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![Natolia, quae olim Asia minor. [shows Cyprus]](/uploads/cache/29288-250x250.jpg)
Natolia, quae olim Asia minor. [shows Cyprus]
A finely designed map from the great Blaeu family of Amsterdam. Decorative map of Asia Minor, showing Cyprus and the Islands in the Aegean. Embellished with a banner cart...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Selling price: $140
Sold in 2010
Nova famigerabilis insulae ac ducatus Rugiae descriptio.
Both side borders are filled with coat of arms of the island's leading families. Including two compass roses, sailing ships, sea monsters and a large coat of arms in the ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c.1640
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2011
De Custen van Engeland en Schotlandt tusschen Tinbij en de Eijlanden van Orcanesse.
Very rare of the coasts of Scotland, with Aberdeen, from The New Fierie Sea-Colomne, published in 1640 by Jacob Aertz. Colom. .
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2010
Europa recens descripta a Guilielmo Blaeuw.
Blaeu’s striking map of Europe, framed on both sides by five costumed figures. Left border: Angli, Galli, Belgi, Castiliani, Venetiani. Right border: Germani, Hungari, ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Selling price: $2200
Sold in 2018
Les environs de L'Estang de Longpendv, Comprenant une grande partie du Comte de Charolois.
Beautiful map showing the lands of the Duke of Charolais in the region of France west of Chalon-sur-Saône, between Dijon and Lyon in France, published by the Blaeu firm....
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c.1640
Selling price: $95
Sold in 2010
Ducatus Silesiae Glogani Vera Delineatio . . .
Decorative regional map of Silesia, centered on Breslau. Extends from Cracow to Glogau and Gorlitz. Two cartouches, each with a large coat of arms. French text on verso.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2015
Circumferentia terrae continet miliaria germanica 5400, italica vero 21600.
Text page from "Introduction" of a Blaeu Atlas, Chapter VII. "De la division du Globe en 360 parties: du circuit de la terre, de sa longeur & largeur.T...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c.1640
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2014
Paderbornensis Episscopatus Descriptio Nova.
Detailed map centered on Paderborn. Prepared by Joannes Michael Gigas (1580-1650+), a doctor, mathematician, and geographer who also made maps of Osnabrug, Westphalia, M...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2019
Moscva.
Superb bird's-eye plan of Moscow from Merians "Neuwe Archontologia cosmica". The very detailed map shows many buildings, streets, bridges, and more. With the ...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, c1640
Selling price: $660
Sold in 2011
Descriptio fluminum Rheni, Vahalis et Mosae. . .
A fine map of central Netherlands where three great rivers flow to within but a few kilometres of each below Wesel. (The Rhine, the Waal and the Meuse Rivers). The scale ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca 1640
Selling price: $75
Sold in 2019
Holsatia.
From the English edition of the miniature Mercator/Hondius atlas, published in Amsterdam in the first half of the seventeenth century. It shows the region of Holstein, si...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca 1640
Selling price: $35
Sold in 2021
Nova Alemanniae sive Sueviae Superioris Tabula.
A German regional map with west orientated at the top of the map, showing the area between Lech & Danube, with Lake Constance (Boden See) and the Allgau. A detailed m...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca 1640
Selling price: $18
Sold in 2021
Wirtenberg Ducatus.
A regional German map of Baden-Wurttemberg, engraved by Mercator and Hondius for the Janssonius atlas of 1638. Covers Offenburg, Sigmarigen, Ulm, Heidelberg, and is cente...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca 1640
Selling price: $45
Sold in 2020
N°4. Horologium Horizontale ubi axis mundanus supra horizontem extollitur grandus XLVIIII. Scrupula XXIIII.
This beautiful engraving is a horological diagram with at bottom a 32-point wind rose and signed underneath "Franciscus Ritter N fac:".Remarkable for the elabor...
Place & Date: Nuremberg 1640
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2020
Lotharingia Ducatus vulgo Lorraine.
A very detailed map for his time centered on Nancy, Bayon and Metz, and including the river valleys of the Sar and Moselle. In the lower right-hand corner of the map is a...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca 1640
Selling price: $16
Sold in 2021
Holsatia.
From the English edition of the miniature Mercator/Hondius atlas, published in Amsterdam in the first half of the seventeenth century. It shows the region of Holstein, si...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca 1640
Selling price: $45
Sold in 2020
Moluccae Insulae Celeberrimae.
This plate was originally engraved in the 1620, and published as a loose-sheet by Jodocus Hondius II. At his death in August 1629 this map was, among 39 other copper plat...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Selling price: $70
Sold in 2020
![Carte de L'Afrique Corrigee, et augmentee dessus toutes les aultres cy devant faictes par P. Bertius 1640.[Tavernier]](/uploads/cache/84448-250x250.jpg)
Carte de L'Afrique Corrigee, et augmentee dessus toutes les aultres cy devant faictes par P. Bertius 1640.[Tavernier]
Scarce separately published map of Africa, first published by Melchior Tavernier in Paris in 1627.Bertius's map of Africa is one of the earliest maps of Africa engraved i...
Place & Date: Paris, 1640
Selling price: $650
Sold in 2020
TABULA MAGELLANICA qua Tierra del Fuego, cum. . .
Blaeu’s influential Map of Tierra del Fuego showing the Important Strait of Le Maire. A fine example of Willem Janszoon Blaeu's map of the Straits of Magellan and Tierr...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca 1640
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2020
A colored man on horseback.
Stefano Della Bella (1610-1664) originated from Florence and was later active as a graphic artist in Paris. He produced a wide variety of prints, with all kinds of subjec...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1640
Selling price: $147
Sold in 2021
Valentia Regnum; Contestani, Ptol. Edentani, Plin.
A large, very decorative map of Valencia depicting the area from the Cenia River to St. Gines and inland to Murcia and Teruel. The map has many place names with pictorial...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Selling price: $152
Sold in 2022
Aethiopia Superior vel Interior vulgo Abissinorum.
An attractive map of the Eastern African and the fictitious kingdom of Prester John. The map shows a major section of central and eastern Africa including Mozambique nort...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca 1640
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2022
China Veteribus Sinarum Regio nunc Incolis Tame dicta
Willem and Johan Blaeu's map of China, with Japan and Korea. With the Great Wall forming the northern boundary of China and the fictitious lake Chiamay.Title in a cartouc...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1640
Selling price: $625
Sold in 2023
Nova Virginiae Tabula.
Blaeu's beautiful map of Virginia, Maryland and the Chesapeake Bay region on North America's eastern seaboard. It shows the discoveries in the area as detailed by John Sm...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca 1640
Selling price: $700
Sold in 2022
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Antiquorum Galliae Episcopatuum...
Rare map of ancient France, including Switzerland and the Low Countries. With a large decorative title cartouche. Includes a large inset map of the British Isles.
Place & Date: Paris, 1640
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2023
Territorio Perugino
Map of the Perugino region of Umbria, Italy; in the canter its capital Perugia with Lake Trasimeno. Nice cartouche at bottom right with a papal coat-of-arms, a tiara and ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2022
Nova Belgica Et Anglia Nova
An important and early colonial era map of the Dutch and English colonies of northeast America by the renowned 17th century map maker, Willem Janszoon Blaeu. The map is d...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Selling price: $1600
Sold in 2023
Tabulae Italiae, Corsicae, Sardiniae, et adjacentium..
A decorative map by this famous Dutch mapmaker. The border contains views of the main cities, largely inspired by the Civitates Orbis Terrarum by Braun & Hogenberg: R...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1628,1640
Selling price: $2500
Sold in 2023
Legionis Regnum et Asturiarum Principatus.
Blaeu's highly decorative map of the Spanish northwestern Provinces of Asturias, Castile and Léon, including the towns of Oviedo, Braganza in Portugal, Laredo, Burgos, ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca 1640
Selling price: $170
Sold in 2023
Aethiopia Superior vel Interior vulgo Abissinorum...
Offered is a large, decorative, attractive map of Eastern African and the fictitious kingdom of Prester John. The map shows a major section of central and eastern Africa,...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2023
Magnae Britanniae et Hiberniae Tabula.
First issued in 1630 with vignette borders depicting costumes and towns; however, that state only appeared that year after which the borders were cropped from the plate, ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, [1631] - 1640
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2012
Asia Nova Descriptio.
A very fine and decorative example of early seventeenth century map engraving as practiced in The Netherlands. Several sources appear to have been used in the compilation...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606 -1640
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2012
Asia noviter delineata.
Superb engraved map of Asia with Latin text on verso. This magnificent “cornerstone” map is a fine example of the famous “carte-a-figures” maps created by the Bla...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca 1640
Selling price: $3400
Sold in 2012
Tabula Germaniae emendata recens. . .
Uncommon map published by Claes Jansz. Visscher covering the Low Countries, Germany, Poland, Switzerland and Austria. Engraved by A. van den Broeck with his signature low...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2017
Marchionatus sacri Romani imperii.
Decorative town-plan of Antwerp. The east is at the top: at upper right two farmers carrying the heraldic shield of Antwerp. Plan and surroundings of Antwerp and at botto...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Selling price: $800
Sold in 2016
Le Pais de Caux.
Detailed map of Normandy. Map centered on Rouen, and shows Honfleur, Le Havre, St Vallery, Dieppe. . .Embellished with a beautiful cartouche, and a sailing ship.No text o...
Place & Date: Amsterdam/ Paris, 1640
Selling price: $240
Sold
Sueciae, Norvegiae et Daniae Nova Tabula.
Signed lower right. A decorative map of the whole of Scandinavia with a large title cartouche and a decorative scale cartouche, and many ships in the seas and little figu...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2020
Carte de l'Estat du Pape et du Duché de toscane.
Early imprint of this fine map of Tuscany and the Papal States, marking Rome, Pisa, Bologna, Ravenna, Perugia, including the island of Elbe. With decorative cartouches fo...
Place & Date: Paris, 1640
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2012
.Serenissimae Reipublicae Genuensis Ducatus et Dominii. . .
Includes the coast of the Riviera from Nice to La Spezia. A most decorative map with impressive cartouche and extensive shipping. Engraved by D.Gryp.No text on verso. Fro...
Place & Date: Paris / Amsterdam, ca.1640
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2016
Pecheli sive Peking imperii sinarum provincia prima.
The map of the province of Peking from Joan Blaeu's Novus Atlas Sinensis , the first atlas of china with maps by the hand of the Italian Jesuit Martino Martini. A beautif...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Selling price: $1200
Sold in 2013
Episcop Ultraiectinus, Auct. Balthazaro Florentio a Berkenrode.
Highly detailed copper engraved map featuring the area around the city of Utrecht. This map gives several details concerning rivers, canals, cities and villages. This map...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1628 /1640
Selling price: $170
Sold in 2014
Europa nova delineatio.
Based on Blaeu's Europa recens descripta, this map extends to Iceland, the mythical Frisland, and the coast of Greenland. A decorative cartouche, sailing ships and a sea ...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1640
Selling price: $190
Sold in 2015
Hungaria Regnum.
Nice map of the region of Hungary by the Blaeu family. Budapest is in the center of this map. It covers most of present day Hungary, but also includes part of Austria. Ni...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Selling price: $240
Sold in 2014
Prudentia.
Fine copper engraving by Marco Sadeler entitiled "Prudentia". From a painting by Jacopo Zucchi. The Sadeler family were the largest, and probably the most succ...
Place & Date: Venice, c1640
Selling price: $79
Sold in 2014
Pecheli sive Peking imperii sinarum provincia prima.
The map of the province of Peking from Joan Blaeu's Novus Atlas Sinensis , the first atlas of china with maps by the hand of the Italian Jesuit Martino Martini. A beautif...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Selling price: $2700
Sold in 2013
![[Title page] Le Theatre du Monde ou Nouvel Atlas. . .](/uploads/cache/02124-250x250.jpg)
[Title page] Le Theatre du Monde ou Nouvel Atlas. . .
Architectural frontage with the title and imprint printed on paste-on slips.With manuscript ex libris "Caminade".
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2019
Namurcum comitatus.
Very rare map of the province Namen by Cornelis Danckerts. Depicting the region around the city of Namen/Namur based on the once-secret map of Jacques Surhon (ca. 1555). ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam / Paris, ca. 1640
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2022
Pecheli sive Peking imperii sinarum provincia prima.
The map of the province of Peking from Joan Blaeu's Novus Atlas Sinensis , the first atlas of china with maps by the hand of the Italian Jesuit Martino Martini. A beautif...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Selling price: $1800
Sold in 2015
La maravigliosa piazza di S. Marco.
Very rare view of Piazza San Marco from Stefano Scolari, circa 1640. Together with the second view offered also here appears rarely on the international market.
Place & Date: Venice, circa 1640
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2018
La piazza di San Marco.
Very rare view of Piazza San Marco from Stefano Scolari, circa 1640. Together with the second view offered also here appears rarely on the international market.
Place & Date: Venice, circa 1640
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2018
Comitatus Hollandiae novissima description Designatore Balthazaro Florentio a Berckenrode Anno Domini 1629.
Highly detailed regional map of Holland, showing the area around Amsterdam, Utrecht, Rotterdam, with an inset upper right corner of the Dutch Islands of Texel, Vlielandt....
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2020
Westphalia Ducatus.
A fine and detailed engraved map of Westphalia, produced by the famous Dutch Blaeu Family. The mountainous topography is graphically depicted, and several small coats of ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1640
Selling price: $41
Sold in 2016
Episcopatus Hildesiensis Descriptio Novissima..
This is Jansson's attractive map centered on the city of Hildesheim. The map was prepared by Joannes Michael Gigas (1580-1650+), a doctor, mathematician and geographer. T...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1640
Selling price: $1
Sold in 2016
Osnabrugensis episcopatus
A beautiful map of Münster centered on the city of Osnabruck. Prepared by Joannes Michael Gigas (1580-1650+), a doctor, mathematician and geographer. Showing an inset wi...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Selling price: $16
Sold in 2016
Tabula Russiae.
An early, very attractive map of the region. It includes Scandinavia, as well as the Black and Caspian Seas. Based on Hessel Gerritsz' rare and significant map of Russia,...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1640
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2016
Hollandia.
The Allardt edition of Blaeu's map of Holland, first published in 1604, being the oldest Dutch map to include town views as decorative borders. The top and bottom borders...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Selling price: $3750
Sold in 2024
Insularum Moluccarum Nova descriptio.
Exquisite map of the famous Spice Islands based on the islands described by Jan Huyghen van Linschoten. This map was the first large scale map of the region and depicts t...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Selling price: $280
Sold in 2017
Nova illustri simi ducatus Pomeraniae..
Very beautiful and detailed map of northern Poland. The map is surmounted by an enormous coat of arms surrounded by two figures. In the left upper part, a circular cartou...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Selling price: $290
Sold in 2019
Secunda Pars Brabantiae cuiuc urbs primaria Bruxellae.
A clean example of Blaeu's map of the region of Brabant with Bruxelles, Mechelen and Louven. The map has a decorative cartouche, four coats of arms, compass rose and a mi...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Selling price: $165
Sold in 2017
Andaluzia continens Sevillam . . .
ENGLISH TEXT EDITION Showing Gibraltar and the province of Andalusia and the city of Seville. Depicted also are the Straights of Gibraltar, know in classical times as the...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2018
Mons.
One of the finest and most sought-after view of Mons. The format emphasizes the layout of the city with buildings, churches, gardens, streets, walls, bridges and fortific...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2018
Alsatia Landgraviatus, cum Suntgoia et Brisgoia,. .
A large, detailed, and handsome map of Alsace, a famous wine region of France, based on the work of Gerard Mercator. It covers the region including the Rhine from Granvil...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2016
Diocese de Rheims, et le pais de Rethel...
Attractive map of the department in the Champagne-Ardenne region of France. Centred on Reims city. Many towns, forests, and waterways are identified. Decorated with the b...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1640
Selling price: $12
Sold in 2016
Veue et Perspective du Parterre du Palais d'Orleans.
Delecate copper engraving of the grounds around Orleans Palace. It demonstrates the symmetry of the gardens.Gabriel Perelle (1604 - 1677)was a French draftsman and printm...
Place & Date: Paris , 1640
Selling price: $15
Sold in 2018
Moluccae Insulae Celeberrimae.
This plate was originally engraved in the 1620, and published as a loose-sheet by Jodocus Hondius II. At his death in August 1629 this map was, among 39 other copper plat...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Selling price: $190
Sold in 2017
Circumferentia terrae continet miliaria germanica 5400, italica vero 21600.
The map of the Western hemisphere has a banner text "Circumferentia terrae continet miliaria germanica 5400, italica vero 21600". On verso a globe with climates...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1640
Selling price: $110
Sold in 2023
Venezuela cum parte Australi Novae Andalusiae.
Latin text on verso. A finely engraved, decorative map of Venezuela. The islands of Trinidad and Tobago, Margarita, Aruba and Curaçao are shown. Local animals are depict...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1640
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2017
Paraguayo Prov. De Rio De La Plata cum regionibus..
This is an early map showing this northern Patagonia territory. Also showing Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paolo, Santa Cruz of Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, Buenos Ayres, Chilli and...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1640
Selling price: $165
Sold in 2017
Insularum Moluccarum Nova descriptio.
Exquisite map of the famous Spice Islands based on the islands described by Jan Huyghen van Linschoten.This map was the first large scale map of the region and depicts th...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2020
Fionia vulgo Funen.
A very decorative, large map of Funen in Denmark from J. Blaeu. Depicted are Funen, Als and Langeland. With one decorative cartouche and scale.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2023
Flandria et Zeelandia Comitatus.
A decorative, large map including Flanders and Zeeland. The map, originally engraved in 1641 for Sanderus 'Flandria Illustrata', was used at different times in Blaeu's va...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2018
Terra Firma et Novum Regnum Granatense et Popayan.
A very decorative, large, early map of modern-day Panama and Colombia. With Latin text on verso.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Selling price: $230
Sold in 2018
Carte Generale des Royaume d'Angleterre Ecosse et Irlande...
A striking first edition copperplate map of the British Isles by Sanson, on his own slightly eccentric projection. Engraved by Melchior Tavernier in Paris in 1640. Featur...
Place & Date: Paris, 1640
Selling price: $376
Sold in 2017
Sclavonia, Croatia, Bosnia cum Dalmatiae parte.
An attractive map of the recently troubled Balkan countries of Bosnia, Croatia & Slovenia, by Blaeu after Gerard Mercator. It was quite unusual for Blaeu to credit Me...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Selling price: $105
Sold in 2018
Nova Belgica et Anglia Nova.
Orientated with north to the right. This is one of the earliest maps to concentrate solely on this area of the colonies, excluding Virginia and the extreme north east coa...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Selling price: $2200
Sold in 2017
Persia sive Sophorum Regnum.
Merian's decorative and detailed map of Persia, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, the Arab States, the Strait of Hormuz, the Caspian Sea, and extending until the Indus River.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, ca. 1640
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2018
Insularum Moluccarum Nova descriptio.
Exquisite map of the famous Spice Islands based on the islands described by Jan Huyghen van Linschoten.This map was the first large scale map of the region and depicts th...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Selling price: $130
Sold in 2018
Gothia.
An attractive map of southern part of Sweden including Stockholm, Uppsala, Gothenburg, Malmö. But also Copenhagen and Oslo. A decorative title cartouche and a number of ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca 1640
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2020
Aethopia Inferior vel Exterior.
A very attractive map of southern Africa depicting the area just prior to the settlement of the Cape Province by the Dutch. The area shown is from the Congo River basin a...
Place & Date: Amstrdam, ca 1640
Selling price: $180
Sold in 2019
Territorium Metense.
A decorative example of Blaeu's map of the the Metz Region, centered on the city of Metz and the Moselle River. It is a lovely map focusing on the wine region in the Mose...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Selling price: $85
Sold in 2020