Early woodcut map of Poland and Lithuania from the German edition of Sebastian Münster’s Cosmographia, published in Basel in 1598 by Sebastian Henricpetri. The map is printed on page 1236 (“Mccxxxvj”) of the Fourth Book, at the head of chapter 56. The chapter title translates as “Description of all the lands that were once subject to the Kingdom of Poland, or otherwise had dealings with it.”

The map covers the lands of the Polish–Lithuanian state, with north at the top. It runs from Danzig (“Dantzg”), Prussia (“Prüssen”), Thorn (“Thora”) and Silesia (“Schlesi”) in the west to Lithuania (“Litaw”), Vilnius (“Vilna”) and Kyiv (“Kyouia”) in the east, and south to Ruthenia (“Rüssen”) and Podolia. Other names include Kraków (“Cracow”), Lviv (“Lemburg”), Przemyśl (“Premisl”), Chełm, Płock (“Plotzko”), Grodno and Lutsk (“Lutzko”). The Vistula (“Wixel fl.”), Warta, Oder, Pilica, Narew, Neman and Bug rivers are marked. Forests are drawn as clusters of trees, mountains as small peaks and towns as little castle vignettes. The map also shows a “Sarmatie see” and the legendary “Amadoca see”, a lake taken from Ptolemy’s Geography.

Below the map, Münster begins his history of Poland’s rulers. He tells of Piast, a man of humble birth chosen as ruler at Kruszwica (“Crußnitz”), who moved the royal seat to Gniezno (“Gnesnam oder Gnisen”). He continues with Piast’s successors and with Mieszko I, the first Christian prince, baptized in 965 after marrying a daughter of Boleslaus of Bohemia. The text lists the nine bishoprics Mieszko founded, among them Gniezno, Kraków, Poznań and Płock, and ends with the marriage of his son Bolesław to a daughter of the King of Hungary in 984.

On the reverse (page 1235, “Mccxxxv”) is a typeset family tree of Poland’s rulers, titled “Von dem Hertzoge oder König Pyast vnd seinen nachkommenden Königen vnnd Fürsten” (Of Duke or King Piast and the kings and princes descended from him). Münster introduces it:

“So that you may see in brief how the kings and dukes of the land of Poland sprang from the first stem, Piast, I have drawn almost all of them into one figure. I will then take them one after another and tell briefly of their deeds and what happened in their time.”

Twenty-six numbered rulers run from Piast through the Piast dukes and kings. A line across the tree reads “Bey dieser Linien ist das Königlich Regiment blieben” (The royal rule remained with this line). The tree ends with the rulers connected to Lithuania: Queen Jadwiga (“Hedwig”) and her husband Jogaila (“Jagello, dessen Tauffnamme Vladislaus”, whose baptismal name was Władysław), then Władysław, King of Hungary and Poland, and Casimir, “Herr in Littaw vnd König zu Polandt” (Lord of Lithuania and King of Poland). Casimir’s sons follow: Władysław, Casimir (St. Casimir, patron saint of Lithuania), John Albert, Alexander, Frederick and Sigismund. The last name in the tree is Sigismund Augustus, the last Jagiellonian king of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania.

Map comes from the rare German edition of Sebastian Münster’s Cosmography, titled “Cosmographey, das ist Beschreibung aller Länder, herzschaften und für nemesten Stetten des gantzen Erdbodens sampt ihren Gelegenheiten, Eygenschaften, Religion, Gebräuchen, Geschichten und Handtierungen... / durch hern Sebastianum Munster...”, published in 1598 by Sebastianum Henricpetri in Basel. It was one of the most influential geographical works of the 16th Century.
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Cartographer:      Sebastian Munster​ (1488 – 1552)

Publisher:              Sebastian Henricpetri

Sheet size:              34,4 x 21,7 cm
Year:                         1598
Technique:             woodcut

Condition:
Good condition.
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Extremely rare and decorative antique map of Poland, Lithuania, Livonia, Belarus and Ukraine, published in Paris under the name of Pierre Duval, Geographer to the King and nephew of Nicolas Sanson. Duval died in 1683, and his wife and daughters took over his business, so the date 1686 marks a posthumous issue.
The map covers the whole Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, from Pomerania and Silesia in the west to Smolensk and Muscovy in the east. It runs from Livonia and Courland in the north to Moldavia, Transylvania and the Black Sea coast in the south. Names appear in 17th-century French spellings, including Samogitie, Vilne (Vilnius), Troki (Trakai), Kouno (Kaunas), Grodno, Novogrodeck and Minsk. Forests, the Pripet marshes of Polesie, rivers and province lettering are drawn throughout.

A legend ("Explication des Marques") identifies archbishoprics, Catholic and "schismatic" (Orthodox) bishoprics, palatinates, castellanies, imperial and Hanseatic towns and battlefields. A scroll at upper left carries a French description of the kingdom. It covers the kingdom's size and produce, its elective monarchy (the king elected at Warsaw and crowned at Kraków by the Archbishop of Gniezno), the Polish nobility and cavalry, and the lands of the Cossacks ("Cosaques") Ukraine, Little Tartary ("Petite Tartarie"), the fortress of Kudack and Ochakiv ("Oczackou"), and the gulf labeled "Golfe de Nigropoli". Small pictorial views of Vienna and Pressburg sit at lower left, and the sheet carries the Paris imprint of Jollain ("Se vendent a Paris chez Iollain rue S. Iaque a l'Enfant Jesus, privilege du Roy.").

On top left corner description's translation:

"The scroll at upper left reads, in translation: Poland is the largest kingdom of Europe, more than 300 of our leagues long and a little less wide. It is fertile in grain, wax and honey; its finest furs come from Muscovy; and it enjoys both the Baltic and the Black Sea, the Vistula, Niemen and Dvina flowing to the Baltic and the Dnieper, Bug and Dniester to the Black Sea. The kingdom is elective: the King is elected by the Senate at Warsaw and crowned at Kraków by the Archbishop of Gniezno. The Church and the Senate make up the estates; the bishops rank first after the King, then the palatines and castellans. The nobles are equal, and only offices decide precedence. The Poles wear long garments, shave their beards and keep a single tuft of hair. Their cavalry has reached 100,000 horse, but confidence, and fear of making a king or the townsmen too powerful, has led them to neglect fortresses. Most towns are built of wood. The Cossacks form a militia against the Lesser Tatars and the Turks, living in the lower parts of Volhynia and Podolia called "Ukraine," that is, "Desert." Having rebelled in recent years, these people began the misfortunes of the State. The principal cities are Kraków, Poznań, Warsaw, Vladislau, Marienburg, Königsberg, Vilnius, Kyiv, Kamieniec and Lwów. Danzig, Elbing, Thorn and Culm, in Royal Prussia, are free cities under Poland's protection."

Separately issued sheet map, published in Paris by Gérard Jollain the younger (rue Saint-Jacques, à l'Enfant Jésus) under Pierre Duval's name, three years after Duval's death.

Author:                 Pierre Du Val (1618–1683)

Publisher:            Gérard Jollain II (1638–1724)
Sheet size:            54,9 x 44,6 cm
Year:                       1686
Technique:           copper engraving

Condition:
Good, original condition. Watermarked paper. Wide margins with the plate mark visible. Two small binding holes in the left margin and a few light marginal spots.

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Map comes from the Johann Baptist Homann atlas “Grosser Atlas ueber die ganze Welt“ published in Nuremberg 1736.

Cartographer:      Johann Baptist Homann (1664-1724)
Sheet size:              60,7 x 51,9 cm
Year:                         1736
Technique:            copper engraving

Condition:
Good condition, original hand coloring. Watermarked paper. Lower middle field separation present.

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Cartographer:     Jan Nieprecki (1719-1754)
Sheet size:             67,0 x 57,5 cm
Year:                        1795
Technique:           copper engraving

Condition:
Good condition. Original hand coloring. Wide margins. Strong press on watermarked paper, lightly age toned.

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“Campus Inter Bohum et Borystenem . . . ​Lectori S. Hunc Borysthenis tractum ut ad nostrum Geographiae tabulam . . .​”
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Description:
This is the famous Radvila's (Radziwill) map of Lithuania which occupies a very prominent position among works of European cartography from the end of the 16th and the beginning of the 17th century and is an important contribution to the progress in the mapping of the whole continent. The map had its beginning in 1586 when Prince Michael Radziwill commissioned M. Strubicz to survey the entire Lithuanian state which then included Poland. The resulting map was so accurate and detailed that it provided the basis for all subsequent maps of the area during the 17th and 18th centuries: rivers and small communities are not only indicated but considerable historical information is also provided. It also includes a number of historical notations and two vignettes illustrating important battles west of Smolensk and between Braclaw and Cherkasy. It is the first published map to include the name “Ukraina.” The region west of Kiova (Kyiv) is called Volynia Ulterior, quae tum Ukraina tum nis ab aliis volcitatur. The map shows 1020 towns and villages and within the boundaries of the Grand Dutchy of Lithuania alone there are 511 towns, 31 villages, and 1 monastery.

The second map showing the course of the Dnieper River from Cherkasy to the estuary on the Black Sea. The map is in strip style with two vertical maps following the course of the river, each decorated with cartouches and compass roses and including numerous lengthy notations describing the cataracts, cities, salt mines, fortresses, and the historical traditions of the Kozaks. Putti flank a large cartouche at bottom. French text on verso.

Two separate maps, can be joined together.

Comes from Willem Janszoon Blaeu French atlas ” Theatrum orbis terrarum, sive atlas novus in quo tabulae et descriptiones omnium regionum ” engraved by Graveris Hessel Gerritsz, published in Amsterdam, 1643.

Map Maker:       Hessel Gerritsz /  Willem Janszoon Blaeu
Sheets size:         77,2 x 78,7 cm​​ & 78,8 x 47,0 cm
Place / Date:​       Amsterdam / 1643
Technique:         copper engraving

Condition:
Good condition. Attractive hand coloring. Few restorations along the horizontal folds on verso. Few small marginal splits present.

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The map comes from Georges-Louis Le Rouge atlas "Atlas Nouveau Portatif" issued in Paris, 1756.

Cartographer:      Georges-Louis Le Rouge (17121 - 1790)
Sheet size:              34,0 x 23,2 cm
Year:                         1756
Technique:             copper engraving
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Condition:
Very good condition. Strong press on watermarked paper, contemporary coloring.

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Comes from the Carlo Antonio Barbellini book „Atlante delle geografia antica e moderna ”, engraved by Giuseppe Caniani, published in Milan 1807.

Engraver:             Giuseppe Caniani (1773-18..)
Sheet size:            41,6 x 28,0 cm
Year:                       1807
Technique:           copper engraving

Condition:
Very good condition. Contemporary coloring.
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Description:
Very rare Ptolemaic map of European Sarmatia (Sarmatia Europae), a historical classical region covering modern-day Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Southern Russia. The map prominently features the Tauric Chersonese (Crimea Peninsula) pointing down into the Palus Maeotis (Sea of Azov) on the lower right. It features ancient mountain ranges like the Hyperborean and Riphean mountains drawn in a stylized, early Renaissance pictorial format.

Verso, on left side (Nona Evro) depicts the ancient Roman Balkans and Central-Eastern Europe. It clearly marks ancient provinces such as Dacia (modern Romania & Moldova), Iaziges Metanaste, Mysia Superior and Inferior (modern Serbia, Bulgaria), and Thracia. The right side (Pae Tabula) showing the Sicily island, Italy.

Silvano’s 1511 book is famous for being one of the earliest to utilize two-color printing (red ink for major regional names and black ink for local topography and smaller text labels).

Comes from the Bernardus Sylvanus book „Claudii Ptholemaei Alexandrini Liber Geographiae cum tabulis et universali figura et cum additione locorum quae a recentioribus reperta sunt diligenti cura emendatus et impressus.", published by Jacobus Pentius de Leucho in Venice, 1511.

Cartographer:     Bernardus Sylvanus (1465- 15..)
Sheet size:              53,0 x 42,0 cm
Year:                        1511
Technique:            woodcut
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Condition:
Good condition. The map professionally cleaned and margins restored. Lower margin extended.
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Description:
Very rare and decorative map of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The map includes parts of modern-day Poland, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, Latvia (Courland), and Russia. It spans dynamically from the Baltic Sea (Mare Balticum / Oost Zee) down toward the Black Sea region. Positioned in the lower-left corner, the highly detailed title cartouche features allegorical figures, including a Roman-style soldier/general holding a shield with heraldic crests and stylized figures representing local nobility and regional personifications. First edition.

The map comes from the atlas “Atlas Bij Iustus Danckers in de Calverftraet inde Dancbaerheijt…” published by Cornelis Danckerts II in Amsterdam, 1700.

Cartographer:   Cornelis Danckerts II (1664–1717 )
Sheet size:            65,8 x 55,5 cm
Year:                      1700
Technique:           copper engraving
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Condition:
Good condition. Original outline coloring. A few small marginal splits and brownish spots present.

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The map comes from the German edition of Sebastian Münster’s Cosmography, titled “Cosmographey: das ist, Beschreibung aller Länder, Herrschafften, vnd fürnemesten Stetten, des gantzen Erdbodens : sampt jhren Gelegenheiten, Eygenschafften, Religion, Gebräuchen, Geschichten vnd Handtierungen, etc.”, published in 1628 by Heinrich Petri in Basel.
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Cartographer:      Sebastian Munster​ (1488 – 1552)
Leaf size:                41,8 x 33,9 cm
Year:                       1628
Technique:            woodcut

Condition:
Good, original condition.
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Description:

Very detailed map of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth by Franz Ludwig Güssefeld's, first edition of the map, capturing the geographic reality immediately following the Second Partition in 1793. During this brief transitional period, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth still existed as a heavily reduced rump state. The remaining central territory shown on your map would only last for two more years before the final Third Partition completely dissolved the nation in 1795.

Created by German cartographer Franz Ludwig Güssefeld and published in Weimar by the Verlag des Industrie Comtoirs in 1793.

Cartographer:    Franz Ludwig Güssefeld (1744-1807)

Sheet size:            63,6 x 55,0 cm

Year:                      1793

Technique:         copper engraving

Condition:
Very good condition. Watermarked paper. Contemporary hand coloring.

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The map comes from Franz Anton Schraembl atlas “Allgemeiner Grosser Atlas- hrgb. von Franz Anton Schraembl…”  engraved by Heronimus Benedicti and published by Joseph Philipp Schalbacher in Viena, 1788.

Cartographers: 

Franz Anton Schraembl (1751-1803)

Giovanni Antonio Rizzi Zannoni (1736–1814)

Georg Friedrich Uz (1742-1793)

Theodor Pfau (1725–1794)

Bartolomeo de Folino (1730–1808)

Leaves sizes:       4 * 51,6 x 45,0 cm
Year:                       1788
Technique:           copper engraving

Condition:
Good condition. Strong press on watermarked paper. A few brownish spots present.

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Extremely rare antique map of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania divided into its administrative palatinates (voivodeships) and castellanies. It depicts parts of modern-day Lithuania, Belarus, Poland, Latvia, and Ukraine. The Cartouche: The decorative title cartouche features the traditional Lithuanian coat of arms — Vytis — depicting a charging knight on horseback. The regions are color-coded to emphasize administrative borders, complete with meticulous hand-drawn symbols for forests, mountain ranges, and major river systems.

The geographical layout was originally created and engraved by the Dutch cartographer Justus Danckerts in Amsterdam. Following the decline of the Danckerts firm, the Ottens brothers acquired their inventory of printing plates in 1726. They modified the cartouche at the top to display their own imprint—"Authore per R. & J. Ottens"—and sold it inside their own commercial atlase "Atlas Maior" published in Amsterdam.

Cartographer:   Renier Ottens (1698–1750) & Joshua Ottens (1704–1765)

Sheet size:             62,6 x 53,3 cm

Year:                     1726

Technique:           copper engraving

Condition:
Very good, original condition. attractive hand coloring.

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Very decorative antique map illustrating the territories of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth during the early 18th century, including present-day Poland, Lithuania, Belarus, Latvia, and  Ukraine. Decorative title cartouche with trumpeting angels riding on mythical sea-horses.

The map comes from the book „Nouvel Atlas, tres-exact et fort commode pour toutes sortes de personnes, Contenant les Principales Cartes Geographiques. Dresse suivant les nouvelles observations de Mrs. de l’Academie Royale des Sciences, & rectifie sur les Relations les plus recentes des plus fideles voyageurs. A Leide, Chez Pierre Van der Aa.” published and engraved by Pieter van der Aa in Leiden, 1714.

Publisher:           Pieter van der Aa (1659 – 1733)
Sheet size:           35,0 x 24,7 cm
Year:                      1714
Technique:           copper engraving

Condition:
Very good, original condition. Watermarked paper. Folds as published.

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A rare, early and finely engraved map of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, from the 1593 second edition of the de Jode atlas, Speculum Orbis Terrae. The plate was engraved by Gerard de Jode and published after his death by his son Cornelis. Polish map historians count it among the most beautiful engraved maps of Poland of the 16th century.

The map covers the Commonwealth from Pomerania and the Oder in the west to Borisov and Volhynia in the east, and from Samogitia and the Neman down to the Carpathians. The Grand Duchy of Lithuania is named across the top right, with Vilnius, Trakai, Kaunas, Grodno, Brest and Pinsk marked, and Podlasie carries its own label, “Litvania Ducatus”. Prussia and the Baltic coast, with the Hel Peninsula and the Vistula Spit, follow Caspar Henneberger’s new survey of 1576. Forests are drawn as clusters of trees and mountains as small hills. On the Pomeranian coast the map even marks Wineta, the legendary sunken city of the Baltic.

In the lower left is a portrait of King Sigismund III Vasa (1566–1632) in armour, holding a sceptre. The plate was first issued with a portrait of King Stefan Batory dated 1576. After Batory’s death the copper was burnished and re-engraved with the new king, and faint traces of Batory’s likeness remain beneath Sigismund’s. The inscription, with the engraver’s spelling “Sigusmun”, still calls him only “next heir of the King of Sweden”. That title was already out of date when the atlas appeared, because Sigismund succeeded his father as King of Sweden in November 1592.

The title cartouche in the upper left is flanked by two winged sirens and sits above “Balticum Mare” and a compass rose.

The verso carries Latin text headed “Poloniae Regnum”, with page number “Fol. 10” and signature “Ll”. It describes Poland’s regions and rivers, its honey and wax, and the famous salt mines of Bochnia and Wieliczka. The page number and signature identify this as the 1593 edition.

Published in Antwerp in 1593 “sumptibus Viduae et Heredum Gerardi de Iudaeis”, at the expense of Gerard de Jode’s widow and heirs, and printed by Arnold Coninx.

Gerard de Jode planned his atlas as a direct rival to Abraham Ortelius’s Theatrum Orbis Terrarum of 1570. Ortelius used his influential connections to delay de Jode’s publishing privilege for years, so the first edition only appeared in 1578. Gerard died in 1591, and Cornelis completed the expanded second edition in 1593. Neither edition sold well. When Cornelis died in 1600, the copper plates were bought by Joan Baptista Vrients, the publisher of Ortelius’s atlas, and the Speculum was never printed again. De Jode maps are therefore far scarcer than their Ortelius counterparts.

Cartographer:    Gerard de Jode (c. 1509–1591)

Publisher:             Cornelis de Jode (1568–1600)
Frame size:            55,1 x 40,8 cm
Year:                       1593 (second state; first state with portrait of Stefan Batory)
Technique:            copper engraving

References:         Kret, Katalog dawnych map Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej, no. 61; Imago Poloniae II, K 74/2
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Condition:
Very good, original condition. Uncoloured. Watermarked paper with wide margins. Centrefold as issued. Latin text on verso.
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"Serenisimo Principi ac Domino DN. Christiano Ernesto March Polonicae Maiestatis Socero humiltime D.D.D. Author Ioh. Baptista Homanno Geogr. C. Norimbergae”

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Description:
Very rare, FIRST STATE, antique map of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, extending from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea. This specific edition is dedicated to Augustus II the Strong (Elector of Saxony and King of Poland), reflecting the dynastic union between Saxony and the Commonwealth at the time. Below the text, two putti (cherubic figures) hold the Coat of Arms of the Commonwealth, which features the Polish Eagle and the Lithuanian Vytis. Surmounting the entire heraldic arrangement is a closed royal crown, which symbolizes the sovereignty and independence of the Commonwealth.

Cartographer:      Johann Baptist Homann (1664-1724)
Sheet size:           60,7 x 51,0 cm
Year:                     1705
Technique:         copper engraving

Condition:
Good condition. Attractive hand coloring. Original print crease in upper right corner.

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Comes from Johannes Janssonius atlas "Novus Atlas" published in Amsterdam, 1656.

Cartographer:       Johannes Janssonius (1588 – 1664)
Sheet size:             56,7 x 45,0 cm
Year:                        1656
Technique:            copper engraving
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Condition:
Good condition. Narrow upper margin. Rare uncolored edition.

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This is very rare, Dutch language, Joan Blaeu atlas "Atlas Maior Sive Cosmographia Blaviana, Qua Solvm, Salvm, Coelvm, Accvratissime Describvntvr…  Amstelaedami: labore & sumptibus Ioannis Blaeu..."  published in Amsterdam, 1663.

Cartographer:    Joan Blaeu ( 1596-1673)
Sheet size:            56,4 x 45,0 cm
Year:                      1663
Technique:          copper engraving

Condition:
Good condition. Narrow upper margin. Watermarked paper.

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Comes from the French edition atlas "Gerardi Mercatoris et I. Hondii Atlas ou Representation du Monde Universel, et des Parties d’icelui, faicte en Tables et Descriptions tres amples, et exactes: divisé en deux tomes. Edition nouvelle A Amsterdam chez Henry Hondius" published in Amsterdam, by H. Hondius, 1633.

Cartographer:   Gerardus Mercator (1512 – 1594)
Sheet size:           54,6 x 42,5 cm
Year:                     1633
Technique:         copper engraving

Condition:
Very good condition. Paper with map maker's watermark. Contemporary coloring.
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Comes from the atlas "Atlas minor praecipua orbis terrarum imperia, Regna et Provincias, Germaniae Potissimum, tabellis 50 exacte declineatis sistens usui militiae ducum ac peregrinantium maxime accomodatus opera Matthaei Seutteri, Sac. Caes. Maj. Geogr. Aug. Vind. Jacob Christoph Weyerman" published by Jacob Christoph Weyerman in Augsburg.

Cartographer:     Tobias Conrad Lotter ( 1717 – 1777 )
Sheet size:             28,0 x 21,7 cm
Year:                       1774
Technique:           copper engraving

Condition:
Very good condition, attractive hand coloring.
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This is an original antique map published in 1774 and NOT a modern copy or reprint

The post 1774 – T. C. Lotter – Poloniae Regnum appeared first on Antique Maps.

The map comes from Abraham Ortelius' First Latin edition atlas “Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. Auctoris aere & cura impressum absolutumque apud Aegid. Coppenium Diest, Antverpiae”, published in Antwerp, 1570.

Cartographer/ publisher:           Abraham Ortelius (1527 - 1598)​
Sheet size:                                             53,8 x 41,8 cm
Year:                                                        1570
Technique:                                           copper engraving

Condition:
Very good condition. Strong press on watermarked paper. Contemporary hand coloring.

This is an original antique map published in 1570 and NOT a modern copy or reprint

The post 1570 – A. Ortelius – Poloniae Finitimarumque appeared first on Antique Maps.

Rare and very detailed map of Grand Duchy of Lithuania. This is unique map because it shows territories of Grand Duchy of Lithuania without Samogitia (Žemaitija). It also represents the regions of  Polocensis, Witepskiernsis, Miadzial, Trocensis, Vilnensis, Novogrodensiz, Bressicensis, Pinscensis, Modziriae, Mrzeczycensis, Rohaczoviense, Mohiloviensis, Mscislaw, Orsa, Minsciens and others. The cartouche features ornate illustrations including a huntsman, reflecting the wilderness and people of the Duchy. The horse and dogs symbolize the dense forests and hunting culture of the area. Barrels, beehive and goods represent the region's trade, specifically agricultural exports and timber.

The map comes from the atlas „Atlas géographique de cent et huit cartes générales et spéciales / par les géographes Tobie Conrad Lotter, Matthieu Seutter, et Jan-Michel Probst a Augsburg et par les Heritiers de Homan a Nurnberg, 1778" engraved by Georg Friedrich Lotter, published in Nurnberg, 1778.

Cartographer:     Tobias Conrad Lotter ( 1717 – 1777 )
Sheet size:             63,5 x 53,8 cm
Year:                        1778
Technique:            copper engraving
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Condition:
Very good condition. Original, contemporary, hand coloring.
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This is an original antique map published in 1778 and not a modern copy or reprint

The post 1778 – T. C. Lotter – Magnus Ducatus Lithuania appeared first on Antique Maps.

Antique copper engraved map of Lithuania, Prussia and a part of Latvia, Poland with an explicative text to both sides.

Comes from Jean Baptiste Louis Clouet atlas "Geographie moderne avec une introduction. Ouvrage utile a tous ceux qui veulent se perfectionner dans cette science" published in Paris, 1780.

Cartographer:     Jean Baptiste Louis Clouet (1729 - 1790)
Sheet size:             57,5 x 57,6 cm
Year:                        1780
Technique:           copper engraving

Condition:
Good condition. Contemporary hand coloring. Paper with original map maker's watermark.

This is an original antique map published in 1780 and NOT a modern copy or reprint

On your request I will provide a Certificate of Authenticity

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Unknown cartographer and publisher.

If you have more information about this map please let me know: info@antique-maps.lt
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Cartographer:         unknown
Sheet size:                  36,0 x 26,0 cm
Year:                             c. 1880
Technique:                lithography

Condition:
Good, original condition.

This is an original antique map published circa 1880 and NOT a modern copy or reprint

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Unknown cartographer and publisher.

If you have more information about this map please let me know: info@antique-maps.lt
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Cartographer:         unknown
Sheet size:                  36,0 x 26,0 cm
Year:                             c. 1880
Technique:                lithography

Condition:
Good, original condition.

This is an original antique map published circa 1880 and NOT a modern copy or reprint

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Unknown cartographer and publisher.

If you have more information about this map please let me know: info@antique-maps.lt
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Cartographer:         unknown
Sheet size:                  36,0 x 26,0 cm
Year:                             c. 1880
Technique:                lithography

Condition:
Good, original condition.

This is an original antique map published circa 1880 and NOT a modern copy or reprint

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Antique map showing the the Baltic states and parts of European Russia during the Napoleonic era, prepared by J. E. Knittel published by Johann Walch in Augsburg 1812.

Author:                  Johann Walch (1757-1816)
Sheet size:            68,2 x 56,0 cm
Year:                       1812
Technique:           copper engraving

Condition:
Good condition. Contemporary coloring.

This is an original antique map published in 1812 and NOT a modern copy or reprint

On your request I will provide a Certificate of Authenticity

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Map comes from the German edition of Sebastian Münster’s Cosmography, titled “Cosmographey oder beschreibung aller Länder...”, published in 1574 by Heinrich Petri in Basel. It was one of the most influential geographical works of the 16th Century.
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Cartographer:      Sebastian Munster​ (1488 – 1552)
Frame size:              34,4 x 21,7 cm
Year:                         1574
Technique:             woodcut

Condition:
Good condition.
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This is an original antique map published in 1574 and NOT a modern copy or reprint

On your request I will provide a Certificate of Authenticity

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Comes from the Giovanni Maria Cassini atlas “Nuovo Atlante Geografico Universale delineato sulle ultime osservazioni” published in Rome, 1796.

Cartographer:         Giovanni Maria Cassini (1745–1824)
Sheet size:                  42,5 x 56,4 cm
Year:                             1796
Technique:                  copper engraving

Condition:
Good condition. Contemporary hand coloring, strong press on watermarked paper. Slight traces of foxing, browning and wear.

This is an original antique map published in 1796 and NOT a modern copy or reprint

On your request I will provide a Certificate of Authenticity

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Very decorative and rare antique copper engraved map of Poland, Lithuania and parts of Latvia, Belarus and Ukraine. It depicts the Polish boundaries set following the First partition of Poland and Lithuanian common wealth. To the left and right of the map are paste downs of French text with remarks and description of the map. Surrounding the whole map is an elaborate decorative border featuring floral arrangements, surveying tools, elaborate baroque scalloping and a winged globe.

The map comes from Louis Brion de la Tour atlas "Atlas General Methodique et Élémentaire, pour l'étude de la Géographie et de l'Histoire moderne adapté a toutes les Géographies, mais particulerement a celle de l'Abbé Nicole de la Croix: dressé d'après les meuileures Cartes Françoises et Etrangers .... A Paris chez le Sr. Desnos Ingénieur-Géographe pour les Globes et Spheres .... M.DCC.LXXVI." published by Louis Charles Desnos in Paris, 1766.

Cartographer:     Louis Brion de la Tour (1743-1803)
Sheet size:             40,0 x 56,3 cm
Year:                        1766
Technique:            copper engraving
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Condition:
Good, original condition. Middle fold as issued. Watermarked paper.

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This is an original antique map published in 1766 and NOT a modern copy or reprint.

On your request I will provide a Certificate of Authenticity

The post 1766 – L. Brion – Etats de Pologne et de Lithuanie appeared first on Antique Maps.