Fine old color example of Abraham Ortelius' map of the Brandenburg and Berlin regions. The map focuses on the Albis River and Oder River regions in Germany and extending to Silesia.
Fine old color example of Abraham Ortelius's map of the Duchies of Braunswick and Lunenburg. Large cities appearing on the map include Hanover, Luneburg, Wolfsburg, Brunswick, Peine, Wolfenbuttel and Hamburg. The map appeared in Ortelius's Theatrum...
Striking dark impression of Ruscelli's map of Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and parts of the region bounded by the Black Sea in the east and the Danube in the south. Ruscelli's Atlas is an expanded edition of Gastaldi's Atlas of 1548,...
The Abraham Ortelius edition of Martin Helwig's seminal map of Silesia. Important regional map of Silesia, from Abraham Ortelius' Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first modern atlas of the World. Shows the region from Olomunz and Crackaw in the south to...
Rare 16th Century map of Russia and Ukraine, published by Zacharias Heyns in his rare Le Miroir du Monde, ou, Epitome du Theatre d'Abraham Ortelius, published in Amsterdam in 1598. Zacharias Heyns was the son of Peter Heyns, who wrote the rhyming text...
Rare 16th Century map of Portugal, published by Zacharias Heyns in his rare Le Miroir du Monde, ou, Epitome du Theatre d'Abraham Ortelius, published in Amsterdam in 1598. Zacharias Heyns was the son of Peter Heyns, who wrote the rhyming text for...
Interesting map of part of Asia Minor and Cyprus, extending from Constantinople to Armenia. Includes most of Cyprus. The map first appeared in the 1561 edition of Ruscelli's edition of Ptolemy's Geografia. Ruscelli's Atlas is an expanded edition of...
One of the Earliest Obtainable Maps of Japan and Korea The Metellus map of Japan and Korea is the earliest obtainable printed map of the region, after the Teixeira / Ortelius map. The landmark Ortelius prototype was derived from the Portuguese...
The Spice Map—Rare, Striking Map of Southeast Asia Rare English edition of Petrus Plancius's "Spice Map," first published in 1594, covering the Philippines and Maritime Southeast Asia, including the famed Spice Islands. Plancius based his map on...
Theodore De Bry's Edition of The Most Important Map of the Straits of Malacca and Vicinity published in the 16th Century Fine example of Willem Lodewijcksz's suppressed map of the region centered on the Straits of Malacca, from Part II of Theodor De...
Nice example of this early state of Bertius's map of Asia Minor, which first appeared in an early edition of the Bertius Tabularum Geographicarum, published in Middelburg. The present map is one of the earliest obtainable maps of the region.
Southern sheet of John Wolfe's rare 2-sheet map of Africa, based upon Filiippo Pigafetta's important early map of Africa, which appeared in the rare English edition of Linschoten's Itinerario, Iohn Huighen van Linschoten. His discours of voyages . . ....
Rare English Edition! Decorative view of Melinde harbor on the island of Mozambique, which appeared in the rare English edition of Linschoten's Itinerario, Iohn Huighen van Linschoten. His discours of voyages . . . , published in London in 1598, and...