Ruysch's 1507 world map, with the earliest obtainable depiction of the Americas

RUYSCH, Johann.

Universalior Cogniti Orbis Tabula Ex Recentibus Confecta Observationibus.

Rome: Bernardinus Venetus de Vitalibus, 1507-8. Two sheets, 400 x 280mm & 400 x 275mm.

Stock ID : 22807

£300,000

The first issue of the Wäldseemüller/Fries Ptolemaic world to feature windheads

WÄLDSEEMÜLLER, Martin.

Generale Ptho.

Strassbourg: Johannes Grüninger, 1525. Woodcut, sheet 375 x 540mm.

Stock ID : 22639

£2,900

Classic 16th century map of Venice

MUNSTER, Sebastian.

Contrasehtung der fürnemen Statt Venedig /sampt den umbligenden Inseln.

Basle, Henri Petri, c.1550, German edition. Coloured woodcut, printed area 270 x 390mm.

Stock ID : 22617

£700

A 16th century prospect of Constantinople

MUNSTER, Sebastian.

Constantinopolitanae urbis effigies, quam hodie sub Turcae inhabitatione habet.

Basle, c.1550, Latin text. Coloured woodcut, printed area 290 x 390mm, set in text.

Stock ID : 22619

£650

A 16th century woodcut map of the world after Ptolemy

MUNSTER, Sebastian.

Figura del Mondo Universale.

Basle: Henri Petri, c.1558, Italian text edition. Coloured woodcut. 260 x 340mm.

Stock ID : 22615

£1,300

A rare 16th century world map depicting the aftermath of the Deluge

ARIAS MONTANUS, Benedictus.

Benedict Arias Montanus Sacrae Geographiae Tabulam ex Antiquissimorum Cultor... 1571.

Antwerp: Christopher Plantin, 1571, RARE FIRST STATE. 320 x 530mm.

Stock ID : 22321

£12,500

The first map of the continent of America

MUNSTER, Sebastian.

Tavola dell'isole nuove, le quali son nominate occidentali, & indiane per diversi rispensi.

Basle, c.1558. Italian text edition. Coloured woodcut, image size 270 x 340mm.

Stock ID : 22614

£6,250

The earliest available printed map of London

BRAUN, Georg & HOGENBERG, Frans.

Londinum Feracissimi Angliae Regni Metropolis.

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

Stock ID : 22633

£7,500

A 16th century town plan of Cambridge

BRAUN, Georg & HOGENBERG, Frans.

Cantebrigia, opulentissimi Anglie Regni, urbs celeberrimi nominis, ab Academie conditore Cantabro, cognominata...

Cologne, 1575-, Latin text edition. Original colour. 325 x 440mm.

Stock ID : 22754

£1,900

A 16th century woodcut map of the travels of St Paul around the Mediterranean

BÜNTING, Heinrich.

Tafel Der Lender/darin Der Apostel Paulus Geprediget Hat.

Magdeburg, Jacobus Lucius, 1582, German edition, Woodcut, printed area 290 x 380mm.

Stock ID : 22758

£300

16th century Dutch map of the British Isles

ORTELIUS, Abraham.

Angliae, Scotiae, et Hiberniae, Sive Britannicar: Insularum Descriptio.

Antwerp: 1585, Latin edition. Original colour with additions. 345 x 500mm.

Stock ID : 22753

£1,600

Ortelius's map of the Ancient World

ORTELIUS, Abraham.

Aevi Veteris, Typus Geographicus.

Antwerp: Plantin, 1592. 315 x 440mm.

Stock ID : 22762

£750

A classic 16th century map of South America

LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huygen van.

Delineatio omnium orarum totius Australis partis Americae...

Amsterdam, c.1596. Coloured. 395 x 530mm.

Stock ID : 22752

£8,000

A 16th century map of Morocco

ORTELIUS, Abraham.

Fessae, et Marocchi Regna Africae Celebrr. desctibat Abrah. Ortelius 1595.

Antwerp: Plantin, 1598. Original colour. 390 x 510mm.

Stock ID : 22652

£800

Early woodblock map of London

MUNSTER, Sebastian.

Londinum Feracis: Ang. Met.

Basle, 1598, German edition. Coloured woodcut, printed area 245 x 360mm.

Stock ID : 22654

£1,500

The famous sea-monsters map of Iceland

ORTELIUS, Abraham.

Islandia.

Antwerp, 1603, Latin text edition. Old colour. 390 x 490mm, with wide margins.

Stock ID : 22256

£13,500

A double-hemisphere world map in fine colour.

HONDIUS, Jodocus.

Le Globe Terrestre.

Amsterdam, c.1605, French text edition. Fine contemporary colour. 90 x 125mm, with letterpress surtitle.

Stock ID : 22808

£460

The first Hondius issue of Mercator's edition of Ptolemy's Geography

PTOLEMY, Claudius.

Claudii Ptolemaei Alexandrini. Geographiae libri octo Graeco-Latini...

Amsterdam: Cornelis Nicolai and Jodocus Hondius, 1605. Folio (425 x 280mm), contemporary red morocco gilt, arabesque central ornament within fillet and roll-tool frames, single ornament in spine compartments, remains of silk ties; pp. (10)+215+(32)(index); engr. title, portrait of Mercator in text and 28 double-page engraved maps with Latin text on verso.

Stock ID : 22505

£18,000

An important compilation of travels and voyages

RAMUSIO, Giovanni Battista.

Primo volume, & Terza editione Delle Navigationi et Viaggi... [&] Secondo Volume... [&] Dell Navigationi et Viaggi Raccolte da M. Gio. Battista Ramusio, Voukme Terzo.

Venice: Stamperia de Giunti, 1563, 1559 & 1606. Three volumes. folio (300 x 200mm), later uniform vellum reusing liturgical manuscript leaves with added ink speckling, red edges, later marbled endpapers. Vol 1: title+[vi}+394 numbered leaves, three double-page woodcut maps. Vol 2: title+[4]+156 numbered leaves, woodcuts in text. Vol 3: title+[x]+430 numbered leaves, 7 double-page maps, other woodcuts in text.

Stock ID : 22073

£30,000

A classic early map of Scotland in fine original colour

ORTELIUS, Abraham.

Scotiae Tabula.

Antwerp: Jan Vrients, 1608 or 1611, Italian text edition. Original colour. 355 x 480mm.

Stock ID : 22634

£1,250

A 16th century plan of Antwerp

GUICCIARDINI, Ludovico.

Antwerpiae Nobilissimi Totius Orbis Terraru. Emprii Typus. Anno MDLXXXI.

Antwerp: Christophe Plantin, 1581. 240 x 325mm, with letterpress key underneath.

Stock ID : 22590

£300

The most important early map of Ireland

BOAZIO, Baptista.

Irlandiae Accurata Descriptio.

Antwerp, Johannes Baptista Vrients, 1608 or 1612, Italian text edition. Original colour with additions. 440 x 570mm.

Stock ID : 22287

£5,000

An important Leo Belgicus in fine original colour

LANGREN, Hendrik Floris van.

Leo Belgicus. Artificiosa & Geographica tabula sub Leonis figura 17, inferioris Germaniae Provincias repraesentans, cui addita suntsingularum insignia, unà cum ordinaria Praefectuarum distinctione earumque Praefectis prout a.o 1559. à supremo earundem Magistratu distributae atque constitutae fuerunt.

Amsterdam: Pieter van den Keere, 1622, French text edition. Original colour. 370 x 460mm.

Stock ID : 22628

£18,000

A beautiful 17th century carte-à-figure map of Italy

HONDIUS, Jodocus II.

Tabulae Italiae, Corsicae, Sardiniae, et adjacentium Regnorum. Nova et accurata delineation... Edita per Johannem Janssonium Amsterod. Aº1628.

Amsterdam, Jan Jansson, c.1630, German text edition. Fine original colour. 465 x 545mm.

Stock ID : 22286

£5,500

A 17th century map of Morocco in fine original colour

HONDIUS, Jodocus.

Fessae et Marocchi Regna.

Amsterdam: Henricus Hondius, 1630. Original colour. 355 x 480mm.

Stock ID : 22653

£650

A rare 'carte à figures' map of France

KEERE, Pieter van den.

Gallia Nova Galliae descriptio multis in locis de integro emendata simulquae effigies Principum, praecipuas Gallorum urbes ac habitus exhibens.

Amsterdam: Jan Jansson, c.1630. Fine original colour. 460 x 560mm.

Stock ID : 22258

£3,500

A rare 'carte à figures' map of Denmark

KEERE, Pieter van den.

Daniae Regni Typum Potentissimo. Invictissimoque D. Christiano, Daniae, Norvegiae, Gottorum Vandalorum Regi, lubens offert.

Amsterdam: Jan Jansson, c.1630. Old colour. 465 x 560mm.

Stock ID : 22259

£3,750

The First Issue of this 17th century Dutch map of the Turkish Empire

HONDIUS, Jodocus.

Turcici Imperii Imago.

Amsterdam: Jodocus Hondius, 1606, FIRST EDITION, Latin text. Old colour. 365 x 490mm.

Stock ID : 22640

£1,500

A rare 'carte à figure' map of Spain and Portugal, first state

VISSCHER, Claes Janszoon.

Nova et accurata Tabula Hispaniae Praecipuis, Urbibus, Vestitu, Insignibus, et Antiquitatibus exornata per N. Johannis Visscher. anno 1623.

Amsterdam: Nicolas Janszoon Visscher, c.1638. Coloured. 465 x 560mm.

Stock ID : 22257

£4,400

Mid-17th century map of Mexico

SANSON, Nicolas.

Mexique, ou Nouvelle Espagne, Nouvlle Gallice, Iucatan &c. et autres Provinces jusques a L'Isthme de Panama; ou sont Les Audiences de Mexico, de Guadalaiara, et Guatimala... 1656.

Paris, Pierre Mariette, c.1658. Coloured. 355 x 560mm.

Stock ID : 22742

£950

A 17th century townplan of London

HERMANNIDES, Rutger.

Londinum London.

Amsterdam: Aegidius Janssonius Valckenier, c.1661. Coloured. 130 x 265mm.

Stock ID : 22764

£500

A 17th century townplan of Newcastle

HERMANNIDES, Rutger.

Newe Castle. Novum Castrum.

Amsterdam: Aegidius Janssonius Valckenier, c.1661. Coloured. 110 x 130mm.

Stock ID : 22765

£200

Johannes Blaeu's superb double-hemisphere world map

BLAEU, Johannes.

Nova et Accuratissima Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula.

Amsterdam, 1662, Latin text edition. Original colour. 415 x 540mm, with wide margins.

Stock ID : 22631

£16,500

A 17th century map of the environs of Nuremberg

BLAEU, Willem Janszoon.

Territorium Norimbergense.

Amsterdam, Johannes Blaeu, 1667, German text edition. Fine original colour. 365 x 475mm, with good margins.

Stock ID : 22585

£300

A beautiful 17th century sea chart of Europe on two sheets

DE WIT, Frederick.

Totius Europae Littora Novissimè edita. Pascaert vertoonende alle de See-custen van Europa.

Amsterdam, c.1675. Original colour refreshed. Two sheets conjoined, total 495 x 890mm.

Stock ID : 22277

£7,500

Chart of the early attempts to find the North West Passage

COLOM, Jacob Aertz.

Paskaert van de Noordekyckste kuste Van America van Groenland door de Straet Davis en de Straet Hudson tot Terra Neuf.

Amsterdam: Jacob & Caspar Theunitsz (Lootsman), c.1680. Coloured. 430 x 540mm.

Stock ID : 22740

£950

17th century miniature map of the Philippines

MALLET, Alain Manesson.

Les Isles Philippines 1682.

Paris, 1682. Coloured. 150 x 105mm, set in text.

Stock ID : 22332

£450

An unrecorded state of Saxton's map of South East England

SAXTON, Christopher.

Sussex, Surry and Kent, by C.S. Corrected and Amended with many Additions by Phil Lea. Cantii, Southsexiae, Surriae et Middelsexiae comitat. Una cum suis Undique confinibus, Oppidis, pagis, Villis, et Fluminibus, in eisdem vera descriptio.

London: Philip Lea, c.1690. Original outline colour. 410 x 540mm.

Stock ID : 22260

£3,000

A Dutch map of the British Isles, celebrating the Glorious Revolution

ALLARD, Carel.

Accuratissima Angliae Scotiae Et Hiberniae Tab, De N.vo in lucem edita à Carolo Allard.

Amsterdam, Allard, c.1690. Fine original colour. Map 510 x 590mm, with rare gazetteer side panels, total width 1170mm.

Stock ID : 22276

£2,000

A monumental sea chart of south-east England

HOOGHE, Romeyn de.

Carte Nouvelle des Costes d'Angleterre depuis la Riviere de la Tamise jusques à Portland..

Amsterdam, Pierre Mortier, 1693. Original colour refreshed, with gold highlights. Two sheets conjoined, total 600 x 950mm.

Stock ID : 22527

£3,000

A monumental sea chart of south-west England

HOOGHE, Romeyn de.

Carte Maritime de l'Angleterre depuis les Sorlingues jusques à Portland...

Amsterdam, Pierre Mortier, 1693. Original colour with additions, including gold highlights. Two sheets conjoined, total 600 x 950mm.

Stock ID : 22528

£3,250

A monumental sea chart of the Strait of Dover and southern North Sea

HOOGHE, Romeyn de.

Carte Nouvelle des Costes de Hollande, Zéelande, Flandre, Picardie, & Normandie, depuis la Brille jusques à Dieppe, avec une Partie des costes d'Angleterre, depuis l'emboucheure de la Tamise, et les Isles Voisines jusques à Bevesier...

Amsterdam, Pierre Mortier, 1693. Original colour with additions, including gold highlights. Two sheets conjoined, total 595 x 955mm.

Stock ID : 22529

£2,600

A two-sheet 17th century sea chart of Western Europe

MORTIER, Pierre.

Carte Generale des Costes de L'Europe sur l'Ocean Comprises depuis Dronthem en Norwege Jusques au Destroit de Gibraltar. Levée et Gravée par Ordre du Roy, à Paris 1693.

Amsterdam, 1693. Coloured. Two sheets conjoined, total 590 x 850mm.

Stock ID : 22755

£800

A map of Europe at the beginning of the 18th century

FER, Nicolas de.

L'Europe, Suivant les Nouvelles Observations de M.rs de L'Academie Royale des Sciences...

Paris, 1700. Coloured. 225 x 335mm.

Stock ID : 20327

£260

Lhuyd's map of Wales, as published in a historical atlas

LHUYD, Humfrey.

Cambriae Typus Auctore Humfredo Lhuydo Denbigiense Cambrobritanno.

Amsterdam, c.1700. Coloured, 350 x 495mm.

Stock ID : 22741

£650

A very fine example of Moll's two-sheet map of the world

MOLL, Herman.

A New and Correct Map of The Whole World, Laid Down According to the Newest Discoveries, and the Most Exact Observations.

London: Herman Moll, John Bowles, Thomas Bowles & Philip Overton, 1709. Original outline colour refreshed. Two sheets conjoined, total 700 x 1200mm

Stock ID : 22632

£5,000

A map of classical Arabia

WEIGEL, Christoph.

Arabia Veteris Typus.

Nuremberg, 1712. Original body colour. 320 x 390mm.

Stock ID : 22657

£500

A four-sheet wall map of Switzerland in fine colour

SCHEUCHZER, Johann Jakob.

Nova Helvetiae Tabula Geographica...

Amsterdam: Pieter Schenk, 1712. Fine original colour. Four plates, each c.470 x 565mm.

Stock ID : 22650

£3,250

A very rare English map of Barbados

FORD, Richard.

A New Map of the Island of Barbadoes, wherein every Parish, Plantation, Watermill, Windmill and Cattlemill is described with the name of the Present possessor and all things els Remarkable according to a Late Exact Survey thereof.

London: George Willdey, c.1715. 485 x 570mm.

Stock ID : 22746

£4,500

A map of North America during the Mississippi Bubble

CHÂTELAIN, Henri Abraham.

Carte de la Nouvelle France, où se voit le cours des Grandes Rivieres de S.Laurens & de Mississipi...

Amsterdam, 1718. Coloured. 425 x 500mm.

Stock ID : 22751

£2,400