Maps auctions
Gerard Mercator - Polonia et Silesia, Duisburg 1585 Black and white copperplate, 34.5 × 45.5 cm. First edition of one of the earliest maps of Poland and Silesia, from the atlas "Germaniae Tabulae Geographicae" published by Mercator in Duisburg in 1585. The map shows a detailed topography of the lands of the Kingdom of Poland and Silesia as seen in Renaissance Dutch cartography. Reverse with o...
Giovanni Botero, Poloniae Descriptio, Compagnia Bresciana, Italia ca. 1599 Copperplate, 7.5 × 10.5 cm Rare Italian miniature map of the Kingdom of Poland, published at the end of the 16th century in a geographical compendium (Il Mondo Nuovo, Venice or Brescia, ca. 1599). The map is embedded in a page of Italian text, described as "Re di Polonia." Visible rivers, cities and regions, including ...
Gerard Mercator, Polonia et Silesia : Per Gerardum Mercatorem Cum priuilegio, Gerard Mercator, Duisburg 1585 Surface colored copperplate, 34.5 x 45.5 cm One of the most recognizable maps of the Republic and Silesia by the outstanding Flemish cartographer. Map reflected from a copperplate, colored by hand. On the back an explanatory text in Latin, pagination: 294 and 295. Piece glued from two s...
[Map of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, ca. 1729] Veteris et Novae Regni Poloniae Magnique Ducatus Lithuaniae Cum Suis Palatinatibus ac Confinus Descriptio, Amstelaedami, De Coup, 1729. Copperplate on paper, 20.5 × 25 cm, print on two joined sheets. Visible signature "Tab. 33" (between the frames), number "32" on the back - most likely part of an atlas: Philippi Cluveri introductionis In ...
[Map of Central and Eastern Europe, 1655] Estats De La Couronne De Pologne ou sont les Royaume de Pologne, Duches et Provinces De Prusse, Cuiave, Mazovie, Russie Noire &c Duches De Lithuanie, Volynie Podolie &c. De L'Ukraine &c, Paris, Jean Somer Pruthenus, N. Sanson, 1655 Line-colored copperplate, 43 x 57.5 cm. Map reflected on two fused sheets, underlaid with a paper strip. Visib...
Polonia Amplissimi Regni Typvs Geographicvs, Gerard de Jode, Antwerp 1593 Copperplate, 37.5 × 49 cm Rare and valuable Renaissance map of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania by Cornelis de Jode, from the second edition of the atlas "Speculum Orbis Terrarum", published in 1593 in Antwerp. The map shows the territory of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth with a rich river netw...
Georg Braun & Frans Hogenberg, Premislia celebris rvssiae civitas, 1617 Cologne Copperplate, 34.5 × 48.5 cm View of Przemysl from the San River from the monumental atlas Civitates orbis terrarum, Volume VI, Cologne 1617 - the last volume of the most important urban atlas of the Renaissance. Print folded from two sheets, backed with a strip of paper. Minor tears in the lower margin, stains...
[View of Kalwaria Zebrzydowska], Mons Calvariae, Georg Braun, Frans Hogenberg, Cologne 1618. Surface colored copperplate, 32 × 45 cm. From the work: Civitates orbis terrarum, vol. 6. View of the famous Passion Shrine in Kalwaria Zebrzydowska, showing the layout of the monastery and the Stations of the Cross. The composition is decorated with decorative cartouches with inscriptions and picture...
Giovanni Pitteri, La Polonia divisa Ne'suoi Palatinati. Tratta dall'Atlante Polacco, G. Zuliani, Venice 1782 Line-colored copperplate, 32 × 42 cm Decorative map of the Republic, published in the atlas "Atlante novissimo illustrato" by Antonio Zatta. Based on the so-called "Atlante Polacco", it shows the administrative division of the country into palatinates. Cartouche with landscape. Printed...
[Panorama of Danzig] Adamus Wachendorff, Dantzigt, Georg Braun, Frans Hogenberg, Cologne 1575 Surface colored copperplate, 32.5 x 48 cm. Panorama of Danzig as seen from Grodzisk, taken from the second volume of the famous work Civitates Orbis terrarum by G. Braun and F. Hogenberg. One of the earliest iconographic presentations of the city, showing compact buildings, fortifications and genre sc...
Abraham Ortelius, Pomeraniae, Wandalicae Regionis, Typ.; Livoniae Nova Descriptio, Joanne Portantio auctore; Ducatus Oswieczensis, et Zatoriensis, Descriptio, Abraham Ortelius, Antwerp 1573 Hand colored copperplate, 38 × 49.5 cm Three maps reflected on one plate from the atlas "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum", Antwerp edition 1573 - the first modern world atlas compiled by Abraham Ortelius. In the u...
Mappa Geographica ex novissimis observationibus repraesentans Regnum Poloniae et Magnum Ducatum Lithuaniae, Augsburg, ca. 1780. Surface colored copperplate (+ decorative cartouche), 48 × 58 cm. Decorative map of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from the end of the 18th century, made in Augsburg. Provincial borders marked in colors. At the bottom, decorative cartouche with coat of arms and a...
I. van der Rye, J. Hoefnagel, Cracovia Minoris Poloniae Metropolis, Georg Braun, Frans Hogenberg, Cologne 1617 Copperplate, 30.5 x 55 cm Panoramic view of Cracow from the south, with the Wawel Royal Castle and the Old Town, decorated with a legend marking the most important buildings and two figures in oriental costumes. Print on two joined sheets, glued with paper. Side margins from former fo...
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Louis Brion de la Tour, Etats De Pologne Et Lituanie Divises par Palatinats et Provinces Ecclesiastiques, Sr. Defnos Ingen r. Paris, 1766 Surface colored copperplate, 34.5 × 39.5 cm (map inside frame: 23 × 27 cm) Decorative map of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth with administrative and ecclesiastical divisions, surrounded by an ornamental border reflected from a separate plate. Below the ...
John Gibson, Poland, Thomas Salmon, London 1752 Copperplate, 27.5 x 32 cm Elegant 18th century map of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania, published in 1752 in an edition of Thomas Salmon's Geographical Grammar. In the decorative title cartouche in the lower left corner the inscription "Poland", underneath "Plate No. 55. Page 567". Sheet with two watermarks, a lily and the numeral VI. Delicat...
Dirck Gryp; I. Speed, A Newe Mape of Poland done into English by I. Speed, Thomas Basset, Richard Chiswell, London 1676 Copperplate, 40.5 x 51 cm. Decorative map of the Kingdom of Poland by John Speed, published in the work The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain [...]. Composition enriched with panoramas of cities (including Cracow, Gdansk, Poznan, Sandomierz and Bialystok), portraits in f...
Wenceslao Godreccio [Waclaw Grodecki], Poloniae finitimarumque locorum descriptio. Auctore Wenceslao Godreccio, Polono, Abraham Ortelius, Antwerp ca. 1588 Surface colored copperplate, 37 x 49.5 cm Early map of the Kingdom of Poland published in the atlas Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, considered the first modern atlas of the world. German edition, on the back a description in French with pagination ...
Abraham Peyrounin, Carte de Pologne et des Estats qui en dependent, Pierre Mariette, Paris ca. 1654 Copperplate 37.5 × 52 cm Decorative map of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from the mid-17th century, showing the lands of Poland, Lithuania, Volhynia, Podolia and Ukraine. The work of Abraham Peyrounin, French cartographer, published by Pierre Mariette in his atlas Cartes générales de tou...
Jean-Baptiste-Nicolas-D, d'Après de Mannevillette, Plan de l'Isle de France, Depot Général de la Marine, Paris/Brest 1751 Copperplate, sheet: 74 × 52 cm, print: 71.5 × 49.5 cm Navigational map of the island of Mauritius (formerly Isle de France) and the port of Port-Louis, based on observations in 1751, part of the Neptune Oriental atlas. Folding print, with rub marks, watermark and sligh...
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E. Dahlberg, Delineatio Camporum et Silvarum prope oppidum Czarnova, inter Opoxno et Przedbors. Delineatio Camporum et Silvarum [...], Samuel Pufendorf, Christoph Riegel, Nuremberg [1696]. Copperplate, 29 × 37.5 cm Plan of the Battle of Zarnow (September 6, 1655), depicting the clash between the Polish army under the command of Jan Kazimierz and the army of Charles Gustav. Detailed engraving ...
Henri Abraham Chatelain, Carte des trois ordres qui composent l'Etat de la Republique de Pologne scavoir le roi, le senat et la noblesse, Amsterdam 1714 Copperplate, 35 × 44.5 cm, print on 2 joined sheets glued with a strip of paper. Antique engraving depicting the political structure of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth with views of Warsaw, Cracow and Gdansk and a list of senators. The vie...
Pazzini Carli, La Polonia propria, divisane suoi palatinati, Siena 1789 Line-colored copperplate, 23 x 31.5 cm Aesthetically pleasing map of Poland divided into palatinates. Composition with decorative title cartouche and classical geographic division, typical of Italian cartography of the late 18th century. On the reverse, traces of folding, minor stains and browning in the margins, a few spo...
Louis Brion de la Tour, Etats de Pologne et Lithuanie Divises par Palatinats et Provinces Ecclesiastiques [...], Sr. Defnos Ingen. r., Paris 1766 Surface colored copperplate, 38 × 47.5 cm (map size: 23 × 26 cm) Classic 18th century map depicting the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth divided into provinces and ecclesiastical units. It comes from the atlas "Atlas Général Méthodique et Élémen...
![Der fürstliche Theil des Bisthums Lüttich [...], 1790](https://img1.one.bid/img/8554/2567732_1w.webp)
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Franz Ludwig Güssefeld, Der fürstliche Theil des Bisthums Lüttich [...], Homann Erben, Nürnberg 1790 Line and surface colored copperplate: sheet 60.5 × 43 cm, print 58.5 × 38.5 cm Map depicting the lunar part of the former bishopric of Liège, including the regions of Condroz, Franchimont and the area between the Sambre and the Meuse. Map reflected on two composite sheets. Traces of floo...
Jean-Baptiste-Nicolas-Denis d'Après de Mannevillette, Carte de la Côte de Guzerat, du Golfe de Cambaye et des Côtes de Concan et de Canara , Depot Générale de la Marine, Paris / Brest, 1810 Single-color copperplate, sheet: 73.5 × 52 cm, print: 70.5 × 48 cm Navigational map of the Indian coast: Gujarat, Campania and Goa with a plan of the Surat River. Compiled for the French Neptune Orie...
Magni Ducatus Lithuaniae in suos Palatinatus et Districtus Divisus, Janssonio-Waesbergior, Amsterdam/Oxford, ca. 1680 Colored copperplate, 43.5 × 54 cm Decorative map of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, taken from the work The English Atlas printed in Amsterdam by the Janssonio-Waesbergior outhouse and in Oxford by the Sheldonian Theatre (1680-1683). The map is based on earlier works by Blaeu an...
Pierre Mortier, Carte Réduite de la Côte Méridionale d'Afrique [...], 1775 Copperplate, 66.5 × 48 cm (sheet: 73.5 × 52.5 cm) Nautical map of the southern coast of Africa - from the Gulf of Saldanha to Cape Courans, with plans of St. Blaise, Formose (Mossel Bay) and Lagoa bays. Folding, with light discoloration and rubbing, with visible watermark. A valuable example of 18th century French ...
Aprs de Mannevillette, Jean-Baptiste-Nicolas-Denis, Carte de l'Isle Mahé ou Seychelle avec les Isles Circonvoisines, 1781 Monochrome copperplate, 65 × 47 cm (sheet: 72.5 × 52.5 cm) French navigation map showing the island of Mahé and the Seychelles archipelago. Based on the observations of royal naval officers. Folded, with light discoloration and traces of light rubbing. A valuable docume...
Jean-Baptiste-Nicolas-Denis d'Après de Mannevillette, Carte de l'isle de Java avec les isles de Banca, de Billiton, et une partie de celles de Sumatra et de Borneo, Paris 1745 Copperplate, sheet size: 73.5 × 52 cm, print: 67 × 48.5 cm One-color nautical navigation map of the island of Java and the surrounding islands (Sumatra, Borneo, Banca, Billiton). Classic composition of 18th century po...