Detailed map of the Luneburg region of Germany. Major cities shown on the map include Lunebourg, Hamburg, Bremen, Brunswick, Wolfsburg, The present map was produced by two of the primary Cologne School mapmakers, Johann Bussemacher and Matthias...
Detailed regional map of Thuringia in Germany. Shows the region between the Werra and Sala Rivers, centered on Erfurt. The present map was produced by two of the primary Cologne School mapmakers, Johann Bussemacher and Matthias Quad. The Cologne...
Detailed map of the Rhine Palatinate Region of Germany, oriented with South at the top. The map is centered on the Rhine River and includes Frankfurt and Mainz near the bottom of the map, along with Worms, Manheim, Stuttgart, Pforzheim and...
Nice example of this scarce map of the river traversed by the Rhine River, between Basel and regions to the North, published in Cologne. The map is oriented with West at the top. The present map was produced by two of the primary Cologne School...
Rare separately issued example of De Jode's map of Palatinus Rheni (no text on the verso, which more commonly appeared in De Jode's Speculum Orbis Terrarum, which along with Ortelius' Theatrum Orbis Terrarum are the earliest modern atlases of the...
Rare pair of maps showing Norway and Denmark in one sheet and Denmark and Schleswig-Holstein in the second, from the second edition of De Jode's rare Speculum Orbis Terrae. While at first glance, the map appears somewhat similar to Ortelius's map of...
Nice example of this scarce map of part of the Holstein region in Northern Germany, published in Cologne. The present map was produced by one of the primary Cologne School mapmakers, Johann Bussemacher. The Cologne School of cartography, was perhaps...
Nice example of this scarce map of the Holy Roman Empire, published in Cologne. The present map was produced by two of the primary Cologne School mapmakers, Johann Bussemacher and Matthias Quad. The Cologne School of cartography, was perhaps the only...
Nice example of this scarce map of the Palatinate of Bavaria, with vignette portrait of "Wilhemus D.G.", published in Cologne. Cities shown include Regensburg, Nuremberg, Ingolstadt, etc. The present map was produced by two of the primary Cologne...
Fine old color example of Gerard de Jode's map of Northern Germany and Western Poland. The North Sea is adorned by a fish and the Baltic Sea by a sailing ship, and the borders of Schleswig-Posen-Dresden-Groningen are featured. The map is based on...
Rare first edition of Mercator's detailed regional map of Germany, originally published in the first edition (1595) of Mercator's atlas. Shows the Waldeck Region in central Germany.
Nice example of the Mercator-Hondius map of the Bavarian Palatinate in Germany. The map follows the course of the Danube River across the bottom (centered on Regensburg). Nuremberg appears toward the upper left. Ingoldstadt is shown at the bottom...
Nice old color example of Ortelius' regional maps of Germany. The first map shows the regions of the Sala, Hel and Werra Rivers, from Hall, Merburg and Naumburg to Cruetzberg and Saltzungen, centered on Erfundt. The second shows the region centered...
Rare 16th Century map of the Duchy of Cleve in Northwestern Germany, published by Zacharias Heyns in his rare Le Miroir du Monde, ou, Epitome du Theatre d'Abraham Ortelius, published in Amsterdam in 1598. Zacharias Heyns was the son of Peter Heyns,...
Nice example of the scarce third state Ruscelli's map of Poland, Lithuania and the Baltic Region. The map is bounded by the Vistula River and Prussia in the west, Livonia in the east, and Lithuania in the southeast. Centered on Riga and Vilna....
Fine old color example of Abraham Ortelius' map of the Brandenburg and Berlin regions. The map focuses on the Albis River and Oder River regions in Germany and extending to Silesia.