A beautiful map with bold mountains. This edition of Ptolemy, which was reduced in size with Latin text, was first compiled by Laurent Fries and published by Johannes Gruninger with further editions by W. Pirkheimer, Regiomontanus and Michael Servetus.

Dimensions (W x H): 45.2 x 29.8 / 18 x 11½

A beautiful decorative map of Africa, with side borders of double costume figures and nine principal African cities in vignette along top border. Animals on land, and place names face inward to hide the lack of detail inland. Compass point, many ships and sea monsters at sea. Title at top right. ...

Dimensions (W x H): 55.5 x 41 / 22 x 16

Attractive little map of England and Wales, with title at top right. Petrus Bertius was a professor of mathematics and librarian at Leyden University. As well as being a prolific writer on mathematical, historical and theological subjects he is known as a cartographer for his editions of Ptolemy's ...

Dimensions (W x H): 13 x 9.5 / 5 x 3½

Attractive map of Brittany in France. Petrus Bertius was a professor of mathematics and librarian at Leyden University. As well as being a prolific writer on mathematical, historical and theological subjects he is known as a cartographer for his editions of Ptolemy's Geographia. In 1618 he moved ...

Dimensions (W x H): 13 x 9.5 / 5 x 3½

Attractive view of the fabled ‘silver mountain’ whose seemingly limitless supplies of silver flooded Spain in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Petrus Bertius was a professor of mathematics and librarian at Leyden University. As well as being a prolific writer on mathematical, historical ...

Dimensions (W x H): 13 x 9.5 / 5 x 3½

Two maps on one sheet: Ceylon to the right and the Maldives to the left. Ships and sea-monsters. Petrus Bertius was a professor of mathematics and librarian at Leyden University. As well as being a prolific writer on mathematical, historical and theological subjects he is known as a cartographer ...

Dimensions (W x H): 13 x 9.5 / 5 x 3½

Attractive little map of the Congo, ships and seamonster at sea, title cartouche to the right’, ‘Lunae montes’( Mountains of the Moon) erroneously placed to the south. Petrus Bertius was a professor of mathematics and librarian at Leyden University. As well as being a prolific writer on ...

Dimensions (W x H): 13 x 9.5 / 5 x 3½

Beautiful little map of Elba, with title cartouche of Neptune’s mouth at top right, galley at top left and a seamonster at lower right. Petrus Bertius was a professor of mathematics and librarian at Leyden University. As well as being a prolific writer on mathematical, historical and theological ...

Dimensions (W x H): 13 x 9.5 / 5 x 3½

Mercator’s map of Great Britain, based on Ptolemy’s Geographia. This map, with its unaltered strapwork cartouche, is from an earlier edition of the atlas. The Ptolemaic maps were based in the work of Claude Ptolemy (AD 87 - 150) a Greek mathematician, astronomer and geographer, living in ...

Dimensions (W x H): 41 x 34 / 16 x 13½

Early, attractive woodcut map of Spain and Portugal, including a part of north coast of Africa and Majorca island, in beautiful handcolour. From a German edition of Cosmographia from Sebastian Munster. Featuring vessels and sea monsters. In 1540, Munster's edition of Ptolemy appeared, illustrated ...

Dimensions (W x H): 37 x 33 / 14½ x 13

Very attractive little map of the northern Adriatic near Trieste. Ships and monsters at sea. Petrus Bertius was a professor of mathematics and librarian at Leyden University. As well as being a prolific writer on mathematical, historical and theological subjects he is known as a cartographer for ...

Dimensions (W x H): 13 x 9.5 / 5 x 3½

Delightful little map of the island of Mozambique, discovered by Vasco da Gama in 1492. Petrus Bertius was a professor of mathematics and librarian at Leyden University. As well as being a prolific writer on mathematical, historical and theological subjects he is known as a cartographer for his ...

Dimensions (W x H): 13 x 9.5 / 5 x 3½

Mqp of the Italian island of Ischia. Petrus Bertius was a professor of mathematics and librarian at Leyden University. As well as being a prolific writer on mathematical, historical and theological subjects he is known as a cartographer for his editions of Ptolemy's Geographia. In 1618 he moved ...

Dimensions (W x H): 13 x 9.5 / 5 x 3½

TA fine little map of the Red Sea with Suez (north) to the right and Aden to the left. Petrus Bertius was a professor of mathematics and librarian at Leyden University. As well as being a prolific writer on mathematical, historical and theological subjects he is known as a cartographer for his ...

Dimensions (W x H): 13 x 9.5 / 5 x 3½

Attractive map of Turkey, including Cyprus and many of the Greek Islands, Cartouche at lower right. Petrus Bertius was a professor of mathematics and librarian at Leyden University. As well as being a prolific writer on mathematical, historical and theological subjects he is known as a ...

Dimensions (W x H): 13 x 9.5 / 5 x 3½

Magnificent twin hemisphere celestial map, with six secondary hemispheres - in the corners and at upper and lower centrefolds. Showing the rotation of the Planets, according to Tycho Brahe, Ptolemy and Copernicus, and the relationships of the sun to the earth and moon. Four globes, two on lower ...

Dimensions (W x H): 57 x 48 / 22½ x 19

Attractive little map of Poland, scales at top left, title cartouche at lower left. Petrus Bertius was a professor of mathematics and librarian at Leyden University. As well as being a prolific writer on mathematical, historical and theological subjects he is known as a cartographer for his ...

Dimensions (W x H): 13 x 9.5 / 5 x 3½

Map of ‘ Sabavida’, which covers the French Alps, or Chambery. Title cartouche at lower left. Petrus Bertius was a professor of mathematics and librarian at Leyden University. As well as being a prolific writer on mathematical, historical and theological subjects he is known as a cartographer for ...

Dimensions (W x H): 13 x 9.5 / 5 x 3½

Magnificent map of Africa, more decorative than accurate. The coastline is fairly detailed and accurately depicted, the interior is a little fanciful. ‘... poor geographically’, says Tooley in his Guide to Maps of Africa, p.51, ‘with an extraordinary delineation of the Nile which is partly based ...

Dimensions (W x H): 57 x 49 / 22½ x 19½

Stunning view of the port of Ostia or ‘Portus’. Showing the hexagonal port of Trajan surrounded by a huge complex of fortified warehouses, .opening out into the port of Claudius with his light house. A colossal statue guards the entrance to the port. Numerous sailing ships, triremes and cargo ships ...

Dimensions (W x H): 55.5 x 34 / 22 x 13½

Very attractive little map of the province of Valencia, surrounded by Murcia, Castilia and Arragon. Petrus Bertius was a professor of mathematics and librarian at Leyden University. As well as being a prolific writer on mathematical, historical and theological subjects he is known as a ...

Dimensions (W x H): 13 x 9.5 / 5 x 3½

Map of north-west Switzerland, from Lake Geneva to Lucerne. Petrus Bertius was a professor of mathematics and librarian at Leyden University. As well as being a prolific writer on mathematical, historical and theological subjects he is known as a cartographer for his editions of Ptolemy's ...

Dimensions (W x H): 13 x 9.5 / 5 x 3½

Dimensions (W x H): 36 x 31 / 14 x 12

Beautiful colouring, probably 19th century, north is to the bottom of the map. The map covers most of Poland, Czech Republic, Switzerland, the low countries and part of France. Scale at lower right

Dimensions (W x H): 36 x 32 / 14 x 12½