Superb map of the German Empire showing northern Europe, from the eastern tip of England to Poland, and extends from the North Sea to Venice and the coast of Croatia published by Johan Baptiste Vrients for the 1612 edition of Ortelius’ Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first modern atlas of the world. This plate was acquired by Vrients in 1603 from the engraver Franz Hogenberg (see his signature in the centre of the lower-left cartouche) and incorporated into later editions of Ortelius’ Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. The first Hogenberg edition, printed separately and in few copies, differs for the addition by Vrients of the city of Rouen in France (designed in the graduated border near the left cherub) which is not present in the prototype by Hogenberg.
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Very rare map engraved by Elias Baeck from ?Der curiose und .. Nssliche Dollmetscher..? published in Augsburg in 1748. The map has decorative cartouche and a nice original colouring. Missing in many reference.
- Year: 1748
- Dimension: 225 x 165 mm
- Place of publication: Augsburg
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Lovely small map of Upper Sachsen and Schlesien centered roughly on Meissen with place names, rivers and forests. From the Mercator Hondius “Atlas Minor” published in Amsterdam in 1648 at Jannsonius. In 1607 Jodocus Hondius published a reduced size version of Mercator’s “Atlas”, itself suitably titled “Atlas Minor”. The maps were copied from those of the great cartographer Mercator of around 1580-90 or were reductions of Hondius’ own maps of 1606.
- Year: 1648
- Dimension: 195 x 145 mm
- Place of publication: Amsterdam
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[Italian only] Eccezionale pianta prospettica della citt di Brescia incisa e pubblicata da Donato Rascicotti nella inedita e sconosciuta versione con il cartiglio nella parte destra poi eliminato nella versione definitiva a causa della lunghezza del testo descrittivo che non poteva essere contenuto. Anche il cartiglio a sinistra contenente la dedica risulta vuoto a conferma del fatto che si tratti di primissima tiratura di prova. In basso 134 rimandi …
- Year: 1648
- Dimension: 205 x 150mm
- Place of publication: Amsterdam
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Out of stockBeautifully engraved map of ancient Germany showing in hight details the northern Europe from the Adriatic to the Baltic and Netherlands.
Really interesting the latin nomenclature of the cities, town rivers and mountains.
From the 1624 final edition of Ortelius’s “Parergon in quo Veteris Geographiae aliquot tabulae… – Nomenclator Ptolemaicus” with the text by Balthasar Moretus.
Ortelius’s Parergon began as a companion to his Theatrum but eventually it became an independent work. In fact, this collection of maps of the ancient world was so significant that it became the model for all historical atlases published throughout the seventeenth century. The maps and plates in the Parergon have to be evaluated as the most outstanding engravings depicting the wide-spread interest in classical geography in the 16th century (Koeman).- Year: 1624
- Dimension: 366 x 472 mm
- Place of publication: Antewerp
