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823

[Copper-engraved Incunable map of Poland] PTOLEMY, Claudius. Octava Europe Tabula. Rome: Petrus de Turre, 1490. Printed area 375 x 520mm. Joined at the centre, as usual with this edition. Poland and the Ukraine. Published in the second edition of Angelus & Caldarini's edition of Ptolemy, first published 1478, and indistinguishable from the first edition. An unusual feature of the series is the lettering, which is not engraved with a burin but stamped onto the plate. SHIRLEY: World 4. "Many consider the Rome plates to be the finest Ptolemaic plates produced until Gerard Mercator engraved his classical world atlas of 1578".

£4,000

824

[Poland & Hungary] GASTALDI, Giacomo. Polonia et Hungaria Nova Tabula. Venice, G.B.Pedrezano, 1548. 130 x 175mm. Tiny areas of restoration at centrefold. Gastaldi's modern map of southern Poland south to the Danube, published in Gastaldi's 'Geografia di Claudio Ptolemeo Alexandrino', one issue only, therefore rare.

£440

825

[Poland] ORTELIUS, Abraham. Poloniae Descriptio. Brescia, c.1598. Coloured. 80 x 150mm, set in a page of Italian text. Miniature map of Poland, from an Italian pirate of Ortelius's 'Epitome'. KOEMAN: Ort 69.

£90

826

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827

[Set of 4 Uncommon Miniature Maps of Poland] MULLER, Johann Ulrich. Poloniæ Pars I; Poloniæ Pars Secunda; Poloniæ Pars Tertia; Poloniæ Pars IV.. AUlm: Georg W. Kühnen, 1702. Four plates, each c.70 x 80mm, set in text. Four charming miniature maps, each with a letterpress text in German, covewring from Prussia to the Ukraine .

£600

828

[Extremely Rare Miniature Map] FRESCHOT, Casimir Don. Polonia. (119) in Europa. Ha il suo Re Speciale. Popoli Catholici Longezza: 300. leghe... Published by Giovanni Pare' in Venice, c. 1680 . 52 x 52 mm. Trimmed from a large broadsheet. Don Casimir Freschot was a Benedict Priest . He was an author of about 50 books mainly on history subjects and a few dedicated to Venice and its nobility. While in Venice  he also composed a goos game to facilitate "the teaching of geography to the young venetian nobility". This game is probably the earliest geographical game ever published. The copper plate was engraved by Lucini and comprised 4 larger maps of the continents and 153 smaller maps of other areas and with a prospect of Venice at the center of it. There is only one known example in existance of the full broadsheet at the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana in Venice. Hence the rarity of this map.

£650

829

[A decorative map of Poland from the "Atlas Major"] BLAEU, Willem Janszoon. Polonia Regnum, et Silesia Ducatus. Amsterdam, c.1640. Fine Original Colour. Dutch Text. 415 x 510 mm . Shows the region from the Oder east to Podlachia on the Bug. Also shows parts of Prussia and Brandenberg. Three decorative cartouches .

£600

830

[Prussia] CLUVER, Philip. Prussiæ Nova Tabula. Amsterdam, c.1730. Coloured. 270 x 340mm. With a decorative title cartouche.

£165

831

[Prussia & Kalingrad] CASSINI, Giovanni Maria. La Prussia Delineata Sulle Ultime Osservazioni. Rome, 1797. Coloured. 370 x 495mm. Detailed map, marking Gdansk, with a decorative title cartouche of fishing. Published in the scarce atlas, the 'Nuovo atlante geografico universale'.

£220

832

[South Poland] HOMANN HEIRS. Lubomeriæ et Galliciae Regni, Tabula Geographica. Nuremberg, 1775. Coloured. 470 x 590mm. Very detailed, decorative map showing an area that is now southern Poland. In that year, much of South Poland was given to Austria. This map shows the locations of metal ore deposits in the Austrians’ newly acquired territory, and was useful to the new Austrian lords who wanted to make money in their new land. Title is surrounded by an elaborate cartouche.

£280

833

[Lower Silesia] CASSINI, Giovanni Maria. La Slesia Superiore divisa ne' Suoi Principati e Delineata Sulle ultime Osservazioni. Rome, 1797. Coloured. 355 x 490mm. Detailed map of Lower Silesia, with a decorative title cartouche of drinking. Published in the scarce atlas, the 'Nuovo atlante geografico universale'.

£175

834

[Incunable Prospect of Krackow] SCHEDEL, D. Hartmann. Cracovia. Nuremberg, Anton Kolberger, 1493, German text edition. Woodcut, image 255 x 520mm. Some restoration at centre, as usual. Kracow, one of the double-page prospects from the famous 'Nuremberg Chronicle'.

£780

835

[Uncommon map of Poland] ZATTA, Antonio. Il Regno di Polonia con le Provincie ora possedute dalle Tre confinati potenze Prussia Russia e Casa d'Austria. Venice, c.1780. Original outline colour. 255 x 330mm. Fold marks as issued. Not the usual Zatta atlas map of Poland but a smaller format volume, probably a travel book.

£180

836

[Poland] DE WIT, Frederick. Poloniae Et Silesiae Descriptio .Amsterdam, c. 1660, original colour, 435 x 535mm. Showing Poland and its land and sea borders, its regional boundaries heightened in original colour. The decoative title cartouche in the bottom left hand corner, flanked by figures wearing regional dress

£500