Dreux), 1590..Plate from the series about the " Eighty Years War" or the independence war of Holland agai...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca. 1590
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2022
Der Teutschen fursten neu Wer zug auff gericht an 1591.
Early print showing the troops of German princes en route to France, 1591.Plate from the series about the " Eighty Years War" or the independence war of Holland...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca. 1590
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2022
![[Set of 5 maps of the Holy Land: Paradise, Canaan, Israel & Egypt, the Eastern Mediterranean. . .]](/uploads/cache/48407-250x250.jpg)
[Set of 5 maps of the Holy Land: Paradise, Canaan, Israel & Egypt, the Eastern Mediterranean. . .]
A lovely set of biblical maps of the Holy Land and its surrounds and, the Eastern Mediterranean by Cloppenburg, and engraved by Baptista Deuticum. The first map is an ear...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca 1590
Selling price: $1700
Sold in 2022
Waerachtige beschryvinge vande wydvermaerde Conincklicke Hooft Stadt Jerusalem. . .
A truly beautiful copper engraved plan of Jerusalem by Baptista van Doetechum for a bible printed by Jan Everts Cloppenburg. The bible maps of 1590 are the earliest of Pl...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca 1590
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2022
![La Florida [with] Guastecan](/uploads/cache/florida_01-250x250.jpg)
La Florida [with] Guastecan
A fine, old-colored example of Abraham Ortelius’ seminal map of Florida and the North American South. Ortelius’ map La Florida was the foundation for cartography ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1590
Selling price: $650
Sold in 2023
Floridae Americae Provinciae recens & exactissima descriptio . . .
A superb map of the Eastern Seaboard from Cape Lookout to Florida, with Cuba and the Bahamas, by the official artist of the second French Huguenot expedition to their col...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1591
Selling price: $12750
Sold in 2012
Floridae Americae Provinciae recens & exactissima descriptio . . .
A superb map of the Eastern Seaboard from Cape Lookout to Florida, with Cuba and the Bahamas, by the official artist of the second French Huguenot expedition to their col...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1591
Selling price: $1500
Sold in 2014
French battle with Florida Indians, 1591
Exciting de Bry engraving from 'der ander Theil der newlich erfundenen Landtschafft Americae' showing French soldiers aiding native North Americans in a war against a riv...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, c.1591
Selling price: $225
Sold in 2014
Islandia.
Perhaps the most famous map of Iceland. On the south side of the island a collection of all possible sea monsters is depicted. Polar bears on ice flows and volcanoes in t...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1591
Selling price: $5900
Sold in 2015
Islandia
From the 1591 German edition of the Theatrum (75 copies printed). Probably the most famous map of Iceland. The lower part of this map features a big collection of sea mon...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1591
Selling price: $4900
Sold in 2015
Floridae Americae Provinciae recens & exactissima descriptio . . .
A superb map of the Eastern Seaboard from Cape Lookout to Florida, with Cuba and the Bahamas, by the official artist of the second French Huguenot expedition to their col...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1591
Selling price: $5700
Sold in 2019
Itinerarium sacrae scripturae. . .
A relatively early edition of this famous book includes a world map in a cloverleaf (Shirley 142). The three principal continents, Europe, Asia, and Africa, are arranged ...
Place & Date: Magdeburg, 1591
Selling price: $30000
Sold in 2013
Printed leaf with woodcut globe.
Decorative page from a Dutch edition of Cosmographie, oft Beschrijuinge der geheelder Werelt. The author's first major work and one of the most popular texts of the 16th ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1592
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2011
Spectandum Dedit Ortelius Mortalib. orbem Orbi Spectandum Galleus Ortelium. Papius
A beautiful colored portrait of Abraham Ortelius as Frontispiece to his 'Theatrum Orbis'. Engraved by Phillipe Galle.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1592
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2015
Tabula Geogra Regni Congo
One of the most beautifully engraved maps of Africa ever produced, ornamented with numerous ships, sea monsters, and elaborate cartouches. One of few early maps to make a...
Place & Date: Frankfurt 1592
Selling price: $225
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Britannicarum Insularum Vetus Descriptio.
Scarce. The upper sheet of a two-sheet map which was issued with the Parergon 1590 and repeated only in the Parergon 1591 and Theatrum 1592 (as present). According to Mar...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1592
Selling price: $390
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Scotiae Tabula.
From the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1592.A fine general map of Scotland with north to the right of the page.Ortelius derived this map from Mercator's 1564 map of the Britis...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1592
Selling price: $750
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Regni Hispaniae Post Omnium Editio..
Very decorative map of Spain and Portugal including Majorca and Minorca.
Place & Date: Antwerp 1592
Selling price: $700
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Europa Prima Pars Terrae Forma Virginis.
Desirable, famous and extremely rare issue of this famous map of Europe, depicted in the form of a Queen wearing her crown and in flowing robes.This is a very rare issue...
Place & Date: Magdeburg, ca. 1592
Selling price: $3200
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Asia is presented as the mythical winged horse Pegasus.
Copper engraved map of Asia in the form of a Pegasus. This is a very rare issue of the map from a Czech edition. The original woodcut map was re-engraved on copper with a...
Place & Date: Magdeburg, 1592
Selling price: $2500
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Itinerarium Sacrae Scripturae. Das ist: Ein Reisebuch uber die gantze heilige Schrifft. Zuvor gemehret mit einem Büchlein De monetis et mensuris. . .
The book includes a world map in the form of a clover leaf (Shirley 142). The three principal continents, Europe, Asia and Africa, are arranged in the form of a clover le...
Place & Date: Magdeburg, P. Donat for A. Kirchner, 1592
Selling price: $18000
Sold in 2009
Açores Insulae.
The importance of the Azores at that time was connected with the observation of Columbus that compass variation (i.e. the difference between the real and the magnetic nor...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1592
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2009
Islandia.
Perhaps the most famous map of Iceland. On the south side of the island a collection of all possible sea monsters is depicted. Polar bears on ice flows and volcanoes in t...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1592
Selling price: $5800
Sold in 2009
Hispaniae Novae.
This was the standard map of the area for a generation, copied by Quad and Hondius. Even though Herrera (Spain's Royal Cosmographer) and Wytfliet worked 20 years after Or...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1592
Selling price: $650
Sold in 2009
Peregrinationis divi Pauli typus corographicus
Hand colored map of the Eastern Mediterranean by Abraham Ortelius. Covering the Mediterranean Sea between Israel and Sicily with Cyprus, Italy, Greece and Turkey. With tw...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1592
Selling price: $700
Sold in 2010
Hellas. Graecia, Sophiani
colored engraved map of Greece by A. Ortelius. Showing Greece with the Greek Islands, Crete, Asia Minor and the Aegean Sea. From the 1592 Latin edition of 'Theatrum Orbis...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1592
Selling price: $900
Sold in 2010
Typus chorographicus, celebrium locorum in regno Iudae et Israhel
Beautiful colored map of the Holy Land by A. Ortelius. The map is based on T. Stella's map of 1552, with two large Renaissance cartouches. From the 1592 Latin edition of ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1592
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2010
Ducatus Mediolanensis, Finitimarumq Regionu Descriptio Auctore Iooanne Georgio Septala Mediolanense
Beautiful colored map of northern Italy by A. Ortelius. Showing the area around Milan with Lago di Como, Genoa, Parma, Cremona and Bergamo. With a nice Renaissance cartou...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1592
Selling price: $650
Sold in 2010
Terra Sancta.
Holy Land of the 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum', described by Petrus Laicstain and designed by Chistian Schrot. Oriented to the east. Shows the shore line from Beirut to Gaza....
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1592
Selling price: $850
Sold in 2010
Palestinae sive totius terraepromissionis nova descriptio auctore tilemanno stella sigensis.
Holy Land from the 'Theartrum Orbis Terrarum'.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1592
Selling price: $800
Sold in 2010
Asia is presented as the mythical winged horse Pegasus.
Copper engraved map of Asia in the form of a Pegasus. This is a very rare issue of the map from a Czech edition. The original woodcut map was re-engraved on copper with a...
Place & Date: Magdeburg, 1592
Selling price: $3500
Sold in 2010
Islandia.
Perhaps the most famous map of Iceland. On the south side of the island a collection of all possible sea monsters is depicted. Polar bears on ice flows and volcanoes in t...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1592
Selling price: $9500
Sold in 2012
Leodiensis Dioecesis Typus
Map of eastern Belgium region from Ortelius' Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. Shows the Meuse River and the cities located on the river, such as Namur, Liege and Maastricht. A be...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1592
Selling price: $165
Sold in 2010
Islandia.
Perhaps the most famous map of Iceland. On the south side of the island a collection of all possible sea monsters is depicted. Polar bears on ice flows and volcanoes in t...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1592
Selling price: $7300
Sold in 2010
Barbariae Et Biledvlgerid, Nova Descriptio.
Attractive map of Africa by Abraham Ortelius. The map covers the area on the north-west coast of Africa from about present day Senegal and "Fume del Oro"...
Place & Date: Antwerp, (1570) 1592
Selling price: $325
Sold in 2011
Islandia.
Perhaps the most famous map of Iceland. On the south side of the island a collection of all possible sea monsters is depicted. Polar bears on ice flows and volcanoes in t...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1592
Selling price: $9000
Sold in 2011
Scotiae Tabula.
Scarce map of Scotland based on Ortelius. North orientated to the right. Very detailed with many place names. Decorated with sailings ships, a fox holding dividers above ...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1592
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2011
INDIA ORIENTALIS. Cuius nobilior pars sunt duo-ista quasi ingentia totius Asiae promontoria in Oceanum versus Meridiem . . .
Matthäus Quad's uncommon map depicts most of the Asian continent stretching northward to encompass Japan and eastward to show the coast of North America and New Guinea. ...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca. 1592
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2022
Pontus Euxinus Aequor Iafonio pulfatum remige premum.
An early map of the Black Sea, Sea of Azov, and its coasts which includes parts of Turkey, Armenia, Georgia, Russia, Ukraine, Crimea, Moldova, Romania, and Bulgaria. It s...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1592
Selling price: $268
Sold in 2020
Gelria, Cliviae, Fini Timorumque Locorum Verissima Descriptio ...
Very decorative map of Gelderland and a part of Cleves in Germany. Shows two ships and a decorative cartouche with birds. Based on a manuscript map by Christiaan Sgrothen...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1592
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2021
Regni Hispaniae Post Omnium Editio..
Very decorative map of Spain and Portugal, including Majorca and Minorca. According to Marcel van den Broecke: Estimated number of copies printed: 8175 Estimated nu...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1592
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2023
Portugalliae que olim Lusitania.
The best-known map of Portugal, after Alvares Secco (1560), map is orientated west to the top of the sheet, seen here in a fine, early impression in good color. Fernando ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1592
Selling price: $325
Sold in 2023
Angliae Regni Florentissimi Nova Descriptio, Auctore Humfredo Lhuyd Denbygiense. 1573.
Attractive map of England and Wales compiled from Mercator's 1564 wall map of the British Isles and Lhuyd's manuscript map of 1568. The countryside is fully engraved with...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1592
Selling price: $750
Sold in 2012
Portugalliae que olim Lusitania.
The best-known map of Portugal, after Alvares Secco (1560), orientated west to the top of the sheet, seen here in a fine, early impression in bright contemporary color. S...
Place & Date: Antwerp, ca.1592
Selling price: $400
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Islandia.
Perhaps the most famous map of Iceland. On the south side of the island a collection of all possible sea monsters is depicted. Polar bears on ice flows and volcanoes in t...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1592
Selling price: $6200
Sold in 2013
Americae Pars Magis Cognita. Chorographia nobilis & opulentae Peruanae Provinciae, atque Brasiliae, . . . MDXCII
Although a map of South America it does include much of what is now the southern United States. There are two elaborate, strap-work cartouches with the one at lower right...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1592
Selling price: $1350
Sold in 2014
ANGLIAE, SCOTIAE ET HIBERNIAE, SIVE BRITANNICAR: INSVLARVM DESCRIPTIO.
A beautiful map of the British Isles, north to the right. The map is based on Mercator's earlier map of the British Isles of 1564. Title in strapwork cartouche at top rig...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1592
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2016
Universe Europae Maritime Eiusque Navigationis Descriptio. Generale Pascaerte van Europa . . .
This general chart of western Europe and the surrounding coastal waters is from the rare pilot-guide Spieghel der Zeevaerdt ,first printed by Christopher Plantin in Leyde...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1592
Selling price: $20490
Sold in 2015
Typus Orbis Terrarum
Ortelius' third world map, here an early latin edition from 1592 (1592L1 (525 copies printed) 3rd textline from the top ends: Africam; last line, in two columns: ANTONIVS...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1592
Selling price: $3500
Sold in 2015
La Florida/ Peruviae Auriferae regionis Typus/ Guastecan.
The Chaves map of Florida is a prime example of an explorer's map since it records the recent discoveries of Cabeza de Vaca, De Soto, and Moscoso. The map revealed little...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1592
Selling price: $1200
Sold in 2016
Set of world & four continents.
An attractive set of these decorative and important maps published at Antwerp in Ortelius' Theatrum. The Theatrum was the first large modern atlas and was extremely influ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1592
Selling price: $11500
Sold in 2016
Acores Insulae.
Important map of Ortelius of the strategic islands of the Azores, in the 16th century an important hub from the Spanish Americas and the Silver fleet. The observation of ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1592
Selling price: $420
Sold in 2018
Barbariae Et Biledvlgerid...
Remarkable map of Northern Africa in an early shape. Extends from Morocco and the Sahara to Libya and large parts of the Mediterranean, including the Balearic Islands, Si...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1592
Selling price: $230
Sold in 2016
Valentiae Regni.
Early map of Valencia. The second plate, which is very similar to the first, but which has cursive rather than straight capitals for MARIS MEDITERRANEI PARS at the bottom...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1592
Selling price: $440
Sold in 2017
Warhaffte abcontrafactur der namhafften Statt St. Quintin sampt aller Laegerstatt und umbligenden Ort wie sie von Konigs Philippi Heer im jar 1557 belagert worden.
On recto a wood block printed view of the town of St. Quintin besieged by the army of Spanish King Philip II in 1557. From a German text edition of his Geographia , that ...
Place & Date: Basle, 1592
Selling price: $70
Sold in 2018
Islandia.
One of the most decorative atlas maps of all time published by Abraham Ortelius in his atlas “Theatrum Orbis Terrarum”. The map depicts Iceland in truly remarkable de...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1592
Selling price: $6700
Sold in 2018
Veronae Urbis Territorium.
A very fine map of part of Italy, centered on Verona, Vizenza and Lake Garda. Prepared by Bernardino Brugnoli, which was first published in 1574 by Forlani. This Ortelius...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1592
Selling price: $85
Sold in 2019
Saxonum regionis quatenus eius gentis imperium nomenquqe olim patebat, recens germanaque delineatio. . .
Map of north east Germany with part of Poland. Like all de Jode maps: scarce and much sought after.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1593
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2012
Natoliam Moderni dicunt tam partem quam Asiam minrem appelauere veteres (with Cyprus)
Engraved by Van Deutecum, this is a spectacular example of the 1593 edition of the very rare De Jode's map of the Eastern Mediterranean and Asia Minor. It has two title c...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1593
Selling price: $2900
Sold in 2014
Terrae Israel omnis ante Canaan dictae in tribus undecim ... A. Bened. Aria Montano descripta.
Land of Israel, previously called Canaan, divided into 11 Tribes, showing also the neighboring regions and the 43 stations of the Israelites in the desert.The shore line ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1572 / Leiden, 1593
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2020
Antiquae Ierusalem vera icnographia ad Sacræ Lectionis Præ-cipue et Aliarum de Ila Urbe Historiar. Explicationem Ex collatione auctoru tu ruinaru uestigiis ac situ ipso.
An "imaginary typographic plan" of ancient Jerusalem. Delano-Smith & Ingram describe it as "east oriented with mountains ringing the city and closing t...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1572 / Leiden, 1593
Selling price: $900
Sold in 2013