Antique Maps, Globes, Charts, Atlases & Vintage Graphics
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497 Comitatus Hanoniae Belgium and France Jacques Peeters 1692 B passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 7.2 x 5.8 inches) This small map describes the border region between France and Belgium and includes the fortified cities of Douai, Valenciennes, Mons, and Cambrai. The map is filled with minute detail with hundreds of tiny villages, forests, rivers and lakes. It is decorated with a pictorial cartouche featuring soldiers.

498 Gallia Antiqua et Nova France, Belgium Philipp Cluver 1697 B   $50.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 12.8 x 10.5 inches) Charming map of France and Belgium showing 'modern' topography with ancient place names. It is adorned with a fanciful title cartouche featuring a faun pouring wine for Bacchus, topped with the crest of France.

499 Comitatus Hannoniae in suas quasque Castellanias Balliviatus' Belgium and France Johann Baptist Homann 1725 B   $80.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 22.5 x 19 inches) This detailed map, centered on Mons, includes the towns of Doornick, Halle, Charleroy, Camerijk and Dounay. It is filled with information on the topography, roads and towns, and adorned with an uncolored title cartouche surrounded by angels and putti.

500 Carte des Provinces Unies des Pays Bas' Low Countries Delisle/Dezauche 1788 B   $170.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 23.75 x 18.6 inches) An interesting later issue of Delisle's map of the Netherlands shows hundreds of towns, villages, churches, rivers, marshes and roads. A beautifully engraved, uncolored title cartouche in the upper right names Cassini and Snellius as contributors to this edition and is adorned with mythological and allegorical figures. Engraved by Lièbaux le fils.

501 [Lot of 2] Batavia, or United Dutch States [and] Belgium, or the Netherlands Low Countries Robinson 1799 B+   $150.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 15 x 13 inches) A very interesting pair of maps made during the period of the Batavian Republic (1795-1806) in the Netherlands, which had been set up by French revolutionary forces after their conquest of Amsterdam. In 1806, Napoleon changed the republic into a kingdom with his brother Louis as its head. 1) Batavia, or United Dutch States details the whole area from Groningen south to th...

502 Diocesis Leodiensis Accurata Tabula Netherlands Jacob Aertz Colom 1660 B+   $90.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 9.6 x 6.4 inches) Delicately engraved small map of the Moselle River valley centered roughly on Liege, also showing the cities of Maastricht, Hasselt, Peer and many more as well as good detail of topography and roads. Jacob Aertsz Colom was the founder of the Colom publishing company. He founded the Navigation School in Amsterdam, and published a number of fine sea charts, coasting pilots and this small atlas of ...

503 La Haie Sejour Ordinaire de la Cour Hollandoise Netherlands Nicholas de Fer 1705 A+   $160.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 13 x 8.8 inches) An attractive little plan of The Hague with the major buildings noted and a key at the left. The plan shows farms, orchards and some charming windmills in the surrounding countryside. The map is graced with two coats of arms, a decorative cartouche and a compass rose.

504 Tiena, Brabantiae Opp: ad amnem Geta, unde casei' Belgium Braun & Hogenberg 1580 A   $120.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 16 x 13 inches) Lovely bird's-eye city plan of Tienen from this monumental work, the first systematic city atlas. The engraving depicts the cathedral, houses, churches, gardens, walls, gates and surrounding canal. Strapwork title cartouche with a gentleman and lady in the foreground in the local attire. German text on verso.

505 Namur Namen Belgium Ortelius/Galle 1588 A passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 4.2 x 3.2 inches) A miniature map centered on Namur and showing the course of the Moselle and Meuse rivers with charming, pictorial topography. French text on verso.

506 Flandria Belgium Ortelius/Coignet 1601 A   $80.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 4.6 x 3.3 inches) Lovely miniature map of Belgium, showing Dunquerque, Ghent and Brussels. The map is adorned with a nice strapwork title cartouche at the upper left. It was engraved by the brothers Ambrose and Ferdinand Arsenius who had been assistants to Frans Hogenburg and co-engravers of Ortelius' folio Theatrum. This series of maps was accompanied by text by Michel Coignet and was published by Jan B....

507 Namurcum Belgium Ortelius/Coignet 1601 A   $40.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 4.8 x 3.3 inches) Lovely miniature map of the southeast part of Belgium. Namur is at the center of the map and Liege is in the upper right corner. The map is adorned with a nice strapwork title cartouche. It was engraved by the brothers Ambrose and Ferdinand Arsenius who had been assistants to Frans Hogenburg and co-engravers of Ortelius' folio Theatrum. This series of maps was accompanied by text by Mic...

508 Gandauum Belgium, Ghent Giovanni Baptista Guicciardini 1612 A   $100.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 12.3 x 9 inches) A charming bird's-eye view of Ghent, based on Braun & Hogenberg's earlier view of the city. The city is shown surrounded by a moat and a fortified wall, and to the left of the city a large number of windmills are depicted. The map is topped with a decorative cartouche and two coats of arms.

509 Leodiensis Dioecesis Belgium Mercator/Jansson 1631 A   $60.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 8 x 5.5 inches) Splendid small map of the Muese River valley, centered roughly on Liege with west oriented at the top of map. German text on the verso.

510 [Lot of 5 - Fortification Plans] Belgium Galaezzo Gualdo Priorato 1673 B+   $250.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 16 x 12 inches) Five uncommon fortification plans from this interesting series. Gualdo Priorato entered military service at a very young age and served in Flanders under the Prince of Orange. During his varied military career he was knighted by the King of France and the Venetian Republic, the Pope made him a Roman noble, Christina of Sweden named him First-Gentleman, and Emperor Leopold I appointed him counsel...

511 Vrankryck Europe - Western Nicolas Sanson 1705 A+   $80.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 9.3 x 7.2 inches) A finely engraved, small map of the western parts of Europe. The map is decorated with a small cartouche in the upper right. From a Dutch edition of Sanson's pocket atlas.

512 Rubeaquum Rufach France, Alsace Sebastian Munster 1550 B+ passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 13.7 x 9.5 inches) A bird's-eye view of the Alsatian village of Rouffach. Set amidst the equally detailed countryside, the view provides individual renderings of each building, the city walls, the Chateau d’Isenbourg and the river which flows in front of the town. A long flowing banner bearing the name of the town and the date 1548 runs across the top. Latin text on verso.

513 Le Vray Pourtraict de la Ville de Nismes France, Nimes Francois de Belleforest 1575 B passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 11.2 x 8 inches) This rare plan of the city of Nimes was designed by Edouard Bredin for the French edition of the Cosmography. The plan is flanked by columns of French text and a key at bottom locates the important buildings. French text on verso.

514 Limaniae Descriptio France Abraham Ortelius 1588 B+   $35.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 4.3 x 3.1 inches) A handsome miniature map of the Limagne basin along the Allier River in northern Auvergne, shown with north oriented to the right. French text on verso.

515 Avriacus Principatus France Ortelius/Galle 1588 A   $42.50 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 4 x 3 inches) Miniature map covering the Rhone River valley including Avignon and Orange and the famous wine region of Chateauneuf-du-Pape. French text on verso.

516 Regionis Biturigum Exactis Descriptio France Ortelius/Galle 1588 B+ passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 4.3 x 3.1 inches) Delightful miniature map of the province of Cher is centered on Bourges, with the Loire River flowing at the top right of the map to Nevers. French text on verso.

517 Artois France Ortelius/Galle 1588 A passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 4.2 x 3.2 inches) A delicately engraved miniature map of the northern province of Artois on the border with Belgium showing the coastal region south of Calais. The map extends inland to include Lille, Douai and Cambrai. French text on verso.

518 Burgundia, Com. France Ortelius/Galle 1588 A   $60.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 4.1 x 3.1 inches) A nice miniature map of the Franche-Comte region centered on Besançon, formerly a fiefdom of the dukes of Burgundy. French text on verso.

519 Galliae Veteris Typus France Abraham Ortelius 1595 B   $300.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 19.5 x 15.5 inches) A lovely map of France during Roman times based on ancient geographical sources including Strabo, Plinius, Virgilius, Ovidius and Caesar. The map is filled with detail and ancient place names. Two ships sail in the stipple engraved oceans and the map is decorated with two fine cartouches. Latin text on verso.

520 Paris Paris, France Munster/Petri 1598 A   $350.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 13 x 10 inches) Charming, woodblock view of the walled medieval city of Paris representing the capital in about 1530, complete with named streets and a lettered key identifying important places. The surrounding countryside is filled with small walled estates, windmills and farmland, while in the foreground two bodies dangle from the gallows. The plan is adorned with coats-of-arms and is surrounded by a striking b...

521 [Die Statt Roschelle] France Sebastian Munster 1598 B+   $100.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 10.5 x 9.2 inches) Bird's-eye plan of the city of Rochelle with its fortifications, with a numbered and lettered key below. The city is shown during a siege in 1557 with Spanish ships attacking the city. German title and text on verso.

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