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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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The first western printed map of the world
HISPALENSIS, Isidorus, 1472.
£25,000
An unusually beautiful example of Reger’s re-issue of the Ulm Ptolemy
PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius; Johannes SCHNITZER OF ARMSZHEIM, 1486.
£225,000
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 first map of Arabia printed in colours
PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius; Bernadus SYLVANUS, 1511.
£8,000
The first map devoted to America to appear in an atlas
PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius and Martin WALDSEEMULLER, 1513.
£50,000
The Admiral’s map
PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius; Martin WALDESEEMULLER , 1513.
£80,000
Waldeseemuller’s map of Scandinavia
WALDESEEMULLER, 1513.
£8,000
The first available printed map to bear the name America
APIANUS, Petrus, 1520.
£50,000
The first widely circulated map showing the world on an oval projection
BORDONE, Benedetto di, 1522.
£4,000
Fries’ map of the New World
PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius; Michael VILLANOVANUS, known as ‘SERVETUS and Laurent FRIES, 1541.
£10,000
From Terra Incognita to Terra Nova
PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius, 1541.
£8,000
First printed star charts to show the constellations from a terrestrial viewpoint
HONTER, Johannes, 1541.