Antique Maps and Prints

Hoefnagel's Cadiz, 1564
Here are a few samples of our antique maps - the first being a Hoefnagel from 1564:

(HOEFNAGEL, Joris). GADES AB OCCIDUIS INSULAE PARTIBUS. Double-page folio view of Cadiz, Spain, signed Georg Hoefnagel, 1564. From Volume V, no. 5. of CIVITATES ORBIS TERRARUM, Cologne, Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg (1572-98). Hand-colored. 14 1/2 by 19 1/2 inches. Light toning and wrinkling to margin; smudges to key panel and central fold, still a very good print. Of the artists involved in the Civitates, Hoefnagel was the most well-known, as calligrapher, painter, miniaturist and cartographer. A monk, a pilgrim, and fishermen are in the foreground of this peninsular city. Two vignettes show a fortress firing upon ships, and sailors gambling on the shore neared moored galleys. A leopard from the Indies and a toucan from Peru indicate Cadiz' foreign trade. (Koeman, Atlantes Neerlandici p.22). Offered at $750.00

Ortelius, Geographia Sacra, 1598.
ORTELIUS, Abraham. GEOGRAPHIA SACRA. Map of Europe, North Africa, Arabia, and Western Asia. (Antwerp) 1598. 17 1/2 by 21 1/2 in. (plate 13 3/4 by 18 3/4). Beautifully engraved, probably by Franz Hogenburg, and hand-colored. With insert miniature map of the world. A fine, clean copy, with only light toning to margin outside plate, and to center fold. Offered at $1,250.00

De Hooghe, Jerusalem, 1687
ETCHED BIRDS-EYE VIEW OF JERUSALEM
DE HOOGHE, Romeyn. JERUSALEM EN SYN TEMPEL. Netherlands, 1687. 15 by 21 1/2 inches. A splendid two-page spread showing an aerial reconstruction of ancient Jerusalem, with the Temple in the center. 35 ancient buildings, monuments and Biblical locations are labeled. The lower register shows the Temple's treasures in detail: the "Copper Sea," the Altar of Sacrifice, the Candelabra, the Ark of the Covenant, etc. In the foreground is Gethsemane, with the Betrayal of Christ. De Hooghe (1645-1708), a nephew of the painter Pieter de Hooch, was one of the finest of the Dutch seventeenth-century engravers. Central fold reinforced, with a one-inch repair at the foot, else fine. Text in Dutch on reverse. Offered at $325.00

Finley's New American Atlas, 1826 (Missouri & Arkansas Territory)
From Finley's New American Atlas, published in 1826, a double-folio sized hand-colored map of Missouri and Arkansas Territory, offered at $1,100.00

We have other maps from Finley's atlas, as well as bound atlases, local New England maps, and a variety of prints and etchings including our Japanese woodblock prints and woodblock print books.