Antique maps of Rare Books

(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

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

[ With Macrobius World Map ] In somnium Scipionis ex Ciceronis. VI. libro de rep. ervditissima explanatio. Eivsdem Saturnaliorum libri VII . . .

Ambrosius Macrobius

Place/Date:

Venice / 1528

Size:

5 x 7 inches (binding)

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

104771

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

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

2-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

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

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

(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.

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 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

51-World, Mediterranean, Middle East, Holy Land and Rare Books Map By Johann Bongars / Pietro Vesc

Gesta Dei Per Francos, Sive Orientalium Expeditionum et Regni Francorum Hierosolimitani Historia...

Johann Bongars / Pietro Vesconte

Place/Date:

Hanover / 1611

Size:

12.75 x 13.5 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

84994

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

88-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

Poly-Olbion or a chorographicall description of tracts, rivers, mountaines, forests, and other parts of this renowned Isle of Great Britaine

Michael Drayton

Place/Date:

London / 1613 and 1622

Size:

7.5 x 11 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

92111

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

16-World, Pacific Ocean, Pacific, Oceania and Rare Books Map By Joris van Spilbergen & Jacob

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.

Joris van Spilbergen & Jacob Le Maire

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

(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

(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

Carte generalle de la Geograrhie [sic] 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

64-United States, Louisiana, Midwest, Michigan, Wisconsin, North America, Rare Books and Canada Ma

(Italian Hennepin Map) Il Genio Vagante, Biblioteca Curiosa di Cento e piu Relazioni di Viaggi Stranieri de' nostri tempi . . . Parte seconda [with map:] Nuova Francia e Luigiana

Aurelio degli Anzi (Valerio Zani)

Place/Date:

Parma / 1691

Size:

3 x 5.5 inches (binding)

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

76944

[ World Atlas ] Geography Anatomized: or, A Compleat Geographical Grammer. Being a Short and Exact Analysis of the whole Body of Modern Geography... To which is subjoin'd the present State of the European Plantations in the East and West Indies, with a Reasonable Proposal for the Propagation of the Blessed Gospel in all Pagan Countries.

Robert Morden / Patrick Gordon

Place/Date:

London / 1693

Size:

4 x 6 inches

Condition:

Good

Stock#:

85550

(Abel Tasman) Relations de divers Voyages curieux, qui n'ont point esté publiées, Et qu'on a traduit ou tiré des Originaux des Voyageurs François, Espagnols, Allemands, Portugais, Anglois, Hollandois, Persans, Arabes & autres Orientaux . . .

Melchisedec Thevenot

Place/Date:

Paris / 1696

Size:

8.5 x 13.8 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

81400

(La Salle's Final Expedition) Dernieres Decouvertes dans L'Amerique Septentrionale de M. De La Sale [i.e., La Salle], Mises au jour par M. le Chevalier Tonti, Gouverneur du Fort Saint Louis, aux Islinois.

Henri de Tonti

Place/Date:

Paris / 1697

Size:

4 x 6.5 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

69476

A New Discovery of a Vast Country in America, extending above four thousand miles, between New France and New Mexico; with a description of the Great Lakes, Cataracts, Rivers, Plants, and Animals

Louis de Hennepin

Place/Date:

London / 1698

Size:

4.75 x 7.5 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

99847

[ Gifted To Cecil B. De Mille by Elmer Bernstein ] (Mortier Bible) Histoire du Vieux et du Nouveau Testament Enrichie de plus de quatre cens Figures En Taille-Douce, &c. [2 vols in 1]

Pierre Mortier

Place/Date:

Amsterdam / 1700 circa

Size:

10.5 x 17 inches (binding)

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

96625

9-Caribbean, Brazil, India, Southeast Asia, Arabian Peninsula and Rare Books Map By Johan Nieuhof

Voyages and Travels, Into Brasil, and the East-Indies: Containing, An Exact Description of the Dutch Brasil and divers Parts of the East-Indies.

Johan Nieuhof / John Churchill / Awnsham Churchill

Place/Date:

London / 1703

Size:

8.5 x 13 inches (binding)

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

99851

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