Theodore de Bry

China

Lacking in every collection

Descriptio Chorographica Regni Chinae

Frankfurt, 1628

Stock#: 19873

SOLD

Jan Huyghen van Linschoten

Itinerario

the supreme edition

the ultimate book on Portuguese India and polar exploration

Navigatio ac Itinerarium Iohannis Hugonis Linscotani in Orientalem Sive Lusitanorum Indiam, descriptiones eiusdem terræ ac tractuum littoralium: Item, descriptio totius Guineæ tractus, Congi, Angolæ, & Monomotapæ, nec non navigationum Batavorum in Septentrionem, & descriptio totius Americæ & Occidentalis Indiæ, etc.

Amsterdam, 1599

Stock#: 19859

$ 120,000.00

Ortelius

Middle East

ALEXANDRI MAGNI MACEDONIS EXPEDITIO.

Antwerp, 1595

Stock#: 16983

SOLD

Stradanus

the great explorers

legendary print series

lacking in nearly all collections

Americae Retectio

Antwerp, 1585

Stock#: 19639

$ 10,000.00

Ortelius

Asia

FIRST state of 1570

Excellent condition

Asiae Nova Descriptio

Antwerp, 1570

Stock#: 19839

SOLD

Jost Amman (attributed)
Abraham Ortelius
Caspar Vopelius

the World in polar projection

Unrecorded early map of the world

Seminal for Pacific, America and Australia

[ Untitled ]

Nuremberg/Augsburg, 1564

Stock#: 19701

$ 62,500.00

Emperor Charles V

Signed Imperial diploma on vellum

"Emperor of the Indies Islands and the Mainland across the Ocean Seas"

Ruler of the Americas

.. Rex Indiarum ac terre firme maris Oceani .. [ Emperor of the Americas ]

Ghent, 1540

Stock#: 19867

$ 16,000.00

Ulm Ptolemy

Eastern Europe, Russia and Scandinavia

vibrant contemporary colour

Tabula Octava

Ulm, 1482

Stock#: 18756

$ 10,000.00