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AFRICA - - Africa

Woodcut
Size: 26 x 34cm (10.1 x 13.1 inches)
Condition: Partly touched up with red, good copy.
Condition Rating: B+
References: Betz, 24; Norwich, 17.

From: Itinerarium Sacrae Scriptura . . . Helmstadt, Jacobus Lucius, 1582.

This is one of ten maps in Bünting's Itinerarium, in which the author, a theological commentator, rewrote the Bible as an illustrated travel book. Other maps in the series bear out his imaginative approach to cartography, which pictures the World in the form of a cloverleaf, Europe as the Queen of the World, and Asia as Pegasus.

AFRICA - - Africa

This rare first state, dated 1700, is not mentioned by Tooley and Norwich.
Engraved by H. Van Loon.

Size: 46.5 x 60cm (18.1 x 23.4 inches)
Condition: Old coloured, a few minor repairs at folds, nice copy.
Condition Rating: B+
References: Betz, 171.1; Tooley (Africa), 33; Norwich, 64 .
From: Composite Atlas

AFRICA - NORTHERN AFRICA - Egypt - Alexandria

Bird's-eye plan of Alexandria (Egypt).

Copper engraving
Size: 36.5 x 48cm (14.2 x 18.7 inches)
Verso text: Latin
Condition: Old coloured, centrefold split reinforced.
Condition Rating: B+

From: Civitates Orbis Terrarum, ... Part 2. Köln, 1575-1612.

AFRICA - SOUTHEAST AFRICA - Southeast Africa

Copper engraving
Size: 38.5 x 55.5cm (15 x 21.6 inches)
Verso: Blank
Condition: Remargined, flattened.
Condition Rating: C
References: Norwich, 239b.

From: Itinerario, Voyage ofte Schipvaert naer Oost ofte Portugaels Indien.... Amsterdam: C. Claesz, 1595-96.

AMERICA - NORTH AMERICA - California

Copper engraving
Size: 23 x 29cm (9 x 11.3 inches)
Verso: Blank
Condition: Excellent.
Condition Rating: A
References: Van der Krogt 3, 9530:371; Burden 106.

From: Descriptionis Ptolemaicae Augmentum Louvain, J. Bogard, 1597. (Van der Krogt 3, 371:01)

AMERICA - NORTH AMERICA - Eastern North America

First French edition of the famous Mitchell map, the map used for international treaties up into the 20th century.
This map summarized the geography of eastern North America and the territorial claims of the European colonial powers as seen from the English point of view. The boundaries of the southern colonies, for example, extend westward ad infinitum, clearly disputing the French claim to the interior of North America west of the Appalachian Mountains. Mitchell's map was the one, in fact, that British and American representatives used from the spring of 1782 until early in 1783 while negotiating the treaty that ended the American Revolution.
The edition offered here appeared in 1776 at the outset of the American Revolution in response to the French public's need for information concerning the theatre of conflict involving their longstanding enemy and future ally.

Eight sheets unjoined, copper engraving
Size for each sheet: 67.5 x 48cm (26.3 x 18.7 inches)
Verso: Blank
Condition: Old coloured in outline. Large margins, excellent.
Condition Rating: A
References: Stephenson & McKee, II-19; .

AMERICA - NORTH AMERICA - New England

"In this work Levinus Hulsius translates John Smith's A Description of New England into German for the thirteenth part of his Sammlung von Sechs und Zwanzig Schiffarten. This extremely rare series competed with Theodore de Bry's collection of voyages. It is known for its accuracy and quality of illustration. For this map he utilised the first state of Smith's New England published the previous year in London." (Burden)
Copper engraving
Size: 29.5 x 34.5cm (11.4 x 13.4 inches)
Verso: Blank
Condition: Mint.
Condition Rating: A+
References: Burden, 190; McCorkle, 617.1.

From: Dreyzehente Schiffart, oder Grundliche und Warhaffte Beschreibung desz Neuwen Engellandts. Frankfurt, 1617.

AMERICA - NORTH AMERICA - North America

Copper engraving
Size: 46 x 55cm (18 x 22 inches)
Verso text: German
Condition: Old coloured, slight shine-through of verso text, nice copy.
References: Van der Krogt 1, 9100:1.2 (German, 1644-58); Burden, 245.2.

From: Atlas Major VI: Novus Atlas Absolutissimus, Das ist, Generale Welt-Beschreibung, mit allerley schönen und Neuen Land-Carten gezieret. Dass Sechste Theil, beschreibet Hispanien, Asia, Africa, und America. (Van der Krogt 1:428.6)

"Henricus Hondius' beautifully engraved map of North America had greater influence than any other to date in perpetuating the theory of California as an island. This was because it was disseminated through the medium of his powerful Dutch publishing house. None of the earlier California as an island maps had reached such a wide audience. The 1630s where a decade of constant development in the houses of Blaeu and Hondius. It is interesting to note that Blaeu never produced a single sheet map of North America; both Willem and Joan relied upon that of the whole continent first produced in 1617, throughout their publishing history. During this decade Joannes Janssonius became an active partner of Hondius, and although this map bears no imprint it is assigned to the latter on the basis that at the same time a map of South America appeared displaying his name.
Cartographically this map is a careful composition of many different sources and illustrates well the current state of knowledge. The depiction and nomenclature of the west, along with that of the insular California, derive directly from the Henry Briggs The North Part of America, 1625. A legend placed strategically over the north-west coastline offers the opportunity to discontinue a coastline least understood. An unnamed lake still feeds a Rio del Norto flowing incorrectly south-west into what should be the headwaters of the Gulf of California. On the east bank of this river is Real de Nueua Mexico, or Santa Fe. The Gulf of Mexico and the Florida peninsula originate from the Hessel Gerritsz chart of c.1631.
The east coast, however, is harder to define; the south-east appears to be quite generic in form. It is the area north of here that does not appear to be from a particular source. The Chesapeake Bay area is defined in about as much detail as the scale and style of the map will allow, Iames Towne being clearly identified. NOVUM BELGIUM is unlike any other before it, the area between the Zuitt Reuier (Delaware River) and the Noort R (Hudson River) being greatly elongated on a north-east to south-west axis. New Amsterdam is curiously not designated although Fort Orange is present. For New England just a select few names have been chosen from John Smith's map of the area, 1616. The Gulf of St. Lawrence appears to follow de Laet more than Champlain. The latter is used to depict a single great Lake; however, its name, Lac des Iroquois, is borrowed from one nearby. Interestingly the author chose not use Champlain's more recent 1632 map but the earlier 1612 CARTE GEOGRAPHIQUE DE LA NOUVELLE FRANSE; To avoid unknown territory he does not venture the river system further west, unlike Champlain. Along the Atlantic coast of Labrador we find for the first time much Dutch Nomenclature, reflecting their increased whaling activities in these waters. Hudson Bay is clearly derived from Briggs, 1625, except for the west coast where he introduces the cartography of Thomas James, 1633. The addition of a fox here could be seen as a veiled reference to Luke Foxe, whose own map of the previous year bears just such an animal.

The map was one of many introduced in the late 1630s to be included in the rapidly developing Atlas Novus. After the death of Janssonius in 1664 the business was left to a number of different parties, and it could not be divided in such a way that ensured the continued production of the various atlases. During this period some of the maps were often sold to order; such as for the atlases of Nicolaas Visscher and Carol Allard. This map appears in such atlases unchanged until c. 1694. In that year Petrus Schenk acquired all of the Atlas Major plates at public auction from the heirs of Jansson van Waesberge, and began issuing the map with his own imprint." (Burden)

AMERICA - THE AMERICAS - America

Copper engraving
Size: 37.5 x 50.5cm (14.7 x 19.7 inches)
Verso text: French
Condition: Old coloured, centrefold reinforced, some creasing along centrefold.
Condition Rating: B
References: Van der Krogt 1, 9000:1B; Burden, 150.

From: Gerardi Mercatoris - Atlas sive Cosmographicae Meditationes de Fabrica Mundi et Fabricati Figura. Amsterdam, I. Hondius, 1619. (Van der Krogt 1, 1:113)

"This map was engraved by Jodocus Hondius for his first edition of Gerard Mercator's atlas. Intended to be a grand comprehensive work, with the first part originally appearing in 1585, by Mercator's death in 1594 only two parts had been published. Continued by his family, it was still incomplete for the 1602 edition, lacking most importantly a section on the Iberian peninsula. During this time it was also competing with the remarkably successful atlas of Abraham Ortelius which averaged almost one edition per year. By 1604 Jodocus Hondius was flourishing, and in that year acquired all of the plates from Mercator's descendant. He immediately set about engraving many new maps to augment and complete the work, amongst which was a set of the four continents. He also had the original text expanded by Petrus Montanus. In the following year he brought out Mercator's Ptolemy, and in 1606 his first edition of the general atlas which proved instantly popular, selling out within a year.
Right up until 1630 this attractive map was issued alongside the AMERICA sive INDIA NOVA by Michael Mercator, 1595. Since the text describing America was always used by the Mercator, this one is always lacking one. Produced on a stereographic projection like more and more maps of the time, it is an amalgam of various sources. It incorporates a more correct west coast of South America and narrows still further the longitudinal width of New Spain at the Tropic of Cancer, making it just 10°, much closer to reality. However, like all cartography before, it still retains an enlarged North American continent. A Plancius type depiction of Newfoundland occurs alongside a typical period representation of the east coast, with a more protruding Virginia than usual.Various scenes taken from the earlier volumes of de Bry's Grand Voyages adorn the whole. Particularly notable is the native Brazilian scene illustrating the method used to make a local beverage, derived from Hans Staden's voyage as recorded by de Bry. There are various galleons, kayaks and Indian canoes along with a pair of birds perched on the inset." (Burden)

AMERICA - THE AMERICAS - America

Rare second state (of 6), dated 1705. Engraved by H. Van Loon.

Copper engraving
Size: 46.5 x 60cm (18.1 x 23.4 inches)
Verso: Blank
Condition: Old coloured, upper right corner with neatline (2 x 10 cm) reinstated, nice copy.
Condition Rating: B+
References: Burden, 753, State 2; Tooley (America), 60.

Separately published.

For the first few years the map was only available separately as can be attested by the announcement for the Atlas ou Recueil de Cartes, 1709. Examples of the atlas dated 1709 often contain maps with later dates.

AMERICA - THE AMERICAS - Atlantic Ocean

Nicolas de Nicolai travelled extensively in the service of the French King, usually as a spy. He was well rewarded for his work, and a number of his observations and surveys were published. The first issue of this work is dated 1553, but was actually published in 1554.

Copper engraving
Size: 25 x 36cm (9.8 x 14 inches)
Verso: Blank
Condition: Browned and spotted.
Condition Rating: A
References: Burden, 19.

From: L'art de Naviguer. Lyon, 1553 [54].

ASIA - ASIA - CONTINENT - Asia

Copper engraving
Size: 41 x 55.5cm (16 x 21.6 inches)
Verso text: German
Condition: Old coloured,, lower centrefold split reinforced, upper right margin trimmed to neatline.
Condition Rating: B+
References: Van der Krogt 1, 8000:1C.2; Schilder 6, 23.3.

From: Newer Atlas, Oder Weltbeschreibung, .... Amsterdam, J. Janssonius, 1638. (Van der Krogt 1, 421.1A)

ASIA - ASIA - CONTINENT - Asia as Pegasus

This is one of ten maps in Bünting's Itinerarium, in which the author, a theological commentator, rewrote the Bible as an illustrated travel book. Other maps in the series bear out his imaginative approach to cartography, which pictures the world in the form of a cloverleaf and Europe as the Queen of the World.

Woodcut
Size: 25 x 35.5cm (9.8 x 13.8 inches)
Verso text: German
Condition: Centrefold reinforced, vertical crease along centrefold, some small tears reinforced, a few stains.
Condition Rating: C

From: Itinerarium Sacrae Scriptura . . . Magdeburg, 1581- ....

ASIA - CHINA - China

The first printed map of China. Signed by Ludovico Georgio (= Luiz Jorge de Barbuda, a Portuguese Jesuit) who made a manuscript map of China which reached Ortelius via Arias Montanus (Meurer p.111-112).

Copper engraving
Size: 38 x 48cm (15 x 18 inches)
Verso text: Latin
Condition: Old coloured.
References: Van der Krogt 3, 8410:31; van den Broecke, 164.

From: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum Abrahami Ortelii Antverp. Antwerpen, J.B.Vrients, 1609. (Van der Krogt 3, 1:054)

ASIA - CHINA - China

Map of China with the northern Philippines, Japan and Korea as an island.

Copper engraving
Size: 41 x 50cm (16 x 19.5 inches)
Verso text: Latin
Condition: Old coloured, offsetting.
Condition Rating: B+
References: Van der Krogt 1, 8410:1B.

From: Ioannis Ianssonii Novus Atlas, sive Theatrum Orbis Terrarum ... (Van der Krogt 1, 403)

ASIA - CHINA - China

Based on the cartographic compilations of the Jesuit missionary Martino Martini

Copper engraving
Size: 46 x 60cm (17.9 x 23.3 inches)
Verso: Blank
Condition: Old coloured, excellent
Condition Rating: A+
References: Van der Krogt 2, 8410:2B.

From: Novus Atlas Sinensis a Martino Martinio Soc. Iesu Descriptus ..., Amsterdam, 1655.

ASIA - CHINA - Shan-tung

Copper engraving
Size: 40.5 x 49cm (15.7 x 19.1 inches)
Verso: Blank
Condition: Old coloured.
Condition Rating: A
References: Van der Krogt 2, 8424:2.

From: Novus Atlas Sinensis a Martino Martinio Soc. Iesu Descriptus ..., Amsterdam, 1655.

Based on the cartographic compilations of the Jesuit missionary Martino Martini

ASIA - INDIA - CEYLON - Southeast Asia

This map is dedicated to D. Christophorus Thisius by Henricus Hondius. It was one of the first maps to show the Dutch discoveries of the west coast of Cape York Peninsula (later named Carpentaria) and the most northerly discoveries on the west coast, G.F. de Wit's Land and Eendrachtland. In this instant, however, it seems that Hondius and Jansson had borrowed from Blaeu who had published an almost identical map a year earlier (1635). (Parry, p.109)

Copper engraving
Size: 39.5 x 51cm (15.4 x 19.9 inches)
Verso text: French
Condition: Old coloured, excellent.
Condition Rating: A
References: Van der Krogt 1, 8400:1B.2; Parry, Plate 4.21.

From: Nouvel Atlas. J. Janssonius, 1652-53. (Van der Krogt 1, 416)

ASIA - JAPAN - China - Japan

ASIA - JAPAN - Japan - Korea

Korea shown as an island.

Copper engraving
Size: 36 x 48.5cm (13.9 x 19 inches)
Verso text: French
Condition: Old coloured.
Condition Rating: A
References: Van der Krogt 3, 8450:31; van den Broecke, 165; Walter L., 5.

From: Ortelius A. Théâtre de l'Univers. Antwerp, Plantin Press, 1598. (Van der Krogt 3, 31:351)

ASIA - MIDDLE EAST - Alexander's expeditions

Copper engraving
Size: 37 x 47cm (14.4 x 18.3 inches)
Verso text: Dutch
Condition: Old coloured, excellent.
Condition Rating: A
References: Van der Krogt 1, 8030H:1.

From: Nieuwen Atlas, ofte Werelt-Beschrijvinge, . . . Amsterdam, 1658.

ASIA - MIDDLE EAST - Holy Land

Shows Palestine on both sides of the Jordan divided among the twelve Tribes of Israel. The shore line runs from Sidon to Gaza. The Dead Sea has a crescent shape.

Woodcut
Size: 26.5 x 17cm (10.3 x 6.6 inches)
Verso text: German
Condition: Partly painted with red. Excellent.
Condition Rating: B
References: Laor, 141.

From: Itinerarium Sacrae Scriptura . . . Magdeburg, 1581- ....

This is one of ten maps in Bünting's Itinerarium, in which the author, a theological commentator, rewrote the Bible as an illustrated travel book. Other maps in the series bear out his imaginative approach to cartography, which pictures the World in the form of a cloverleaf, Europe as the Queen of the World, and Asia as Pegasus.

ASIA - MIDDLE EAST - Holy Land

Map of the Holy Land for the understanding of the New Testament. Shows Palestine on both sides of the Jordan at the time of Jesus, divided into Galilee, Samaria and Judea.

Woodcut
Size: 26.5 x 19.5cm (10.3 x 7.6 inches)
Condition: Short right margin.
Condition Rating: A
References: Laor, 143.

From: Itinerarium Sacrae Scriptura . . . Helmstadt, Jacobus Lucius, 1582.

This is one of ten maps in Bünting's Itinerarium, in which the author, a theological commentator, rewrote the Bible as an illustrated travel book. Other maps in the series bear out his imaginative approach to cartography, which pictures the World in the form of a cloverleaf, Europe as the Queen of the World, and Asia as Pegasus.

ASIA - MIDDLE EAST - Holy Land

Third state of the first map of Palestine by Ortelius.

Copper engraving
Size: 34.5 x 46.5cm (13.4 x 18 inches)
Verso text: Latin
Condition: Old coloured, excellent.
Condition Rating: A
References: Van der Krogt 3, 8150:31B; van den Broecke, 172.

From: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum Abrahami Ortelii Antverp. Antwerpen, Plantin Press (J. & B. Moretus), 1612. (Van der Krogt 3, 1:055)

ASIA - MIDDLE EAST - Holy Land - Jerusalem

Two sheets joined, copper engraving
Size: 73 x 49cm (28.5 x 19.1 inches)
Verso text: Latin
Condition: Old coloured.
Condition Rating: A

From: Liber quartus Urbium Praecipuarum totius Mundi. (Koeman, B&H4)

ASIA - MIDDLE EAST - Ottoman Empire

Copper engraving
Size: 36.5 x 49cm (14.2 x 19 inches)
Verso text: Latin
Condition: Old coloured.
Condition Rating: A+
References: Van der Krogt 1, 8100:1A.

From: Gerardi Mercatoris - Atlas sive Cosmographicae Meditationes de Fabrica Mundi et Fabricati Figura. Amsterdam, H. Hondius, 1630. (Van der Krogt 1, 107)

ASIA - MIDDLE EAST - Ottoman Empire

Copper engraving
Size: 37 x 49cm (14.4 x 19.1 inches)
Verso text: Latin
Condition: Later coloured.
Condition Rating: A
References: Van der Krogt 3, 8100:31B; van den Broecke, 169.

From: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum Abrahami Ortelii Antverp. Antwerpen, Plantin Press (J. & B. Moretus), 1612. (Van der Krogt 3, 1:055)

ASIA - MIDDLE EAST - Ottoman Empire

Map of the Ottoman Empire, covering the eastern Mediterranean Sea and the Middle East with Arabia.

Copper engraving
Size: 41 x 52cm (16 x 20.3 inches)
Verso text: Dutch
Condition: Old coloured, lower margin waterstained, affecting the image for 5 mm.
Condition Rating: B
References: Van der Krogt 2, 8100:2(221).

From: Toonneel des Aerdriicx, Ofte Nieuwe Atlas, Dat is Beschryving van alle Landen. Amsterdam, 1642-61. (Van der Krogt 2, 221)

ASIA - MIDDLE EAST - Turkey - Constantinople

Bird's-eye view of Constantinople. The city views include monuments of Saint Sophia, Topkapi Palace. Twelve vignettes of Ottoman sultans line the bottom margin, including portraits of Soliman the Magnificent and Selim. Numerous ships in Bosphorus and Golden Horn. Mounted Sultan with entourage at bottom center.

Copper engraving
Size: 33 x 48.5cm (12.9 x 18.8 inches)
Verso text: Latin
Condition: Old coloured, excellent.
Condition Rating: A

From: Civitates Orbis Terrarum, ... Part 1. Köln, 1572-1624.

ASIA - SOUTHEAST ASIA - East Indian Archipelago

Copper engraving
Size: 34.5 x 48cm (13.5 x 18.7 inches)
Verso text: French
Condition: Old coloured, excellent.
Condition Rating: A
References: Van der Krogt 1, 8500:1A.

From: Gerardi Mercatoris - L'Atlas ou Méditations Cosmographiques de la Fabrique du Monde et Figure diceluy. I. Hondij, 1613-16. (Van der Krogt 1, 104)

ASIA - SOUTHEAST ASIA - East Indies

Copper engraving
Size: 35.5 x 49cm (13.8 x 19 inches)
Verso text: Latin
Condition: Old coloured, excellent.
Condition Rating: A
References: Van der Krogt 1, 8400:1A.

From: Gerardi Mercatoris - Atlas sive Cosmographicae Meditationes de Fabrica Mundi et Fabricati Figura. Amsterdam, H. Hondius, 1630. (Van der Krogt 1, 107)

ASIA - SOUTHEAST ASIA - Southeast Asia

Copper engraving
Size: 20 x 29cm (7.8 x 11.2 inches)
Verso text: Latin
Condition: Old coloured, some shine-through of verso text, small hole repaired.
Condition Rating: B+
References: Parry, 5.32; Meurer (Cologne), Qua 71.

From: Fasciculus Geographicus Complectens Praeciparum Totius orbis Regionum tabulas circiter centum. una cum earundum Enarrationibus. Cologne, J. Bussemacher, 1608. (Meurer, Qua 7)

ASIA - SOUTHEAST ASIA - Southeast Asia

This map is dedicated to D. Christophorus Thisius by Henricus Hondius. It was one of the first maps to show the Dutch discoveries of the west coast of Cape York Peninsula (later named Carpentaria) and the most northerly discoveries on the west coast, G.F. de Wit's Land and Eendrachtland. In this instant, however, it seems that Hondius and Jansson had borrowed from Blaeu who had published an almost identical map a year earlier (1635). (Parry, p.109)

Copper engraving
Size: 39.5 x 51cm (15.4 x 19.9 inches)
Verso text: French
Condition: Old coloured, excellent.
Condition Rating: A
References: Van der Krogt 1, 8400:1B.2; Parry, Plate 4.21.

From: Nouvel Atlas. J. Janssonius, 1652-53. (Van der Krogt 1, 416)

ASIA - TURKEY - CYPRUS - Cyprus

Copper engraving
Size: 38 x 50.5cm (14.8 x 19.7 inches)
Verso text: Latin
Condition: Old coloured, age-toned, some offsetting.
Condition Rating: B
References: Van der Krogt 1, 8130:1B.

From: Ioannis Ianssonii Novus Atlas, sive Theatrum Orbis Terrarum ... (Van der Krogt 1, 403)

CURIOSITIES AND PORTRAITS - - Asia as Pegasus

This is one of ten maps in Bünting's Itinerarium, in which the author, a theological commentator, rewrote the Bible as an illustrated travel book. Other maps in the series bear out his imaginative approach to cartography, which pictures the world in the form of a cloverleaf and Europe as the Queen of the World.

Woodcut
Size: 25 x 35.5cm (9.8 x 13.8 inches)
Verso text: German
Condition: Centrefold reinforced, vertical crease along centrefold, some small tears reinforced, a few stains.
Condition Rating: C

From: Itinerarium Sacrae Scriptura . . . Magdeburg, 1581- ....

CURIOSITIES AND PORTRAITS - - Compass Rose

Copper engraving
Size: 43.5 x 54.5cm (17 x 21.3 inches)
Verso text: Latin
Condition: Old coloured.
Condition Rating: A
References: Van der Krogt 1, P-Rose:1.

From: Ioannis Ianssonii Novus Atlas, sive Theatrum Orbis Terrarum ... (Van der Krogt 1, 404)

CURIOSITIES AND PORTRAITS - - Europe Virgo

Europe in the shape of a queen.

Woodcut
Size: 35.5 x 23.5cm (13.8 x 9.2 inches)
Condition: Some small reinforcements at centrefold, somewhat soiled.
Condition Rating: B
References: Van der Heijden (Europe), 42.

From: Itinerarium Sacrae Scriptura . . . Helmstadt, Jacobus Lucius, 1582.

This is one of ten maps in Bünting's Itinerarium, in which the author, a theological commentator, rewrote the Bible as an illustrated travel book. Other maps in the series bear out his imaginative approach to cartography, which pictures the World in the form of a cloverleaf and Asia as Pegasus.

CURIOSITIES AND PORTRAITS - - World as a clover leaf

Woodcut
Size: 27 x 36cm (10.5 x 14 inches)
Verso text: German
Condition: Centrefold reinforced, some creasing along centrefold, tear repaired at bottom (5 cm).
Condition Rating: C
References: Shirley (World), 142.

From: Itinerarium Sacrae Scriptura . . . Magdeburg, 1581- ....

EUROPE - BRITISH ISLES - Brecknock

Copper engraving
Size: 37.5 x 50.5cm (14.6 x 19.7 inches)
Verso text: Dutch
Condition: Old coloured, excellent.
Condition Rating: A
References: Van der Krogt 2, 5525:2.

From: J. Blaeus Grooten Atlas, oft Werelt- Beschryving, in welcke 't Aerdryck, de Zee, en Hemel, wort vertoont en beschreven. Vierde Stuck der Aerdrycks- Beschryving, welck vervat Engelandt. Amsterdam, J. Blaeu, 1648. (Van der Krogt 2, 321)

EUROPE - BRITISH ISLES - Brightstowe

Bird's-eye plan of Brightstowe. Key to locations.

Copper engraving
Size: 33 x 49cm (13 x 19 inches)
Verso text: Latin
Condition: Old coloured

From: Civitates Orbis Terrarum. . Liber tertius. Köln, G. Kempen, 1581-88. (Koeman, B&H3)

EUROPE - BRITISH ISLES - British Isles

One of the most decorative maps of the British Isles including a genealogical tree from William the Conqueror to the time of publication and James I. This rare Vrients map appeared only in the Ortelius editions 1606-1612.

Copper engraving
Size: 44 x 56.5cm (17.2 x 22 inches)
Verso text: Latin
Condition: Old coloured. New left, lower and right margins with neatline reinstated.
Condition Rating: B+
References: Van der Krogt 3, 5000:31B.2; Van den Broecke, 17.2; Shirley (BI to 1650), 290.

From: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum Abrahami Ortelii Antverp. Antwerpen, Plantin Press (J. & B. Moretus), 1612. (Van der Krogt 3, 1:055)

EUROPE - BRITISH ISLES - Caernavon

Copper engraving
Size: 38.5 x 50cm (15 x 19.5 inches)
Verso text: Dutch
Condition: Old coloured, excellent.
Condition Rating: A
References: Van der Krogt 2, 5550:2.

From: J. Blaeus Grooten Atlas, oft Werelt- Beschryving, in welcke 't Aerdryck, de Zee, en Hemel, wort vertoont en beschreven. Vierde Stuck der Aerdrycks- Beschryving, welck vervat Engelandt. Amsterdam, J. Blaeu, 1648. (Van der Krogt 2, 321)

EUROPE - EASTERN EUROPE - Dniepr River

Copper engraving, two sheets joined.
Size: 75 x 32cm (29.3 x 12.5 inches)
Verso text: Latin
Condition: Old coloured, ttear repaired.
Condition Rating: A
References: Van der Krogt 2, 1730/II:2A.

From: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum.. J. Blaeu, 1644-45. (Van der Krogt 2, 2:202)

EUROPE - EASTERN EUROPE - Poland

Copper engraving
Size: 37 x 48.5cm (14.4 x 18.9 inches)
Verso text: Latin
Condition: Old coloured, flattened, some mildew-staining in upper part.
Condition Rating: C
References: Van der Krogt 3, 1900:31A; Van den Broecke, 154; Niewodniczanski, K7/1.

From: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, Antwerpen, Gillis van den Rade, 1575. (Van der Krogt 3, 31:013)

EUROPE - EASTERN EUROPE - Poland - Krakow

Spectacular bird's-eye view of Krakow and surroundings with key to ten locations, two sheets joined.

Copper engraving
Size: 37 x 105.5cm (14.4 x 41.1 inches)
Verso text: Latin
Condition: A few printer's creases, short left and right margins, nice copy.
Condition Rating: A
References: Koeman II, Ja15 (39).

From: Theatri praecipuarum Totius Mundi Urbium Liber Sextus Anno MDCXVII. (Koeman, B&H6)

EUROPE - EASTERN EUROPE - Russia - Moscow

Third state of a map by Hessel Gerritsz with an inset plan of Moscow and a view of Archangel. Without text on the back (unknown to Van der Krogt).

Copper engraving
Size: 42.5 x 54.5cm (16.6 x 21.3 inches)
Verso: Blank
Condition: Old coloured, age-toned, new upper margin, small tear at left edge repaired.
Condition Rating: B
References: Van der Krogt 2, 1800:2.2; Schilder 4, pp. 78-79.

EUROPE - FRANCE - Bar-le-Duc

Bird's-eye plan of Bar-le-Duc with key identifying 41 locations.

Copper engraving
Size: 44.5 x 35cm (17.3 x 13.7 inches)
Verso text: Latin
Condition: Old coloured, excellent.
Condition Rating: A

From: Theatri praecipuarum Totius Mundi Urbium Liber Sextus Anno MDCXVII. (Koeman, B&H6)

EUROPE - FRANCE - Nancy

Bird's-eye plan of Nancy with key identifying 53 locations.

Copper engraving
Size: 34.5 x 46cm (13.5 x 17.9 inches)
Verso text: Latin
Condition: Old coloured, excellent.
Condition Rating: A

From: Theatri praecipuarum Totius Mundi Urbium Liber Sextus Anno MDCXVII. (Koeman, B&H6)

EUROPE - GENERAL AND LARGE REGIONS - Europa Virgo

Europe in the shape of a queen.

Woodcut
Size: 35.5 x 23.5cm (13.8 x 9.2 inches)
Condition: Some small reinforcements at centrefold, somewhat soiled.
Condition Rating: B
References: Van der Heijden (Europe), 42.

From: Itinerarium Sacrae Scriptura . . . Helmstadt, Jacobus Lucius, 1582.

This is one of ten maps in Bünting's Itinerarium, in which the author, a theological commentator, rewrote the Bible as an illustrated travel book. Other maps in the series bear out his imaginative approach to cartography, which pictures the World in the form of a cloverleaf and Asia as Pegasus.

EUROPE - GENERAL AND LARGE REGIONS - Europe

Map of Europe published in Amsterdam by P. Schenk.
Inset with Northern Scandinavia and the Arctic Sea.

Copper engraving
Size: 50 x 58cm (19.5 x 22.6 inches)
Verso: Blank
Condition: Old coloured.
Condition Rating: A

EUROPE - GENERAL AND LARGE REGIONS - Europe (Celtic)

Decorative map of ancient Europe from Ortelius' Parergon, a series of maps illustrating ancient history.

Copper engraving
Size: 36 x 48cm (14 x 18.6 inches)
Verso text: Latin
Condition: Old coloured.
Condition Rating: A
References: Van den Broecke, 189.

From: Theatri Orbis Terrarum Parergon. Antwerpen. Balthasar Moretus, 1624. (Van der Krogt 3, 31:711)

EUROPE - GERMANY - Hamburg

Bird's-eye views of Hamburg with key to 27 locations.

Copper engraving
Size: 38 x 48cm (14.7 x 18.6 inches)
Verso text: Latin
Condition: Old coloured, centrefold split repaired.
Condition Rating: B

From: Liber quartus Urbium Praecipuarum totius Mundi. (Koeman, B&H4)

EUROPE - GERMANY - Heide - Meldorf

Copper engraving
Size: 37 x 38.5cm (14.4 x 14.9 inches)
Verso text: Latin
Condition: Two tears in upper view repaired.

From: Civitates orbis Terrarum, ... Part 5. Köln, 1598.

EUROPE - GERMANY - Henneberg & Hessen

Two maps on one sheet, copper engraving
Size: 36 x 50.5cm (14 x 19.7 inches)
Verso text: Latin
Condition: Old coloured
References: Van der Krogt 3, 2570+2450:31; Van den Broecke, 95a+b.

From: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum Abrahami Ortelii Antverp. Antwerpen, Plantin Press (J. & B. Moretus), 1612. (Van der Krogt 3, 1:055)

EUROPE - ITALY - Calabria Citra

Copper engraving
Size: 38.5 x 50.5cm (14.9 x 19.6 inches)
Verso text: Dutch
Condition: Old coloured.
Condition Rating: A
References: Van der Krogt 2, 7491:2.

From: J. Blaeus Grooten Atlas, oft Werelt- Beschryving, in welcke 't Aerdryck, de Zee, en Hemel, wort vertoont en beschreven. Amsterdam, J. Blaeu, 1664. (Van der Krogt 2, 621)

EUROPE - ITALY - Ischia

Map of the island Ischia near Naples.

Copper engraving
Size: 36.5 x 48.5cm (14.2 x 18.9 inches)
Verso text: Latin
Condition: Old coloured, excellent.
Condition Rating: A
References: Van der Krogt 3, 7550:31; Van den Broecke 142.

From: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum Antwerpen, Plantin Press, 1592. (Van der Krogt 3, 1:041)

EUROPE - ITALY - Italy

Copper engraving
Size: 35.5 x 50cm (13.8 x 19.5 inches)
Verso text: Latin
Condition: Old coloured, tear in upper margin (reinforced) running 1 cm into the picture, flattened.
References: Van der Krogt 3, 7000:31A; van den Broecke, 117 - 1st plate.

From: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, Antwerpen, Gillis van den Rade, 1575. (Van der Krogt 3, 31:013)

EUROPE - ITALY - Milano

Copper engraving
Size: 36 x 48cm (14 x 19 inches)
Verso text: Latin
Condition: Old coloured, excellent.
References: Van der Krogt 3, 7020:31; van den Broecke, 125.

From: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum Abrahami Ortelii Antverp. Geographi Regii. Antwerpen, Plantin Press, 1601. (Van der Krogt 3, 1:052)

EUROPE - ITALY - Otranto

Copper engraving
Size: 38.5 x 50cm (14.9 x 19.5 inches)
Verso text: Dutch
Condition: Old coloured, excellent.
Condition Rating: A

From: J. Blaeus Grooten Atlas, oft Werelt- Beschryving, in welcke 't Aerdryck, de Zee, en Hemel, wort vertoont en beschreven. Amsterdam, J. Blaeu, 1664. (Van der Krogt 2, 621)

EUROPE - ITALY - Parma - Piacenza

Copper engraving
Size: 38 x 50.5cm (14.8 x 19.6 inches)
Verso text: Dutch
Condition: Old coloured, excellent.
Condition Rating: A
References: Van der Krogt 2, 7250:2.

From: J. Blaeus Grooten Atlas, oft Werelt- Beschryving, in welcke 't Aerdryck, de Zee, en Hemel, wort vertoont en beschreven. Amsterdam, J. Blaeu, 1664. (Van der Krogt 2, 621)

EUROPE - ITALY - Perugia

Copper engraving
Size: 38 x 50cm (15 x 20 inches)
Verso text: Dutch
Condition: Old coloured.
References: Van der Krogt 2, 7340:2.

From: Toonneel des Aerdrycx, ofte nieuwe Atlas, ... W. & J. Blaeu, 1647-50. (Van der Krogt 2, 222).

EUROPE - ITALY - Piemonte

Copper engraving
Size: 42.5 x 52.5cm (16.5 x 20.5 inches)
Condition: Old coloured.
References: Van der Krogt 2, 7050:2B.

EUROPE - ITALY - Roma

Bird's-eye plan of ancient Rome with a key to 269 locations.
Two joined sheets, copper engraving
Size: 68.5 x 50cm (26.7 x 19.4 inches)
Verso text: Latin
Condition: Old coloured, new lower corners with reinstatement of a part of the engraved area (3 x 6 cm).
Condition Rating: C

From: Liber quartus Urbium Praecipuarum totius Mundi. (Koeman, B&H4)

EUROPE - ITALY - Romagna

One of the rare maps added to the Ortelius atlas by Vrientius, based on an Urbino map by Giovanni Antonio Magini.
Inset map of the area around Rovigo-Adria in Polesina.

Copper engraving
Size: 37.5 x 49cm (14.6 x 19.1 inches)
Verso text: Latin
Condition: Old coloured, excellent.
Condition Rating: A
References: Van der Krogt 3, 7370:31; Van den Broecke, 134.

From: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum Abrahami Ortelii Antverp. Antwerpen, Plantin Press (J. & B. Moretus), 1612. (Van der Krogt 3, 1:055)

EUROPE - ITALY - Sicily

Copper engraving
Size: 40 x 50.5cm (15.6 x 19.6 inches)
Verso text: German
Condition: Old coloured, age-toned.
Condition Rating: A
References: Van der Krogt 7510:1B.

From: Novus Atlas, das ist Welt-beschreibung mit schönen newen aussführlichen Taffeln inthaltende die Königreiche und Länder des gatntzen Erdreichs. Amsterdam, J. Janssonius, 1644-58. (Van der Krogt 1, 424)

EUROPE - ITALY - Sicily - Palermo

Bird's-eye plan of Palermo with key to locations.

Copper engraving
Size: 32.5 x 50cm (12.7 x 19.5 inches)
Verso text: Latin
Condition: Old coloured, bottom corners restored with small part of image reinstated.
Condition Rating: C

From: Liber quartus Urbium Praecipuarum totius Mundi. (Koeman, B&H4)

EUROPE - ITALY - Southern Italy

Decorative map of ancient Southern Italy with four cartouches, one with an inset of the Diomedeae islands.

Copper engraving
Size: 34.5 x 48cm (13.5 x 18.7 inches)
Verso text: Latin
Condition: Old coloured, excellent.
Condition Rating: A
References: Van der Krogt 3, 7400H:31; Van den Broecke, 210.

From: Theatri Orbis Terrarum Parergon. Antwerpen. Balthasar Moretus, 1624. (Van der Krogt 3, 31:711)

EUROPE - ITALY - Verona

Bird's-eye view and plan of Verona. Key to locations.

Copper engraving
Size: 36 x 47cm (14 x 18.3 inches)
Verso text: Latin
Condition: Old coloured, excellent.
Condition Rating: A

From: Civitates Orbis Terrarum. . Liber tertius. Köln, G. Kempen, 1581-88. (Koeman, B&H3)

EUROPE - LOW COUNTRIES - BELGIUM - Brussels

Copper engraving
Size: 41.5 x 52.5cm (16.1 x 20.5 inches)
Verso text: Latin
Condition: Old coloured, crease along centrefold.
Condition Rating: A
References: Van der Krogt 2, 3111:2.

From: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum sive Atlas novus; in quo tabulae et descriptiones omnium regionum editae a Guiljel: et Ioanne Blaeu. (Van der Krogt 2, 2:201)

EUROPE - LOW COUNTRIES - BELGIUM - Brussels

Bird's-eye view of Brussels with key to locations.

Copper engraving
Size: 43 x 53cm (16.7 x 20.6 inches)
Verso text: Latin
Condition: Old coloured, lower centrefold split reinforced, nice copy.
Condition Rating: A

From: Novum Ac Magnum Theatrum Urbium Belgicae. (= "Stedeboeck") Amsterdam, J. Blaeu, 1649. (Koeman, Bl63)

EUROPE - LOW COUNTRIES - BELGIUM - Dendermonde

Copper engraving
Size: 38 x 47.5cm (14.8 x 18.5 inches)
Verso: Blank
Condition: Coloured.
Condition Rating: A

From: The History of England, continued by H. Tindal. London, 1758.

EUROPE - LOW COUNTRIES - BELGIUM - Gent

Copper engraving
Size: 48.5 x 58cm (18.9 x 22.6 inches)
Verso text: Blanco
Condition: Old coloured, small reinforcement at lower centrefold.
Condition Rating: A

From: Separate publication - Composite atlas.

EUROPE - LOW COUNTRIES - BELGIUM - Tournai

Bird's-eye plan of Tournai with key to locations and three coats-of-arms.

Copper engraving
Size: 38.5 x 50.5cm (15 x 19.7 inches)
Verso text: Latin
Condition: Old coloured, excellent.
Condition Rating: A

From: Novum Ac Magnum Theatrum Urbium Belgicae. (= "Stedeboeck") Amsterdam, J. Blaeu, 1649. (Koeman, Bl63)

EUROPE - LOW COUNTRIES - BELGIUM - West Vlaanderen

Copper engraving
Size: 59.5 x 50cm (23.2 x 19.5 inches)
Verso: Blank
Condition: Old coloured, excellent.
Condition Rating: A

From: Atlas Minor Sive Geographia Compendosia, ... Amsterdam, 1683-1696.

EUROPE - LOW COUNTRIES - BELGIUM - West Vlaanderen

From a composite atlas with Bertius - Tavernier maps.
Cartouche without title in lower left corner.
Same cartouche as the Hondius-Flandria Gallica map of 1633 (Van der Krogt 1, 3220:1.1).

Copper engraving
Size: 40.5 x 50.5cm (15.7 x 19.7 inches)
Verso: Blank
Condition: Excellent.
Condition Rating: A

EUROPE - LOW COUNTRIES - BELGIUM - West Vlaanderen

From a composite atlas with Bertius - Tavernier maps.

Copper engraving
Size: 38.5 x 48.5cm (14.9 x 18.8 inches), plate mark: 40 x 50,5cm (15.6 x 19.6 inches)
Verso: Blank
Condition: A few brown stains, else excellent.
Condition Rating: A

EUROPE - LOW COUNTRIES - BELGIUM - West Vlaanderen

From a composite atlas with Bertius - Tavernier maps.
Space for cartouche left blank in lower left corner.

Copper engraving
Size: 39 x 49cm (15.2 x 19.1 inches); plate mark: 40,5 x 50,5 cm (15.8 x 19.7 inches)
Verso: Blank
Condition: A few brown stains.
Condition Rating: B

EUROPE - LOW COUNTRIES - LUXEMBOURG - Luxembourg

Bird's-eye plan of Luxembourg.

Copper engraving
Size: 35.5 x 42cm (13.8 x 16.4 inches)
Verso text: Latin
Condition: Old coloured, slight browning at centrefold.

From: Civitates Orbis Terrarum. . Liber tertius. Köln, G. Kempen, 1581-88. (Koeman, B&H3)

EUROPE - LOW COUNTRIES - LUXEMBOURG - Luxembourg

Copper engraving
Size: 26 x 34cm (10.1 x 13.2 inches)
Verso: Blank
Condition: Coloured, excellent.
Condition Rating: A
References: Van der Vekene, 100.

From: Topographia Germaniae Inferioris. Frankfurt, 1659.

EUROPE - LOW COUNTRIES - LUXEMBOURG - Luxembourg

Bird's-eye plan of Luxembourg.

Copper engraving
Size: 39 x 50.5cm (15.2 x 19.7 inches)
Verso text: Latin
Condition: Old coloured.
Condition Rating: A

From: Novum Ac Magnum Theatrum Urbium Belgicae. (= "Stedeboeck") Amsterdam, J. Blaeu, 1649. (Koeman, Bl63)

EUROPE - LOW COUNTRIES - LUXEMBOURG - Luxembourg

Copper engraving
Size: 36.5 x 49.5cm (14.2 x 19.3 inches)
Verso text: Latin
Condition: Old coloured, slightl shining through of verso text.
Condition Rating: A
References: Van der Krogt 3, 3380:31; van den Broecke, 60.3.

From: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum Abrahami Ortelii Antverp. Antwerpen, Plantin Press (J. & B. Moretus), 1612. (Van der Krogt 3, 1:055)

EUROPE - LOW COUNTRIES - LUXEMBOURG - Luxembourg

Copper engraving
Size: 23.5 x 31cm (9.2 x 12.1 inches)
Verso: Blank
Condition: Old coloured.
Condition Rating: A
References: Guicciardini Illustratus, Luxembourg-stad-2.2.

From: Description de touts les Pays-Bas ... Amsterdam, J. Janssonius, 1625.

EUROPE - LOW COUNTRIES - NETHERLANDS - Breda

Map of Breda and surroundings representing the siege of Breda by Spinola in 1624, with key to locations.

Copper engraving
Size: 38.5 x 49.5cm (14.9 x 19.3 inches)
Verso text: Latin
Condition: Old coloured, excellent.
Condition Rating: A

From: Novum Ac Magnum Theatrum Urbium Belgicae. (= "Stedeboeck") Amsterdam, J. Blaeu, 1649. (Koeman, Bl63)

EUROPE - LOW COUNTRIES - NETHERLANDS - Gelderland

Copper engraving
Size: 38.5 x 50.5cm (14.9 x 19.6 inches)
Verso text: Latin
Condition: Old coloured.
Condition Rating: A
References: Van der Krogt 2, 3700:2.

From: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, W.& J. Blaeu, 1635. (Van der Krogt 2, 101)

EUROPE - LOW COUNTRIES - NETHERLANDS - Holland

The first edition of this map appeared in 1608 as a separate publication with decorative borders. The top border and the side borders with the town views have been cut off for this second state in order to fit in an atlas. This second state appeared only in Blaeu's Appendix and in the French 1635 edition of his Theatrum.

Copper engraving
Size: 39 x 47.5cm (15.2 x 18.5 inches)
Verso text: French
Condition: Old coloured, lower centrefold split reinforced.
Condition Rating: B+
References: Van der Krogt 2, 3400:2A; Blonk D.I., 33.2c; Schilder 6, 60.2.

From: Théâtre du Monde ou Nouvel Atlas. J. Blaeu, 1635. (Van der Krogt 2, 2111)

EUROPE - LOW COUNTRIES - NETHERLANDS - Maastricht

Bird's-eye plan of Maastricht.

Copper engraving
Size: 35.5 x 41.5cm (13.8 x 16.2 inches)
Verso text: Latin
Condition: Old coloured, excellent
Condition Rating: A

From: Civitates Orbis Terrarum. . Liber tertius. Köln, G. Kempen, 1581-88. (Koeman, B&H3)

EUROPE - LOW COUNTRIES - NETHERLANDS - Vlissingen

Bird's-eye plan of Vlissingen.

Copper engraving
Size: 41 x 51.5cm (16 x 20.1 inches)
Verso text: Latin
Condition: Old coloured.
Condition Rating: A

From: Novum Ac Magnum Theatrum Urbium Belgicae Liberae Ac Foederatae. Amsterdam, J. Blaeu, 1649. (Koeman, Bl62)

EUROPE - NORTHERN EUROPE - Sweden - Götaland

Copper engraving
Size: 41.5 x 53cm (16.2 x 20.7 inches)
Verso text: Latin
Condition: Old coloured, lower centrefold reinforced.
Condition Rating: A
References: Van der Krogt 2, 1420:2.1.

From: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum.. J. Blaeu, 1644-45. (Van der Krogt 2, 2:202)

EUROPE - SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE - Balkans

Copper engraving
Size: 49 x 59.5cm (19.1 x 23.2 inches)
Verso: Blank
Condition: Old coloured.
Condition Rating: B+
From: composite atlas.

EUROPE - SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE - Chios

Bird's-eye view of Chios.

Copper engraving
Size: 37 x 49cm (14.4 x 19.1 inches)
Verso text: Latin
Condition: Old coloured, bottom corners skilfully repaired.
Condition Rating: B

From: Liber quartus Urbium Praecipuarum totius Mundi. (Koeman, B&H4)

EUROPE - SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE - Greece - Aegean Sea

Map of Greece and the Aegean Sea.

Copper engraving
Size: 44.5 x 51.5cm (17.4 x 20 inches)
Verso: Blank
Condition: Coloured.
Condition Rating: A
References: Zacharakis 2009, 1294/878.

From: Naukeurige Beschryving der Eilande in de Arcipel ... Amsterdam, 1688.

EUROPE - SPAIN AND PORTUGAL - Bilbao

Bird's-eye view of Bilbao with key to locations..

Copper engraving
Size: 25.5 x 48.5cm (9.9 x 18.9 inches)
Verso text: Latin
Condition: Old coloured, tear in lower margin not affecting the picture (reinforced), browned along centrefold.
Condition Rating: B+

From: Civitates Orbis Terrarum, ... Part 2. Köln, 1575-1612.

EUROPE - SPAIN AND PORTUGAL - Escorial

Spectacular bird's-eye view of the Escorial, the seat of the Spanish monarch Philips II.

Two sheets joined, copper engraving
Size: 47 x 75.5cm (18.3 x 29.4 inches)
Verso text: Dutch
Condition: Old coloured, excellent.
Condition Rating: A

From: J. Blaeus Grooten Atlas, oft Werelt- Beschryving, in welcke 't Aerdryck, de Zee, en Hemel, wort vertoont en beschreven. Amsterdam, J. Blaeu, 1664. (Van der Krogt 2, 621)

EUROPE - SPAIN AND PORTUGAL - Lebrija & Settenil

One mountain view, two costumed figures and a country scene of Biscayan peasants going to market in Vitoria and other costumed locals.

Copper engraving
Size: 35.5 x 49cm (13.8 x 19.1 inches)
Verso text: Latin
Condition: Old coloured, excellent.
Condition Rating: A

From: Civitates Orbis Terrarum, ... Part 5. Köln, 1598.

EUROPE - SPAIN AND PORTUGAL - Lisbon + Cascale

Bird's-eye views of Lisbon and Cascale.

Copper engraving
Size: 35 x 48cm (13.7 x 18.7 inches)
Verso text: Latin
Condition: Old coloured.
Condition Rating: A

From: Civitates Orbis Terrarum, ... Part 1. Köln, 1572-1624.

EUROPE - SPAIN AND PORTUGAL - Lissabon

Bird's-eye plan of Lissabon with key to locations.

Copper engraving
Size: 36.5 x 47cm (14.2 x 18.2 inches)
Verso text: Latin
Condition: Old coloured, worn at lower centrefold.
Condition Rating: B

From: Civitates Orbis Terrarum, ... Part 5. Köln, 1598.

EUROPE - SPAIN AND PORTUGAL - Sevilla

Bird's-eye plan of Sevilla with a key to 40 locations.

Copper engraving
Size: 35.5 x 48cm (13.8 x 18.7 inches)
Verso text: Latin
Condition: Old coloured.

From: Liber quartus Urbium Praecipuarum totius Mundi. (Koeman, B&H4)

EUROPE - SPAIN AND PORTUGAL - Sevilla - Cadiz - Malaga

Three bird's-eye views one one sheet: Sevilla, Cadiz, Malaga

Copper engraving
Size: 33 x 48cm (12.9 x 18.7 inches)
Verso text: Latin
Condition: Od coloured, lower centrefold split reinforced.

From: Civitates Orbis Terrarum, ... Part 1. Köln, 1572-1624.

EUROPE - SPAIN AND PORTUGAL - Spain - Portugal

Map with four borders: Top and bottom border with town views (Madrid, Sevilla, Lisbon, Valladolid - Granada, Toledo, Barcelona, Burgos) and coat of arms; Side borders with costumed figures.

Copper engraving
Size: 46 x 56cm (17.9 x 21.8 inches)
Verso: Blank
Condition: Old coloured, retouched, remargined.
Condition Rating: C+
References: Schilder 6, 103.6.

Separate publication.

EUROPE - SWITZERLAND - Switzerland

13 bird's-eye views on one sheet: Schwytz, Unterwalden, Zug, Glaris, Basel, Zurich, Bern, Lucern, Uri, Freiberg, Solothurn, Schaffhausen and Appenzell.

Copper engraving
Size: 37 x 47.5cm (14.4 x 18.5 inches)
Verso text: Latin
Condition: Old coloured.
Condition Rating: A

From: Civitates Orbis Terrarum, ... Part 1. Köln, 1572-1624.

MEDITERRANEAN SEA - - Chios

Bird's-eye view of Chios.

Copper engraving
Size: 37 x 49cm (14.4 x 19.1 inches)
Verso text: Latin
Condition: Old coloured, bottom corners skilfully repaired.
Condition Rating: B

From: Liber quartus Urbium Praecipuarum totius Mundi. (Koeman, B&H4)

MEDITERRANEAN SEA - - Cyprus

Copper engraving
Size: 38 x 50.5cm (14.8 x 19.7 inches)
Verso text: Latin
Condition: Old coloured, age-toned, some offsetting.
Condition Rating: B
References: Van der Krogt 1, 8130:1B.

From: Ioannis Ianssonii Novus Atlas, sive Theatrum Orbis Terrarum ... (Van der Krogt 1, 403)

MEDITERRANEAN SEA - - Greece - Aegean Sea

Map of Greece and the Aegean Sea.

Copper engraving
Size: 44.5 x 51.5cm (17.4 x 20 inches)
Verso: Blank
Condition: Coloured.
Condition Rating: A
References: Zacharakis 2009, 1294/878.

From: Naukeurige Beschryving der Eilande in de Arcipel ... Amsterdam, 1688.

OCEANS - ATLANTIC OCEAN - Atlantic Ocean

Nicolas de Nicolai travelled extensively in the service of the French King, usually as a spy. He was well rewarded for his work, and a number of his observations and surveys were published. The first issue of this work is dated 1553, but was actually published in 1554.

Copper engraving
Size: 25 x 36cm (9.8 x 14 inches)
Verso: Blank
Condition: Browned and spotted.
Condition Rating: A
References: Burden, 19.

From: L'art de Naviguer. Lyon, 1553 [54].

WORLD AND POLAR REGIONS - - World

Second world map of Bünting's Itinerarium. America appears in the lower left-hand corner.

Woodcut
Size: 27.5 x 36.5cm (10.7 x 14.2 inches)
Condition: Good.
Condition Rating: B+
References: Shirley (World), 143.

From: Itinerarium Sacrae Scriptura . . . Helmstadt, Jacobus Lucius, 1582.

This is one of ten maps in Bünting's Itinerarium, in which the author, a theological commentator, rewrote the Bible as an illustrated travel book. Other maps in the series bear out his imaginative approach to cartography, which pictures the World in the form of a cloverleaf, Europe as the Queen of the World, and Asia as Pegasus.

WORLD AND POLAR REGIONS - - World

Second state, dated 1641.

Copper engraving
Size: 38 x 54.5cm (14.8 x 21.2 inches)
Verso text: Latin
Condition: Old coloured, lower centrefold split reinforced, age-toned.
Condition Rating: B
References: Shirley (World), 336, State 2; Van der Krogt 1, 0001:1C.3.

From: Ioannis Ianssonii Novus Atlas, sive Theatrum Orbis Terrarum ... (Van der Krogt 1, 403)

Double hemisphere, with corner portraits of J. Caesar, Cl. Ptolemy, G. Mercator & J. Hondius. Insular California.

"In 1629, threatened by pending competition from W.J. Blaeu and his sons, Jan Jansson and his partner Henricus Hondius set about revising the Mercator-Hondius atlas which (in respect of the world map) had continued unchanged for nearly thirty-five years. The partners' new world map is a fine ornate example of the decorative cartography of the time. The two hemispheres are bordered by voluptuous representations of the four elements and other scenes: in the top corners are portraits of Julius Caesar and Claudius Ptolemy and in the bottom corners are protraits of the author's father Jodocus Hondius and his mentor Gerard Mercator.
For geographical detail Hondius has followed Speed and his contemporaries and also presents California as an island. New features include part of the north Australia coastline extending towards New Guinea and a redrawing of north-east Canada with 'Queen Ann's forland' (Baffin Island) shown completeley encircled by open water.
The Hondius-Jansson world map had as a long a life as its predecessor, as it was included in all issues of the Mercator atlas from 1633 until at least 1658. Four states have been traced with dates on the map as follows:

State 1 1630
State 2 1641 with Amstelodami Excudit Ioannes Ianssonius added at the bottom
State 3 1663 in Atlas Contractus of Jan Jansson and in sea atlases of Van Loon
State 4 1666 in Atlas Major of Jan Jansson " (Shirley)

WORLD AND POLAR REGIONS - - World

Woodcut
Size: 28.5 x 42cm (11.1 x 16.3 inches)
Verso: Blank
Condition: Trimmed at bottom affecting a little bit the word "MERIDIES" (outside the neatline), small lower centrefold split, slightly browned along centrefold. Nice copy.
Condition Rating: A
References: Shirley (World), 45.

"Waldseemüller's large 1507 world map is the unackowledged source of Apian's map of 1520. Much detail has inevitably been left out but there is a close geographic correspondence, a similarity of woodcutting style, and the same truncated cordiform projection. There is no evidence that the much more up-to-date Carta Marina of 1516 has been used at all, and the marking of Calicut is the only hint of the great Portugese discoveries in the East.
Laurent Fries, whose initials appear in the lower right-hand corner, was probably the co-daughtsman or woodcutter: the twelve windheads and the decorative surround to the map are robust examples of woodcut work. The other initials are those of Johann Kamers (Camertius) in whose book the map apppeared and (in monogram form) L A or Luca Alatses who paid for the production of the map. Peter Apian, a professor of Mathematics in Vienna and Ingolstadt was also a geographic writer and publisher as well as cartographer. His text book Cosmographicus Liber first came out in 1524 and was re-issued for over eighty years. From 1544 onwards it often contains the world map of his pupil Gemma Frisius. Two years earlier, in 1522, Apian published a small treatise Isagore in typum Cosmographicum describing his new map of the world, inferred by Harisse to be an ellipsoidal world map (now lost) rather than the truncated cordiform one of 1520. In 1530 he produced another world map on a cordiform projection." (Shirley)

For many years, this map was thought to be the first map to use the name America.

WORLD AND POLAR REGIONS - - World

Copper engraving
Size: 19 x 25cm (7.4 x 9.8 inches)
Verso text: Italian
Condition: Excellent.
Condition Rating: A
References: Shirley, 111.

From: La Geografia di Claudio Tolomeo Alessandrino. Venice, 1564.

WORLD AND POLAR REGIONS - C - World as a clover leaf

Woodcut
Size: 27 x 36cm (10.5 x 14 inches)
Verso text: German
Condition: Centrefold reinforced, some creasing along centrefold, tear repaired at bottom (5 cm).
Condition Rating: C
References: Shirley (World), 142.

From: Itinerarium Sacrae Scriptura . . . Magdeburg, 1581- ....