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World Map. (No title)
Rare double hemispherical world map showing the track round the world by Le Maire and Schouten in 1615-17. Continents are marked in outline and no southern regions are sh...
Place & Date: Oppenheim, 1618
Selling price: $950
Sold in 2009
World Map. (No title)
Rare double hemispherical world map showing the track round the world by Le Maire and Schouten in 1615-17. A second state, now including the names of the tropics and the ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1618
Selling price: $800
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World Map. (No title)
Rare double hemispherical world map showing the track round the world by Le Maire and Schouten in 1615-17. A second state, now including the names of the tropics and the ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1618
Selling price: $1500
Sold in 2009
No title: Double hemisphere.
This very rare double hemisphere world map is based on the two carefully drawn hemispheres by Hessel Gerritsz..Nicolai has diligently updated Gerritz.' map. There are lin...
Place & Date: Munich 1619
Selling price: $400
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(World map showing the track round the world by Le Maire and Schouten).
Rare double hemispherical world map showing the track round the world by Le Maire and Schouten in 1615-1617.Continents are marked in outline and no southern regions are s...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1619
Selling price: $750
Sold in 2016
Orbis Terrae Compendiosa Descriptio... ( and) America...(and) Europa ...(and) Africa ... (and) Asia ...
Beautiful set of the world and continents. French text on verso.Orbis Terrae Compendiosa Descriptio Quam ex Magna Universali Gerardi Mercatoris ... Rumoldus Mercator fier...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1619
Selling price: $7500
Sold in 2016
Orbis Terrarum Typus de Integro Multis in Locis Emendatus
This handsome world map, first issued in 1590, was based on Rumold Mercator's map of 1587. It incorporates the improvements made by Ortelius with a re-shaped South Americ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1620
Selling price: $1600
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Situs partium praecipuarum totius terrarum.
Unusual and delicately engraved world map on an oval projection. This is based on Ortelius' world map of 1570, but is much simplified with very few place names. In the Ar...
Place & Date: Holland, ca. 1620
Selling price: $1800
Sold in 2009
Universi Orbis Descriptio.
A fascinating oval projection of the World, by Italian geographer Giovanni Magini, published in “Geografia cioe descrittione universale della terra” in Padua 1620. Th...
Place & Date: Arnhem, 1620
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2020
Orbis Terrarum Typus De Integro Multis In Locus Emandaius.
Third state (DRM Mathes) - This fine map, from a Dutch Bible, was first published in 1590. This is the third state, published in 1653. It includes Ortelius’ post 1587 r...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1592/1621
Selling price: $2200
Sold in 2019
Tabula Itineraria Ex Illustri Peutingerorum Biblitheca Quae Augustae Vindel.
Full title in a cartouche at the top of sheet one: Tabula Itineraria Ex Illustri Peutingerorum Biblitheca Quae Augustae Vindel. Est Beneficio Marci Velseri Septemviri Aug...
Place & Date: Antwerp ,1598-1624
Selling price: $2200
Sold in 2020
Descriptio totius orbis terrae. Ex varys..
Very rare double hemisphere world map, published by Hulsius. In the corners and between the hemispheres are six medallions of celebrated navigators - Vespucci, Columbus, ...
Place & Date: Nuremberg 1598-1625
Selling price: $1200
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Descriptio totius orbis terrae. Ex varys..
Scarce double hemisphere world map published probably in Ausszug auss der Abrahami Ortelli, Frankfurt 1604, by Hulsius. There are six medallions of celebrated navigators ...
Place & Date: Nuremberg 1598-1625
Selling price: $1500
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Descriptio totius orbis terrae. Ex varys. . .
Very rare double hemisphere world map, published by Hulsius. In the corners and between the hemispheres are six medallions of celebrated navigators - Vespucci, Columbus, ...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1598-1625
Selling price: $1800
Sold in 2012
Orbis Terrarum Typus de Integro Multis in Locis Emendatus.
This handsome world map, first issued in 1590, was based on Rumold Mercator's map of 1587. It incorporates the improvements made by Ortelius with a re-shaped South Americ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1625
Selling price: $3000
Sold in 2014
Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica ac Hydrographica Tabula
One of the most beautiful world maps ever engraved and one of the earliest maps to show the Dutch discoveries in Le Maire's Street. Symbols of the four elements, for seas...
Place & Date: Paris, 1625
Selling price: $5100
Sold in 2021
Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica ac Hydrographica Tabula.
RARE AND STRIKINGLY BEAUTIFUL WORLD MAP "Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica ac Hydrographica Tabula auct. Iud. Hondio." Published in Paris by Jacob Honervog...
Place & Date: Paris, 1625
Selling price: $7000
Sold in 2023
A New and Accurat map of the World...
First state, with 1626 in title and imprint "To be sold in pops-head alle by Geor Humble." A landmark map, the first atlas map to depict California as an island...
Place & Date: London, 1626
Selling price: $7000
Sold in 2011
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[World and Four Continents].
A beautiful set of maps engraved by Goos of the World and four continents. The first map is the striking World double hemisphere map.This map is from Jan Janssonius pocke...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca 1615-1628
Selling price: $750
Sold in 2020
Novum Orbis Terrarum Schema, In Plano Sic Descriptum, ut Graduumtum Circa Polos. . .
An extremely rare and unusual world map, the sphere illustrated by 8 half gores formed using equilateral spherical triangles. Title set along upper border, with engraved ...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1628
Selling price: $2700
Sold in 2020
Typus Orbis Terrarum.
Double hemisphere world map from the rare Cloppenburg edition slightly larger format and more scarce edition of the Mercator/Hondius "Atlas Minor". Korea appear...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Selling price: $800
Sold in 2018
Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica Ac Hydrographica Tabula.
This is the Pieter van den Keere's scarce and most sought after version of the famous carte-a-figure's world map of Blaeu. The border decorations are identical to the one...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, J.Janssonius, 1631
Selling price: $10600
Sold in 2014
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[World Map].
A double Hemisphere map of the World with portraits of the most important 16th and early 17th century explorers: Magellan, Schoten, Drake, Von Noort, Cavendish and Speilb...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1631
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2019
Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica. .
A first state with the date 1630. In near to mint condition. One of the most beautiful world maps ever engraved and one of the most influential in promulgating the Califo...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630 -1633
Selling price: $9000
Sold in 2012
Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica. . .
The first of four states of the map. French text on verso. One of the most beautiful world maps ever engraved and one of the most influential in promulgating the Californ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630-1633
Selling price: $10000
Sold in 2015
Nova totius terrarum orbis..
Rare world map by one of the most famous Dutch mapmakers. A spectacular map with an enormous amount of information and decoration. The paneled borders show, at the top al...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1634
Selling price: $7600
Sold in 2015
Nova totius terrarum orbis geographica ac..
Sought-after world map by one of the most famous Dutch mapmakers. The paneled borders show, at the top allegorical representations of the sun, moon and the five known pla...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1635
Selling price: $9600
Sold in 2010
Nova totius terrarum orbis geographica ac. . .
Sought-after carte à figures world map by one of the most famous Dutch mapmakers. The paneled borders show, at the top allegorical representations of the sun, moon and t...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca.1635
Selling price: $7500
Sold in 2013
Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica Ac Hydrographica Tabula auct Guiljelmo Blaeuw.
Sought-after world map by one of the most famous Dutch mapmakers. The paneled borders show, at the top allegorical representations of the sun, moon and the five known pla...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1635
Selling price: $8100
Sold in 2018
Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica ac Hydrographica Tabula
This beautifully engraved world map is presented on Mercator's projection with cartography closely copied from Blaeu's world map of 1606. The Latin title is printed at to...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1638
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2014
Nova totius terrarum orbis geographica...
Famous world map by Merian after Blaeu's map of the World on Mercators projection. With lots of interesting details: *California and the Sierra Nevadas are prominently n...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1638
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2014
Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica ac Hydrographica Tabula.
This beautifully engraved world map is presented on Mercator's projection with cartography closely copied from Blaeu's world map of 1606. The Latin title is printed at to...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1638
Selling price: $800
Sold in 2015
![Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica ac Hydrographica Tabula auct: Guiljelmo Blaeuw [and] Africae nova descriptio [and] Americae nova Tabula [and] Asia noviter delineata [and] Europa recens descripta](/uploads/cache/99911-250x250.jpg)
Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica ac Hydrographica Tabula auct: Guiljelmo Blaeuw [and] Africae nova descriptio [and] Americae nova Tabula [and] Asia noviter delineata [and] Europa recens descripta
A matching set of the World and the Continents by Willem J. Blaeu in attractive original colors These five maps represent the apogee of seventeenth century Dutch cartogra...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Selling price: $35500
Sold in 2011
Hoc est pvctvm qvod inter...
World map in double hemisphere, showing California as an island. Published by Michael van Lochom (1601-47). Engraver, publisher and Royal Printer active in Rue St.Jacques...
Place & Date: Paris 1640
Selling price: $650
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Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica Ac Hydrographica Tabula
Magnificent world map on Mercator's projection. Petrus Plancius world map of 1592 was the main source of geographical information for the map. A supreme example of the ma...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Selling price: $12400
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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
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
Orbis Antiqui Delineatio secundum Melam.
Very rare map of the ancient world after Pomponius Mela, showing Europe, partial Africa, and Asia, balanced on the south by a large "Antichtones" continent. Sev...
Place & Date: Dijon, 1643
Selling price: $705
Sold in 2016
Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica Ac Hydrographica Tabula auct Guiljelmo Blaeuw.
Sought-after world map by one of the most famous Dutch mapmakers. The paneled borders show, at the top allegorical representations of the sun, moon and the five known pla...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1644
Selling price: $17000
Sold in 2017
Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica Ac Hydrographica Tabula auct Guiljelmo Blaeuw.
Sought-after world map by one of the most famous Dutch mapmakers. The paneled borders show, at the top allegorical representations of the sun, moon and the five known pla...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1644
Selling price: $11200
Sold in 2018
Introductio ad cosmographiam.
On each side a wood block printed Geocentric model of the Universe (130 x 130mm.) showing the Earth at the center. Under the geocentric model, the Sun, Moon, stars, and p...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1644
Selling price: $38
Sold in 2017
Nova totius terrarum orbis geographica ac hydrographica..
A reduced version of Blaeu's world map lacking the decorative borders. The engraving is neatly executed, with Germanic touches to the lettering, and the Latin title is re...
Place & Date: Frankfurt 1646
Selling price: $1300
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Nova totius terrarum orbis geographica ac hydrographica..
A reduced version of Blaeu's world map lacking the decorative borders. The engraving is neatly executed, with Germanic touches to the lettering, and the Latin title is re...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1646
Selling price: $755
Sold in 2013
Nova totius terrarum orbis geographica ac hydrographica..
A reduced version of Blaeu's world map lacking the decorative borders. The engraving is neatly executed, with Germanic touches to the lettering, and the Latin title is re...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1646
Selling price: $1175
Sold in 2014
Nova totius terrarum orbis geographica ac hydrographica tabula. . .
A reduced version of Blaeu's world map lacking the decorative borders. The engraving is neatly executed, with Germanic touches to the lettering, and the Latin title is re...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1646
Selling price: $800
Sold in 2020
A New and Accurat Map of the World drawne according to ye truest Descriptions latest Discoveries.
A superb miniature map of the world in two hemispheres. With curious coast lines and a huge southern continent. Incomplete North America. Australia appears to be joined t...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca 1646
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2020
Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica ac Hydrographica Tabula.
A very decorative world map presented on Mercator’s projection with cartography closely copied from Blaeu’s world map of 1606, second state, without Merian’s name o...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1646
Selling price: $1050
Sold in 2022
Typus Orbis Terrarum.
Detailed miniature world map, from a German text edition of his Atlas Minor.
Place & Date: Amsterdam (1628) 1648
Selling price: $400
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Orbis terrarum typus de integro in plurimis emendatus..
A scarce Dutch Bible map attributed by Shirley to either Cornelis Danckerts or Jacob Savry. The map itself features California as an island but with the retention of the ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1648
Selling price: $3500
Sold in 2009
Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica Ac Hydrographica Tabula..
Much sought after world map by one of the most famous Dutch mapmakers. One of the more well-known "carte à figures" world maps. The paneled borders show, at th...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c. 1650
Selling price: $7000
Sold in 2009
Tabula Itineraria ex illustri Peutingerorum Bibliotheca Quae Auguste Vindelicorum.
Eight segments on four sheets making up the famous Peutinger Table, or a Roman road map of the world. The map depicts the imperial roads and posts within the Roman Empire...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1650
Selling price: $2300
Sold in 2015
Orbis Terrarum Veteribus Cogniti Typus Geographicus.
A standard map of the world, according to the ancients, by Jansson, published in the mid seventeenth century, but based on earlier works by Ortelius.The map covers Europe...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca 1650
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2017
ORBIS TERRARUM TYPUS DE INTEGRO IN PLURIMIS EMENDATUS, AUCTUS, ET ICUNCULIS ILLUSTRATUS
A highly decorative double hemisphere world map, by Claes Jansz. Visscher, published in Amsterdam in 1650. This was the "first map" to be inserted in a Dutc...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1650
Selling price: $1750
Sold in 2023
Mappe-Monde ou carte generale du Globe..
World map in double hemispheres without decoration. A FIRST EDITION dated 1651, separately issued and later in atlases. Showing California as an island. The map is one of...
Place & Date: Paris 1651
Selling price: $600
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Orbis Vetus cum Origine Magnarum in Eo Gentium a Filiis et Nepotibus Noe.
An extremely decorative, large, rare map of the Eastern Hemisphere, published by Casper Dankwerth in the famous, rare atlas "Newe Landesbeschreibung der zweij Hertzo...
Place & Date: Hossum, 1651
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2021
Orbis Veteribus cum origine magnarum..
Map of the Eastern Hemisphere. With a large southern continent Terra Ausdralis Veteribus prorsus Incognita.. Engraved by Chr. Rothgiesser.
Place & Date: Hüssen 1652
Selling price: $1550
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L'Hydrographie ..la Surface du Globe Terrestre.
An unusual double hemisphere hydrological map of the world - the earliest of the world prepared by the great French mapmaker Nicolas Sanson. Of particular interest is the...
Place & Date: Paris 1652
Selling price: $900
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L'Hydrographie ou Description de L'Eau..
An unusual double hemisphere hydrological map of the world, with California as an Island - the earliest of the world prepared by the great French mapmaker Nicolas Sanson....
Place & Date: Paris 1652
Selling price: $900
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Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica...
This stunning carte-a-figures world map on Mercator's projection is one of the most richly decorated maps from the Dutch period of pre-eminence in cartography.
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1652
Selling price: $8000
Sold in 2016
Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica. . .
This stunning "carte à figures" world map on Mercator's projection is one of the most richly decorated maps from the Dutch period of pre-eminence in cartograph...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1652
Selling price: $15000
Sold in 2009
L'Hydrographie ou Description de L'Eau. . .
An unusual double hemisphere hydrological map of the world, with California as an Island - the earliest of the world prepared by the great French mapmaker Nicolaes Sanson...
Place & Date: Paris, 1652
Selling price: $425
Sold in 2011
Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica ac. . .
This stunning carte-a-figures world map on Mercator's projection is one of the most richly decorated maps from the Dutch period of pre-eminence in cartography. While the ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1652
Selling price: $8500
Sold in 2018
TYPUS ORBIS TERRARUM.
Scarce Brunswick edition of Cluvers double hemisphere map of the world! Shirley gives dimensions of 140x280mm for the 1641 edition, our map is slightly larger, so this co...
Place & Date: Brunswick, c1652
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2014
Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica ac Hydrographica tabula.
This stunning carte-a-figures world map on Mercator's projection is one of the most richly decorated maps from the Dutch period of pre-eminence in cartography. While the ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1652
Selling price: $20500
Sold in 2016
Orbis Vetus, et Orbis Veteris, utraque Continens, Terrarumq Tractus Arcticus, et Antarcticus ex Platone, Theopompo sive Aehano, Manilio. . . Auctore N.Sanson. . .
According to the title Mariette is here presenting Nicolas Sanson's map of the ancient world. The map however includes many 18th century features. Engraved by Jean Somer ...
Place & Date: Paris, Mariette, P., c.1657
Selling price: $625
Sold in 2011
Orbis Terrarum Typus de Integro ..
Exquisitely decorated double hemisphere world map, surrounded by engravings including allegorical representations of the continents and native inhabitants and wildlife. T...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1657
Selling price: $1700
Sold in 2011
Orbis Terrarum Typus De Integro In Plurimis. . .
Exquisitely decorated double hemisphere world map, surrounded by engravings including allegorical representations of the continents as well as native inhabitants and wild...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1657
Selling price: $750
Sold in 2014
Orbis Terrarum Typus De Integro In Plurimis. . .
Exquisitely decorated double hemisphere world map, surrounded by engravings including allegorical representations of the continents as well as native inhabitants and wild...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1657
Selling price: $1140
Sold in 2017
Orbis Terrarum Typus De Integro In Plurimis Emendatus Auctus et Icunculis Illustratus.
Fine early World Map by Nicolaus Visscher, published in Amsterdam in 1657. This was the "first map" to be inserted in a Dutch bible by Nicholas Visscher and bec...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1657
Selling price: $1251
Sold in 2016
Orbis Vetus, et Orbis Veteris Utraque Continens, Terrarum. . .
Sanson's double-hemisphere world map with ancient place names and latin text. California is shown as an island. A very large suggested Alaska. With parti coastal lines of...
Place & Date: Paris, 1657
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2019
![[Set of 4 continents] America Noviter Delineata, Asia Recens Summa Cura Delineata, Africa Nova Tabula and Nova Europae Descriptio](/uploads/cache/97484-250x250.jpg)
[Set of 4 continents] America Noviter Delineata, Asia Recens Summa Cura Delineata, Africa Nova Tabula and Nova Europae Descriptio
A magnificent and rare set of the 4 continents by Pierre D'Avity. The maps are from the French work "Les Etats, Empires, Royaumes du Monde". The engraver is unk...
Place & Date: Paris, 1659
Selling price: $7600
Sold in 2019
Harmonie ou Correspondance du Globe avecq la Sphere par les Points, Lignes, Cercles, &c. qui se descrivent en la surface des Globes Terrestres et des Mappemondes, pour respondre a ceux qui sont imaginés dans la Sphere Cœleste.
A large map of the world in two hemispheres, east and west, showing the climatic zones. The geographic content is relegated to the background, placing emphasis on the gri...
Place & Date: Paris,'"chez l'autheur", 1659
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2021
Hemispherium Orbis Antiqui, Cumzonis Circulis, Et Sity populorum Diverso.
The magnificent celestial atlas produced by Andreas Cellarius ?Atlas Coelestis seu Harmonia Macrocosmica? is the only celestial atlas published in the heydays of Dutch ca...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius, 1660
Selling price: $2600
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Orbis Terrarum Typus..
This map is a direct derivative of Nicolas Visscher's first world map designed for inclusion in Dutch Bibles. It has been re-engraved, is nominally larger, and this examp...
Place & Date: Amsterdam c.1660
Selling price: $1600
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![[First part of the Tabula Peutingeriana map with no tittle] Chrepstini Franci.](/uploads/cache/31368-250x250.jpg)
[First part of the Tabula Peutingeriana map with no tittle] Chrepstini Franci.
An uncommon variant of the first part of the Peutinger map, here showing a section of southeastern England with the roads and harbors marked.In the center France down to ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1660
Selling price: $210
Sold in 2011
Nova totius terrarum orbis tabula auctore F. de Wit.
This is the first state of the world maps by F. de Wit. Especially rare, extremely decorative. It appeared in "De Zee-Atlas Ofte Water-Wereld ..." By Hendrik Do...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1660
Selling price: $5450
Sold in 2014
Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula.
This is the first state of the world maps by F. de Wit. Especially rare, extremely decorative.It appeared in "De Zee-Atlas Ofte Water-Wereld ..." By Hendrik Don...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1660
Selling price: $5500
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Orbis Terrarum Veteribus Cogniti Typus Geographicus.
A beautifully engraved classic map of the ancient world, based on an earlier chart by Ortelius. Africa, Asia and Europe as far south as Northern Madagascar are placed at ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1660
Selling price: $335
Sold in 2016
Hemisphaerium Orbis Antiqui Cumzonis Circulis et Situ Populorum Diverso.
A wonderfully colored example of Andreas Cellarius's map of the Eastern Hemisphere, illustrating the climatic zones ranging from Frigida Borealis to Torrida, with planeta...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1660
Selling price: $900
Sold in 2019
Orbis Terrarum Tabula. . .
A scarce first state of this double hemisphere world map taken from a Ravensteyn bible printed as early as 1660 (!) and on very large paper format. Superbly engraved wit...
Place & Date: Leiden, 1660
Selling price: $1750
Sold in 2020