Munster's famous woodblock illustrating sea monsters

MUNSTER, Sebastian.

Meerwunder und seltzame Thier wie die in den Mitnachtigen Landern im Meer.

Basle, Henri Petri, c.1560, German text edition. Coloured woodcut, image size 250 x 350mm.

Stock ID : 23339

£2,950

The second printed map of Cyprus

BORDONE, Benedetto.

[Cipro.]

Venice: Francesco di Leno, c.1565, Coloured woodcut set in Italian text, two sheets conjoined, sheet total 295 x 355mm.

Stock ID : 23466

£3,600

A rare 16th century first issue map of Cyprus

DUCHETTI, Claudio.

Cyprus que olim (Macaria) id est Beata, Insula est in sinu Carpathij maris sita Veneri fuit sacra. Huc cerui gregatim tranant e Cilicia Ambitus eius Mill.420 a plerisq traditur. Hic etiam fit pannus ille ex caprino pilo undatim cotextus quem Vulgus Ciambellotum appellat. Claudij ducheti formis 1570.

Venice, 1570. Sheet 280 x 212mm.

Stock ID : 23447

£12,000

An important 16th century town plan of Constantinople

BRAUN, Georg & HOGENBERG, Frans.

Byzantium, nunc Constantinopolis.

Cologne, 1574-, Latin text edition. Original colour. 330 x 485mm.

Stock ID : 23169

£2,900

The first available printed map of London

BRAUN, Georg & HOGENBERG, Frans.

Londinum Feracissimi Angliae Regni Metropolis.

Koln: c.1579. Fine original colour. 330 x 490mm.

Stock ID : 18303

£8,500

A superb 16th century map of Denmark

JORDAN, Mark.

Danorum Marca, vel Cimbricum, aut Daniae Regnum...

Cologne, c.1588, Latin text edition. Original colour. 390 x 470mm.

Stock ID : 23176

£2,000

A 16th century woodcut map of the British Isles

MUNSTER, Sebastian.

Engellandt mit dem anstossenden Reich Schottlandt so vorzeiten Albion und Britannia haben geheissen.

Basle, Sebastian Petri, c.1588, German text edition. Contemporary colour. Woodcut, sheet 330 x 410mm.

Stock ID : 23340

£1,600

A scarce and important 16th century map of South America

DE JODE, Cornelis.

Brasilia et Peruvia, Ad Strunuu et Magnicicu Dnm. D. Theodoricu Echter a Mespelbru, Sac. Caes. Maies.ti & Reverediss. Principi, Episc. Herbipoleli, primu a confilijs, &e.

Antwerp, 1593. 360 x 430mm.

Stock ID : 23171

£7,000

The first issue of this 16th century map of Africa

MERCATOR, Gerard II.

Africa Ex magna orbis terre. descriptione Gerardi Mercatoris desumpta studio et industria G.M. Iunioris.

Duisburg: Heirs of Gerard Mercator, 1595. Coloured. 385 x 475mm.

Stock ID : 23299

£1,500

The famous sea-monsters map of Iceland

ORTELIUS, Abraham.

Islandia.

Antwerp, 1595, Latin text edition. Original colour with additions. 390 x 490mm.

Stock ID : 23343

£13,500

An impressive 16th century two-sheet plan of Antwerp

HOEFNAGEL, Joris.

Antwerpia.

Cologne, 1598. Coloured. Two sheets conjoined, total 455 x 785mm.

Stock ID : 23372

£1,500

A scarce 16th century map of the South Pole and the Strait of Magellan

WYTFLIET, Cornelis van.

Chica sive Patagonica et Australis Terra. 1597.

Louvain: J. Bogard, 1597. 230 x 295mm.

Stock ID : 23439

£3,000

One of the earliest maps of South America

QUAD, Matthias.

Peruvia id est Novi Orbis pars Meridionalis à praescantissima eius in Occidente, regione sic appellata. 1598.

Cologne: Johann Bussemacher, 1600, German text edition. Coloured. 205 x 270mm.

Stock ID : 23441

£1,200

The first European map of Singapore

DE BRY, Theodore.

Contrafactur des Scharmutz els der Hollender.

Frankfurt, 1603. 330 x 255mm.

Stock ID : 23471

£6,500

The First Edition of Speed's map of Gloucestershire

SPEED, John.

Glocestershire contrived into thirty thre severall hundreds & those againe into foure principall devisions. The Citie of Glocester & Bristowe discribed with the armes of such noble men as have bene dignified with ye titles of Earles & Dukes thereof.

London: John Sudbury & George Humble, 1611. Coloured. 380 x 510mm.

Stock ID : 23344

£1,800

A scarce early 17th C. plan of Jerusalem

BEAUVAU, Henri de.

Ierusalem.

Nancy: Jacob Garnich, 1615. 110 x 155mm, set in a French text index.

Stock ID : 23467

£750

A scarce miniature map of Cyprus

BEAUVAU, Henri de.

Cipre.

Nancy: Jacob Garnich, 1615. 105 x 155mm, set in a French text index.

Stock ID : 23468

£1,600

A scarce miniature plan of Nicosia

BEAUVAU, Henri de.

Nicosie.

Nancy: Jacob Garnich, 1615. 110 x 160mm, set in a French text index.

Stock ID : 23469

£950

A scarce miniature plan of Famagusta

BEAUVAU, Henri de.

Famagosta.

Nancy: Jacob Garnich, 1615. 110 x 160mm, set in a French text index.

Stock ID : 23470

£950

An early example of this classic 17th century map of Oxfordshire

SPEED, John.

Oxfordshire described with ye Citie and the Armes of the Colledges of ye famous University. Aº 1605.

London: John Sudbury and George Humble, 1614-16. Coloured. 390 x 530mm.

Stock ID : 23334

£1,800

A 16th century prospect of Krakow from the 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum'

BRAUN, Georg & HOGENBERG, Frans.

Cracovia Minoris Poloniae Metropolis.

Cologne: George Braun & Abraham Hogenberg, 1617. Coloured. 310 x 550mm.

Stock ID : 23345

£2,400

The first Western publication of a Chinese map of China

PURCHAS, Samuel.

The Map of China.

London: Henry Featherstone, 1625. Coloured. 300 x 370mm.

Stock ID : 23432

£5,000

Mercator's first issue folio map of Sicily in original colour

MERCATOR, Gerard.

Siciliae Regnum.

Amsterdam: Henricus Hondius, 1623, Latin edition. Original colour. 340 x 480mm.

Stock ID : 23392

£1,400

The Cluver/Hondius map of Classical Italy

CLUVER, Philip.

Italia Antiqua Philippo Cluvero Borusso Designatore.

Amsterdam: Henricus Hondius, 1636, German text edition. Original colour. 360 x 490mm, with wide margins.

Stock ID : 20896

£750

A scarce prospect of London after Visscher

PICART, Hugues.

Profil de la Ville de Londre Cappitalle du Royaume DAngleterre.

Paris: Jean Boisseau, 1648. Two sheets conjoined, total 260 x 705mm.

Stock ID : 23297

£12,000

17th century Dutch map of Sardinia

JANSSON, Jan.

Insulae Sardiniae Nova & Accurata Descriptio.

Amsterdam, c.1650, French text edition. Original colour, 415 x 510mm.

Stock ID : 23352

£1,250

A detailed 17th century map of Brittany

HONDIUS, Henricus.

Duche de Bretaigne Dessigné par le Sieur Hardy Mareschal des logis du Roy. Avec Privilege de sa Majesty.

Amsterdam: Jan Jansson, c.1650, Dutch text edition. Original colour. 380 x 510mm.

Stock ID : 23384

£500

A rare map of the Duchies of Schleswig and Holstein

MEJER, Johannes.

Newe Landtcarte von den beiden Hertzogthümbern Schleswieg und Holstein zusamen. Anno 1650.

Husum: Caspar Danckwerth, 1652. Coloured. 420 x 585mm.

Stock ID : 23393

£1,000

A rare 17th century French map of the Americas

BERTIUS, Petrus.

Carte de L'Amerique Corrigeé et augmenteé; dessus toutes les aultres cy devant faictes par P. Bertius.

Paris: Melchoir Tavernier, 1627. Coloured. 385 x 510mm.

Stock ID : 23333

£2,400

The world & four continents from the 'Atlas Major'

BLAEU, Johannes.

Nova et Accuratissima Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula; Americae nova Tabula; Asia noviter delineata; Africae nova descriptio; Europa recens descripta.

Amsterdam, 1662, Latin text edition. Original colour. Five plates, each c.410 x 540mm.

Stock ID : 20269

£35,000

The Holy Land after Adrichom in fine original colour.

HONDIUS, Henricus.

Situs Terrae Promissionis. S.S. Bibliorum intelligentiam exacte aperiens per Chr. Adrichom.

Amsterdam: Jan Jansson, 1662. Original colour. 370 x 500mm.

Stock ID : 23358

£1,000

A French edition of an important map of Northern India

THEVENOT, Melchisedec.

Description de la partie des Indes orientales qui est sous la dominations du grand Mogol.

Paris, c.1666. Coloured. 280 x 365mm.

Stock ID : 23405

£450

A rare broadsheet map of the Great Fire of London of 1666

DE WIT, Frederick.

Platte Grondt der Stadt London met Nieuw Model en hoe die Afgebrandt is.

Amsterdam, 1666. 560 x 530mm.

Stock ID : 23286

£8,000

A prospect of the Great Fire of London, 1666

GUALDO PRIORATO, Gabriel.

Londra. Incendio Della Gran Citta di Londra Metropoli del Regno d'Inghilterra succaesso ADI 21 Settembre 1666 dal Quale in 4 Giorni FU Abbrvcciata la piv gran pares con danno inestimabile.

Italy, c.1675. Coloured. Two sheets conjoined, total 280 x 880mm.

Stock ID : 17875

£5,000

A 17th century miniature map of the defences of Valletta

MALLET, Alain Manesson.

Malte.

Paris, 1683. Coloured. 145 x 100mm, set in text.

Stock ID : 22329

£220

17th century miniature prospect of Mecca

MALLET, Alain Manesson.

La Mecque.

Paris, 1683. Coloured. 140 x 105mm, set in text.

Stock ID : 22461

£190

An uncommon English map of the Holy Land

BLOME, Richard.

Canaan commonly called the Holy Land or the Land of Promise being ye Possession of ye Israelites & travelled through by our Lord & Saviour Iesus Christ and his Apostles.

London, c.1687. Coloured. 270 x 460mm.

Stock ID : 23248

£320

An uncommon 17th century map of Asia

ALLARD, Carel.

Exactissima Asiae Delineatio, in Praecipuas Regiones, Caeterasq. Partes divisa, et denuo in lucem edita.

Amsterdam, 1690, Original colour. 505 x 595mm.

Stock ID : 23389

£1,400

A scarce 17th century view of Jerusalem

AVELINE, Pierre.

Plan de la Ville de Jerusalem moderne.

Paris, Aveline, c.1690. Original colour. 220 x 320mm, with wide margins.

Stock ID : 23472

£1,000

Sea chart of Kinsale Harbour from the first English sea-atlas

COLLINS, Greenvile.

This Chart of Kingsale Harbour is Humbly Dedicated and Presented To the Right Hon.ble S.r Robert Southwell Knight, Vice Admirall of Munster and Principal Secretary of State for the Kingdom of Ireland, by Cap.t Greenvile Collins.

London: c.1693. Coloured. 460 x 580mm.

Stock ID : 23153

£450

A scarce 17th century map of China by a French Jesuit

LE COMPTE, Louis.

A Map of the XV. Provinces and CLV. Capital Cities in ye Empire of China, The Christian Churches and Residences of Jesuits are thus Marked +.

London: Benjamin Tooke, 1698. 290 x 210mm.

Stock ID : 23440

£1,600

A striking map of London at the start of the 18th century

MORDEN, Robert & LEA, Philip.

This Actuall Survey of London, Westminster & Southwark Is humbly dedicated to ye L.d Mayor & Court of Aldermen.

London: Morden, Lea & Christopher Brown, 1700. Coloured. Two sheets conjoined, total 590 x 980mm.

Stock ID : 22889

£4,250

Prospect of Constantinople at the beginning of the 18th century

FER, Nicolas de.

Veue de la Ville et du Port de Constantinople.

Paris, c.1700. 235 x 335mm.

Stock ID : 23444

£400

A rare map of Mile End

GASCOYNE, Joel.

A Map of the Hamlet of Mile=End Old Town in the Parish of Stepney alias Stubunheath Surveyed An.º Dom. 1703. John Mumford Churchward.n. Joel Gascoyne Surveyor. John Hariis Engraver.

London, 1703. 500 x 600mm.

Stock ID : 21198

£3,500

An early 18th century double-hemisphere world map

AA, Pieter van der.

Mappe-Monde Suivant les Nouvelles Observations de Mess.rs de l"Academie Royale des Sciences, etc.

Leiden, c.1710. Coloured. 230 x 305mm.

Stock ID : 23443

£1,100

An 18th century double-hemisphere world map

CHATELAIN, Henri Abraham.

Nouveau Mappemonde ou Globe Terréstre...

Amsterdam, 1718. Coloured. Two sheets conjoined, total 475 x 675mm.

Stock ID : 23390

£1,000

An 18th century map of Europe

CHATELAIN, Henri Abraham.

Carte de L'Europe Suivant les Plus Nouvelles Obervations de Messieurs de l'Academie des Sciences...

Amsterdam, 1718. Coloured. 480 x 610mm.

Stock ID : 23391

£500

The English possessions in the West Indies

SENEX, John.

A New Map of the English Empire in the Ocean of America or West Indies.

London, 1721. Original colour. 510 x 615mm.

Stock ID : 23423

£850

A beautifully-engraved wind rose

SEUTTER, Matthäus.

Tabula Anemographica seu Pyxis Nautica, vulgo Compass Charte.

Augsburg, c.1730. Original colour. 500 x 590mm.

Stock ID : 23433

£2,500

Moll's two-sheet map of the Far East

MOLL, Herman.

A Map of the East-Indies and the Adjacent Countries; with the Settlements, Factories and Territories, explaining what belongs to England, Spain, France, Holland, Denmark, Portugal, etc. with many Remarks not extant on any other Map. By H.Moll Geog. To ye Directorsof ye Hon.ble East-India Company, This Map is most Humbly Dedicated.

London, Moll & John King, c.1730. Original colour with later additions. Printed on two sheets and conjoined, total 610 x 1010mm.

Stock ID : 23435

£5,500