Turkey

Sebastian Münster: Neuw Griechenlandt, mit andern anstossenden Landern, wie es zu unsern zeiten beschriben ist
Heinrich Petri, Basle, 1574
Early woodcut map of Greece by Sebastian Münster. Showing Greece with western Turkey. The title on verso is surrounded by a beautiful woodcut border. From the German edition of Sebastian Münster's...
Neuw Griechenlandt, mit andern anstossenden Landern, wie es zu unsern...
1574 - Sebastian Münster
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Antique woodcut map of Greece. Printed in Basle by Heinrich Petri in 1574.
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Sebastian Münster: Constantinopel des Griechischen Keyserthumbs Hauptstatt, im Lande Thracia am Moere gelegen
Heinrich Petri, Basle, 1574
Large, early woodcut view of Constantinople, today Istanbul, by Sebastian Munster on the full double sheet. Decorated with many ships. From the German edition of Sebastian Münster's Cosmography,...
Constantinopel des Griechischen Keyserthumbs Hauptstatt, im Lande...
1574 - Sebastian Münster
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Antique woodcut town view of Istanbul, Constantinople. Printed in Basle by Heinrich Petri in 1574.
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Sebastian Münster: Lydia oder Meonia
Heinrich Petri, Basle, 1574
Early woodcut view of the ancient city of Sardis, the capital of the ancient Kingdom of Lydia, today the western part of Anatolia. The woodcut shows the destroyed city after an earthquake. From the...
Lydia oder Meonia
1574 - Sebastian Münster
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Antique woodcut town view of Sardis, Lydia. Printed in Basle by Heinrich Petri in 1574.
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Francois de Belleforest: Cyprus Insula
Nicolas Chesneau, Michel Sonnius, Paris, 1575
A very scarce early woodcut map of Cypus. The double-folio map a based on Camoccio's map of 1566 via the Ortelius version of 1570. Below and verso description of Cyprus. Ruled in brown ink....
Cyprus Insula
1575 - Francois de Belleforest
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Antique woodcut map of Cyprus. Printed in Paris by Nicolas Chesneau, Michel Sonnius in 1575.
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Sebastian Münster: Constantinopel des Griechischen Keyserthumbs Hauptstatt, im Lande Thracia am Meere gelegen
Petri, Basle, circa 1580
Original old woodcut view of Constantinople, today Istanbul, in Turkey by Sebastian Münster. From a German edition of the "Cosmographey". Showing the city from birdeye perspective with dozens of...
Constantinopel des Griechischen Keyserthumbs Hauptstatt, im Lande...
1580 - Sebastian Münster
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Antique woodcut town view of Istanbul, Constantinople. Printed in Basle by Petri circa 1580.
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Sebastian Münster: New Griechenlandt, mit andern anstossenden Ländern, wie es zu unsern zeiten beschriben ist.
Heinrich Petri, Basle, circa 1588
Woodcut map of Greece by Sebastian Münster. The map has early colour which is rare for a Seb. Münster map. Showing Greece with western Turkey. The title on verso Graciae. New Griechenlandt / so...
New Griechenlandt, mit andern anstossenden Ländern, wie es zu unsern...
1588 - Sebastian Münster
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Old coloured woodcut map of Greece. Printed in Basle by Heinrich Petri circa 1588.
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Abraham Ortelius: Natoliae, quae olim Asia Minor Nova Descriptio - Aegypti Recentior Descriptio - Carthaginis...
Antwerp, 1595
Coloured copper engraved map of Turkey by A. Ortelius. On right side a map of Egypt and one of Tunis. Three map on one sheet printed from one plate. From the 1595 Latin edition of 'Theatrum Orbis...
Natoliae, quae olim Asia Minor Nova Descriptio - Aegypti Recentior...
1595 - Abraham Ortelius
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Coloured map of Tunis, Egypt, Cyprus, Turkey. Printed in Antwerp in the year 1595.
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Abraham Ortelius: Thraciae veteris typus
Antwerp, 1595
Engraved map of the western part of Turkey by A. Ortelius. Showing the Dardanelles, the Sea of Marmara with the Bosporus and Istanbul. From the 1595 Latin edition of 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum',...
Thraciae veteris typus
1595 - Abraham Ortelius
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Antique map of the Sea of Marmara, Bosporus, Istanbul, Greece. Printed in Antwerp in the year 1595.
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Abraham Ortelius: Cypri Insulae Nova Descript. 1573
Jan Baptist Vrients, Antwerp, 1603
Early and important map of Cyprus by Abraham Ortelius. The geographical details are based on the map of Cyprus by Giacomo Franco from 1570. Below right a inset map of Lemnos, based on notes by...
Cypri Insulae Nova Descript. 1573
1603 - Abraham Ortelius
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Coloured map of Cyprus. Printed in Antwerp by Jan Baptist Vrients in 1603.
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Abraham Saur: Constantinopolis
W. Richter, Frankfurt, 1608
Rare woodcut view of Istanbul (Constantinople). From "Parvum Theatrum Urbium sive Urbium Praecipuarum totius orbis Brevis & Methodica Descriptio" by Adrianus Romanus printed 1608 in Frankfurt....
Constantinopolis
1608 - Abraham Saur
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Antique woodcut town view of Istanbul. Printed in Frankfurt by W. Richter in 1608.
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John Speed: The Turkish Empire. Newly Augmented by Iohn Speed. 1626
George Humble, London, 1627
Beautiful coloured 'carte-à-figure' of the Turkish Empire by John Speed. One of the most decorative maps of Ottoman Empire issued in the 17th Century. The first map of the region published in...
The Turkish Empire. Newly Augmented by Iohn Speed. 1626
1627 - John Speed
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Coloured map of the Ottoman Empire, Turkish. Printed in London by George Humble in 1627.
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Willem Janszoon Blaeu: Natolia, quae olim Asia Minor.
Willem & Joan Blaeu, Amsterdam, 1640-43
Old coloured antique map of Asia Minor with Turkey and Cyprus by Willem Blaeu. With Constantinople (Istanbul), Smyrna (Izmir) and Antioch. Decorated with a beautiful title cartouche, sea monsters...
Natolia, quae olim Asia Minor.
1640 - Willem Janszoon Blaeu
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Old coloured map of Turkey. Printed in Amsterdam by Willem & Joan Blaeu in 1640.
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Matthäus Merian: Veradelineatio Ordinis Belliq Navalis Venetorum cum Turcis apud Dardaneli, Eigentlicher Abriß des...
Frankfurt, 1646
Copper engraved view of the Battle of the Dardanelles in 1646 (1656) between the fleets of the Venetians and the Ottoman Empire. Constantinople in background, above bilingual title, legend below.
Veradelineatio Ordinis Belliq Navalis Venetorum cum Turcis apud...
1646 - Matthäus Merian
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Antique town view of the Sea of Marmara, Bosporus, Constantinople. Printed in Frankfurt in the year 1646.
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Anonymous: Circi sive hippodromi Constantinopolitani
circa 1650
Rare decorative engraving of the Hippodrome, the horse racing track in ancient Constantinople. Appeared middle of the 17th Century.
Circi sive hippodromi Constantinopolitani
1650 - Anonymous
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Antique town view of Hippodrome of Constantinople, Istanbul. Printed circa 1650.
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Nicolas Visscher: Geographische Beschryvinghe Van de Wandeling Der Apostelen ende De Reysen Pauli...
Paulus Aertsz van Ravesteyn, Amsterdam, 1654
Very decorative map of the Eastern Mediterranean by Nicolas Visscher from 1654. From Italy to the Holy Land, Iraq and up to the Red Sea. With Sicily, Malta and Cyprus. Shows the travel of St. Paul...
Geographische Beschryvinghe Van de Wandeling Der Apostelen ende De...
1654 - Nicolas Visscher
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Old map of the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. Printed in Amsterdam by Paulus Aertsz van Ravesteyn in 1654.
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Christoph Boethius: Constantinopel
Johann Christoff Lochner, Nuremberg, 1688
A rare and very decorative view of Constantinople (Istanbul). From the Kriegs-Helm , a work on the history of the Turkish wars by Christoph Boethius, published in Nuremberg. It shows the burning...
Constantinopel
1688 - Christoph Boethius
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Coloured town view of Constantinople, Istanbul. Printed in Nuremberg by Johann Christoff Lochner in 1688.
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Edward Wells: A New Map of Turky in Europe and parts adjoyning shewing their principal divisions and chiefe...
Oxford, 1700
Nice map of Turkey, the Balkan and Greece from A New Sett of Maps both of Antient and Present Geography by E. Wells dedicated to William, the Duke of Gloucester how died aged eleven just in the...
A New Map of Turky in Europe and parts adjoyning shewing their principal...
1700 - Edward Wells
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Coloured map of the Balkan, Turkey. Printed in Oxford in the year 1700.
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Anonymous: Golfo de Lepante, Mar de Marmora, S. Maura
circa 1700
Beautiful cooper engraved sheet with two vies and one map. The large view showing a sea battle between the Peloponnese and Lefkada, the smaller view showing the fortification of Lefkada (St. Maura)...
Golfo de Lepante, Mar de Marmora, S. Maura
1700 - Anonymous
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Antique map of St. Maura, Lefkada, Peloponnese. Printed circa 1700.
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Nicolas Visscher: Novelle Carte de la Mer Noire et du Canal de Constantinople tres exacte mise au Jour par N....
Pieter Schenk, Amsterdam, circa 1700
An unusual, old coloured map of the Black Sea region with the Crimean peninsula. With a large inset map showing Constantinople (Istanbul) and the Bosporus.
Novelle Carte de la Mer Noire et du Canal de Constantinople tres exacte...
1700 - Nicolas Visscher
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Old coloured map of Constantinople, Black Sea. Printed in Amsterdam by Pieter Schenk circa 1700.
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Christoph Weigel: Portae Ottomanicae regna & aditiones per Europam, Asiam & Africam
Johann Ernst Adelbulner, Nuremberg, 1718
Antique map of the Ottoman Empire by Christoph Weigel. Shows the eastern Mediterranean with Greece and Turkey, the Arabian Peninsula, the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea. Decorated with a beautiful...
Portae Ottomanicae regna & aditiones per Europam, Asiam & Africam
1718 - Christoph Weigel
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Old coloured map of the Ottoman Empire. Printed in Nuremberg by Johann Ernst Adelbulner in 1718.
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Christoph Weigel: Graeciae Septentrionalis Pars.
Nuremberg, 1720
Old coloured map of the northern part of Greece with parts of Turkey. From C. Weigel's Atlas Descriptio Orbis Antique in XLIV Tabulis printed in 1720.
Graeciae Septentrionalis Pars.
1720 - Christoph Weigel
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Old coloured map of Greece. Printed in Nuremberg in the year 1720.
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Christoph Weigel: Graeciae pars Meridionalis / Graeciae Antiquae Tabula Nova in qua locarum situs tum ad distantia...
Nuremberg, 1720
Old coloured map of the southern part of Greece with parts of Turkey. From C. Weigel's Atlas Descriptio Orbis Antique in XLIV Tabulis printed in 1720.
Graeciae pars Meridionalis / Graeciae Antiquae Tabula Nova in qua...
1720 - Christoph Weigel
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Old coloured map of Greece. Printed in Nuremberg in the year 1720.
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Johann Baptist Homann: Imperium Turcicum in Europa, Asia et Africa Regiones Proprias, Tributarias, Clientelares ...
J. B. Homann, Nuremberg, circa 1720
Beautiful old coloured map of the Turkish Empire by Johann Baptist Homann. Very decorative map of the Ottoman Empire issued during the first half of the 18th Century. Shows the eastern...
Imperium Turcicum in Europa, Asia et Africa Regiones Proprias,...
1720 - Johann Baptist Homann
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Old coloured map of the Ottoman Empire. Printed in Nuremberg by J. B. Homann circa 1720.
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Guillaume de l'Isle: Carte de la Turquie de l'Arabie et de la Perse / Tabula Nova Imperii Turcarum, Arabum et Persarum
Covens & Mortier, Amsterdam, circa 1730
Old coloured map of the Turkish Empire, Arabia and Persia after Guillaume de l'Isle. This is the Covens & Mortier edition of the detailed map by G. de l'Isle. With the eastern Mediterranean, the...
Carte de la Turquie de l'Arabie et de la Perse / Tabula Nova Imperii...
1730 - Guillaume de l'Isle
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Old coloured map of the Middle East. Printed in Amsterdam by Covens & Mortier circa 1730.
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