SCHEDEL, D. Hartmann. [Incunable Prospect of Bohemia]
Bohemia. Augsburg, Johann Schönsperger, 1497. Latin text edition. Old mss. text highlighting. Woodcut, printed area 90 x 140mm, set in a page of text.
An imaginary view across Bohemia, published in a small folio edition of the 'Nuremberg Chronicle'. Despite the eight editions (one possibly as late as 1604) fewer of these were printed than the Nuremberg original. A rare incunabule.
[Ref: 9018]    £100.00 ($154 • €121 rates)

FLORIMI, Matteo. [Rare Map Of Hungary]
Hungaria [Siena: Matteo Florimi, ca. 1600]; 365 x 440mm.] A good example, uncut edges, apparently never bound.
Rare Italian derivative of Gerard Mercator's map of Hungary. Although clearly an Italian engraving, the execution is perhaps inferior to the more commonly encountered Florimi maps, so it may be that this atrribution is incorrect. This is a second state of the plate, with re-engraving; some of the original hachuring for the lakes and under the scale bar are erased. The map is printed on unusual slightly rough paper. Tsathmary, Descriptio Hungariae, map 88 (ill.)
[Ref: 8311]    £2,200.00 ($3,388 • €2,662 rates)

BRAUN, Georg & HOGENBERG, Frans. [A Beautiful Prospect of Budapest]
Buda Citerioris Hungariae Caput Regni Avita sedes, Vulgo Ofen. Cologne, 1617, French text verso, coloured, 320 x 475mm.
A splendid view of the cities of Buda and Pest (modern-day Budapest) engraved by Joris Hoefnagel, for the "Civitates Orbis Terrarum ", volume 6. Buda is seen from across the Danube with its huge hilltop fortress and royal palace. On the opposite bank is the strongly fortified town of Pest, with a pontoon bridge linking the two. The engraving depicts the two towns during the period of Ottoman occupation, when Buda was the seat of the local Pasha. The illustration in the foreground shows the Pasha with his delija (bodyguard) who wears feathers pierced through the skin of his scalp.
[Ref: 10945]    £2,200.00 ($3,388 • €2,662 rates)

HONDIUS, Jodocus. [A 17th Century map of the Ukraine]
Taurica Chersonesus. London: Henry Featherstone, 1625, English text edition. Coloured. 130 x 170mm, set in text. Very fine condition.
First published in the reduced version of the Mercator/ Hondius 'Atlas Minor' of 1607, the printing plates were sold to a London publisher in 1621 and appeared in 'Purchas His Pilgrimies', as this example. Later Dutch editions used new plates by Jansson.
[Ref: 8047]    £200.00 ($308 • €242 rates)

OLEARIUS, Adam. [Caspian Sea]
A Map Of Ye Province Of Kilan As It Lies On Ye Caspian Sea John Davies, London c. 1662, 270 x 323mm
Adam Ölschläger (latinised as Olearius) visited Persia between 1635 & 1639 as secretary to a mission from Holstein in Germany to open up a trade route for Persian silk via Russia and the Caspian Sea. His map was one of the first published in the west to show the Caspian as being longer than wider, something he himself has witnessed. This map comes from the first English edition of Olearius's book entitled "The Voyages & Travels Of The Ambassador Sent By Frederick Duke Of Holstein To The Duke Of Muscovy" and published in 1662. Th coat of arms on this map belong to the donor George Milbourne who put up the money to have it engraved
[Ref: 9035]    £220.00 ($339 • €266 rates)

JANSSON, Jan. [Bohemia]
Bohemia. Amsterdam: Heirs of Jan Jansson, 1666, Latin text. Original colour. 410 x 470mm.
Bohemia, with a decorative title cartouche and the double-headed eagle of the Habsburgs. Published in the 'Atlas Contractus', a two-volume atlas, published two years after Jansson's death by his son-in-law, Jan Jansson van Waesbergen. KOEMAN: Me 184 & 185.
[Ref: 8381]    £280.00 ($431 • €339 rates)

JANSSON, Jan. [Moravia]
Marchionatus Moaviæ Auct I. Comenio. Amsterdam: Heirs of Jan Jansson, 1666, Latin text. Original colour. 390 x 540mm. Paper lightly toned, old repair in lower centrefold margin.
The eastern Czech Republic, with a decorative title cartouche and the double-headed eagle of the Habsburgs. Published in the 'Atlas Contractus', a two-volume atlas, published two years after Jansson's death by his son-in-law, Jan Jansson van Waesbergen. KOEMAN: Me 184 & 185.
[Ref: 8410]    £200.00 ($308 • €242 rates)

VETTER, Christoph. [17th C. depiction of Bohemia in the shape of a rose.]
Bohemiæ Rosa Omnibus saculis cruenta... Augsburg, 1677, 390 x 270mm. Binding folds flattened.
A very rare and beautiful map of Bohemia depicted as a stylised rose. Prague is located at the center of the rose and Vienna, the main seat of the Hapsburg Dynasty, is shown at the root. The leaves of the rose represent Moravia, Silesia, Meissen, Bavaria, and Austria. The top of the map bears the motto of the Holy Roman Emperor, Leopold I, "Iustitia et Pietate" (Justice and Piety), one of whose titles was King of Bohemia. Drawn by Christoph Vetter and engraved by Wolfgang Kilian for Bohuslav Balbin's work of national history and geography "Epitome Historica Rerum Bohemicarum". The rose was a symbol of Southern Bohemia due to being the emblem of the two most powerful local families: namely the red rose of the Rozmberks and the black rose of the lords of Hradec.
[Ref: 11035]    £2,000.00 ($3,080 • €2,420 rates)

DU VAL, Pierre. [Hungary]
Hongrie. Paris, 1682. original outline colour. 100 x 125mm.
A miniature map of Hungary also encompassing Slovakia and parts of Croatia, and marking the rivers and main settlements. Published in Du Val's 'Géographie Universelle'.
[Ref: 10776]    £100.00 ($154 • €121 rates)

DU VAL, Pierre. [Romania]
Transilvanie, Valaquie Et Moldavie. Paris, c.1682. original outline colour. 100 x 125mm.
A miniature map of Romania, published in Du Val's 'Géographie Universelle'.
[Ref: 10861]    £100.00 ($154 • €121 rates)