SCHEDEL, D. Hartmann. [Incunable Prospect of Ulm]
Ulma. Nuremberg, Anton Kolberger, 1493, German text edition. Coloured. Woodcut, image 200 x 530mm. Some restoration at centre, as usual, with mss. fill.
Ulm, one of the double-page prospects from the famous 'Nuremberg Chronicle'. At the time Ulm was one of the most important publishing centres in the world.
[Ref: 8962]    £540.00 ($832 • €653 rates)

SCHEDEL, D. Hartmann. [Incunable Prospect of Nuremberg]
Nuremberga. Nuremberg, Anton Kolberger, 1493, Latin text edition. Woodcut, image 350 x 530mm. Centerfold restored, as usual.
The largest view in the famous 'Nuremberg Chronicle', and probably the most accurate, being Schedel's home city. An uncommon and highly collectable incunabula.
[Ref: 9082]    £1,750.00 ($2,695 • €2,118 rates)

SCHEDEL, D. Hartmann. [Incunable Prospect of the Fourteen Cities]
Quattuor civitates. Augsburg, Johann Schönsperger, 1497. Latin text edition. Old mss. text highlighting. Woodcut, printed area 160 x 330mm, set in a page of text. Some restoration to the centrefold, as usual.
A plate representing the alliance of fourteen German cities, including Bamberg, Cologne, Ulm and Saltzburg. Published in a small folio edition of the 'Nuremberg Chronicle', but like its larger counterpart, it is one of the few views spread over a double-page. Despite the eight editions (one possibly as late as 1604) fewer of these were printed than the Nuremberg original. A rare incunabule.
[Ref: 9010]    £450.00 ($693 • €545 rates)

SCHEDEL, D. Hartmann. [Incunable Prospect of Munich]
Monacum. Augsburg, Johann Schönsperger, 1497. Latin text edition. Old mss. text highlighting. Woodcut, printed area 85 x 190mm, set in a page of text. Trimmed to printed border on right, re-margined.
A fantasy view of Munich, published in a small folio edition of the 'Nuremberg Chronicle', with a Latin text description. Despite the eight editions (one possibly as late as 1604) fewer of these were printed than the Nuremberg original. A rare incunabule.
[Ref: 9234]    £250.00 ($385 • €303 rates)

SCHEDEL, D. Hartmann. [Incunable Prospect of Köln]
Colonia. Augsburg, Johann Schönsperger, 1497. Latin text edition. Old mss. text highlighting. Woodcut, printed area 85 x 190mm, set in a page of text. Trimmed to printed border on left, re-margined.
A fantasy view of Köln, published in a small folio edition of the 'Nuremberg Chronicle', with a Latin text description. Despite the eight editions (one possibly as late as 1604) fewer of these were printed than the Nuremberg original. A rare incunabule.
[Ref: 9242]    £250.00 ($385 • €303 rates)

MUNSTER, Sebastian. [16th Century woodblock view of Hamburg]
Hamburg. Basle, 1550, coloured, set in a page of German text, image: 120 x 150mm; printed area: 290 x 150mm
An attractive birdseye view of Hamburg seen from the river, with a fourteen point key below giving names of the principal buildings. From the "Cosmographia"
[Ref: 10550]    £110.00 ($169 • €133 rates)

QUAD, Matthias. [Germany]
Germania. Cologne, c.1600. Coloured. 220 x 290mm.
Engraved by Johannes Bussemacher for Quad's 'Geographisch Handtbuch', closely following Ortelius.
[Ref: 8959]    £150.00 ($231 • €182 rates)

HONDIUS, Jodocus II. [Rare Panelled Map Of Germany]
'Germaniae Nova et Accurate Descriptio.' Amsterdam: Frederick de Wit, ca. 1665]; 455 x 560mm, in original outline colour.
Rare panelled map of Germany designed and published by Jodocus Hondius Jr. in 1625, here re-issued by de Wit circa 1665.The map has decorative pictorial panels on all four sides; the upper panel with equestrian figures of the Holy Roman Emperor and the seven Electors of the Empire; the side borders have three costume figures interspersed with prospect of German cities, with a further ten prospects in the lower border, making eighteen in total, each prospect with accompanying armorials.This example is Schilder 37.4, with de Wit's imprint substituted in the title. He notes two institutional locations and a single private location - the Stopp Collection. Now in an institution with no other example in private hands. All states of this map are of some rarity. Schilder: Monumenta Cartographica Neerlandica, IV, Map 37.4.
[Ref: 7922]    £4,500.00 ($6,930 • €5,445 rates)

ORTELIUS, Abraham. [Fulda & Waldeck]
Buchaviae, sive Fuldensis Ditionis Typus; Waldeccensi Comitatus Descriptio Accuratissima. Antwerp, 1612, Spanish text. Original colour. 320 x 470mm.
Two maps on one sheet, from the 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum'. VAN DEN BROECKE: 98.
[Ref: 9168]    £250.00 ($385 • €303 rates)

ORTELIUS, Abraham. [Dithmarshen & Oldenburg]
Theitmarsiae, Holsaticae Regionis Partis Typus; Oldemburg Comit. Antwerp, 1612, Spanish text. Original colour. 340 x 500mm. Narrow right margin.
Two maps on one sheet, from the 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum'. VAN DEN BROECKE: 90.
[Ref: 9243]    £300.00 ($462 • €363 rates)