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We specialise in rare and historic maps, dating from the 15th to the 19th centuries. Buy rare, vintage, and antique maps, town plans, and sea charts depicting the UK, America, Asia, Africa, and all parts of the world.
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A reduction of the world map of “one of the greatest cartographers of the sixteenth century” from the first atlas to contain maps of the American continent
GASTALDI, Giacomo., 1548.
£2,000
£1,600
The first printed plan of Amsterdam
ANTHONISZ, Cornelis, 1553.
£350,000
£280,000
The first printed map of Northeastern America
RAMUSIO, Giovanni Battista, and GASTALDI, Giacomo, 1556.
£9,000
£5,400
Gastaldi’s hemispherical map of the Americas
RAMUSIO, Giovanni Battista and GASTALDI, Giacomo, 1556.
£6,000
£3,600
“The first separate map of any Southeast Asia island based on actual observation” (Suarez)
RAMUSIO, Giovanni Battista; and GASTALDI, Giacomo, 1556.
£550
£440
Franciscus’s map of the Holy Land
FRANCISCUS DELLA GATTA, Johannes, 1557.
£12,000
£7,200
Ligorio’s rare map of Flanders
LIGORIO, Pirro, 1558.
£7,000
£4,200
The most important maps of the Middle East and Arabia published in the sixteenth century
GASTALDI, Giacomo & LAFRERI, Antonio, 1561.
£125,000
£100,000
A Plat of King’s Lyn
BELL, Henry, 1561.
£600
£360
Gastaldi’s seminal map of Southeast Asia
GASTALDI, Giacomo, FORLANI, Paolo & BERTELLI, Ferrando, 1562.
£125,000
£100,000
Salamanca and Lafreri’s double-cordiform world
SALAMANCA, Antonio, 1564.
£70,000
£56,000
Forlani’s magnificent plan of Venice
FORLANI, Paolo; ZALTIERI, Bolognini, 1566.
£30,000
£18,000
Forlani’s map of the Holy Land
FORLANI, Paolo, 1566.
£13,000
£7,800
The only map of Sri Lanka published by the Lafreri school
?LAFRERI, Antonio, 1570.
£3,000
£2,400
The earliest extant plan of London
BRAUN, Georg and Franz HOGENBERG, 1574.
£8,000
£6,400
One of the earliest maps to reference Singapore
GASTALDI, Giacomo; after, 1574.
£600
£480
One of only a few maps of the period created from first-hand knowledge
THEVET, Andre, 1575.
£13,000
£7,800
Belle Forest’s fine woodcut plan
BELLE FOREST, François de, 1575.