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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Highlights

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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1520 - Martin Waldseemüller
Martin Waldseemüller: Tabula neoterica Crete sive Candie insule
Johannes Schott, Strasbourg, 1513 or 1520
The prototype map of the modern Crete from M. Waldseemuller of 1513/1520.One of the rare modern maps of the most famouse Ptolemy edition. This representation of Crete served as a...
Tabula neoterica Crete sive Candie insule
11469
Antique woodcut map of Kriti, Crete. Printed in Strasbourg by Johannes Schott in 1513 or 1520.
3 500,00 €
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1574 - Sebastian Münster
Sebastian Münster: Die Neuwen Inseln / so hinder Hispanien gegen Orient / bey dem Landt Indie ligen
Heinrich Petri, Basle, 1540 (1574)
The first map to show the New World as an entity. Earliest appearance of Japan on a map, predating European contact. First appearance of Mare Pacificum on a map.Sebastian Munster's...
Die Neuwen Inseln / so hinder Hispanien gegen Orient / bey dem Landt...
11326
Coloured woodcut map of the American continent. Printed in Basle by Heinrich Petri in 1574.
5 900,00 €
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1720 - Johann Baptist Homann
Johann Baptist Homann: Regnorum Siciliae et Sardiniae nec non Melitae seu Maltae Insula cum Adjectis Italiae et Africae...
J. B. Homann, Nuremberg, circa 1720
Old coloured antique map of Sicily, Sardinia and Malta located in the Mediterranean Sea. To the lower left a map of Catania with Etna in the background. To the right a small map of Valletta, Malta....
Regnorum Siciliae et Sardiniae nec non Melitae seu Maltae Insula cum...
11804
Old coloured map of Malta, Sardinia, Sicily. Printed in Nuremberg by J. B. Homann circa 1720.
920,00 €
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1493 - Hartmann Schedel
Hartmann Schedel: Imago Mortis
Johann Ernst Adelbulner, 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 Dürer....
Imago Mortis
11973
Dance of the Death (Danse Macabre) by Wilhelm Pleydenwurff from Schedel's world chronicle, printed in Nuremberg in 1493.
2 300,00 €
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1665 - Jan Dirksz Zoutman
Jan Dirksz Zoutman: Afbeelding van de Zyp, Haer waere gelegentheit van Dyckage, Weegen, Watringen en Schey-slooten,...
Amsterdam, 1665
Magnificent Wall Map of the Zijpe- en Hazepolder in Noord-Holland.Beautiful coloured wall map of Zijpe in the Dutch province of Noord-Holland by Jan Dirksz Zoutman. Consists of a total of 6...
Afbeelding van de Zyp, Haer waere gelegentheit van Dyckage, Weegen,...
11714
Rare and very decorative wall map of Zijpe in Noord-Holland by J. C. Zoutman. Printed in 1665 in Amsterdam.
1 950,00 €
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1750 - Anonymous
Anonymous: Ch'onha chido [Atlas of all under Heaven]
circa 1750
A Scarce Korean Woodblock Atlas.Album with 9 woodblock maps from a traditional Korean woodblock atlas, printed mid 18th century. With a map of China with Korea and 8 maps of the provinces of...
Ch'onha chido [Atlas of all under Heaven]
12080
Korean Woodblock Atlas, Ch'onha-Chido, Mid 18th Century
8 500,00 €
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1780 - Anonymous
Anonymous: Ch'onha Chido [Atlas of all under Heaven]
circa 1780
A Scarce Korean Manuscript Atlas.Album with 12 manuscript maps from a traditional Korean manuscript atlas, drawn in the late 18th century. With a China-centered world map (Chonha-Do), a map...
Ch'onha Chido [Atlas of all under Heaven]
12081
Korean Manuscript Atlas, Ch'onha-Chido, late 18th Century
18 000,00 €
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: Ch'onha Chido [Atlas of all under Heaven]
A Scarce Korean Manuscript Atlas.Album with 11 manuscript maps from a traditional Korean manuscript atlas, drawn in the early 19th century. With a China-centered world map (Chonha-Do), a map...
Ch'onha Chido [Atlas of all under Heaven]
12082
Korean Manuscript Atlas, Ch'onha-Chido, early 19th Century
12 000,00 €
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1840 - Adolf Stieler
Adolf Stieler: Stieler's Schul-Atlas über alle Theile der Erde nach dem neuesten Zustande, und über das...
Justus Perthes, Gotha, 1840
The Schul-Atlas also known as Kleiner Stieler was a very pobular atlas used in schools in Germany during the 19th century. It is a reduced version of A. Stieler's Hand-Atlas and was first...
Stieler's Schul-Atlas über alle Theile der Erde nach dem neuesten...
12083
School Atlas by Adolf Stieler. Printed 1840 in Gotha.
75,00 €
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1664 - Willem Janszoon Blaeu
Willem Janszoon Blaeu: Sevende Stuck der Aerdrycks-Beschryving, Welck Vervat Italien en Griecken.
Joan Blaeu, Amsterdam, 1664-65
A splendid copy of Blaeu's Atlas of Italy and Greece. All 67 maps finely coloured by a contemporary hand.The Italy and Greece Atlas of Atlas Maior by Joan Blaeu is considered as one of the...
Sevende Stuck der Aerdrycks-Beschryving, Welck Vervat Italien en Griecken.
12079
Atlas of Italy and Greece from Atlas Maior by Joan Blaeu. Printed 1664 in Amsterdam.
24 000,00 €
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1702 - Anonymous
Anonymous: [Donau Strom von Sigmaringen bis Donauwörth]
circa 1702
Important manuscript map of the Danube River in Upper Swabia on vellum.Very large, impressive and detailed manuscript map of the Danube river between Sigmaringen and Donauwörth. Drawn on...
[Donau Strom von Sigmaringen bis Donauwörth]
12078
Manuscript map on vellum of Upper Swabia. Drawn around 1702.
8 500,00 €
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