Antique Maps and Atlases

Welcome to Götzfried Antique Maps. We offer antique maps by the most famous cartographers, sea charts from the Age of Discovery and atlases printed almost 500 years ago.

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1493 - Hartmann Schedel
Hartmann Schedel: Imago Mortis
Anton Koberger, Nuremberg, 1493
The famouse Dance of Death or Danse Macabre is one of the most sought after leaves of the Nuremberg Chronicle by Hartmann Schedel. This woodcut is attribute occasionally to Albrecht...
Imago Mortis
11518
Dance of the Death (Danse Macabre) by Wilhelm Pleydenwurff from Schedel's world chronicle, printed in Nuremberg in 1493.
1 900,00 €
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1590 - Theodor de Bry
Theodor de Bry: Americae Pars, Nunc Virginia Dicta, Primum ab Anglis Inventa Sumtibus Dn. Walteri Raleigh...
Theodor de Bry, Frankfurt, 1590
One of the most significant cartographical milestones on colonial North American history.'Theodor de Bry's map of Virginia, after John White, is one of the most significant cartographical...
Americae Pars, Nunc Virginia Dicta, Primum ab Anglis Inventa Sumtibus...
11188
Antique map of Virginia. Printed in Frankfurt by Theodor de Bry in 1590.
14 800,00 €
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1690 - Johannes Janssonius
Johannes Janssonius: Insularum Indiae Orientalis Nova Descriptio.
G. Valk and P. Schenk, Amsterdam, 1630 (1690)
Janssonius' map of Southeast Asia coloured by a contemporary hand. Re-issued by G. Valk and P. Schenk with modified title and signature. Decorated with three cartouches, two compass roses, ships...
Insularum Indiae Orientalis Nova Descriptio.
11276
Old coloured map of Southeast Asia. Printed in Amsterdam by G. Valk and P. Schenk in 1690.
1 600,00 €
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1720 - Johann Baptist Homann
Johann Baptist Homann: Planiglobii Terrestris cum utroq Hemisphaerio Caelesti [and] Totius Africae [and] Totius Americae...
J. B. Homann, Nuremberg, circa 1720
A matching set of the World and the Continents by J. B. HomannWorld Planiglobii Terrestris cum utroq Hemisphaerio Caelesti : Old coloured antique world map by J. B. Homann. With southern...
Planiglobii Terrestris cum utroq Hemisphaerio Caelesti [and] Totius...
11811
Old coloured world map and continent maps by Johann Baptist Homann. Published around 1720 in Nuremberg.
4 800,00 €
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1541 - Laurent Fries
Laurent Fries: Claudii Ptolemaei Alexandrini Geographicae Enarrationis, Libri Octo ... Prostant Lugduni apud...
G. Trechsel, Vienne, 1541
This atlas is divided into three parts: First, the text comprising the new Latin translation by the humanist Wilibald Pirckheimer of the 1525 edition, which has been edited by Michael Servetus, for...
Claudii Ptolemaei Alexandrini Geographicae Enarrationis, Libri Octo ......
11191
Second edition of Michael Servetus' Ptolemy edition, published by G. Trechsel 1541 in Vienne, Dauphine.
Price on request
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1643 - Willem Janszoon Blaeu
Willem Janszoon Blaeu: Tabula Magellanica, qua Tierrae del fuego cum celeberrimis fretis a F. Magellano et I. Le Maire...
Joan Blaeu, Amsterdam, 1643-50
Blaeu's splendid map of Tierra de Fuego with the Strait of Magellan.Old coloured sea chart of Tierra de Fuego with the Strait of Magellan and Le Maire Strait by Willem Blaeu. From the French...
Tabula Magellanica, qua Tierrae del fuego cum celeberrimis fretis a F....
11765
Old coloured sea chart of the Strait of Magellan, Tierra del Fuego. Printed in Amsterdam by Joan Blaeu in 1643.
1 250,00 €
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1650 - Johannes Janssonius
Johannes Janssonius: Pascaart, Waer in men claarlyck zien can, alle havens rivieren droogten, gelegen tusschen C.S....
Johannis Janssonius, Amsterdam, 1650
Rare and very decorative sea chart of the Atlantic coast of North Africa. Shows the coastline from southern Portugal to Gibraltar and North Africa from Morocco to Gambia. With the Canary Islands...
Pascaart, Waer in men claarlyck zien can, alle havens rivieren droogten,...
11864
Coloured sea chart of the Atlantic Ocean. Printed in Amsterdam by Johannis Janssonius in 1650.
750,00 €
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1663 - Nicolas Sanson
Nicolas Sanson: Partie septentrionale des Estats de Savoye... duches de Genevois
Pierre Mariette, Paris, 1663
Outline coloured engraving map of Lake Geneva with Savoy by Nicolas Sanson. Shows the area between Jura and Valais. With Geneva, Annecy, Bonneville and Cluses, in the east to St. Moritz. Bottom...
Partie septentrionale des Estats de Savoye... duches de Genevois
11865
Old coloured map of the Lake Geneve, Haute-Savoie. Printed in Paris by Pierre Mariette in 1663.
360,00 €
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1740 - George Matthäus Seutter
George Matthäus Seutter: Lacus Bodamicus vel Acronius cum regionibus circumjacentibus recens delineatus a Matthaeo...
M. Seutter, Augsburg, circa 1740
Old coloured antique map of the Lake Constance by Matthäus Seutter. Probably the most detailed map of the Lake Constance region of the 18th century. The map shows the administrative districts...
Lacus Bodamicus vel Acronius cum regionibus circumjacentibus recens...
11866
Old coloured map of the Bodensee, Lake of Constance, Baden-Württemberg. Printed in Augsburg by M. Seutter circa 1740.
1 200,00 €
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1606 - Abraham Ortelius
Abraham Ortelius: Mansfeldiae Comitatus Descriptio Auctore, Tilemanno Stella Sig.
A. Ortelius, Antwerp, 1606
Old colored antique map of Saxony-Anhalt by A. Ortelius. Shows the area between Halle a. d. Saale, Aschersleben, Walkenried and Heldrungen with Mansfeld in the centre. Top right a title cartouche....
Mansfeldiae Comitatus Descriptio Auctore, Tilemanno Stella Sig.
11867
Old coloured map of Mansfeld, Saxony-Anhalt. Printed in Antwerp by A. Ortelius in 1606.
290,00 €
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1592 - Abraham Ortelius
Abraham Ortelius: Turingia Noviss. Descript. per Iohannem Mellinger Halens / Misniae et Lusatiae Tabula Descripta a...
A. Ortelius, Antwerp, 1592
Old coloured antique map of Saxony and Thuringia by A. Ortelius. Two maps on one sheet. The right map shows Saxony between Erfurt and Prague. With Dresden, Leipzig, Wittenberg, Görlitz, Weimar and...
Turingia Noviss. Descript. per Iohannem Mellinger Halens / Misniae et...
11868
Old coloured map of Saxony, Thuringia. Printed in Antwerp by A. Ortelius in 1592.
390,00 €
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1603 - Abraham Ortelius
Abraham Ortelius: Germaniae Veteris, Typus.
A. Ortelius, Antwerp, 1603
Old coloured, antique map of Germany and the central part of Europe during the classical antiquity by Abraham Ortelius. With Germany, the Netherlands, Austria and parts of Switzerland, Poland and...
Germaniae Veteris, Typus.
11859
Old coloured map of Germany. Printed in Antwerp by A. Ortelius in 1603.
420,00 €
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