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Inn Valley.
A fine antique map with three views by Braun and Hogenberg: View of the Innvalley; a view of the "Schlosberg" and a view of a monument for the emperor Carolus V...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1596
Selling price: $240
Sold in 2020
Linsum Austriae vulgo Lintz. Linz.
A fine antique bird's-eye view of Linz, with key to locations by Braun & Hogenberg, from: Urbium Praecipuarum Mundi Theatrum Quintum Auctore Georgio Braunio Agrippina...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1596
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2020
Innsbruck.
A fine antique view of Ambras castle with Innsbruck in the distance, by G. Hoefnagel after Alexander Colijn, from: Braun & Hogenberg, Civitates Orbis Terrarum, ... Pa...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1596
Selling price: $330
Sold in 2020
Dithmarschen Costumes. Diversi Dithmarsorum et vicinarum gentium habitus.
A fine antique engraving of costumed figures from the 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum', it shows the dignitaries and peasants of Dithmarschen. In the 15/16th centuries Dithmars...
Place & Date: Cologne,1596
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2020
CAMBRAI. - La Ville de Cambray.
A handsome birds-eye view/map of the northeast French city of Cambrai, from "Civitates Orbis Terrarum", in fine color. With a strong graphic element of the ...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1596
Selling price: $220
Sold in 2021
Typus Totius Orbis Terrarum, In Quo & Christiani militis certamen super terram.
The very rare so-called 'Christian Knight' world map, published by Jodocus Hondius. The first map on Mercator's projection to be produced after his death and also famous ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1597
Selling price: $93250
Sold in 2020
Cuba Insula et Jamaica.
One of only two Caribbean maps in this important work, which was one of the first atlases to provide detailed maps on the individual regions in the New World. The map is ...
Place & Date: Louvain, 1597
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2012
Venetia.
First state (unknown before) of this spectacular town-plan of Venice published engraved by Stefano Scolari, after the Bernardo Salvioni (1597) plan of Venice. It's the fi...
Place & Date: Venice, c.1597
Selling price: $6500
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India Orientalis.
Attractive strong impression showing all island groups, including the Philippines and Japan.Also shows the West Coast of North America with the place name of Quivira.The ...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1597
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2017
Brasilia
A map of Brazil from "Descriptionis Ptolemaicae Augmentum, sive Occidentis Notitia" published in 1597. First edition, paper size 30 x 37 cm, map size: 28.4 cm x...
Place & Date: 1597
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2016
Utriusque Hemispherii Delineatio
From "Descriptionis Ptolemaicae Augmentum, sive Occidentis Notitia" published in 1597. First edition, paper size 30 x 37 cm. This delicately engraved world map ...
Place & Date: 1597
Selling price: $1175
Sold in 2017
Tabula Asiae II.
A striking example of Magini's map of the Black Sea region, from the 1597 edition of Magini's 'Geographia', based upon the work of Claudius Ptolemy. Latin text and tables...
Place & Date: Venice, 1597
Selling price: $90
Sold in 2016
FLANDRIAE DESCRIPTIO.
A highly decorative and rare map of Flanders by Matthias Quad, published in the Cosmographia by Johann Rauw in 1597. On verso a woodcut plan of Brussels.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1597
Selling price: $225
Sold in 2020
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Stocholmia [Stockholm].
The top engraving, showing the timber houses so typical of Scandinavia, is a view from the northeast across what was then the suburb of Norrmalm and is now the city centr...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1588-1597
Selling price: $435
Sold in 2018
Tabula Asiae XII.
A very decorative copperplate map of Ceylon / Sri Lanka with a very elaborate cartouche and a charming engraving of an elephant.From the 1597 edition of Magini's "Ge...
Place & Date: Venice, 1597
Selling price: $140
Sold in 2018
Bergen.
The delightful Braun & Hogenberg bird's-eye view of the Norwegian city of Bergen, founded in 1070 and fortified with a palisade, is seen from the southwest across Và...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1588-1597
Selling price: $625
Sold in 2018
(America)
An engraved map, consisting of the right hand part of a two sheet map of the Americas. Fausto Rughesi, a native of Montepulicano, is best known as Roman architect, his ma...
Place & Date: Rome, c.1597
Selling price: $18000
Sold in 2019
Ptolemaei Typus.
A very attractive Ptolemaic world map, following the standard classical format. Printed by Petrus Keschedt.
Place & Date: Cologne 1597
Selling price: $215
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Universi Orbis Descriptio.
Modern world map from Magini's atlas following the oval projection popularised by Ortelius.Porro has astutely reduced Ortelius' much larger map to octavo page size with v...
Place & Date: Cologne 1597
Selling price: $300
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Europa.
Map of Europe, including great part of northern Africa and the Near East.The map comes from a scarce pirate edition published by Petrus Keschedt in Cologne one year after...
Place & Date: Cologne 1597
Selling price: $200
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Cypri Insvla.
Lovely copper engraved map of the island of Cyprus featuring two large cartouches and fancy lettering in the seas. Good detail in the interior.The map comes from a scarce...
Place & Date: Cologne 1597
Selling price: $730
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America.
A very attractive map. This is a reduced version of Giovanni d'Anian's 1582 Map of America.The geography is derived mainly from Ortelius' earlier map of the Western Hemis...
Place & Date: Cologne 1597
Selling price: $325
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Italia.
Lovely copper engraved map of Italy featuring fancy lettering in the seas. Southern part of Sicily and Sardinia are not included. Good detail in the interior.The map come...
Place & Date: Cologne 1597
Selling price: $115
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India Orientalis.
Attractive strong impression showing all island groups, including the Philippines and Japan.Also shows the West Coast of North America with the place name of Quivira.The ...
Place & Date: Cologne 1597
Selling price: $375
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Universi Orbis Descriptio Ad Usum Navigantium.
Magini's mariner's map follows Gerard Mercator's large world map of 1569 on a much reduced scale.The map comes from a scarce pirate edition published by Petrus Keschedt i...
Place & Date: Cologne 1597
Selling price: $650
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Africa.
Small map of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula showing part of Brazil as well.The rivers of central and north Africa feature prominently including the Ptolemaic concept of...
Place & Date: Cologne 1597
Selling price: $180
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Turcici Imperii Descriptio.
Small engraving showing the Ottoman Empire, the Mediterranean Sea, northern Africa, the Holy Land and Arabia.The map comes from a scarce pirate edition published by Petru...
Place & Date: Cologne 1597
Selling price: $100
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Palaestina, Vel Terra Sancta.
Map of the Holy Land with two large strapwork cartouches. The map comes from a scarce pirate edition published by Petrus Keschedt in Cologne one year after the publicatio...
Place & Date: Cologne 1597
Selling price: $150
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Ptolemaei Typus.
A very attractive Ptolemaic world map, following the standard classical format.On verso frontispiece from Geographiae Cl. Ptolemaei Pars secunda.. Avthore Io. Antonio Mag...
Place & Date: Cologne 1597
Selling price: $350
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Universi Orbis Descriptio.
Modern world map from Magini's atlas following the oval projection popularized by Ortelius.Porro has astutely reduced Ortelius' much larger map to octavo page size with v...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1597
Selling price: $450
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Erythraei Sive Rubri Maris Periplus.
Decorative map covering the north-west coast of Africa, Arabian peninsular, India, Malaysia. In lower part inset map of Mediterranean.Upper right hand corner inset map Hy...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1597
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2008
Antiquae Urbis perfecta imago. (Rome)
From "Pars antiquitatum Romanarum seu Topographia Romanae Urbis iam inde ab V. C. ad nostra usque temporae maxime quando in summo flore fuit, accuratissima: [...] Ma...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1597
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2013
Africa.
From "Geografia". Published in Venice by Galignani. Situated in a text page, with a gold leaf initial. Maps are engraved by Girolamo Porro.
Place & Date: Venice, ca. 1597
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2008
Poloniae Regnum.
A detailed map of Poland, Lithuania and the Ukraine stretching from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Black Sea in the south.Latin text on verso.The map comes from the G...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1597
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2010
Geografia cioe Descrittione Universale della Terra ... Nuovamente ... Rincontrati, & Corretti ... Gio. Ant. Magini ... Opera ... Tradotta dal R.D. Leonardo Cernoti
The first edition of Leonardo Cernoti's Italian translation of Ptolemy's Geografia based on the 1596 Latin edition of Magini published by G. B. & G. Galignani in 1597...
Place & Date: Venice, 1597
Selling price: $11500
Sold in 2011
Die gantze Welt in ein Kleberblat.
The world is depicted as a trefoil cloverleaf with Jerusalem at the center. Woodcut map from Heinrich Buenting's "Itinerarium sacrae scripturae", printed by Pau...
Place & Date: Magdeburg, 1597
Selling price: $2250
Sold in 2011
Insula D.Helenae sacra coeli..
A fine perspective view of the Island of St.Helena in the South Atlantic. The location of the Island directly on the navigation route from Europe to the Cape of Good Hope...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1598
Selling price: $1225
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Romaniae, (quae olim Thracia dicta) ..
Very fine map centered on the Danube area. The map is based on the double sheet map by Jacob Gastaldi. Abraham Ortelius (1527-1598) was a cartographer and publisher, who ...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1598
Selling price: $300
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Basiliensis territorii descriptio nova./Circulus sue Liga..
Left hand map centred on Basle, east to top. With credit to Sebastian Münster in title cartouche.Right hand map with Boden See, Strasbourg and Augsburg. The map was prep...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1598
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2016
Bavariae, olim vindeliciae delineationis..
Fine and early map of Bavaria, prepared by Philipp Apian in 1561 and used by Ortelius in his atlas 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum [Atlas of the Whole World].The Theatrum was re...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1598
Selling price: $240
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Austriae ducatvs chorographia, Wolfgango Lazio auctore
Fine and early map of Austria after Wolfgang Lazius and used by A.Ortelius in his atlas 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum [Atlas of the Whole World].Only included in the atlas edi...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1598
Selling price: $300
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Silesiae typus..
Fine and early map of Silesia after Martin Helwig (1516-1574) and used by A.Ortelius in his atlas 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum [Atlas of the Whole World].Only included in the...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1598
Selling price: $320
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Regni Bohemiae descriptio.
Fine and early map of Czechoslovakia after Johann Criginger. and used by A.Ortelius in his atlas 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum [Atlas of the Whole World].The Theatrum was re-i...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1598
Selling price: $260
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Americae pars magis cognita.
Very early and RARE map of Central and South America by Theodore de Bry. In the third part of his Grand Voyages Theodore de Bry publishes the accounts of the voyages of J...
Place & Date: Frankfurt 1598
Selling price: $6425
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Carpetaniae Partis Desc.1584. -Guipus Coae Regionis Typus.
An ornate and highly decorative set of three maps on one sheet, Carpetanin, (upper left), Guipuzcoa, (upper right) and Cadiz (lower center). The maps are highly decorativ...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1598
Selling price: $380
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Brabantiae Descriptio.
In an inset Mechelen and surroundings. Decorative scale and title cartouche with dedicational initials which may refer to Laurentius Michaelis who may be connected with t...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1598
Selling price: $575
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Helvetiae descriptio.
A fine map based upon a map by the Swiss cartographer Aegidicus Tschudi of 1538.
Place & Date: Anvers, 1598
Selling price: $560
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Orbis descriptio.
The map is elegantly designed and engraved on copper with typical Italian taste and skill. Separate double-hemispherical maps were no innovation but this is the first tim...
Place & Date: Venise 1561/1598
Selling price: $900
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Patavini territorii../ Tarvisini agri typus.. (2 maps)
Two maps on one sheet. Map to the left is a detailed map including Venice and the area north of it including Padua and Vincenza. Very fine map after Giacomo Gastaldi. The...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1598
Selling price: $575
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Carta Marina nuova tavola.
Ruscelli's mariner's map is a slightly enlarged version of the map which appeared in Gastaldi's edition of Ptolemy thirteen years earlier. The only change seems to be the...
Place & Date: Venice, 1598
Selling price: $1300
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Melita.
This tiny map, set into a sheet of text, is one of the earliest available maps of the strategically important Mediterranean islands of Malta and Gozo. The woodblock map s...
Place & Date: Basle, 1598
Selling price: $145
Sold in 2010
Insularum Aliquot Maris Mediterranei Descriptio.
Six maps on one sheet. In the center a map of Sicily, surrounded by maps of Sardinia, Djerba, The island of Elbe, Corfu and Malta.
Place & Date: Antwerp 1598
Selling price: $350
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Burgundiae inferioris quae Ducatus Nomine Censetur, Des.
Centered on the province of Burgundy, from his 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum'.
Place & Date: Antwerp 1598
Selling price: $335
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Leodiensis Diocesis Typus.
East to the top. Centered on Liege, including southern part of Dutch Limburg. Prepared by Jan van Schille.
Place & Date: Antwerp 1598
Selling price: $540
Sold in 2009
Namurcum Comitatus.
Prepared by Jacques Surhon in 1555. His manuscript map was for security reason not published. Only in 1579, when Antwerp was independent for a short time, Ortelius used a...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1598
Selling price: $525
Sold in 2009
Nobilis Hanoniae Comitatus descrip.
Including part of Belgium and northern part of France.
Place & Date: Anvers, 1598
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2009
Galliae Regni Potentiss: Nova Descriptio Ioanne Ioliveto Auc
A decorative view of 16th Century France that is derived from Jean Jolivet's woodcut map of 1560. Decorated with one large cartouche and one smaller royal crest. The map ...
Place & Date: Anvers, 1598
Selling price: $385
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Persia
Very fine early miniature map of Persia, this map is from the first edition of the Langenes atlas, (later well known under the name of Bertius). Dutch text on verso.
Place & Date: Middelburg, 1598
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2010
Tartaria
Very fine early miniature map of Tartaria with the wall on the map, this map is from the first edition of the Langenes atlas, (later well known under the name of Bertius)...
Place & Date: Middelburg, 1598
Selling price: $140
Sold in 2010
Gotland
Very fine early miniature map of Gotland, this map is from the first edition of the Langenes atlas, (later well known under the name of Bertius). Dutch text on verso.
Place & Date: Middelburg, 1598
Selling price: $140
Sold in 2010
CALARIS, MALTA, RHODUS, FAMAGUSTA.
Four separate views of historical Mediterranean islands on one sheet. Malta, Calaris, Rhodes ( Rhodus ), Famagusta.From the greatest publication in this genre! The Civita...
Place & Date: Cologne 1598
Selling price: $660
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Insularum Aliquot Maris Mediterranei Descriptio.
Six maps on one sheet. In the center a map of Sicily, surrounded by maps of Sardinia, Djerba, The island of Elbe, Corfu and Malta.
Place & Date: Antwerp 1598
Selling price: $770
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Galliae Regni Potentiss: Nova Descriptio Ioanne Ioliveto Auctore.
A decorative view of 16th Century France that is derived from Jean Jolivet's woodcut map of 1560. Decorated with one large cartouche and one smaller royal crest. The map ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1598
Selling price: $360
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Nova Guinea et In. Salomonis.
From the CAERT-THRESOOR, one the very first maps to depict New Guinea as a separate island. This work is also the first to provide a "full" charting / identific...
Place & Date: Paris, 1598
Selling price: $360
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Hispaniae Novae sive magnae,..
This was the standard map of the area for a generation, copied by De Bry, Quad and Hondius. Even though Herrera (Spain's Royal Cosmographer) and Wytfliet worked 20 years ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1598
Selling price: $750
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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 1598
Selling price: $1200
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Instrument geometrique dict la barque..
Early copper engraving by Amboise Bachot. He was the author of Le gouvernail lequel conduira le curieux de geometrie en perspective dedans l'architecture des fortificatio...
Place & Date: Paris 1598
Selling price: $300
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Barque de rassembler plusieurs termes pour parvenir..
Early copper engraving by Amboise Bachot. He was the author of Le gouvernail lequel conduira le curieux de geometrie en perspective dedans l'architecture des fortificatio...
Place & Date: Paris 1598
Selling price: $300
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Ambrosius Bachotus Parisiensis Inventor.
Early copper engraving by Amboise Bachot. He was the author of Le gouvernail lequel conduira le curieux de geometrie en perspective dedans l'architecture des fortificatio...
Place & Date: Paris 1598
Selling price: $300
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Compas Geometrique descrivant.. proposée P.AB Bachot.
Early copper engraving by Amboise Bachot. He was the author of Le gouvernail lequel conduira le curieux de geometrie en perspective dedans l'architecture des fortificatio...
Place & Date: 1598
Selling price: $300
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Bavariae, olim vindeliciae delineationis..
Fine and early map of Bavaria, prepared by Philipp Apian in 1561 and used by Ortelius in his atlas 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum [Atlas of the Whole World]. The Theatrum was r...
Place & Date: Anvers, 1598
Selling price: $150
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Granata Nova et California.
Very rare sixteenth century map: the second printed map devoted to the California peninsula and the south west of present day United States. A reduced version of the Corn...
Place & Date: Cologne 1598
Selling price: $1600
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Florida et Apalche.
Very rare sixteenth century map: drawn from the Abraham Ortelius -Gerónimo de Chaves map entitled La Florida, published in 1584. However, here Metellus expands the area ...
Place & Date: Cologne 1598
Selling price: $3125
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Chica sive Patagonica et Australis Terra 1598.
Very rare sixteenth century map: A reduced version of the Cornelis Wytfliet map of the same name.The map is divided into two sections. The top half is drawn on normal pro...
Place & Date: Cologne 1598
Selling price: $2025
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Maris Pacifici vulgo Mar del Zur.
The second printed map devoted to the Pacific.Published in the German edition of José de Acosta's De Natura Nova Orbis. All other maps in the book are reduced versions o...
Place & Date: Cologne 1598
Selling price: $3025
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Norumbega et Virginia.
Rare sixteenth century map: It shows the east coast of North America from the Outer Banks of present day Carolina to Canada is depicted at a period just before a number o...
Place & Date: Cologne 1598
Selling price: $3000
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Agri Cremonensis Typvs.
Region in the Northern portion of Italy with the city of Cremonia near the center. With very decorative inset map of Crema, copied after Forlani's map of 1570. First publ...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1598
Selling price: $345
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Oost ende West Vrieslandte beschryvinghe.
Prepared by Jacob van Deventer. A very decorative map of the Dutch provinces of Friesland, Groningen and Drente and of the German Province of Friesland.
Place & Date: Antwerp 1598
Selling price: $465
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Regionis Biturigum... Per Ioannem Calamaeum. / Limaniae Topographia Gabriele Symeoneo Auct.
Two maps on one sheet.
Place & Date: Antwerp 1598
Selling price: $180
Sold in 2009
Estotilandia et Laboratoris terra.
This is an important and influential map depicting the first detailed record of the discoveries of Davis and Frobisher in their search for the Northwest Passage. The attr...
Place & Date: Cologne 1598
Selling price: $1050
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