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473		Germania		Central Europe Gerard Mercator		1610 A		$275.00 Closed
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 19.4 x 14.3 inches) This beautifully engraved map covers Germany and the heart of Europe, extending from France and Holland to Poland, and from Switzerland to Hungary. It is filled with hundreds of place names, mountains, forest, and rivers and decorated with a sailing ship and a boldly engraved title cartouche with a large eagle. Latin text on verso.

474		Le Royaume de Boheme Duche de Silesie Les Marquisat de Moravie et de Lusace		Central Europe Pierre Schenk		1700 A		Available for Purchase
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 22.5 x 18.8 inches) The fine map covers the heart of Europe, the former duchies of Bohemia, Silesia, Moravia and Lusatia. Based on the cartography of Nicolas Sanson, the map is centered roughly on Konigingertz (Konigingratz), and extends to include the southwestern part of Poland and the eastern part of Germany. The map is filled with detail, including towns both large and small and topography. Putti and Diana, go...

475		An Accurate Map of the Seat of War in the Kingdom of Prussia as also in Bohemia, Lusatia, Silesia, Saxony, Westphalia &c.		Central Europe Thomas Kitchin		1763 B+		Available for Purchase
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 8.9 x 7.8 inches) This is an uncommon map from a scarce annual publication. The map describes the European theater of the Seven Years War and extends through Germany to show all of Switzerland, northern Italy and Hungary. This major military conflict ended in 1763 and much of the Annual Register for that year was concerned with the war that involved all of the major European powers of the period.

476		Carte de l'Ancienne Germanie Divisee en Quatre Differentes Nations et les Peuples de Chacune / Germania Antiqua		Central Europe, Germany Henry Abraham Chatelain		1720 B+		$120.00 Closed
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 17.5 x 13.3 inches) Two maps on a folio sheet of French text flanked by two fine engraved views representing religious rites of the ancient German peoples. The maps are fully engraved with mountains, forests and ancient place names and both are decorated with a compass rose. The upper ancient map includes part of Scandinavia. The larger map locates the various states of the area. It extends from Holland to Poland...

477		[Lot of 3] Bavaria [and] Palantinatus Bavariae [and] Sweviae Circulus		Germany		1609-61 A		Available for Purchase
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 0 x 0 inches) Nice lot of small seventeenth century maps covering Bavaria and the Danube River. 1) Bavaria by Ortelius, published in Vrients' Epitome theatri orbis terrarum in 1609 (4.8 x 3.3") The map was engraved by the brothers Ambrose and Ferdinand Arsenius who had been assistants to Frans Hogenberg and co-engravers of Ortelius' folio Theatrum. Latin text on verso. Ref: King (2...

478		Territorium Norimbergense		Germany Willem Blaeu		1640 A+		$250.00 Closed
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 18.5 x 14.3 inches) Centered on Nuremberg with the surrounding countryside pictorially presented. The map is decorated with a large title cartouche surmounted by the trumpeting, female representation of Fame. The cartouche is composed of engraving and book binding tools representing the major trade of Nuremberg. At right is a large inset plan of the city with a key to the major buildings. Dutch text on ver...

479		Populorum Germaniae Inter Rhenum et Albim Descriptio'		Germany Philipp Cluver		1694 A		Available for Purchase
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 9.5 x 7.8 inches) Two maps, on one sheet, covering the same area (nearly all of present day Germany). The map shows subtle differences in the political boundaries and place names during the Roman period, under the administration of Caesar and Trajan. An interesting comparison for the collector of German cartography.

480		Chorographia Territorii Naumburgo-Citiensis'		Germany Johann Georg Schreiber		1732 B+		Available for Purchase
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 21.5 x 17.8 inches) Designed by Schreiber and published by Homann Heirs, the handsome map centers on Zeitz and the Weisse Elster. It includes the fortresses at Naumburg, Weissenfels, Pegau, Altenburg and Gerau. A key at upper right provides the symbols used to distinguish eleven different types of cities, including fortresses, market towns, towns with castles, villages with churches, mills towns, etc. The pictoria...

481		Comitatum Oldenburg et Delmenhorst'		Germany Homann Heirs		1761 B+		Available for Purchase
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 19.5 x 19.5 inches) This handsome map of the vicinity of Oldenburg was prepared by Johann Wilhelm Anton Hunrich during the reign of Frederick V of Denmark. The map provides intricate detail of the region with forests, marshes, roads, windmills, villages, estates, churches, dikes, and forts. The title cartouche features the coat of arms and monogram of Frederick V.

482		Folium LLXVIIII [De Sarmacia regione Europe]		Poland Johann Schonsperger		1497 A		$275.00 Closed
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 5.5 x 3.5 inches) An imaginary woodcut view of the Polish region of ancient Sarmatia on a full sheet (8.3 x 12") of Latin text. It is from a rare reduced edition of the Nuremberg Chronicle, that is often called the Mini-Schedel. Hartmann Schedel's Nuremberg Chronicle, published in 1493, presented the history of the world in a pictorial encyclopedia. Among the illustrations were views of towns ...

483		Der Koniglichen Republik Polen Woiwodschaften Krakow u Sandomir mit dem untern'		Poland Franz Johhan Joseph Von Reilly		1789 A+		$150.00 Closed
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 11.2 x 8.2 inches) This is an uncommon copper engraved map of the southern part of Poland including the cities of Krakow, Radom, Lublin, and Crestochowa. Warsaw is in the extreme north part of the chart. The map provides full detail of the tiny villages and the roads connecting the major cities. It is crisply engraved and decorated with a handsome title cartouche. Franz von Reilly was a Viennese art dealer and m...

484		Regni Bohemiae Descriptio		Czech Republic Abraham Ortelius		1579 B		$200.00 Closed
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 20.2 x 13.3 inches) Based on the cartography of Johann Criginger 1521-1571, this fine map places Prague near center. It is boldly engraved in Ortelius' style; mountains and forests and hundreds of tiny villages are shown. Two sumptuous strapwork cartouches decorate the bottom. Latin text on verso.

485		Bohemia		Czech Republic Matthias von Kinckelbach Quad		1600 B+		$190.00 Closed
Click on the Title for details and to bid on this lot. (Size: 10.4 x 7.2 inches) A bold map centered on the Vltava (Molda) River and densely engraved to depict the forested hills and populated valleys of the region. The map was drawn by Johann Bussemacher and engraved by Henricus Nagel. German text on verso.