Rare antique maps

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8.    JACOB ZIEGLER  (1470 - 1549)

[“Octava Tabula Continet Cheronnesum Schondiam, Regna autem potasium, Norduegiam, Sueciam, Gothiam, 

Finlandiam, Gentem Lapones”]

Contemporary hand-coloured woodcut map, 23,3x35cm, paper size 28x37cm

STRASBOURG  1532 or 36

THE  RARE  MAP  NOT  ONLY  COLOURED  BUT  ALSO  IN  EXCELLENT  CONDITION  WITH  WIDE  MARGINS.                                                             

This very important woodcut map presents the first different representation of Scandinavia in the half-century from the 

publishing of the Ulm map in 1482 and 86. The peninsula is now more correctly South-North oriented and many names 

can easily be identified. It is also the first map to depict Finland as a peninsula and to use the name. It shows also parts 

of America. Ziegler received much of his information for this map from his Scandinavian friends, Olaus Magnus and the 

Archbishops Walkendorf and Engelbrektson. There are only two editions of the map, 1532 and 1536, both identical.

Literature: W.B. Ginsberg “Printed Maps of Scandinavia and the Arctic 1482 - 1601” Entry 8, fig. 8.0, Hoem page 25, Bramsen no.22, Nordenskiöld 

page 57, Mingroot page 20, Burden no.9

150 000,-

(€18750)

SCANDINAVIA DEPICTED IN A NEW SHAPE

PROBABLY THE ONLY COPY IN ORIGINAL COLOURS

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9.   SEBASTIAN MÜNSTER  (1489 – 1552)

“Europa Prima Nova Tabula”

Hand-coloured woodcut, 28x37cm

BASEL  1552

6 000,-

(€700)

11.  SEBASTIAN MÜNSTER

“Tabula Asiae II” + “Tabula Asiae III”

2 hand-coloured woodcut maps, each c. 25x33cm

BASEL  (1540) - 1545

Most decorative maps.

6 000,-

(€750)

10.   SEBASTIAN MÜNSTER

“Aphricae Tabula II”

Hand-coloured woodcut, 25,5x34 at bottom

BASEL  1545

Ornaments verso coloured. 

4 000,-

(€500)

12.  SEBASTIAN MÜNSTER

“Tabula Asiae IX” + “Tabula Asiae X

2 hand-coloured woodcuts, each c. 25x33cm

BASEL  (1540) - 1545

Decorative maps of the regions of India. 

6 000,-

(€750)

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13.  GIROLAMO RUSCELLI

“Septentrionalium Partium Nova Tabula”

Engraved map, 18x24,5cm

VENICE  1561

This extraordinary map in the history of 

cartography is based on the so-called “Zeno 

map”, a woodcut map from 1558 which was 

included in a few copies of the book “De i 

commentari…” written by C.M. Zeno. On this 

map the mythical island “Frislandt” south of 

Iceland was depicted for the first time. Only a 

handful of copies of the original Zeno woodcut 

map is known making this Ruscelli edition the 

first obtainable. It was copied by Ruscelli for 

his Ptolemy edition in Italian 1561 and later. 

The Ruscelli publication gave credibility to 

the description of the area, and “Frislandt” 

was drawn on most maps of the North the next 

century. If we compare the original “Zeno-map” 

from 1558 with the Ruscelli edition the latter does not connect Greenland to the peninsula of Scandinavia.

A MINT COPY IN AN UNUSUALLY RICH IMPRESSION.

Literature: W.B. Ginsberg “Printed Maps of Scandinavia and the Arctic 1482 – 1601” Entry 26, fig. 26.1, P.  Burden 45, Lainema – Nurminen 

«UltimaThule – Arktiska Upptäcktsfärder» page 98 – 99

12 000,-

(€1060)

ITALIAN MAP MAKING AND ART

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14.   MICHELE TRAMEZINI  (fl. 1539 – 62)

“Septemtrionalium Regionum Svetiae Gothiae Norvegiae Daniae et terrarium…”

Engraved map, 39x52cm

VENICE   1558 or later

RARE “LAFRERI-SCHOOL” MAP.

See also description next entry Camocio. 

According to Ginsberg our copy is state 2 (of 3) with the inscription “Petri de Nobilibus Formis”.

As often the case the map is narrowly cut on three sides to the grade scale.

Literature: W.B. Ginsberg “Printed maps of Scandinavia and the Arctic 1482 – 1601” Entry 16

120 000,-

(€14000)

15.    GIOVANNI CAMOCIO  (fl. 1558 – 1575)

“Cælator Candido Lectori salutem. Accipe Candide lector absolutissimam Septentrionalium regionum Suetiæ, Gotiæ, 

Noruegiæ, Prussiæ, Pomeraniæ, Ducatus...M.D.LXII”

Engraved map, 39x52cm

VENICE  1562 or later

ANOTHER RARE SO-CALLED “LAFRERI-MAP” OF SCANDINAVIA. 

Separately published, but has probably been included in an Italian composite atlas in a “made-to-order” collection. Italy 

was a center of mapmaking during the mid-sixteenth Century and the cartographers “produced maps that possessed a 

characteristic style and elegance that raised cartography to new levels of artistry and accuracy” Ginsberg page 70. The 

map is based on Cornelis Anthonisz “Caerte van oostlant” from 1543 (see Ginsberg entry 11).

A fine and delicate copy with wide original margins. Important map for a collector. 

Provenance: Private Collection Norway, acquired c. 1960. Kunstantikvariat PAMA, The Circumnavigation of the World”, 

Oslo 2003, entry 76, private collection

Literature: W.B. Ginsberg “Printed Maps of Scandinavia and the Arctic 1482 – 1601” Entry 20, state 3 (of 4) with the date and the attribution to 

Camocio

130 000,-

(€18800)

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