Antique maps of Rare Books

(Incunable World Map) In Somnium Scipionis expositio. Saturnalia.

Ambrosius Macrobius

Place/Date:

Venice / 1500

Size:

8.75 x 12 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

112059

(Hyginus's Astronomy) De mundi et sphaerae ac utriusque partium declaratione cum planetis et varijs signis historiatis [Clarissimi Hyginii Astronomi]

Caius Julius Hyginus

Place/Date:

Venice / 1517

Size:

6 x 8.5 inches

Condition:

Good

Stock#:

89256

(Early World Map) Macrobius Aurelius integer nitidus suoque decori ab Ioanne Rivio superioribus annis & nunc cura Ascensianorum multo diligentius restitutus [Somnium Scipionis / Commentary on the Dream of Scipio]

Ambrosius Macrobius

Place/Date:

Paris / 1519

Size:

8.25 x 12 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

108508

92-Florida, Mexico and Rare Books Map By Hernán Cortés / Tomasso Porcacchi / Giovann

[ Cortes Letters ] [First Latin Editions of Cortes's 2nd and 3rd Letters or Cartas de Relación, bound together in a beautiful early 17th-century sammelband, along with Italian Translations of Cortes's Second and Third Letters excerpted from Ramusio's 1606 Navigatione et Viaggi, and with Porcacchi's 1605 Isolario] Praeclara Ferdinadi Cortesii de Nova Maris Oceani Hyspania Narratio [with:] L' Isole piv famose del mondo descritte da Thomasa Porcacchi da Castiglione arretino e intagliate da Girolamo Porro Padovano Con l' Aggiunta di molte Isole ALL' ILL

Hernán Cortés / Tomasso Porcacchi / Giovanni Battista Ramusio

Place/Date:

Nuremberg; Venice / 1524 / 1605 / 1606

Size:

9 x 12 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

102698

In somnium Scipionis M. Tulii Ciceronis libri duo et Saturnaliorum Lib. VII. . . .

Ambrosius Macrobius

Place/Date:

[Paris] / 1524

Size:

8.75 x 13.25 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

103995

Novus Orbis Regionum ac Insularum Veteribus Incognitarum.

Johann Huttich / Simon Grynaeus / Oronce Fine

Place/Date:

Paris / 1532

Size:

8.5 x 12.5 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

86736

Novus orbis regionum ac insularum veteribus incognitarum

Simon Grynaeus / Johann Huttich

Place/Date:

Paris / 1532

Size:

9 x 13.25 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

105235

Geographia Universalis, Vetus et Nova, Complectens Claudii Ptolemaei Alexandrini Enarrationis Libras VIII.

Sebastian Munster

Place/Date:

Basel / 1545

Size:

7.5 x 12.5 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

96321

5-Rare Books Map By Hernán Cortés / Johann Huttich / Simon Grynaeus / Sebastian Mun

Novus Orbis Regionum ac Insularum Veteribus Incognitarum [New world of regions and islands unknown to the ancients]

Hernán Cortés / Johann Huttich / Simon Grynaeus / Sebastian Munster

Place/Date:

Basel / 1555

Size:

7.5 x 12.625 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

103416

(Ceasar's Conquest of Gaul) Description de la Limagne d'Auvergne en forme de dialogue : avec plusieurs medailles, statues, oracles, epitaphes, sentences, & autres choses memorables, & non moins plaisantes que prousitables aux amateurs de l'Antiqué [with map:] Carte de Limagne D'Auvergne

Gabriele Simeoni

Place/Date:

Lyon / 1561

Size:

6 x 8 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

93358

Pomponii Melae philosophi celeberrimi de orbis situ libri tres tabulis (quas cetro consilio in finem operis reiecimus) nunc primum illustrati: numeri autem tabulis adiecti, unus quidem paginam, alter uero, pagine locum, quo reponenda fuerat, monstrat.

Pomponius Mela / Heinrich Petri

Place/Date:

Basel / 1564

Size:

4.3 x 6.7 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

101420

(Scandinavia) Historia delle Genti et della Natura delle Cose Settentrionali [A History of the Northern Peoples]

Olaus Magnus

Place/Date:

Venice / 1565

Size:

8.75 x 12.5 inches (binding)

Condition:

Good

Stock#:

95823

Descriptio totius Italiae [bound with:] Rerum Moscoviticarum commentarij ... quibus Russiae ac Metropolis eius Moscoviae descriptio, Chorographicae tabulae, Religionis indicatio, Modus excipiendi & tractandi oratores, Itineraria in Moscoviam duo, & alia quaedam continentur

Leandro Alberti / Sigismund Herberstein

Place/Date:

Cologne & Basel / 1567 / 1571

Size:

9 x 12.5 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

93228

39-Europe, Asia, Africa, America and Rare Books Map By Giovanni Lorenzo d'Anania / Giuseppe

(Lafreri School Maps of the Continents) La Universal Fabrica del Mondo La Universal Fabrica del Mondo dell’eccell. m. Lorenzo Anania della citta di Tauerna cosmografo, et teologo ; doue s’ha piena notitia de i costumi, leggi, città, fiumi, monti, prouincie, & popoli del mondo.

Giovanni Lorenzo d'Anania / Giuseppe Cacchij dell' Aquila

Place/Date:

Naples / 1573

Size:

10 x 8 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

95384

(Macrobius World Map) Macrobii Ambrosii Aurelii Theodosii, [...] In somnium Scipionis, lib. II. Saturnaliorum, lib. VII. Ex uarijs, ac uetustissimis codicibus recogniti, & aucti [Commentary on the Dream of Scipio]

Ambrosius Macrobius

Place/Date:

Venice / 1574

Size:

5 x 7 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

79482

(Apian World Map) La Cosmographia de Pedro Apiano, corregida y añadida por Gemma Frisio ... El Sitio y Descripcion de las Indias y Mundo Nuevo, sacada de la Historia de Francisco Lopez de Gomara, y de la Cosmographia de Ieronymo Giraua Tarragonez [with map:] Mappa Mundi

Peter Apian

Place/Date:

Antwerp / 1575

Size:

6.25 x 8.75 inches

Condition:

Good

Stock#:

100234

(World map signed by Ortelius!) Pomponius Mela | De situ orbis Libri Tres

Abraham Ortelius & Christophe Plantin

Place/Date:

Antwerp / 1582

Size:

5.5 x 8.25 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

89846

Historiarum Indicarum Libri XVI [with:] Indiarum Orientalium Occidentaliumque Descriptio. Pet. Maffei Historiae Harum Verissimae, Dedicata.

Peter Maffei

Place/Date:

Cologne / 1588

Size:

8 x 12 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

102793

Opusculum Geographicum Rarum [with map:] Universalis Orbis Descriptio, Cogimur e Tabula Pictos Ediscere Mundos.

Joannes Myritius

Place/Date:

Ingolstadt / 1590

Size:

8.25 x 13 inches

Condition:

Good

Stock#:

95970

Prima pars descriptionis itineris navalis in Indiam Orientalem : earumque rerum quae navibus Battavis occurrerunt: una cum particulari enarratione conditionum, morum, oeconomiae populorum, quos adnavigarunt. Praeterea de numismatis, aromatibus, speciebus & mercibus ibidem venalibus, eorumque pretio. Insuper de insularum apparentijs, tractibus, orisque regionum maritimis, una cum incolarum ad vivum delineatione

Willem Lodewijcksz

Place/Date:

Amsterdam / 1598

Size:

9.5 x 12.5 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

75465

Aristotles Politiques, or Discourses of Government. Translated out of Greeke into French... by Loys LeRoy, called Regius. Translated out of French into English.

Aristotle

Place/Date:

London / 1598

Size:

7.5 x 11.25 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

85847

(New World - Jesuit Provenance) Relaciones Universales del Mundo de Juan Botero Benes, Primera, y Segunda Parte, Traduzidas a instancia de Don Antonio Lopez de Calatayud...

Giovanni Botero

Place/Date:

Valladolid / 1599 - 1603

Size:

8 x 11.5 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

105440

[ New France - Pierre Biard's Letter ] Missio Canadensis [in] Annuæ Litteræ Societatis Jesu Anni MDC.XI.

Pierre Biard

Place/Date:

Dillingen / 1611 circa -1615

Size:

3.6 x 6.6 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

84352

Delle navigationi et viaggi : raccolte da M. Gio. Battista Ramusio, in tre volumi divise

Giovanni Battista Ramusio

Place/Date:

Venice / 1613 -1583-1606

Size:

9 x 12.5 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

83534

53-Southeast Asia, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia and Rare Books Map By Jan Huygen van Linschoten

(Singapore and Southeast Asia) Ander Theil der Orientalischen Indien. Von allen Völckern, Insulen, Meerporten, fliessenden Wassern und anderen Orten, so von Portugal auß lengst dem Gestaden Aphrica biß in OstIndien und zu dem Landt China sampt andern Insulen zu sehen seynd. Erstlich im Jahr 1596 außführlich in Holländischer Sprach beschrieben...Jetzo aber von newem in Hochteutsch bracht...

Jan Huygen van Linschoten / Theodor De Bry

Place/Date:

Frankfurt / 1613

Size:

11.75 x 8 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

89360

Navigatio ac Itinerarium Iohannis Hugonis Linscotani in Orientalem Sive Lusitanorum Indiam... [Voyage and Journey of Jan Huygen van Linschoten to the Eastern, or Portuguese India...]

Jan Huygen van Linschoten

Place/Date:

Amsterdam / 1614

Size:

8 x 12.5 inches

Condition:

See Description

Stock#:

93009

(Globes) Tractatus de Globis, Coelesti et Terrestri Eorumque Usu . . . MDCXVII

Robert Hues / Jodocus Hondius II

Place/Date:

Amsterdam / 1617

Size:

6.75 x 8.5 inches

Condition:

Good

Stock#:

93072

(Mercator-Hondius Asia) A Leaf from the Mercator-Hondius World Atlas Edition of 1619 with an Essay by Norman J. W. Thrower [with map:] Asia ex magna orbis terre description Gerardi Mercatoris desumpta studio et industria G.M. Iunioris.

Norman J. W. Thrower / Gerard Mercator / Jodocus Hondius

Place/Date:

Fullerton, California / 1619 (1985)

Size:

13 x 19 inches

Condition:

Fine

Stock#:

101528

79-World, Pacific Ocean, Pacific, Oceania and Rare Books Map By Jacob Le Maire & Joris van S

Miror oost & west-indical, auquel sont descriptes les deux dernières navigations, faites les années 1614, 1615, 1616, 1617 et 1618. L'une par le renommé guerrier de mer, George de Spilbergen, par le détroit de Magellan, et ainsi tout autour de toute la terre, avec toutes les batailles ... Ici sont aussi ajoutées deux histoires, l'une des Indes Orientales, l'autre des Indes Occidentales.

Jacob Le Maire & Joris van Spilbergen

Place/Date:

Amsterdam / 1621

Size:

9.5 x 7 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

75332

The Generall Historie of Virginia, New=England, and the Summer Isles: with the names of the Adventurers, Planters, and Governours from their first beginning. Ano: 1584 to this present 1624. With the Proceedings of Those Several Colonies and the Accidents that befell them in all their Journyes and Discoveries. Also the Maps and Descriptions of all those Countryes, their Commodities, people, Government, Customes, and Religion yet knowne. Divided into Sixe Bookes.

John Smith

Place/Date:

London / 1624

Size:

7.5 x 11.25 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

98872

(Dutch Travels in Guinea) Siebende Schiffahrt in das goldreiche Königreich Guineum, in Africa gelegen [Discoveries and Establishment of the Dutch on the Coast of Guinea]

Pieter de Marees / Levinus Hulsius

Place/Date:

Frankfurt / 1624

Size:

6 x 8 inches (binding)

Condition:

See Description

Stock#:

99940

The True Travels, Adventures, and Observations of Captaine John Smith, in Europe, Asia, Affrica, and America, from Anno Domini 1593 to 1629... with a continuation of his generall History of Virginia, Summer-Iles, New England..

John Smith

Place/Date:

London / 1624

Size:

7.5 x 11.25 inches book

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

101400

(Rome) Grandezze Della Citta di Roma Antiche & Moderne Come al Presente si Ritrova Di nuovo Ristampato in Quattro Linguaggi, Latino, Volgare, Francese, Tedesco ad Istanza di Iacomo Marucci, Libraro [The magnificence of the ancient and modern city of Rome, as it is presently found, reprinted in four languages: Latin, vernacular, French, and German, at the request of Jacomo Marucci, bookseller.]

Giacomo Mascardi / Giacomo Marcucci / Giulio Mari

Place/Date:

Rome / 1628

Size:

4.25 x 6.5 inches

Condition:

Good

Stock#:

93357

58-New England, Massachusetts and Rare Books Map By John Smith / Richard Whitbourne / Wolffgang Ho

[ The Rarest Smith New England ] Zwantzigste Schifffahrt oder Gründliche und sattsame Beschreibung des Newen Engellands: Wie auch Auszführliche Erzehlung von Beschaffenheit der Landtschafft Virginia, und der Insel Barmuda, deren man diszhero schelchte unnd unvollkommene Wissenschafft gehbt / an ieszo aber durch dero Landt erfahrne Leuht / völliglich an Tag gegeben. [Twentieth Voyage or Thorough and Comprehensive Description of New England: As well as Detailed Account of the Nature of the Virginia Landscape, and the Island of Bermuda, of which there has hitherto been poor and incomplete knowledge / but now fully brought to light by experienced men of those lands.]

John Smith / Richard Whitbourne / Wolffgang Hoffmann / Levinus Hulsius

Place/Date:

Frankfurt / 1629

Size:

11.25 x 13.5 inches (map size)

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

104052

(Galileo) [Dialogue Between the Two Chief World Systems] Dialogo ... Sopra i Due Massimi, Sistemi del Mondo Tolemaico, e Copernicano.

Galileo Galilei

Place/Date:

Florence / 1632

Size:

6.5 x 8.75 inches

Condition:

See Description

Stock#:

86257

The Most Ancient and Famous History of the Renowned King Arthur

Thomas Malory

Place/Date:

London / 1634

Size:

5.8 x 6.3 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

104070

A Pisgah-sight of Palestine and The Confines Thereof, with the History of th Old and New Testament acted thereon.

Thomas Fuller

Place/Date:

London / 1650

Size:

9 x 13.25 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

101471

Dan, Serpens juxta viam qui calces equit mordet, et decidit sessor ejus retrosum

Thomas Fuller

Place/Date:

London / 1650

Size:

13 x 10.5 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

108871

Carte generalle de la Geograrhie [Géographie] Royalle. Par le Sr. Tasin geographe du roy [bound with:] Cartes generalles de toutes les Provinces de France et d'Espaigne . . .

Nicolas Berey

Place/Date:

Paris / 1655

Size:

8.75 x 6.75 inches

Condition:

Good

Stock#:

90475

[ City Views - World and Iberian Peninsula ] Illustriorum Hispaniae Urbium Tabulae, cum Appendice Celebriorum Alibi aut olim aut nunc Parentium HIspanis, Aut euroum Civitatum Commerciis florentium. [Maps of the Most Famous Cities in Spain, with an Appendix of Other Notable Cities, Either Formerly or Currently Associated with Spain, or Prominent in the Trade of European Cities.]

Jan Jansson

Place/Date:

Amsterdam / 1657

Size:

27 x 20 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

94019

Paradise Lost

John Milton

Place/Date:

London / 1669

Size:

5.5 x 7.5 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

86262

America: Being the Latest, and Most Accurate Description of the New World.

John Ogilby

Place/Date:

London / 1673

Size:

16.25 x 10.25 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

53619

Ogilby's 1673 rare map showing Rare Books.

Cosmography in Four Books Containing the Chorography and History of the Whole World and all the Principal Kingdoms, Provinces, Seas, and Isles, Thereof.

Peter Heylyn

Place/Date:

London / 1677

Size:

9.5 x 14 inches (binding)

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

107338

Die gantze Erd-Kugel / Bestehend Inden vier befannten Theilen der Welt / Als Europa, Asia, Africa und America Sampt schoenen neuen unde accuraten Land=Karten . . . .

Nicolas Sanson / Joannes Zunners

Place/Date:

Frankfurt / 1679

Size:

7.5 x 9.8 inches (binding)

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

94391

(Japan) Ambassades memorables de la Compagnie des Indes Orientales des Provinces Unies vers les empereurs du Iapon contenant plusieurs choses remarquables arrivees pendant le voyage des ambassadeurs. [Engraved title:] Ambassades vers les Empereurs du Iapon.

Arnoldus Montanus / Jacob Meurs

Place/Date:

Amsterdam / 1680

Size:

9.25 x 14 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

100511

(Holy Land) Asia, oder Genaue und Gruendliche Beschreibung des gantzen Syrien und Palestins, oder Gelobten Landes. [Engraved title:] Syrien und das Gelobte Land.

Olfert Dapper / Jacob Meurs

Place/Date:

Amsterdam / 1681

Size:

8 x 12.25 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

101699

[ World Atlas with nearly 700 maps, views and plates ] Description de l'Univers Contenant les Differents Systèmes du Monde

Alain Manesson Mallet

Place/Date:

Paris / 1683

Size:

5.5 x 8.5 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

91436

[ Central Europe and Hungary ] Ungria Restaurada compendiosa noticia, de dos tiempos: del Passado. Baxo el Jugo de la Tirania Othomana, del Presente, Baxo el Dominio Catholico de Leopoldo II de Austria. [Hungary Restored, Extensive Notices about].

Simpliciano Bizozeri

Place/Date:

Barcelona / 1688

Size:

5.5 x 7.75 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

68278

[ British Colonies in North America & Caribbean ] L'Amerique Angloise, ou Description des Isles et Terres du Roi d'Angleterre dans l'Amerique, Avec de nouvelles Carte de chaque Isle & Terres

Richard Blome / Abraham Wolfgang

Place/Date:

Amsterdam / 1688

Size:

3.5 x 5.5 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

102812

An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. In Four Books.

John Locke

Place/Date:

London / 1690 (but 1689)

Size:

8 x 12.5 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

103859

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