From Lorraine to East Prussia. Verso: Switzerland showing the cantons. Fine outline colour. Two images available.

Berlin & Potsdam; Berlin; Munich; Stuttgart and Dresden. Verso: SW Germany. Very nice outline colouring. Two images available.

Berlin & Potsdam; Frankfurt; Munich; Stettin; Kiel and Danzig. Verso: SW Germany. Very nice outline colouring. Two images available.

From Lorraine to East Prussia. Printed colour.

Uncoloured map in frame border. Very clear steel engraving.

Original outline hand colouring.

Uncoloured map with numerous towns and villages. A little light foxing.

Uncoloured map with numerous towns and villages. A little light foxing.

Uncoloured map with numerous towns and villages. A little light foxing.

The map is entitled The Empire of Germany, South West Part including Alsace-Lorraine. This is an extra large map and it covers in fact the modern Southern Germany as far East as the Austrian and Bohemian borders and as far North as Dusseldorf and Leipzig. This is a very fine detailed map with outline colour designed to look like hand colouring and is in excellent condition.

This map covers in fact the modern Southern Germany from Saarbrucken and Birkenfeld as far East as the Austrian and Bohemian borders and as far North as Carlshafen and Leipzig. This is a very fine detailed map with superb hand-colouring in outline as issued. It is a beautiful map which is in very good condition.

Florentissimae civitatis Heidelbergensis citus & genuina pictura, tam arcem quam reliqua illius loci insigniora aedificia pulchre intuenti ob oculos statuens', uncoloured woodcut. Two sheets conjoined (as published). Wide top and bottom margins; narrower left margin and right side trimmed to the border. Folds strengthened on verso. Latin text on verso. The final Latin edition was 1572. Other images available. Published in the 'Cosmographia', Basel, c.1550, the earliest German language description of the world. A view across the River Neckar from the North, showing the town, its houses, churches, the Castle and the Armoury, the famous bridge, activities in the river I can't quite understand and horses being ridden along the Northern shores. A riverside building is labelled ‘Munch’ (?). In the town a description ‘Barfuss’; presumably the Franciscan friary. On the hillside above the houses ‘Castaneae  & Bestern Baum’ so this must be a Chestnut tree plantation! Lots of delightful quirky things to take the eye. A delightful panorama showing the City over 450 years ago.

The Earldom of Mansfeld drawn by Tilemannus Stella and truly engraved by Franciscus Hogenberg. Covers an area 55 x 50 km NW of Leipzig centred on Mansfeld. Quedlinburg, Aschersleben, Bernburg, Harzgerode, Halle, Sonderhausen and Merseberg. Uncoloured map 42 from the edition of 1579 with Latin text on the verso. There are three annotations in a very old ink in the margin of the text page and a hand-drawn arms at its foot, again in an old ink and watercolour. Very good condition with light tissue strengthening to part of the centre fold. Large margins.

Superb hand-colouring in outline as issued makes this a beautiful map which is in very good condition. From Aachen to the City and Russian oblast of Kaliningrad and beyond and part of Lithuania. Includes Hohenzollern, Wroclaw (Breslau) and Katowice. With inset map of the environs of Berlin and Potsdam.

Title: Cursus Rheni a Basilea usque ad Bonnam III. Sect. Exhibit, a D.G. de L'Islio Editus Primum, Nunc Emendatior & Auctior Reddit, per Homann. Hered. Cum Priv. S.C.M. in qua sistitur maxima pars Alsatiae, Brisgoviae una cum alijs Sueviae Tractibus consinibus.  Copper engraving  by Baptist Homann, published Nurnberg c 1760. Large scale map of the course of the Rhein from Strasburg in the North to Basel in the South. The map boundaries defined by St Diey and Be(l)fort in the West to Rot(t)enburg, Wurtemberg and Schaf(f)hausen in the East. The map shows as well parts of Baden with the Black Forest and the neighbouring Elsas (Alsace) in the West and the duchy of Wurtemberg in the eastern part of the map. Original hand colouring in wash and outline. Strong paper; good margins top and bottom. The side margins are workable but the top 5 cms on each side has been shaved, without loss on the East and with just the outer ruling missing on the Western edge. The missing area has been replaced with old paper and the ruling restored in pencil (see image); an extra crease alongside the centre fold; otherwise in good condition. An interesting map with many details. A strong and clear impression. 

A new and most exact depiction of Sachsen, Meissen and Thüringen. The map covers about 400 x 300 km from Hameln and Hildesheim, Braunschweig, Magdeburg, Brandenburg, Berlin and Kostrzyn nad Odra and Frankfurt am Oder, Muhlhausen, Halle, Erfurt, Leipzig, Weimar, Oelsnitz, Hof, Suhl, Meiningen, Dresden, Gera, Zwickau, Gorlitz, Lubben, to Suhl, Hof, Prague, Zittau and Legnica (Here are mines of precious stones). Uncoloured map 54 from the edition of 1598 with French text on the verso. Excellent condition with one very small rust mark. Large margins. A very strong impression.

A map of Thüringen by Iohannes Mellinger of Halle. Map covers 150 x 100 km West from Leipzig. Halle, Sangerhausen, Sonderhausen, Muhlhausen, Creuzberg, Gotha, Eisenach, Erfurt, Jena, Neustadt and Rudolstadt. WITH a map of Meissen and Lusatia drawn by Bartholomew Scultetus of Görlitz. Covers an area 330 x 220 km centred on Leipzig including Gorlitz, Meissen, Weimar, Gera, Zwickau, Erfurt, Arnstadt, Gotha, Wittenberg, Lubben, Gubin, Dresden, Zittau and Prague. Uncoloured map 57 from the edition of 1598 with French text on the verso. Excellent condition. Large margins. A very strong impression.