Attractive world map, a mariner’s map with rhumb lines emanating from 16 points. The maps for this atlas were engraved by Girolamo Porro from Padua, and are set within a page of text, with engraved headpiece and decorated initial. There were many editions of this popular atlas between 1576 and ...

Dimensions (W x H): 14 x 10.5 / 5½ x 4

A pretty, if disproportionate map of the island with title cartouche, and Porcacci’s characteristic sea monsters

Dimensions (W x H): 14.7 x 10.8 / 6 x 4½

Map of Cuba with decorated cartouche, sea monsters and compass point. The maps for this atlas were engraved by Girolamo Porro from Padua, and are set within a page of text, with engraved headpiece and decorated initial. There were many editions of this popular atlas between 1576 and 1713.

Dimensions (W x H): 14 x 10.5 / 5½ x 4

Mpa of Elba and adjacent islands, title cartouche, ships at sea, sea monsters and compass, showing north to top right. The maps for this atlas were engraved by Girolamo Porro from Padua, and are set within a page of text, with engraved headpiece and decorated initial. There were many editions of ...

Dimensions (W x H): 14 x 10.5 / 5½ x 4

Map of Holland before any dykes were built and land reclaimed, showing all the original islands, Title cartouche. The maps for this atlas were engraved by Girolamo Porro from Padua, and are set within a page of text, with engraved headpiece and decorated initial. There were many editions of this ...

Dimensions (W x H): 14 x 10.5 / 5½ x 4

Map of Jamaica with decorated cartouche and sea monster. The maps for this atlas were all engraved by Girolamo Porro from Padua, and are set within a page of text, with engraved headpiece and decorated initial. There were many editions of this popular atlas between 1576 and 1713.

Dimensions (W x H): 14 x 10.5 / 5½ x 4

Although entitled ‘Inghilterra’, the map shows the whole of Great Britain and Ireland. The maps for this atlas were engraved by Girolamo Porro from Padua, and are set within a page of text, with engraved headpiece and decorated initial. There were many editions of this popular atlas between1576 and ...

Dimensions (W x H): 14 x 10.5 / 5½ x 4

Although entitled ‘Inghilterra’, the map shows the whole of Great Britain and Ireland. The maps for this atlas were engraved by Girolamo Porro from Padua, and are set within a page of text, with engraved headpiece and decorated initial (coloured) to the text. There were many editions of this ...

Dimensions (W x H): 14 x 10.5 / 5½ x 4

Map of Ireland with north to the right. Compass point, sea monsters. The maps for this atlas were engraved by Girolamo Porro from Padua, and are set within a page of text, with engraved headpiece and decorated initial. There were many editions of this popular atlas between 1576 and 1713.

Dimensions (W x H): 14 x 10.5 / 5½ x 4

Small map of Iceland, that shows the island surrounded by a frozen sea - ‘mare congelato’. Decorated cartouche compass point. The maps for this atlas were engraved by Girolamo Porro from Padua, and are set within a page of text, with engraved headpiece and decorated initial. There were many ...

Dimensions (W x H): 14 x 10.5 / 5½ x 4

Beautiful map of Hebrides and Orkney Islands. The maps for this atlas were engraved by Girolamo Porro from Padua, and are set within a page of text, with engraved headpiece and decorated initial. There were many editions of this popular atlas between 1576 and 1713.

Dimensions (W x H): 14 x 10.5 / 5½ x 4

A wonderful, interesting and fanciful map of the East Indies. The island of Sumatra is shown disproportionately, as is the Malay Peninsular. Borneo is named Java Menor, the Moluccas are shown as one island. The islands of Bali, Lombok and Flores are not shown

Dimensions (W x H): 14.5 x 11 / 5½ x 4½

Map of islands of southern Dutch coast before dykes were built and land reclaimed. The maps for this atlas were engraved by Girolamo Porro from Padua, and are set within a page of text, with engraved headpiece and decorated initial. There were many editions of this popular atlas between 1576 and ...

Dimensions (W x H): 14 x 10.5 / 5½ x 4

Map of Majorca with title cartouche, sea monsters and compass. The maps for this atlas were engraved by Girolamo Porro from Padua, and are set within a page of text, with engraved headpiece and decorated initial. There were many editions of this popular atlas between 1576 and 1713.

Dimensions (W x H): 14 x 10.5 / 5½ x 4

A pretty, but wildly inaccurate map of the island with the port of Malta facing the bottom of the map, and the island of Gozo on the right. Title cartouche, sea monsters, mermen, and ship at sea.

Dimensions (W x H): 15 x 11 / 6 x 4½

Oval map of the world. The maps for this atlas were engraved by Girolamo Porro from Padua, and are set within a page of text, with engraved headpiece and decorated initial. There were many editions of this popular atlas between 1576 and 1713.

Dimensions (W x H): 14 x 10.5 / 5½ x 4

Map of Madagascar with ornamented cartouche, sea monsters and compass point, with north to left of map.The maps for this atlas were engraved by Girolamo Porro from Padua, and are set within a page of text, with engraved headpiece and decorated initial. There were many editions of this popular atlas ...

Dimensions (W x H): 14 x 10.5 / 5½ x 4

Map of Scotland with north to the right and cartouche flanked by cherubs. The maps for this atlas were engraved by Girolamo Porro from Padua, and are set within a page of text, with engraved headpiece and decorated initial. There were many editions of this popular atlas between 1576 and 1713.

Dimensions (W x H): 14 x 10.5 / 5½ x 4

Map of Sicily with title cartouche, sea monsters and compass. The maps for this atlas were engraved by Girolamo Porro from Padua, and are set within a page of text, with engraved headpiece and decorated initial. There were many editions of this popular atlas between1576 and 1713.

Dimensions (W x H): 14 x 10.5 / 5½ x 4

Map of Sri Lanka with title cartouche at top right, compass points north to the right of map. The maps for this atlas were engraved by Girolamo Porro from Padua, and are set within a page of text, with engraved headpiece and decorated initial. There were many editions of this popular atlas between ...

Dimensions (W x H): 14 x 10.5 / 5½ x 4

Attractive print of four Portuguese ports on the way the Orient. The upper and largest print is of Calechut, south of Goa, on the Malabar Coast. The lower prints are of Ormus, Canonor and ‘St George’ ( Madras?). Braun and Hogenburg’s ‘Civitates’ consisted of over 500 city views/maps published in ...

Dimensions (W x H): 46.5 x 33 / 18½ x 13

Plate 11, from the first volume of Boydell’s famous work on Shakespeare. The plates are among the most sought after of eighteenth century English engravings.

Dimensions (W x H): 40 x 60 / 15½ x 23½

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Dimensions (W x H): 64 x 49 / 25 x 19½

Dimensions (W x H): 64 x 49 / 25 x 19½