![[St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans]](/map/small/49809.jpg)
Fascinating allegorical engraving of a Chalice or Grail, with vignettes from various chapters and verses from the Epistle to the Romans, by St. Paul. Most of the vignettes specifically provide numerical references to the various Chapters in which they...
![[Prophecies of Jonah, Micah and Nahum]](/map/small/49810.jpg)
Fascinating allegorical engraving of a large fish and the fall of Nineveh, from the Prophecies of Jonah, Michah and Nahum. Most of the vignettes specifically provide numerical references to the various Chapters in which they appear. The engraving...
![Buch von den Konigen. . . [Allegorical Biblical Egnraving]](/map/small/48000.jpg)
Highly unusual and decorative engraving illustrating stories from the Bible in the form of a king who holds a scepter in his right hand and sword in his left. The engraving comes from a collection by Johannes Buno (1617-1697), a Lutheran school...
Highly unusual and decorative engraving illustrating stories from the Bible. The First Book of Maccabees, also called 1 Maccabees, is a book written in Hebrew by an anonymous Jewish author after the restoration of an independent Jewish kingdom by the...
Highly unusual and decorative engraving illustrating stories from the Bible. The engraving comes from a collection by Johannes Buno (1617-1697), a Lutheran school teacher from Lüneburg, Germany. Buno's scarce work, a "Picture Bible", was filled with...
![[Early French Engaving: Title Page] Repertorium in Lecturas Iasonis. Index Ordinae Elementario Digesus in Commentaria Iasonis Mayni Mediolanesis . . . M.D. XLIX.](/map/small/31927.jpg)
Finely illustrated title page from this early French book on the commentaries of Giasone del Maino, published in Lyon, by Jean Pullon in 1549. The title page is printed in red and black within a woodcut border, and with a woodcut of Maino with his...
![Gerardus Mercator . . . [and] . . . Iudocus Hondius . . .](/map/small/64808.jpg)
Striking image showing Mercator and Hondius in their idealized workshop. This famous portrait of two of the most important mapmakers during the Golden Age of Dutch cartography was engraved by Coletta Hondius, as a tribute to her late husband, shortly...
![[Title Page] Italiae Sclavoniae, Et Graeciae tabula geographice, Per Gerardum Mercatorem . . .](/map/small/37176.jpg)
Finely colored example of this decorative title page from the first complete edition of Mercator's Atlas Sive Cosmographia . . .
![[Title Page] Des Niewen Atlas Aenhang. . . 1644](/map/small/29096.jpg)
Striking old color example of the title page from Jansson's Atas Novus, first published in 1636. Marvelous ornate coat of arms. Title pages are increasing collected. Noteworthy cartographic historians, including R.V. Tooley, collected 16th-18th...
![[Title Page] Niewen Atlas . . . (Heightened in Gold!)](/map/small/42763.jpg)
Lavishily Gold Leaf Heightened example of a German language title page from Jansson's Atas Novus, first published in 1636. Marvelous ornate coat of arms. Title pages increasing are collected. Noteworthy cartographic historians including R.V. Tooley...
![[Title Page] Toonneel Des Aerdrycx, oft Nieuwe Atlas, uytgegeven door Wilhelm en Johan Blaeu](/map/small/29822.jpg)
Striking old color example of the title page from Blaeu's Atas Novus, first published in 1634. Marvelous ornated coat of arms and beautifully engraved figures. Title pages are increasingly collected. Noteworthy cartographic historians including R.V....
![[Title Page] Novus Atlas . . . (Heightened in Gold)](/map/small/42710.jpg)
Striking old color example of the title page for Blaeu's Novus Atlas.
![[Title Page]](/map/small/43043.jpg)
Nice example of the title page from a Volume of Blaeu's Atlas Novus, richly highlighted in Gold. Includes a stunning coat of arms. This is the most gold we have seen on a title page in several years.
![[Title Page] Theatrum Orbis Terrarum sive Atlas Novus Pars Secunda](/map/small/51610.jpg)
Striking old color example of the title page from Blaeu's Atas Novus, first published in 1634. Marvelous ornated coat of arms and beautifully engraved figures. Title pages are increasing collected. Noteworthy cartographic historians including R.V....
![[Title Page] Atlas Novus Sive Theatrum Orbis Terrarum: In Quo Germaniae Superioris & singularum ejus partium Tabuluae Geographicae & descriptiones continentur Tomi Primi Pars Altera](/map/small/25457.jpg)
Striking old color example of the title page from Volume 1 of Jansson's Atlas Novus, first published in 1636. Marvelous ornated coat of arms and beautifully engraved figures. Title pages are increasing collected. Noteworthy cartographic historians...
![[Title Page] Le View Monde ou Geographie Ancienne Par George Hornius](/map/small/43330.jpg)
Scarce title page to Hornius' atlas of the Ancient World, published in Amsterdam by Jansson.
