Antique maps of 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 / 1670

Size:

9 x 13.75 inches (binding)

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

76890

Paradise Lost

John Milton

Place/Date:

London / 1669

Size:

5.5 x 7.5 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

86262

(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

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

Leviathan: Or the matter, Forme, and Power of a Common-Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill

Thomas Hobbes

Place/Date:

London / 1651

Size:

8 x 12 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

86228

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

(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.]

Giulio Mari / Giacomo Mascardi / Giacomo Marcucci

Place/Date:

Rome / 1628

Size:

4.25 x 6.5 inches

Condition:

Good

Stock#:

93357

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

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

Miroir oost & west-indical, auquel sont descriptes les deux dernieres navigations, faictes es annees 1614. 1615. 1616. 1617. & 1618. l'une par le renommÃ© guerrier de mer, George de Spilbergen, par le distroict de Magellan, & ainsi tout autour de toute la terre, avec toutes les battailles ... Iey sont aussi adioustÃ©es 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

(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

(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

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

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

(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

[ 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

20-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

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 / Cornelis Claesz

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

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

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

(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

Cosmographey: oder Beschreibung aller Länder herrschaften vnd fürnembsten Stetten des gantzen Erdbodens ... /

Sebastian Munster

Place/Date:

Basel / 1578

Size:

8.75 x 13.5 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

70577

Le Vere Imagini et Descritioni delle Piu Nobilli Citta del Mondo [The true images and descriptions of the most noble cities in the world]

Donato Bertelli

Place/Date:

Venice / 1578

Size:

7.5 x 10.25 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

92842

(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

12-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

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

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

(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

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

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

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

(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

(Gutenberg Bible) [Original Gutenberg Bible Leaf - Book of Exodus] A Noble Fragment, Being a Leaf of the Gutenberg Bible, 1450-1455.

Johann Gutenberg / Johann Fust

Place/Date:

Mainz, Germany / 1455 circa (1921)

Size:

11.25 x 15.5 inches

Condition:

VG

Stock#:

102960

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