Maps
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 striking map of Egypt and Libya from the 1482 Ulm Ptolemy
PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius [translated by ANGELUS, Jacobus, edited by GERMANUS, Nicolaus], 1482.
£15,000
Trapezoid projection of the Caspian Sea
PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius, 1490.
£4,000
Northern Africa
PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius, 1490.
£2,000
“Outlandish creatures and beings that were thought to inhabit the furthermost parts of the earth”.
SCHEDEL, D. Hartmann, 1493.
£24,000
Outlandish creatures and beings from the furthermost parts of the earth
SCHEDEL, D. Hartman , 1493.
£23,000
An intermediate state?
REISCH, Gregor, 1504.
£10,000
Ukraine and Russia
PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius, 1507.
£3,000
The second printed map of Turkey
PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius, 1507.
£6,000
The Admiral’s map
PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius; and Martin WALDSEEMULLER, 1513.
£80,000
The first map devoted to America to appear in an atlas
PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius and Martin WALDSEEMULLER, 1513.
£50,000
Waldeseemuller’s map of Scandinavia
WALDESEEMULLER, 1513.
£8,000
“The first printed map of European origin devoted to Southeast Asia and its islands” (Suarez)
PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius; FRIES, Laurent; and GRÜNINGER, Johann, 1522.
£7,200
Kingdoms of gold and silver
PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius; FRIES, Laurent; and GRÜNINGER, Johann, 1522.
£1,100
Fries! You are under arrest for plagiarism.
FRIES, Lorenz; after Martin WALDSEEMÜLLER, 1525.
£4,000
Fries’s map of the New World
PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius; Michael VILLANOVANUS, known as ‘SERVETUS and Laurent FRIES, 1541.
£10,000
The first printed plan of Amsterdam
ANTHONISZ, Cornelis, 1553.
£350,000
The first printed map of Northeastern America
RAMUSIO, Giovanni Battista, and GASTALDI, Giacomo, 1556.
£9,000
“The first separate map of any Southeast Asia island based on actual observation” (Suarez)
RAMUSIO, Giovanni Battista; and GASTALDI, Giacomo, 1556.