A 16th century woodblock illustration of the winds by Albrecht Dürer

DÜRER, Albrecht.

[Wind heads around an armillary sphere.]

Strasbourg: Johann Koberger, 1525. Coloured circular woodcut, printed area 190mm diameter, set in letterpress.

Stock ID : 20706

£1,500

A very rare 16th century woodcut map of Europe

STUMPF, Johan.

Europa / die erst Tafel des Ersten Büchs.

Zürich, 1548. Woodcut, printed area 290 x 390mm, with generous margins.

Stock ID : 19501

£2,500

A 16th century Bohemian edition of Lufft's 'Daniel's Dream' world map with fantastical creatures

LUFFT, Hans.

[World map illustrating Daniel's Dream.]

Prague: Jiri Melantrich, c.1549, Czech text edition. Woodcut 115 x 160mm, with extra woodcut borders and letterpress text underneath.

Stock ID : 15154

£1,250

A scarce woodcut map of Europe

BELLEFOREST, François de.

La Carte d'Europe.

Paris: Michel Sonnius & Nicolas Chesneau, 1575. Woodcut, printed area 355 x 465mm, wide margins with old red ruling.

Stock ID : 20432

£1,350

16th century miniature map of Malta

ORTELIUS, Abraham.

Malta olim Melita Insula.

Antwerp: Philip Galle, 1583, French text edition. 75 x 100mm, with wide margins.

Stock ID : 19767

£280

The most decorative Ptolemaic world map

MERCATOR, Gerard.

Universalis Tabula Iuxta Ptolemaeum.

Amsterdam: Jodocus Hondius Jnr, 1618. Coloured. 350 x 490mm, with wide margins.

Stock ID : 20428

£4,500

Munster's woodcut map of Africa after Ortelius

MUNSTER, Sebastian.

Africa, Libya, Morenland mit allen Königreichen...

Basle: Sebastian Petri, 1598. Coloured woodcut. Printed area 315 x 350mm.

Stock ID : 19762

£450

The Saxon Heptarchy from an Elizabethan edition of Camden's 'Britannia'

ROGERS, William.

Englalond Anglia AngloSaxonum Heptarchia.

London: George Bishop, 1600. 175 x 25mm.

Stock ID : 20718

£650

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 : 20719

£650

Mercator's map of South East England

MERCATOR, Gerard.

Warwickum, Northamtonia, Huntingdonia, Cantabrigia, Sullolcia, Oxonium, Buckinhamia, Bedfordia, Hartfordia, Essexia, Berceria Middelsexia, Southatonia Surrisa, Cantiu & Southsexia.

Amsterdam: Jodocus Hondius, 1613. Original colour with additions. 370 x 470mm.

Stock ID : 20715

£500

The sacking of Salvador by the Dutch, 1624

HONDT, Hendrik de.

Aenuysinge van de Stadt Salvador, ende de Baya de todos los Santtos .

Den Haag, c.1625. 300 x 345mm.

Stock ID : 20712

£950

The Knights Hospitallers on Malta during the Siege of 1565

NABERAT, Anne de.

Isle et Siege de Malte.

Paris: Jean Baudoin, 1629. 200 x 280mm.

Stock ID : 20426

£1,750

Mercator's map of northern Greece and Albania

MERCATOR, Gerard.

Macedonia Epirus et Achaia.

Amsterdam: Henricus Hondius, 1630, Latin text edition. Original colours. 360 x 435mm.

Stock ID : 20735

£280

The famous 'Leo Belgicus' map

STRADA, Famiano.

De Bello Belgico Decas Prima. Famiani Stradae Rom. Soc. Iesu.

Rome, c.1632. 320 x 220mm.

Stock ID : 18484

£3,250

Blaeu's classic 17th century map of Iceland

BLAEU, Willem Janszoon.

Tabula Islandiae Auctore Georgio Carolo Flandro.

Amsterdam, 1634, German text edition. Original colour. 380 x 500mm.

Stock ID : 20725

£950

A 17th century map of Calabria

JANSSON, Jan.

Calabria Ultrta, olim Altera Magnae Graecia pars.

Amsterdam, 1643, Latin text edition. Original colour. 390 x 495mm.

Stock ID : 20732

£290

17th century plan of Zurich

MERIAN, Matthaus.

Tigurum. Zürych.

Frankfurt, c.1638. Coloured. 270 x 360mm.

Stock ID : 20701

£425

South America with superb contemporary colouring

HONDIUS, Henricus.

Americae Pars Meridionalis.

Amsterdam, Jan Jansson, c.1640, blank reverse. Fine original colour. 470 x 560mm.

Stock ID : 20729

£1,200

17th century map of Morocco

JANSSON, Jan.

Fezzae et Marocchi Regna Africae Celeberrima, describebat Abrah: Ortelius.

Amsterdam, 1647, Latin text. Original colour. 390 x 500mm.

Stock ID : 20731

£340

17th century Illustrations of gods recorded in the Old Testament

VAUGHAN, Robert.

Pantheon sive Idola Judeorum.

London: John Williams, 1650. 290 x 330mm.

Stock ID : 20704

£345

A scarce 17th century family tree with a prospect of London

Anonymous.

[A genealogy linking Charles II to Sophia Eleonore of Saxony.]

German, c.1660. Coloured. 380 x 240mm.

Stock ID : 18644

£700

17th century map of Denmark

VISSCHER, Nicolas Jansz.

Regni Daniae Novissima et Accuratissima Tabula.

Amsterdam, c.1670. Fine original colour. 460 x 555mm.

Stock ID : 20730

£475

The arrival of the VOC Embassy at Beijing

NIEUHOFF, Johan.

The Welcoming dor by the Lipu an hower without the towne Pecking. Wilkomst door de Lipu een half uur buÿten Pecking.

London: John Ogilby, 1671. Coloured. 295 x 360mm.

Stock ID : 20696

£550

Map of London before the Great Fire of 1666

HOLLAR, Wenceslaus.

London.

London, Richard Blome, c.1667-73. Coloured. 170 x 275mm.

Stock ID : 20427

£800

17th century Illustration of Temples and Pagodas in Tunquin

TAVERNIER, Jean-Baptiste.

Tunquin. Page 46. The Order observ'd in the March of the Funerall Pompe at the Interrment of the Kings of Tunquin,.

London, 1678. 180 x 285mm.

Stock ID : 19917

£190

Late 17th century double-hemisphere map of the world

STOOPENDAAL, Daniel.

Orbis Terrarum Tabula Recens Emendata et in Lucem edita.

Rotterdam, c.1680. 355 x 465mm.

Stock ID : 20430

£1,600

Two 17th century illustrations of dragons

KIRCHER, Athanasius.

[The dragons of Mons Pilanti & the Tatzlwurm.]

Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius van Waesberge, 1682. 200 x 180mm, set in letterpress.

Stock ID : 20707

£325

17th century miniature map of Scotland

MALLET, Alain Manesson.

Escosse.

Frankfurt, 1684. Coloured. 150 x 100mm.

Stock ID : 19407

£120

17th century map of the Turkish Empire

DE WIT, Frederick.

Turcicum Imperium.

Amsterdam, c.1688. Fine original colour. 455 x 555mm.

Stock ID : 20724

£725

An uncommon 17th century map of Majorca

CORONELLI, Vincenzo Maria.

Isola di Maiorica.

Venice, c.1690. 180 x 245mm, with wide margins.

Stock ID : 20699

£450

Sri Lanka as the mythical island of Taprobana

MERCATOR, Gerard.

Tab. XII. Asiae Taprobanam repraesentans Medius meridianus

Utrecht, François Halma, c.1695. Coloured. 345 x 355mm.

Stock ID : 20714

£380

Morden's miniature map of Ireland

MORDEN, Robert.

Ireland by Rob. Morden.

London, c.1701. Coloured. 135 x 125mm.

Stock ID : 20650

£180

A prospect of Munich at the start of the 18th century

WENING, Michael.

Die Churfürstliche Haubt und Residenzstatt München, Wie solche von Nidergang der Sonnen gegen dem Aufgang anzusehen ist.

Mumich: Johann Lucas Straub, 1701. Three sheets conjoined, total 265 x 1055mm.

Stock ID : 20688

£650

Early 18th century British Isles

BODENEHR, Gabriel.

Gross-Brittanien Bestehende In Drey Konigreiche Irland Scotland Und Engelland.

Augsburg, c.1704. Coloured. 180 x 310mm.

Stock ID : 20643

£320

Town plan of Genoa in the early 18th century

FER, Nicolas de.

Genes ditte la Superbe Fameux Port sur la Mer Mediterranée Capitale d'une Republique de meme nom...

Paris, 1705. Coloured. 175 x 275mm.

Stock ID : 20708

£170

Plan of London the year of the Act of Union of 1707

MOLL, Herman.

A New Map of the Cityes of London, Westminster and the Burrough of Southwark Together with the Suburbs as They are Now Standing Anno Dom. 1707.

London: R. Chiswell, A & J. Churchill. Thomas Horne, J. Nicholson & R. Knaplock, 1707. Coloured. 320 x 570mm.

Stock ID : 20475

£850

Early 18th century map of the British Isles

CHÂTELAIN, Henri Abraham.

Nouvelle Carte d'Angleterre, d'Ecosse et d'Irlande, avec Instructions pour Connoitre les Differents Etats de la Couronne D'Angleterre en Europe, Asie, Afrique, et Amerique.

Amsterdam, 1708. Coloured. 480 x 630mm.

Stock ID : 17861

£500

A colourful map of Calabria

JANSSON, Jan.

Calabria Ultra, olim Altera Magnae Graecia pars.

Amsterdam, Schenk and Valk, c.1710. Original colour. 380 x 485mm with wide margins.

Stock ID : 20734

£425

Early 18th century map of Africa in fine colour

HOMANN, Johann Baptist.

Totius Africae Nova Repraesentatio...

Nuremberg, c.1720. Original colour. 496 x 575mm.

Stock ID : 19382

£750

One of William Hogarth's earliest etchings

HOGARTH, William.

[Illustrations of Lapland.]

London: Aubry De La Motraye, 1723-4. 260 x 350mm.

Stock ID : 20651

£450

The Battle of Stanilesti, one of William Hogarth's earliest etchings

HOGARTH, William.

[The Battle of Stanilesti, 1711.]

London: Aubry De La Motraye, 1723-4. 100 x 175mm.

Stock ID : 20652

£350

A plan of Stockholm, one of William Hogarth's earliest etchings

HOGARTH, William.

[Stockholm.]

London: Aubry De La Motraye, 1723-4. 175 x 295mm.

Stock ID : 20653

£600

The Pruth River Campaign

LOCKLEY, David.

[The Pruth River Campaign, 1711.]

London: Aubry De La Motraye, 1723-4. 100 x 175mm.

Stock ID : 20654

£220

Charles XII's arrival at Bender, one of Hogarth's earliest etchings

HOGARTH, William.

Bender.

London: Aubry De La Motraye, 1723-4. 255 x 350mm.

Stock ID : 20655

£800

An 18th century map of Scandinavia, featuring 'Charon'

PARKER, Samuel.

[Scandinavia.]

London: Aubry De La Motraye, 1723-4. 315 x 370mm.

Stock ID : 20656

£900

A small-format double-hemisphere world map

SEUTTER, Matthäus.

Diversi Globi Terr-Aquei Statione Variante et Visu Intercedente per Coluros Tropicorum..

Augsburg, c.1730. Original colour with additions. 270 x 210mm.

Stock ID : 20644

£800

Highly-decorative 18th century double-hemisphere world map

SEUTTER, Matthäus.

Diversi Globi Terr-Aquei...

Augsburg, c.1730. Original colour. 500 x 580mm.

Stock ID : 20739

£2,600

A plan of Lisbon with a striking prospect

SEUTTER, Matthäus.

Lisabona Magnificentissima Regia Sedes Portugalliae et Florentissimum Emporium ad Ostia Tagi Situm...

Augsburg, c.1730. Original colour. 495 x 575mm.

Stock ID : 20740

£1,500

North Italy in Classical times

CLUVER, Philip.

Italiae Gallicae sive Galliae Cisalpinae...

Amsterdam, c.1730. Coloured. 205 x 260mm.

Stock ID : 7900

£80

18th century map of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

SEUTTER, Matthäus.

Poloniae Regnum ut et Magni Ducatus Lithuaniae..

Augsburg, c. 1735. Fine original colour. 500 x 580mm.

Stock ID : 20737

£480