A very rare map of the Holy Land

JENICHEN, Balthasar.

Nova Totius Palestinae seu Terrae Sanctae Descriptio Pagella una. ita ut Bibliorum Voluminibus Congrat. Newe unnd deutliche Beschreibung Des gelobten Heyligen Lanndts Palestinae... inn diese Kleinne Taffel bracht Durch Balthasar Jenichen.

Nuremberg, 1570. Image 190mm x 390mm.

Stock ID : 11715

£12,000

The first printed map of Turkey

PTOLEMY, Claudius.

Prima Asiae Tabula.

Rome, c.1478. Old, possibly contemporary colour. Two sheets conjoined as usual, total 380 x 550mm.

Stock ID : 15721

£7,500

An important 16th century plan of Moscow

BRAUN, Georg & HOGENBERG, Frans.

Moscauw.

Cologne, c.1575, Latin text edition. Coloured. 355 x 490mm.

Stock ID : 19692

£2,000

The first map of China printed in Europe

WÄLDSEEMÜLLER, Martin.

[Ta. Superioris Indiae et Tartariae Maioris.]

Strasbourg, Johannes Grüninger & Anton Koberger, 1525. Woodcut, trapezoid, printed area (at most) 290 x 460mm.

Stock ID : 20051

£4,000

A rare German edition of John Smith's map of New England

SMITH, John.

New England.

Frankfurt: heirs of Levninius Hulsius, 1617. 300 x 350mm.

Stock ID : 21888

£9,000

First edition of the Wäldseemüller's British Isles map after Ptolemy

WÄLDSEEMÜLLER, Martin.

Tabula Prima Europae.

Strasbourg: Johannes Schott, 1513, 405 x 560mm.

Stock ID : 20723

£7,500

The very rare first issue of the Wäldseemüller/Fries Ptolemaic world

WÄLDSEEMÜLLER, Martin.

Generale Ptho.

Strassbourg: Johannes Grüninger, 1522. Woodcut, sheet 390 x 530mm.

Stock ID : 20764

£4,500

The First State of Waghenaer's sea chart of south east Scotland

WAGHENAER, Lucas Janzoon.

Beschrijvinge van een deel vann Schottlandt van Bambourg tot Aberdein daer Edenburg de Princepaele Copestat in es...

Leiden, 1585. 330 x 530mm.

Stock ID : 21772

£3,500

One of the first examples of two-colour printing

SYLVANUS, Bernard.

Sexta Europae Tabula.

Venice, 1511. Woodcut on two sheets conjoined, total 420 x 565mm.

Stock ID : 21808

£4,500

A rare 16th century miniature map of Cyprus

FERRETTI, Francesco.

Ragionevol' Forma et Vera Postura del' Isola di Cipro.

Ancona: F. Salvioni, 1579-80. 135 x 90mm.

Stock ID : 21835

£1,400

The first printed map of Staffordshire

SAXTON, Christopher.

Staffordiae Comitatu pfecte et absolute elaboratu haec tibi tabula exhibet Anno Dni 1577.

London, 1579. Original colour. 395 x 500mm, sheet with grapes watermark.

Stock ID : 21862

£3,500

The first printed map of Dorset

SAXTON, Christopher.

Dorcestriae Comitatus Vicinarumque Regionum nova veraq. Descriptio Anno Dni 1575.

London, 1579. Original colour. 380 x 550mm, sheet with grapes watermark.

Stock ID : 21863

£5,500

The first printed map of Norfolk

SAXTON, Christopher.

Norfolciae comitatus continens in sc. oppida mercatoria 26, Pagos et Villas 625, una cum singulis Hundredis, & fluminibus ein eodem, Vera descriptio.

London, 1579. Original colour. 335 x 495mm, sheet with grapes watermark.

Stock ID : 21864

£7,000

The first printed map of Monmouthshire

SAXTON, Christopher.

Monumethensis Comitatus Regis Henrici quinti natalitiis celeberrimus Ano Dm 1577.

London, 1579. Original colour. 395 x 485mm, sheet with grapes watermark.

Stock ID : 21865

£2,500

The first printed map of Radnor, Breconshire, Cardiganshire and Carmarthenshire

SAXTON, Christopher.

Radnor Breknok Cardigan et Caermarden quatuor australis Cambriae comitatuum (B. Dehenbart. A. Southwales) descriptio. An.o D.ni 1578.

London, 1579. Original colour. 370 x 480mm, sheet with grapes watermark.

Stock ID : 21866

£3,500

The first printed map of Glamorgan

SAXTON, Christopher.

Glamorga Comitatus, australis Cambriae pars description Anº D.ni 1578.

London, 1579. Original colour. 370 x 480mm, good margins, sheet with grapes watermark.

Stock ID : 21867

£2,500

The first printed map of Pembrokeshire

SAXTON, Christopher.

Penbrok comitat qui inter meridionales cambriae ptes hodie censetur olim demetia. L Dyfet B hoc est occidentalis wallia descriptio An.o D.ni 1578.

London, 1579. Original colour. 360 x 470mm, sheet with grapes watermark.

Stock ID : 21868

£3,500

A Ptolemaic map of the British Isles

MUNSTER, Sebastian.

Tabula Europae I.

Basle: Henri Petri, c.1545, Latin text edition. Coloured. Woodcut, image size 270 x 345mm.

Stock ID : 21878

£850

The frontispiece from an Elizabethan edition of Camden's 'Britannia'

ROGERS, William.

Britannia.

London: George Bishop, 1600. Sheet 180 x 135mm.

Stock ID : 21909

£450

A rare map of Ireland from 1600

CAMDEN, William.

Hibernia Antiqua.

London: George Bishop, 1600. Sheet 180 x 135mm.

Stock ID : 21910

£650

Fantasy map of Europe as a Queen from Bunting's Itinerarium

BÜNTING, Heinrich.

Europa Prima Pars Terrae in Forma Virginis.

Magdeburg, c.1581-, Latin edition. Coloured woodcut, printed area 300 x 370mm.

Stock ID : 21923

£3,250

The Wäldseemüller/Fries Ptolemaic map of Greece

WÄLDSEEMÜLLER, Martin.

[Tabula X Europae.]

Lyons: Melchor & Gaspar Trechsel, 1535. Woodcut, printed area 330 x 450mm.

Stock ID : 21935

£850

The earliest available printed map of London

BRAUN, Georg & HOGENBERG, Frans.

Londinum Feracissimi Angliae Regni Metropolis.

Cologne: c.1574, German text edition. Original colour. 330 x 490mm.

Stock ID : 21951

£7,500

An extremely rare map of Greece published by Lafreri

GASTALDI, Giacomo.

[Geographia particolare d'una gran parte dell'Europa... opera nuova di Giacopo di Castaldi Piamontese.]

Rome: Antonio Lafreri, c.1560. Engraving on two sheets conjoined, Total 495 x 540mm.

Stock ID : 22070

£6,000

Map of Roman Britain from an Elizabethan edition of Camden's 'Britannia'

ROGERS, William.

Britannia Provincia Romanorum.

London: George Bishop, 1600. 170 x 205mm.

Stock ID : 22083

£600

An incunable representation of England

SCHEDEL, D. Hartmann.

Anglie Provincia.

Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 1493, Latin text edition. Coloured woodcut, image 240 x 220mm, set in a page of text.

Stock ID : 21652

£500

The iconic depiction of the Copernican solar system

CELLARIUS, Andreas.

Scenographia Systematis Copernicani.

Amsterdam: Jan Jansson, 1660, First Edition. Original colour with additions. 440 x 515mm.

Stock ID : 20515

£5,000

Caricature map of the First World War as a dog-fight

JOHNSON, RIDDLE & CO.

Hark! Hark! The Dogs Do Bark!. With Note By Walter Emanuel.

London: G.W. Bacon & Co., 1914. Chromolithograph. Sheet 555 x 750mm.

Stock ID : 21515

£2,400