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Europa Nova Delineatio.
This lovely map is based on one of the most famous 17th Century maps of the continent of Europe - Blaeu's Europa recens descripta. The map extends to include Iceland and ...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1640
Selling price: $175
Sold in 2019
Brandeburgum Marchionatus cum Ducatibus Pomeraniæ et Mekelenburgi.
A highly decorative map of parts of Pomerania, Mecklenburg, Rugia and parts of present day Poland - all with excellent detail of forests, rivers, cities, towns (highlight...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca 1640
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2019
Insula Zeilan olim Taprobana nunc incolis tenarisim.
Janssonius' map of Sri Lanka. Including many VOC settlements and forts, several major town marked with a crown. Very decorative item with two large title and scale cartou...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2020
Fezzae et Marocchi Regna Africae Celeberrima, describebat Arab. Ortelius.
A detailed map of Morocco, oriented with north on the right. Showss Morocco, the Kingdom of Fez, the Atlas Mountains, and the coast of Spain. The Strait of Gibraltar is a...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1640
Selling price: $47
Sold in 2019
REGIONES SUB POLO ARCTICO.
One of the many cases of duplication by the firms of Blaeu and Hondius/Jansson. In this case, Blaeu has copied Jansson's map of 1637. It depicts rhumb lines radiating fro...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2019
Antverpia
Two joined sheets. Rare bird's eye town-plan of Antwerp.From "Pompa introitus Ferdinandi Austriaci Hispaniarum infantis". The work celebrates the entry of Cardi...
Place & Date: Antwerp, Johannes Meursius, 1641
Selling price: $1350
Sold in 2012
Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica ac Hydrographica Tabula.
This is Jansson's later edition of Hondius' 1630 superb baroque-style world map. The two hemispheres are boarded with symbols of the four elements, a celestial orb, vario...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1641
Selling price: $7000
Sold in 2012
l'isle de France, Parisiensis Agri de Script.
An attractive map that depicts the region surrounding Paris. There are strap-work title and scale cartouches and a beautiful interlocking border. The high detail depicts ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1641
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2016
Antiquorum Italiae & Illyrici occidentalis episcopatum geographica descriptio . . .
Scarce map of Ancient Italy and the Adriatic with inset maps of Corsica, Sardinia and Sicily. Engraved by Abraham de la Plaetsen. Included in "Geographia sacra, siue...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1641
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2014
Graeciae Antiquae tabulam hanc geographicam offert, dedicat, consecrat Nic Sanson Abbavillaeus CID DCI XXXVI.
Scarce map of Ancient Greece. Prepared by Nicolas Sanson. In lower right corner "A Paris chez Melchior Tauernier, Graveur et Imprimeur du Roy pour les Cartes Geograp...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1641
Selling price: $61
Sold in 2013
Germania Antiqua.
A fine map of ancient Germany, Poland and the Netherlands.This edition carries the date 1641.The map was prepared by Melchior Tavernier and later published Pierre Mariett...
Place & Date: Paris, 1641
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2017
Barbaria./ Egypt/ Tunesia.
Three maps on one sheet. Upper part, it shows the coast of Barbaria from Morocco to Egypt: the map on the left corner of Tunis includes a plan of Goletiae, and the right ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1641
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2015
Tabula Navigatoria maris Orientalis...
Rare sea chart of the coasts of Scandinaviachart includes a large coat of arms and two compass roses.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1641
Selling price: $280
Sold in 2017
Graeciae Antiquae tabulam hanc geographicam offert, dedicat, consecrat Nic Sanson Abbavillaeus CID DCI XXXVI.
Scarce map of Ancient Greece. Prepared by Nicolas Sanson. In lower right corner "A Paris chez Melchior Tauernier, Graveur et Imprimeur du Roy pour les Cartes Geograp...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1641
Selling price: $45
Sold in 2018
Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica.
One of the most beautiful world maps ever engraved and one of the most influential in promulgating the California as an island hypothesis and one of the earliest maps to ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1641
Selling price: $1800
Sold in 2019
Tabula Islandiae.
A fine map of Iceland. Very attractive title cartouche in the lower left corner: around the island, a ship and two sea monsters are depicted.In spite of it's restorations...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1641
Selling price: $1080
Sold in 2016
Gallia Antiqua.
A fine map of ancient France.This edition carries the date 1641.Nicolas Sanson was to bring about the rise of French cartography, although the fierce competition of the D...
Place & Date: Paris 1641
Selling price: $60
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Evrope Francoise Ov Description Generalle Des Empires..
Unrecorded early Canadiana. Rare map of Europe with an inset of Canada or Nouvelle France. The inset has been missed in the bibliographies of North America (not cited in ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1641
Selling price: $3200
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Title page from \"Novus Atlas, Das ist Weltbeschreibung..\".
Attractive title page of Blaeu\'s New Atlas. Highly decorative, and finely engraved architectural façade with figures. Some elements highlighted with gold.The title is p...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1641
Selling price: $300
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Title page from "Novus Atlas, Das ist Weltbeschreibung..".
Attractive title page of Blaeu's New Atlas. Highly decorative, and finely engraved architectural façade with figures.The title is printed on a paste-on slip and surmount...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1641
Selling price: $370
Sold in 2008
Tabula Portuum Occidentalium Norwegiae et Spizbergi.
Copper engraving sea chart, printed from 2 plates, by M. Merian from J. A. Ã Werdenhagen, "De rebus publicis Hanseaticis tractatus". Very decorative cartouche.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1641
Selling price: $225
Sold in 2018
Irlandiae Mari Portus.
Sea chart of Ireland, from Werdenhagen J., De Rebus Publicis Hanseaticis Tractatus.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1641
Selling price: $180
Sold in 2009
Tabula Portuum Lappiae et Russiae, usq Novam Zembalam.
Scarce sea chart of the Lapland, Russia, Nova Zemlaya and the contiguous arctic seas, from Werdenhagen's De Rebus Publicis Hanseaticis Tractatus.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1641
Selling price: $610
Sold in 2009
Gallia Antiquae Descriptio, Geographica. . .
An attractive map of ancient Gaul (present day France and Belgium) by the French cartographer Nicolas Sanson, and published by Pierre Mariette. A decorative title cartouc...
Place & Date: Paris, 1641
Selling price: $110
Sold in 2010
Nova Virginia Tabula.
Early map of Virginia. Being Henricus Hondius' derivative of John Smith's highly important map of Virginia, 1612. Orientation west to top.Title in an Antwerp style cartou...
Place & Date: 1641
Selling price: $800
Sold in 2019
Hassiae Descriptio / Holsatiae Descriptio.
The rare Spanish text edition of 1641 of this important map showing the province of Holstein. Very nice cartouche on the lower left corner with the name of the cartograph...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1641
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2020
Serenissimae Reipublicae Genuensis Ducatus et Dominii.
Includes the coast of the Riviera from Nice to La Spezia. A most decorative and rare map because it was only included in the Vrients' editions of the Ortelius Theatrum . ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1609-1641
Selling price: $2100
Sold in 2023
ROMA.
Large and detailed birds eye view of Rome and the Vatican by Matthaus Merian using the late XVI century eastward oriented model which shows the city right after the cityâ...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, ca. 1642
Selling price: $1200
Sold in 2019
![[Title page] Novi Atlantis . . .](/uploads/cache/45392-250x250.jpg)
[Title page] Novi Atlantis . . .
A superb and highly decorative title Page from an Atlas issued by Jan Jansson (1588-1664) in 1642, from a German edition of his 'Atlas Novus'.This magnificent page boasts...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1642
Selling price: $140
Sold in 2020
Der Keysersche Schans Aende Tebawer Brug.
A detailed bird’s-eye view of the confluence of the Mulde and Elbe Rivers on the bank of the Elbe. The city of Dessau, Germany is pictured, by Danckerts in 1642.Corneli...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1642
Selling price: $11
Sold in 2020
ROMA
A large and detailed birds eye view of Rome and the Vatican by Matthaus Merian using the late XVI century eastward oriented model which shows the city right after the cit...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, ca.1642
Selling price: $1200
Sold in 2023
Eboracum, Lincolnia, Derbia, Staffordia, Notinghamia...
An elegant map of northeast England by Henricus Hondius, published out of Amsterdam during the golden age of Dutch map making in 1642. The map presents the English count...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1642
Selling price: $75
Sold in 2023
Païs armorique, ou Description de la haute et basse Bretagne, 1642.
Beautiful and rare map of Bretagne published by Boisseau, this edition is without text on the back. Boisseau used the copperplate by Bouguereau. The plate was included in...
Place & Date: Paris, after 1642
Selling price: $900
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Carte des environs de la Ferre.
Detailed map of the north of France, of the region of Picardie. Prepared by Claude de Chastillon (1559-1616) and published by Jean Boisseau. Map shows Folembrai, La ferre...
Place & Date: Paris, 1642
Selling price: $240
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The Right Honourable Robert Earle of Warwick Baron of Leeze etc Lord High Admiral of England One of his Majesties most honourable private Councell & his Majesties Lieutenant of Norfolk & Essex etc
The inscription: 'The Right Honourable Robert Earle of Warwick Baron of Leeze etc Lord High Admiral of England One of his Majesties most honourable private Councell &...
Place & Date: London, 1642
Selling price: $115
Sold in 2014
Toonneel des Aerdrycx oft Nievwe Atlas (Title Page)
Fine title page from the Spanish section of the 1642 Blaeu Atlas. A wonderful Title Page from the greatest ever map publishers, "Mapmakers Supreme".The contents...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1642
Selling price: $51
Sold in 2018
Britannia Ducatus. Duche de Bretaigne.
Early map of Bretagne. Highly detailed, filled with place names. Includes Mont-Saint-Michel, Ile Ouessant, Belle-Ile, and Noirmoutier. Richly decorated with a title carto...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1642
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2016
Normandia ducatus.
Very detailed map of Normandy centered on Caen and Rouen. Also showing Cherbourg, Avranches, Bayeux, Cabourg, Honfleur, Le Havre, Etretat, Fecamp. St Malo and Mont Saint ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1642
Selling price: $110
Sold in 2016
Carte Generale des Royaume d'Angleterre Escosse et Irlande Avecq les Isles circonvoisines Conues toutes soubs le nom de Britanniques / Nouvellement dressee et tiree de Cambdene Spede & autres Par N. Sanson geogr.e Ord.re du Roy.
Fine example of Nicolas Sanson's first map of the British Isles, engraved by Melchior Tavernier. A small inset map shows the Shetland Isles. The distortion of Ireland and...
Place & Date: Paris, 1642
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2018
Sardinia Insula.
A small map of the Italian island of Sardinia, printed on a sheet of Dutch text and published in Blaeu's "Theatrum" in 1642. Attractive initial letter 'H' begin...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca 1642
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2019
Tabula Magellanica. 

A fine example of W. Blaeu's influential sea chart of Tierra de Fuego with the Strait of Magellan and Le Maire Strait. In original color. Richly arrayed with rhumb lines,...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1642
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2019
CONSTANTINOPOLI.
A beautiful hand-colored copperplate birds-eye view/map showing Istanbul/Constantinople, with a chart with numbered places-names. Showing multiple ships and buildings. An...
Place & Date: Venice, 1642
Selling price: $170
Sold in 2019
Regni Bohemiae nova descriptio.
Rare map engraved by Petrus Kaerius and published by Evert Cloppenburg.
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1642
Selling price: $640
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De gelegenheyt van t'paradys ende t'landt van Canaan. . .
Very attractive map, showing the location of Paradise. Two vignettes depict the Temptation of Adam and Eve, and their Expulsion from the Garden of Eden.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1642
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2017
Insulae Americanae in Oceanus Septentrionali cum Terris..
General map of the West Indies extending from Virginia to the mouth of the Orinoco, and destined to be copied in various shapes by many other publishers.Title cartouche t...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1642
Selling price: $750
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Eboracum, Lincolnia, Derbia, Staffordia, Notinghamia..
Showing the north-eastern part of England. Ornamental title cartouche in the upper right corner. Embellished with a vessel and a sea monster.
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1642
Selling price: $150
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Westmorlandia Lancastria, Cestria, Caernarvan, Denbigh..
Showing the north-western part of England, including the Island of Man, Liverpool, Blackpool, etc.Embellished with ornamental title cartouche and a vessel.
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1642
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2009
Title page from \"Novus Atlas, Das ist Weltbeschreibung..\".
Attractive title page of Blaeu\'s New Atlas. Decorative and finely engraved architectural façade with figures. Some elements highlighted with gold.The title is printed o...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1642
Selling price: $250
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Nova Virginiae Tabula.
The map is based on the first state of Smith's map, 1612, and is slightly larger and more expertly engraved. In 1629 the Hondius plate was purchased by Blaeu who deleted ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1642
Selling price: $2200
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Insulae Americanae in Oceanus Septentrionali cum Terris..
General map of the West Indies extending from Virginia to the mouth of the Orinoco, and destined to be copied in various shapes by many other publishers.Title cartouche t...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1642
Selling price: $950
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Portugallia et Algarbia uae olim Lusitania.
A popular Blaue map of Portugal, based on the work of Fernao Alvares Seco. Verso text: German. This very detailed map depicts Portugal with numerous ships and Neptune ad...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1642
Selling price: $355
Sold in 2008
Acuritisima Brasilia Tabula.
A very decorative, desirable map of Brazil. The work is filled with native scenes depicting various activities, including a cannibalism ritual and villagers tending to a ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1642
Selling price: $850
Sold in 2008
A general Plott and description of the Fennes..
Fine map depicting the area north of Cambridge, up to King's Lynn. West to the top.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1642
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2020
Eboracum, Lincolnia, Derbia, Staffordia, Notinghamia..
Showing the north-eastern part of England.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1642
Selling price: $360
Sold in 2009
Yperen
Wonderful, miniature copper engraving of Yperen. There is a Latin title at top and the text below the print is in Latin and German. The city of Yperen is shown in the bac...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, ca.1642
Selling price: $51
Sold in 2014
Troye
Wonderful, miniature copper engraving of Troye. There is a Latin title at top and the text below the print is in Latin and German. The city of Troye is shown in the backg...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, ca.1642
Selling price: $23
Sold in 2014
Metz
Wonderful, miniature copper engraving of Metz. There is a Latin title at top and the text below the print is in Latin and German. The city of Metz is shown in the backgro...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, ca.1642
Selling price: $23
Sold in 2014
Orleans
Wonderful, miniature copper engraving of Orleans. There is a Latin title at top and the text below the print is in Latin and German. The city of Orleans is shown in the b...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, ca.1642
Selling price: $22
Sold in 2014
Reims
Wonderful, miniature copper engraving of Reims. There is a Latin title at top and the text below the print is in Latin and German. The city of Reims is shown in the backg...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, ca.1642
Selling price: $22
Sold in 2014
Namur
Wonderful, miniature copper engraving of Namen. There is a Latin title at top and the text below the print is in Latin and German. The city of Namen is shown in the backg...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, ca.1642
Selling price: $16
Sold in 2014
Anglesey. / Iarsay./Garnesay. / Wight Vectis Olim.
Four maps on one sheet depicting the English islands Jersey, Guernsey, Wright and Alderney.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1642
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2021
Europam sive Celticam veterem. Sic Describere conabur Abrahamus Ortelius
Historical map of Europe, originally attributed to Ortelius also published in Hondius / Mercator Atlas Novus with different catouches. French text on back.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1642
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2009
Title page from Blaeu's New Atlas.
Attractive title page of Blaeu's New Atlas. Decorative and finely engraved architectural façade with figures. Some elements highlighted with gold.The title is printed on...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1642
Selling price: $275
Sold in 2013
![[Two maps] Hiberniae pars Australis. . .](/uploads/cache/08341-250x250.jpg)
[Two maps] Hiberniae pars Australis. . .
Fine two sheet map of Ireland, with impressive topographical information, with several keys. Prepared by Mercator, published by Janssonius / Hondius.Mercator's two-sheet ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1642
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2019
America noviter delineata.
With inset details of the North and South Poles, and several ships and sea-monsters. Hondius shows the imaginary island of Frisland, Southeast of Iceland, and gives Picar...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1642
Selling price: $700
Sold in 2011
Insularum Britannicarum acurata delineatio. . .
A map of the Roman Britain as seen during the third and fourth centuries. Roman place names as well as Hadrian's Wall and the Wall of Pius appear on the map, identifying ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1642
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2022
No title: Scotland.
Detailed map of Scotland with Glasgow (Glasquo) in center.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1642
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2018
Carte générale du Royaume de France..
This beautifully engraved map depicts France as known in the mid 17th century. Topographical features are shown and major cities, towns, waterways, mountains and islands ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1643
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2014
No title. (East Flanders)
Engraved by Kaerius in 1605. The cartouche at top right-hand corner testifies to acts of war from 1600 to 1605.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1643
Selling price: $100
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Virginiae Partis australis, et Floridae Partis Orientalis, interjacentiumq, regionum Nova Descripti
Attractive map of the east coast of Virginia and Florida. Second state with small tail at left water-cherub. "One of the many elegantly engraved maps of the Eastern ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1643
Selling price: $1400
Sold in 2009
Pars Litorum Africae Antiquis ignota.
Claude Morisot's Scarce Map of the Cape of Good Hope. Map in page of text from Claude Barthélemy Morisot: Orbis Maritimi sive rerum in mari et littoribus gestarum genera...
Place & Date: Dijon, 1643
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2008
![[Title page] Le Theatre du Monde ou Nouvel Atlas. . . la seconde partie de la premiere.](/uploads/cache/25951-250x250.jpg)
[Title page] Le Theatre du Monde ou Nouvel Atlas. . . la seconde partie de la premiere.
The frontispiece of the first part of the 'Le Theatre du Monde ou Nouvel Atlas,' by Johan Blaeu.On the right of the title Stadholder Frederik Hendrik, Prince of Orange, o...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1643
Selling price: $325
Sold in 2008
![[No title] - In inset: Habes hic Novam & Accuratissimam Descriptionem Tractus Illius Flandriae?](/uploads/cache/23909-250x250.jpg)
[No title] - In inset: Habes hic Novam & Accuratissimam Descriptionem Tractus Illius Flandriae?
map of Noord-West Vlaanderen, engraved by Petrus Kaerius in 1605. The cartouche at top right-hand corner testifies to acts of war from 1600 to 1605.From: Petri Kaerii Ger...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1643
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2009
Africae Litora Priscis Navigata.
Rare early map of Africa. The map is printed on a sheet (300x197mm) with Latin text above and below the map and full page of text on the verso. Morisot (1592-1661) was on...
Place & Date: ca. 1643
Selling price: $220
Sold in 2010
Aegypti Libiae Marmaricae Et Cyrenaicae Tractus Maritimus.
Rare early map of north-east Africa. Morisot (1592-1661) was one of the great intellectuals of his time and his works enjoyed great success. The European expeditions to t...
Place & Date: Dijon, 1643
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2011
Tabula Geographica, in qua regiones Cananaeae, et locorum situs. . .
This is the second state of the Petrus Plancius bible map. D.R.M. Mathes , whose identity we don't really know (Doctor Rudolf Mercator, Mathematicus ??), made minimal cha...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1643
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2010
MAURITANIAE
Rare early map of north-west Africa, showing Algeria and Morocco, and parts of Spain. Only places on the coast, and a few rivers are named. Embellished with a large decor...
Place & Date: Dijon, 1643
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2013
Helvetia cum finitimis regionibus confoederatis.
A typically detailed and finely engraved map of Switzerland by Blaeu, including the cities of Basel, Zürich, Bern, Lucerne, Fribourg, etc. The map is embellished with tw...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1643
Selling price: $265
Sold in 2021
Waerachtige beschryvinge vande wydvermaerde Conincklicke Hooft Stadt Jerusalem.
Engraved by Baptista van Doetechum for a bible printed by Jan Everts Cloppenburg. The bible maps of 1590 are the earliest of Plancius compilations to survive.Very rare pl...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1643
Selling price: $1350
Sold in 2022
Description de la Nouvelle France ou sont remarquees les diverse habitations des Francois, depuis la premiere descouvert jusques a present, recueillie et dressee sur diverses relations modernes
VERY RARE FIRST STATE, a second state was issued circa 1664. In superb condition. Important GREAT LAKES map first issued in 1643. According to Burden it is actually the f...
Place & Date: Paris, 1643
Selling price: $26000
Sold in 2012