Maps auctions
colored copperplate engraving/paperDimensions: 42.5 x 55 cm (inside the mat)One of the most important and sought-after maps in the history of Polish cartography. Compiled by Wacław Grodecki and published by Abraham Ortelius in the famous atlas *Theatrum Orbis Terrarum*. The map depicts the lands of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea and serves as a primary...
colored woodcut/paperDimensions: 33.5 x 38.5 cm (inside the mat)One of the oldest depictions of the Polish lands. The work is from *Kosmografia*, published between 1588 and 1628.
copperplate engraving/paperDimensions: 30.5 x 56 cm (inside the mat)Krakow, the siege of the city by Swedish troops under the command of Charles Gustav. A depiction of the city with its vast suburbs occupied by the invading forces. One of Dahlberg’s representative large-scale engravings. The work is taken from S. Pufendorf’s *De Rebus a Carolo Gustavo...*, published in Nuremberg in 1696.
copperplate engraving/paperDimensions: 18 x 26.8 cm (plate impression)Cologne, 1618
copperplate engraving/paperDimensions: 42 x 54.5 cm (inside the mat)The work is taken from the book *Civitates orbis terrarum*, Cologne, 1618
colored copperplate engraving/paperDimensions: 49 x 56.5 cm (print)Map of the Lands of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, third state from the first plate, published by Johann Baptist Homann, Nuremberg, 1707.BibliographyImago Poloniae K16/2
etching/paperDimensions: 45 x 59 cm (print)A map of the southern Polish lands, including Kraków, as well as Red Ruthenia. The map was produced by the Homann Heirs’ publishing house in 1775 and subsequently included in Santini’s atlas, published in Venice in 1776.Conditionunframed
Joan Blaeu (1596–1673), Map of Europe ("Europa recens descripta a Guilielmo Blaeuw"), circa 1635
0 EUR
colored copperplate engraving/paperDimensions: 41.5 x 56.5 cm (inside the mat)A decorative map of Europe by Wilhelm Blaeu (1571–1638), published in Amsterdam around 1635. Considered one of the most beautiful maps of 17th-century Europe. The map exemplifies the greatest achievements of the powerful Blaeu dynasty’s publishing house. It is surrounded by a wide border, into which images of rep...
colored copperplate engraving/paperDimensions: 48 x 55.5 cm (inside the mat)Publisher: Friedrich Hampe, Elbing, 1753. Rarity.
colored copperplate engraving/paperDimensions: 37 x 49 cm (inside the mat)The work is from "Civitates Orbis Terrarum," vol. 4. Cologne, 1588
Frans Hogenberg, Georg Braun, Panorama of Grodno ("Vera Designatio Urbis in Littavia Grodnae"), 1575
0 EUR
colored copperplate engraving/paperDimensions: 30.5 x 48.5 cm (inside the mat)The work is from *Civitates orbis terrarum...*, Cologne 1575 The oldest known panorama of the city, from *Civitates Orbis Terrarum*, vol. 2; in the foreground, a scene depicting the welcome of the Moscow delegation; on the reverse, a text in Latin: GrodnoBibliographyImago Poloniae H6/6
colored copperplate engraving/paperDimensions: 50 x 59.5 cm (plate print)A panorama of Szczecin and a bird’s-eye view showing the city surrounded by fortifications from the west, with the most important buildings marked. A legend in a cartouche on the map explains the major buildings, churches, gates, squares, streets, and fortifications of Szczecin. At the bottom of the map is a panorama of...
colored copperplate engraving/paperDimensions: 33 x 42.5 cm (plate impression)The map is from *Atlante novissimo illustrato*, Venice 1781.
colored copperplate engraving/paperDimensions: 31.7 x 40.5 cm (plate impression)The work is from the book "Gerardi Mercatoris – L’Atlas ou Méditations Cosmographiques de la Fabrique du Monde et Figure diceluy." Amsterdam, J. Hondius Jr., 1613–16.Conditionunframed; 3 cm tear at the bottom center
copperplate engraving/paperDimensions: 22 x 29 cm (print)The work is from the atlas *Schauplatz der fünf Theile der Welt* (Austria, Vienna, 1789).
color woodcut/paperDimensions: 42.7 x 54.2 cm (sheet)Publisher: J. Pentius de Leucho, Venice 1511. The work is taken from Ptolemy’s *Geography*. It was the first edition printed in two colors and the first Italian edition of Ptolemy’s work produced using woodcut printing blocks. No works by Sylvanus are known to have been produced after this publication.Conditionunbound work
colored copperplate engraving/paperDimensions: 37.5 x 50 cm (print area)The work is from "Gerardi Mercatoris - Atlas sive Cosmographicae Meditationes de Fabrica Mundi et Fabricati Figura," Amsterdam 1619
colored copperplate engraving/paperDimensions: 48 x 57 cm (inside the mat)The work is from *Atlas historique de la Pologne ancienne et moderne… Par Leonard Chodzko. Paris 1842. Stanislas Plater*, published in Paris in 1842.
Nicolas de Fer (1646–1720), Szczecin, map of the city and its fortifications (“Stettin”), circa 1693
0 EUR
colored copperplate engraving/paperDimensions: 17 x 19 cm (inside the mat)Contemporary-colored copperplate engraving Original map by Nicolas de Fer (1646–1720) from around 1693. Engraved by Herman van Loon.
colored copperplate engraving/paperDimensions: 48 x 56.7 cm (print)Nuremberg, ca. 1710–1720.
colored copperplate engraving/paperDimensions: 48 x 56.5 cm (inside the mat)Augsburg, ca. 1735.BiographyMatthäus Seutter was a student of J. B. Homann. He worked in Augsburg and collaborated with, among others, Tobias Konrad Lotter and Johan Michael Probst. His most notable works include *Atlas novus*, first published in Vienna in 1728 (50 plates), and *Atlas minor* (66 plates and a title page).
copperplate engraving/paperDimensions: 27 x 33 cm (inside the mat)The work is taken from S. Pufendorf’s *De Rebus a Carolo Gustavo...*, published in Nuremberg in 1696.
colored copperplate engraving/paperDimensions: 50 x 56.6 cm Map of Gdańsk, the area around Wisłoujście, and the Baltic Sea coastline, Nuremberg 1739
copperplate engraving/paperDimensions: 38 x 48 cm (print area)Amsterdam
colored copperplate engraving/paperDimensions: 50 x 56.5 cm (plate impression)BibliographyImago Poloniae, K17/4
etching/paper, canvasDimensions: 130 x 80 cmA Polish-language version of the cartographic depiction of history, “Strom der Zeiten,” by Friedrich Strass, adapted by Wawrzyniec Wysocki, a Polish educator and rector of the Institute for the Deaf and Mute in WarsawConditionThe work has been restored; there are localized areas of paper loss and some sections that are difficult to read
copperplate engraving/paperDimensions: 10.3 x 15.3 cm (inside the mat)The map known as *Description de Poloigne* (or, in Latin, *Polonia. Descriptio Poloniae*) is a copperplate engraving by Petrus Bertius, etched by Jodocus Hondius (or his son, Jodocus II), and first published in 1616. This small-format map comes from the pocket atlas *Tabularum Geographicarum Contractarum* and was based on th...
colored copperplate engraving/paperDimensions: 53 x 74.5 cm (inside the mat)An original, decorative map of Royal and Ducal Prussia published in Venice by Paolo Santini in 1778, based on a design by the French cartographer Robert de Vaugondy. The map depicts the area from the Baltic Sea to Toruń and the Chełmno Land, as well as from Pomerania to Masuria and Königsberg. The richly decorated R...
colored copperplate engraving/paperDimensions: 19.8 x 29 cm (print)This work is from the atlas *Schauplatz der fünf Theile der Welt* (Austria, Vienna, 1789).
colored copperplate engraving/paperDimensions: 54 x 62 cm (sheet)The work is from "Atlas Coelsetis by Johann Baptist Homann," Nuremberg 1742. A rare and striking astronomical copperplate engraving from 1742, hand-colored during its time, depicting ephemerides and the motion of celestial bodies according to the heliocentric model of the Solar System developed by Nicolaus Copernicus. At the bott...
colored copperplate engraving/paperDimensions: 22 x 30.5 cm (inside the mat)Publisher: Verlag: Paris, Crepy, 1767 A beautifully preserved, period-colored, original map of Europe by Georges-Louis Le Rouge (Lerouge, 1712–1790), covering the entire territory of modern-day Poland, included in *Introduction à la Géographie* (1743).
copperplate engraving/paperDimensions: 22 x 32.5 cm (inside the mat)
colored copperplate engraving/paperDimensions: 20 x 16.5 cm (inside the mat)The map most likely comes from the 1683 publication *Description de l'Univers* by Alain Manesson-Mallet (1630–1706), a French cartographer and engraver. Publisher: D. Thierry, Paris, 1683.
colored copperplate engraving/paperDimensions: 29 x 35 cm (inside the mat)The map is from Albrizzi’s 1740 atlas, published in Venice. It is the third edition of a map of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from 1737.
copperplate engraving/paperDimensions: 32 x 38 cm (inside the mat)The work is from M. Zeiller’s *Topographia Bohemiae Moraviae et Silesiae*, Frankfurt am Main, 1650. A very rare copperplate engraving by Matthäus Merian the Elder from 1650, depicting the fortifications of Opole from the mid-17th century (the Castle, the Oder River), with the city’s coat of arms on the right.BiographyMatth�...
colored copperplate engraving/paperDimensions: 51 x 61 cm (sheet)
colored copperplate engraving/paperDimensions: 23 x 27.7 cm (print)The work is from the atlas *Schauplatz der fünf Theile der Welt*, Austria, Vienna, 1789.
colored copperplate engraving/paperDimensions: 18.5 x 29 cm (inside the mat)Publisher: G.C. Kilian, Augsburg 1759
copperplate engraving/paperDimensions: 43.3 x 54.5 cm (print area)
Homann Heirs Publishing House, World Map ("Planiglobii Terrestris Mappa universalis..."), 1746
0 EUR
colored copperplate engraving/paperDimensions: 47 x 55.5 cm (inside the mat)Planiglobii Terrestris Mappa universalis is a double-hemispheric world map published in Nuremberg in 1746. It was created through the collaboration of mathematician Johann Matthias Haas and astronomer Georg Moritz Lowitz, and was published by the renowned Homann Heirs (Homann Erben) publishing house. The map depicts th...
colored copperplate engraving/paperDimensions: 31.5 x 41 cm (print)The work is from *Atlante novissimo, illustrato ad accresciuto sulle…*, Publisher: Antonio Zatta Presso, Venice 1782.
copperplate engraving/paperDimensions: 32.5 x 42 cm (inside the mat)The work is taken from S. Pufendorf’s *De Rebus a Carolo Gustavo...*, published in Nuremberg in 1696.
colored copperplate engraving/paperDimensions: 43 x 54 cm (inside the mat)The work is from *The English Atlas*, second edition, Amsterdam, 1680.
colored copperplate engraving/paperDimensions: 38.4 x 49.5 cm (printed area)A three-part map of Pomerania, Livonia, and the Duchy of Oświęcim-Zator, from the work *Theatrum orbis terrarum*, Antwerp, after 1595.BiographyAbraham Ortelius was an outstanding Flemish cartographer, historian, and map publisher. Trained as an engraver, he ran his own book and antiquarian business at the start of hi...
copperplate engraving/paperDimensions: 10.5 x 15 cm (inside the mat)A rare, miniature map of Pomerania from Abraham Ortelius’s (1527–1598) atlas *Epitome Theatri Orbis Terrarum* from 1609. Publisher: Jan Baptista Vrients, Antwerp, 1609. The maps for this atlas were engraved by Ambrosius and Ferdinand Arsenius and accompanied by text by Michel Coignet (1549–1623).BiographyAbraham Ortelius...
colored copperplate engraving/paperDimensions: 24 x 35 cm (inside the mat)The work is from a later edition of Grenet’s “Atlas portatif...”.BibliographyImago Poloniae, K50/12
colored copperplate engraving/paperDimensions: 39.5 x 48.5 cm (print area)By Peter Schenk (the Elder) and Gerard Valck.
Johann Baptist Homann (1663–1724), Map of Rome ("Urbis Romae Veteris ac Modernae Accurata"), 1716
0 EUR
colored copperplate engraving/paperDimensions: 49 x 58 cm (inside the mat)Nuremberg
copperplate engraving/paperDimensions: 28.5 x 18 cm (inside the mat)The work is taken from "Inventarium Sveciae, Das ist: Gründliche, und warhaffte Beschreibung deß Königsreichs Schweden und dessen Incorporirten Provintzien, by Friedrich and Johann Ludwig Gottfried Hulsius" (Frankfurt am Main, 1632). Mątowski Point (Mątowski Corner) (German: Montauer Spitze) – a forested peninsula locat...
copperplate engraving/paperDimensions: 16.5 x 21.5 cm (inside the mat)Map published in Amsterdam by Johannes Janssonius in 1616 as part of a pocket atlas dedicated to the architecture and cityscapes of the Holy Roman Empire. Engraved by Petrus Kaerius (Pieter van den Keere). Bertius’s “Breslo” is one of the earliest maps of the city of Wrocław. It depicts the city surrounded by defensiv...
Homann Heirs Publishing House, Map of Kłodzko County ("Comitatus Glaciensis Tabula geogr."), 1747
0 EUR
colored copperplate engraving/paperDimensions: 50.2 x 57 cm (plate impression)Nuremberg, 1747Conditionunframed
Nicolaes Visscher (1618–1709), Europe (“Nova et accurata totius Europae descriptio”), ca. 1680
0 EUR
colored copperplate engraving/paperDimensions: 43.5 x 54.5 cm (inside the mat)Amsterdam 1680 Contemporary-colored copperplate engraving
etching/paperDimensions: 48 x 56.5 cm (print)Augsburg, 1759–1762. Albrecht Carl Seutter’s map of Pomerania, published around 1760, printed on 6 sheets—here, the section showing a part of Pomerania between Darłowo and Łeba. The map is based on Eilhard Lubin’s map from 1618. Compared to Lubinus’s map, the scale was retained, but certain cartographic corrections were made. One of seve...
Johann Baptist Homann (1663–1724), Map of the Holy Land ("Novissima totius Terrae Sanctae..."), 1969
0 EUR
colored copperplate engraving/paperDimensions: 46.5 x 55 cm (inside the mat)Engraved by: Joan Baptist Homann Sculp. Publisher: David Funcken, Nuremberg.
colored copperplate engraving/paperDimensions: 55.5 x 79 cm (inside the mat)Published by Homanniani Heredes, Nuremberg, 1747.
colored copperplate engraving/paperDimensions: 48 x 57.5 cm (plate impression)The work is from *Atlas Minor Sive Geographia Compendosia...*, Amsterdam, 1683–1696.
colored copperplate engraving/paperDimensions: 20.5 x 28 cm (inside the mat)This work is from "Atlas Selectus of All Kingdoms and Countries of the World, for Convenient Use in Schools, While Traveling, and When Reading Newspapers. Produced and engraved on copper by Johann George Schreiber in Leipzig." Publisher: Schreiber’s heirs
colored copperplate engraving/paperDimensions: 48.5 x 57.5 cm (print area)Conditionunframed work
etching/paperDimensions: 24.8 x 35.6 cm (inside the mat)The map was created by Didier Robert de Vaugondy (1723–1786), one of the most prominent French cartographers of the 18th century, and geographer to King Stanisław Leszczyński of Poland and the Duke of Lorraine. The map is from a collection of works—including those by Montesquieu—titled *De l'Esprit des Loix*, published in Amsterda...
HISTORIC GLOBE: Solid Brass Tabletop Globe, Antique Nautical Style A charming tabletop globe made entirely of solid brass
colored copperplate engraving/paperDimensions: 18.5 x 26.5 cm (inside the mat)A rare, period-colored map of the Duchies of Legnica and Jawor by G.F. Lotter, circa 1740 A cartouche in the lower right corner; to the right, a column listing the included territories and localities (in addition to the aforementioned duchies, also the Duchies of Żagań, Świdnica, Wrocław, Volhynia, Głogów, as w...
copperplate engraving/paperDimensions: 25.5 x 37.5 cm (inside the mat)Publisher: Pierre Mariette, 1652.
Antique Map – PROVINCE OF ABRUZZO – Rare Engraving from 1649 with Title Page – Giovanni Antonio MAGINI / DE ROSSI