GASTALDI, Giacomo. [A Rare Italian map of Russia]
Descriptione de la Moscovia per Giacomo Gastaldo piamo[n]tese, Cosmographo in Venetia MDL. Venice: Giovanni Pedrezano, c.1550. 270 x 380mm. Remargined on the left, repairs to binding folds.
A very rare map of Russia, engraved by Gastaldi to illustrate the Venetian edition of Baron Sigismund von Herberstein's 'Rerum Muscoviticarum commentarii'. von Herberstein, a diplomat from the Austrian Imperial Court, was sent to Russia twice between 1516-26, during which time he gathered enough information to compile a map, first published in Vienna in 1546. Gastaldi appears to have used von Herverstein as a source for his map of Russia in his miniature atlas of 1548 and then engraved this larger version for the 'Comentari della Moscovia' two years later.
[Ref: 11102]    £6,000.00 ($9,240 • €7,260 rates)

ORTELIUS, Abraham. [Ortelius's famous map of Russia]
Russiae, Moscoviae et Tartariae Descriptio. Auctore Antonio Ienkensono Anglo. Antwerp, 1579, Latin text edition. Coloured. 360 x 450mm. Wide margins.
Ortelius based this map on that of Anthony Jenkinson (1525-1611), an English merchant and cartographer who travelled through Russia and Persia 1557-60. Spread around the map are vignettes and anecdotes from Jenkinson's account. VAN DEN BROECKE: 162.
[Ref: 11187]    £1,650.00 ($2,541 • €1,997 rates)

DE JODE, Gerard. Livoniæ Provinciæ Ac Eius; Moscoviæ Maximi Amplissimi Que Ducatus. Antwerp, c. 1578, original colour, Latin Edition, 330 x 500mm
On the left side are depicted Finland, Lithuania, and part of Poland, on the right Russia with decorative vignettes of bear baiting, idol worship and a caravan train. From the "Speculum Orbis Terrarum"
[Ref: 7589]    £5,000.00 ($7,700 • €6,050 rates)

ORTELIUS, Abraham. [Russia]
Rvssia. Antwerp, J.B.Vrients, 1602, Italian edition. 90 x 125mm.
Russia, from the plate engraved by the Arsenius brothers, first issued 1601, with longitude and latitude numbers in the borders. Vrients did not purchase the Arsenius plates from Keerbergen until after 1604, so he must have rented the plates or bought printed sheets for this edition. KOEMAN: Ort 61.
[Ref: 9137]    £120.00 ($185 • €145 rates)

HONDIUS, Jodocus. [A 17th Century map of Russia]
Russia cum Confinijs. London: Henry Featherstone, 1625, English text edition. Coloured. 140 x 185mm, 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: 8052]    £240.00 ($370 • €290 rates)

CLOPPENBURG, Johannes. Russia Sive Moscovia; Russia Cum Confinijs. Amsterdam, 1632, Latin text edition, 255 x 190mm
A small, but detailed map of Western Russia, from Poland to the Caspian Sea. From Clopppenburg's version of the Mercator-Hondius Atlas prepared on a quarto format.
[Ref: 7914]    £250.00 ($385 • €303 rates)

BLAEU, Willem Janszoon. [The most elegant C17th Dutch map of Russia]
Tabula Russiæ ex autographo, quod delineandum curavit Foedor filius Tzaris Boris desumta... Amsterdam, c.1640, French text edition. Coloured. 460 x 605mm. Paper lightly age-toned.
Hessel Gerritsz's map of Russia, first issued 1613. The top left corner has an inset plan of Moscow with a 17-point key, which in 1662 Blaeu expanded and published as a separate plate; on the right is a prospect of Archangel, Russia's only northern port until the founding of St Petersburg in 1700. Three figures in Russian dress stand above. The title is within a martial cartouche.
[Ref: 11199]    £1,750.00 ($2,695 • €2,118 rates)

MERIAN, Mattheus. [Russia]
Tabula Russiæ... Frankfurt, c.1650. Coloured. 280 x 355mm.
Russia and Scandinavia, with an inset view of Archangel.
[Ref: 8608]    £380.00 ($585 • €460 rates)

DU VAL, Pierre. [Tartary]
Petite Tartarie dite autrement Crimee et Precopense. Paris, c.1680. Coloured. 100 x 125mm. Narrow lateral margins, re-margined.
Miniature map, published in Du Val's 'Géographie Universelle'.
[Ref: 8133]    £100.00 ($154 • €121 rates)

DU VAL, Pierre. [Russia]
Moscovie ou Russie. Paris, c.1680. Coloured. 100 x 125mm. Trimmed to printed border on right, re-margined.
Miniature map, published in Du Val's 'Géographie Universelle'.
[Ref: 8148]    £90.00 ($139 • €109 rates)