The Only Obtainable Mercator World Map Attractive example of Rumold Mercator’s map of the world, first printed in Geneva in 1587. It is based on Gerard Mercator’s celebrated 1569 world map and was made while Gerard was still alive (1512- 1594)....
Fine Dutch World Map Employing the Projection of Marinus of Tyre This is a fine example of Cornelis De Jode's rare and highly sought after 1589 map of the world. In Gerard De Jode's first atlas of 1578, he produced a world map which does not appear...
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Rare Second Plate -- Ortelius' Landmark World Map Nice old color example of one of the most famous world maps ever made, "Typus Orbis Terrarum" featured in the world's first atlas, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. Abraham Ortelius (1527-1598) included the...
Updated Map of the World From Munster's Cosmographia. Decorative example of this revised and updated map of the World, based upon Abraham Ortelius' world map, which appeared in Munster's Cosmographia after 1588. This map first appeared in the...
A Milestone in the Mapmaker's Art: The First Printed Map to Include Decorative Allegorical Figures as a Border This is a nice example of this important double hemisphere world map, by Petrus Plancius, the first printed map to include decorative...
Striking Example of Ortelius' Landmark World Map One of the most famous world maps ever made, Ortelius’s “Typus Orbis Terrarum” featured in the world’s first modern atlas. This is the third edition of the map, which first appeared in 1589 and...
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Extremely rare early double hemisphere world map and portrait of the explorer Thomas Cavendish, celebrating his circumnavigation of the World (1586-1588). The portrait is almost certainly from the pair of portraits of Cavendish and Sir Francis Drake,...
Striking full color example of this fine early map of the World, which first appeared in the third of edition of Quad's Europae totius orbis terrarum, published by Johann Bussemacher. Quad's map derives from Mercator's planispheric map of 1569, with...
Finely engraved example of the oval world map from and early edition of Ortelius Epitome published by Giovanni Battista Vrients. The map follows the geographical features of Ortelius' 1584 map of the World, including the corrected shape of South...
Scarce early world map from Augustino Torniello's Anales Sacri et Profani, published in Frankfurt. Torniello presents a simplified version of Abraham Ortelius' world map on an oval projection with spandrel windhead decorations. The map prominently...
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"All men are as grass and all their glory as flowers of the field. The wages of sin is death." Edward Luther Stevenson's Personal Facsimile of One of the Greatest Dutch World Maps Ever Made. A fantastic Edward Bierstadt facsimile of the Jodocus...
Decorative double hemisphere map of the World, based upon Mercator's map of 1569. The map is by Jodocus Hondius Jr., who was then working with Bertius, following his father's death in 1612.
Double hemisphere map of the World, accompanied by portraits of a number of the most important 16th and early 17th Century explorers, which was included in Willem J. Schouten's America Pars Undecima . . . , first published by De Bry in 161. The map...
Historical map of the Ancient World, based upon the Bible, published in the last Moretus edition of the Parergon in 1624. The map shows the pyramids in Egypt, the route of Abraham from Ur to Sichem, and the wandering of the Children of Israel. In the...
Unusual Seventeenth-Century Projection of the Northern Hemisphere Highly unusual gore map of the Northern Hemisphere by German minister, mapmaker, and surveyor Daniel Angelocrator, employing a projection apparently of his own invention or adaptation....
One of the Most Famous and Ornately Detailed World Maps of the Seventeenth Century Excellent example of the first state of Henricus Hondius' decorative world map, first issued in the 1630 edition of the Mercator-Hondius Atlas. It includes unique...
