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Natal Bonifacio: Palermo citta principalissima della Sicilia...
Giovanni Orlandi, Rome, 1580 [1602]
Important and First Large Printed Map of the City of Palermo by Natale Bonifacio.A very fine and rare map of Palermo by Natale Bonifacio. The detailed plan of Palermo and its surrounding...
Antique town view of Palermo, Sicily, Sicilia. Printed in Rome by Giovanni Orlandi in 1602.
Jodocus Hondius: Poli Arctici, et Circumiacentium Terrarum Descriptio Novissima
Johannes Janssonius, Amsterdam, 1636
This striking map of the North Polar regions, published in 1636 by Henricus Hondius, is a milestone in early polar cartography. It represents the third state of the plate and the first fully...
Old coloured sea chart of the North Pole. Printed in Amsterdam by Johannes Janssonius in 1636.
Giovanni Francesco Camocio: Candia vel Creta insula posta nel mare Mediterraneo...
G. F. Camocio, Venice, 1571
A very rare, early map of Crete from Camocio's Isole Famose . Showing the island surrounded by Venetian galleys with a nice renaissance cartouche and a compass rose. This copy is printed from the...
Antique map of Crete. Printed in Venice by G. F. Camocio in 1571.
Johann Bayer: Uranometria, Omnium Asterismorum Continens Schemata, Nova Methodo Delineata, Aereis Laminis Expressa
Christoph Mang, Augsburg, 1603
First Edition of Johann Bayer's Epochal Star Atlas.This work was to uranography what the Gutenberg Bible was to printing. --George Lovi, Hungarian-American astronomical cartographer....
Celestial Atlas by Johann Bayer. Printed in Augsburg in 1603.
George Matthäus Seutter: Hamburg eine Weltberühmte Freye Reichs und Hansee, auch reiche u. Volkreiche Handels Statt an der...
M. Seutter, Augsburg, circa 1730
Beautiful, large plan of the city of Hamburg by Matthäus Seutter in excellent condition. Town plan with fortifications and buildings. In the lower third the ornamentally decorated prospect of the...
Old coloured city plan of Hamburg, Germany. Printed in Augsburg by M. Seutter circa 1730.
Willem Janszoon Blaeu: Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica ac Hydrographica Tabula auct: Guiljelmo Blaeuw.
Amsterdam, 1641-49
One of the Most Famous World Maps of Dutch Cartography with Stunning Old Colours.Perhaps the finest world map ever printed. This map represents the apogee of seventeenth century Dutch...
Old coloured world map with borders by Willem J. Blaeu. Published 1643 in Amsterdam.
Johannes Janssonius: Descriptio Fluminum Rheni, Vahalis et Mosae...
J. Janssonius, Amsterdam, 1653-66
Beautiful copper engraving map of the watercourses Rhine (Rhenus), Waal (Vahalis) and Maas (Mosa). Published by Johannes Janssonius in the Spanish edition of the Atlas Novus in 1653. The map...
Coloured map of the Rhine, Waal, Meuse. Printed in Amsterdam by J. Janssonius in 1653.
Jodocus Hondius: Poli Arctici, et Circumiacentium Terrarum Descriptio Novissima
Johannes Janssonius, Amsterdam, 1636
This striking map of the North Polar regions, published in 1636 by Henricus Hondius, is a milestone in early polar cartography. It represents the third state of the plate and the first fully...
Old coloured sea chart of the North Pole. Printed in Amsterdam by Johannes Janssonius in 1636.
Hartmann Schedel: Basilea
Anton Koberger, Nuremberg, 1493
Decorative incunable double-leaf in folio showing Basel by Hartmann Schedel. From the Latin edition of the famous Liber chronicarum or Nuremberg Chronicle published in 1493, the year that...
Antique woodcut town view of Basel. Printed in Nuremberg by Anton Koberger in 1493.
Hartmann Schedel: Bamberga
Anton Koberger, Nuremberg, 1493
Decorative incunable double-leaf in folio showing Bamberg by Hartmann Schedel. From the Latin edition of the famous Liber chronicarum or Nuremberg Chronicle published in 1493, the year that...
Antique woodcut town view of Bamberg. Printed in Nuremberg by Anton Koberger in 1493.
Hartmann Schedel: Patavia
Anton Koberger, Nuremberg, 1493
Decorative incunable double-leaf in folio showing Passau by Hartmann Schedel. From the Latin edition of the famous Liber chronicarum or Nuremberg Chronicle published in 1493, the year that...
Antique woodcut town view of Passau. Printed in Nuremberg by Anton Koberger in 1493.
Hartmann Schedel: Bressla
Anton Koberger, Nuremberg, 1493
Decorative incunable double-leaf in folio showing Breslau (Wroclaw, in Silesia) by Hartmann Schedel. The oldest panoramic view of Breslau. From the Latin edition of the famous Liber chronicarum or...
Coloured woodcut town view of Breslau, Wroclaw, Silesia. Printed in Nuremberg by Anton Koberger in 1493.