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colored copperplate engraving, on paper; 24 x 44 cm; Engraving from: Jan Ludwik Gottfried, *Neuwe archontologia cosmica*, 1638. Condition: fair, after conservation.
colored copperplate engraving, on paper; 57.5 x 69 cm. Augsburg, 1735.
Colored copperplate engraving, on paper; 30.5 x 44 cm. Condition: stains on the sheet. Map likely compiled by C. F. Weiland, published in Weimar in 1832.
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colored copperplate engraving, on paper; 42.5 x 58 cm (plate impression); Map from: “Atlas Silesiae...,” published by Homann’s Heirs, Nuremberg, 1746 (atlas published in 1752).
copperplate engraving, hand-colored, on paper; 42.5 x 30.5 cm; Inscribed on the lower left: Par M. [Monsieur?] Bonne, Ingénieur-Hydrographe de la Marine. Condition: sheet has been restored. Paris. 1780.
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colored copperplate engraving/paperDimensions: 42.5 x 55 cm (inside the mat)One of the most important and sought-after maps in the history of Polish cartography. Compiled by Wacław Grodecki and published by Abraham Ortelius in the famous atlas *Theatrum Orbis Terrarum*. The map depicts the lands of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea and serves as a primary...
copperplate engraving/paperDimensions: 30.5 x 56 cm (inside the mat)Krakow, the siege of the city by Swedish troops under the command of Charles Gustav. A depiction of the city with its vast suburbs occupied by the invading forces. One of Dahlberg’s representative large-scale engravings. The work is taken from S. Pufendorf’s *De Rebus a Carolo Gustavo...*, published in Nuremberg in 1696.
colored woodcut/paperDimensions: 33.5 x 38.5 cm (inside the mat)One of the oldest depictions of the Polish lands. The work is from *Kosmografia*, published between 1588 and 1628.
Frans Hogenberg, Georg Braun, "Varsovia" (A General View of Warsaw from the Late 16th Century), 1618
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colored copperplate engraving/paperDimensions: 31.9 x 47.7 cm (plate impression)The work is from Georg Braun and Frans Hogenberg’s *Civitates Orbis Terrarum*, vol. VI, plate 47; engraved by Jacob Hofnagel; at the bottom left, a cartouche filled with figures in period costumes: 'MILES POLONVUS, NOBILES POLONIAE'BibliographyImago Poloniae K103/6 Van der Krogt 4, 4780 Fauser 15133 Taschen, Brau...
colored copperplate engraving/paperDimensions: 33 x 45 cm (inside the mat)"Nissa Silesior sedes Episcopalis" and "Liginicium". The work is from the atlas of world cities "Civitates Orbis Terrarum," published in Cologne between 1572 and 1617.
colored copperplate engraving/paperDimensions: 49 x 56.5 cm (print)Map of the Lands of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, third state from the first plate, published by Johann Baptist Homann, Nuremberg, 1707.BibliographyImago Poloniae K16/2
copperplate engraving/paperDimensions: 35.5 x 46 cm (inside the mat)Cologne, 1618
colored copperplate engraving/paperDimensions: 48 x 55.5 cm (inside the mat)Publisher: Friedrich Hampe, Elbing, 1753. Rarity.
copperplate engraving/paperDimensions: 42 x 54.5 cm (inside the mat)The work is taken from the book *Civitates orbis terrarum*, Cologne, 1618
Joan Blaeu (1596–1673), Map of Europe ("Europa recens descripta a Guilielmo Blaeuw"), circa 1635
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colored copperplate engraving/paperDimensions: 41.5 x 56.5 cm (inside the mat)A decorative map of Europe by Wilhelm Blaeu (1571–1638), published in Amsterdam around 1635. Considered one of the most beautiful maps of 17th-century Europe. The map exemplifies the greatest achievements of the powerful Blaeu dynasty’s publishing house. It is surrounded by a wide border, into which images of rep...
etching/paperDimensions: 45 x 59 cm (print)A map of the southern Polish lands, including Kraków, as well as Red Ruthenia. The map was produced by the Homann Heirs’ publishing house in 1775 and subsequently included in Santini’s atlas, published in Venice in 1776.Conditionunframed
copperplate engraving/paperDimensions: 22 x 29 cm (print)The work is from the atlas *Schauplatz der fünf Theile der Welt* (Austria, Vienna, 1789).
colored copperplate engraving/paperDimensions: 50 x 59.5 cm (plate print)A panorama of Szczecin and a bird’s-eye view showing the city surrounded by fortifications from the west, with the most important buildings marked. A legend in a cartouche on the map explains the major buildings, churches, gates, squares, streets, and fortifications of Szczecin. At the bottom of the map is a panorama of...
copperplate engraving/paperDimensions: 20.7 x 42.6 cm (inside the mat)The work is from “Topographia Germaniae…,” Frankfurt am Main, 1652. Rzecz, German: Reetz—a village in Poland located in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in the Koszalin County, in the municipality of Polanów.BiographyMatthäus Merian was an engraver and publisher in Frankfurt am Main from 1627; the company, under th...
colored copperplate engraving/paperDimensions: 31.7 x 40.5 cm (plate impression)The work is from the book "Gerardi Mercatoris – L’Atlas ou Méditations Cosmographiques de la Fabrique du Monde et Figure diceluy." Amsterdam, J. Hondius Jr., 1613–16.Conditionunframed; 3 cm tear at the bottom center
colored copperplate engraving/paperDimensions: 33 x 42.5 cm (plate impression)The map is from *Atlante novissimo illustrato*, Venice 1781.
colored copperplate engraving/paperDimensions: 37 x 49 cm (inside the mat)The work is from "Civitates Orbis Terrarum," vol. 4. Cologne, 1588
Frans Hogenberg, Georg Braun, Panorama of Grodno ("Vera Designatio Urbis in Littavia Grodnae"), 1575
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colored copperplate engraving/paperDimensions: 30.5 x 48.5 cm (inside the mat)The work is from *Civitates orbis terrarum...*, Cologne 1575 The oldest known panorama of the city, from *Civitates Orbis Terrarum*, vol. 2; in the foreground, a scene depicting the welcome of the Moscow delegation; on the reverse, a text in Latin: GrodnoBibliographyImago Poloniae H6/6
colored copperplate engraving/paperDimensions: 48 x 57 cm (inside the mat)The work is from *Atlas historique de la Pologne ancienne et moderne… Par Leonard Chodzko. Paris 1842. Stanislas Plater*, published in Paris in 1842.
colored woodcut/paperDimensions: 36.5 x 53.5 cm (inside the mat)The work is from the monumental volume “Liber Chronicarum...,” published in Nuremberg in 1493; the illustration is by Michael Wolgemut (1434–1519).
colored copperplate engraving/paperDimensions: 48 x 56.5 cm (inside the mat)Augsburg, ca. 1735.BiographyMatthäus Seutter was a student of J. B. Homann. He worked in Augsburg and collaborated with, among others, Tobias Konrad Lotter and Johan Michael Probst. His most notable works include *Atlas novus*, first published in Vienna in 1728 (50 plates), and *Atlas minor* (66 plates and a title page).
colored copperplate engraving/paperDimensions: 37.5 x 50 cm (print area)The work is from "Gerardi Mercatoris - Atlas sive Cosmographicae Meditationes de Fabrica Mundi et Fabricati Figura," Amsterdam 1619
colored copperplate engraving, on paper; 41 x 51 cm; Map from the “Atlante Novissimo” atlas, Venice 1775–1785 Condition: fair.
color woodcut/paperDimensions: 42.7 x 54.2 cm (sheet)Publisher: J. Pentius de Leucho, Venice 1511. The work is taken from Ptolemy’s *Geography*. It was the first edition printed in two colors and the first Italian edition of Ptolemy’s work produced using woodcut printing blocks. No works by Sylvanus are known to have been produced after this publication.Conditionunbound work
colored copperplate engraving/paperDimensions: 48 x 56.7 cm (print)Nuremberg, ca. 1710–1720.
copperplate engraving/paperDimensions: 27 x 33 cm (inside the mat)The work is taken from S. Pufendorf’s *De Rebus a Carolo Gustavo...*, published in Nuremberg in 1696.
copperplate engraving/paperDimensions: 38 x 48 cm (print area)Amsterdam
etching/paperDimensions: 31 x 38 cm (inside the mat)Two scenes depicting the Oaths of the Polish Lords pledging allegiance to the Swedes on the outskirts of Kraków and Sandomierz
steel engraving, paper; 28 x 44 cm; inscription at the bottom: Published … Sep 1, 1807 by Longman Hurst Rees … Condition: stains on the sheet.
Nicolaes VISSCHER II (1649–1702 or 1709), Diocese of Liège (Leodiensis Episcopatus), ca. 1690
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Colored copperplate engraving, on paper; 51 x 59.5 cm. Condition: fair; paper has darkened following conservation. Amsterdam, ca. 1690.
colored copperplate engraving/paperDimensions: 50 x 56.6 cm Map of Gdańsk, the area around Wisłoujście, and the Baltic Sea coastline, Nuremberg 1739
etching, color aquatint/paperDimensions: 41.5 x 51.5 cm (plate impression)signed in pencil in the center: 'Luigi Kasimir'
colored copperplate engraving/paperDimensions: 50 x 56.5 cm (plate impression)BibliographyImago Poloniae, K17/4
Nicolas de Fer (1646–1720), Szczecin, map of the city and its fortifications (“Stettin”), circa 1693
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colored copperplate engraving/paperDimensions: 17 x 19 cm (inside the mat)Contemporary-colored copperplate engraving Original map by Nicolas de Fer (1646–1720) from around 1693. Engraved by Herman van Loon.
colored copperplate engraving/paperDimensions: 53 x 74.5 cm (inside the mat)An original, decorative map of Royal and Ducal Prussia published in Venice by Paolo Santini in 1778, based on a design by the French cartographer Robert de Vaugondy. The map depicts the area from the Baltic Sea to Toruń and the Chełmno Land, as well as from Pomerania to Masuria and Königsberg. The richly decorated R...
woodcut/paperDimensions: 10.8 x 14.8 cm (inside the mat)One of the earliest depictions of Vilnius, included in the famous “Cosmography” by Sebastian Münster (1488–1552). The work comes from the French edition of “Cosmographia” published in 1557.
copperplate engraving/paperDimensions: 10.3 x 15.3 cm (inside the mat)The map known as *Description de Poloigne* (or, in Latin, *Polonia. Descriptio Poloniae*) is a copperplate engraving by Petrus Bertius, etched by Jodocus Hondius (or his son, Jodocus II), and first published in 1616. This small-format map comes from the pocket atlas *Tabularum Geographicarum Contractarum* and was based on th...
colored copperplate engraving/paperDimensions: 20 x 16.5 cm (inside the mat)The map most likely comes from the 1683 publication *Description de l'Univers* by Alain Manesson-Mallet (1630–1706), a French cartographer and engraver. Publisher: D. Thierry, Paris, 1683.
colored copperplate engraving/paperDimensions: 19.8 x 29 cm (print)This work is from the atlas *Schauplatz der fünf Theile der Welt* (Austria, Vienna, 1789).
colored copperplate engraving/paperDimensions: 23 x 27.7 cm (print)The work is from the atlas *Schauplatz der fünf Theile der Welt*, Austria, Vienna, 1789.
copperplate engraving/paperDimensions: 32 x 38 cm (inside the mat)The work is from M. Zeiller’s *Topographia Bohemiae Moraviae et Silesiae*, Frankfurt am Main, 1650. A very rare copperplate engraving by Matthäus Merian the Elder from 1650, depicting the fortifications of Opole from the mid-17th century (the Castle, the Oder River), with the city’s coat of arms on the right.BiographyMatth...
etching/paperDimensions: 41 x 62 cm (inside the mat)BiographyItalian printmaker and architect. He studied in Venice, from where he traveled for scholarly purposes to Naples, Herculaneum, and Pompeii. From 1745 onward, he worked in Rome. His architectural works include the reconstruction of the Church of S. Maria del Priorato (1765) and the villa of the Order of the Knights of Malta in Rome. Pi...
colored copperplate engraving/paperDimensions: 29 x 35 cm (inside the mat)The map is from Albrizzi’s 1740 atlas, published in Venice. It is the third edition of a map of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from 1737.
colored copperplate engraving/paperDimensions: 54 x 62 cm (sheet)The work is from "Atlas Coelsetis by Johann Baptist Homann," Nuremberg 1742. A rare and striking astronomical copperplate engraving from 1742, hand-colored during its time, depicting ephemerides and the motion of celestial bodies according to the heliocentric model of the Solar System developed by Nicolaus Copernicus. At the bott...
copperplate engraving/paperDimensions: 32.5 x 42 cm (inside the mat)The work is taken from S. Pufendorf’s *De Rebus a Carolo Gustavo...*, published in Nuremberg in 1696.
colored copperplate engraving/paperDimensions: 18.5 x 29 cm (inside the mat)Publisher: G.C. Kilian, Augsburg 1759
etching/paperDimensions: 18 x 29 cm (inside the mat)The work is from "Topographia Bohemiae, Moraviae et Silesiae...," Frankfurt 1650BiographyMatthäus Merian was an engraver and publisher in Frankfurt am Main from 1627; the company, under the management of his heirs, continued to operate until the 1730s. The first edition of *Neuwe archontologia cosmica* from 1638 contained over 90 copperplate...
etching/paper, canvasDimensions: 130 x 80 cmA Polish-language version of the cartographic depiction of history, “Strom der Zeiten,” by Friedrich Strass, adapted by Wawrzyniec Wysocki, a Polish educator and rector of the Institute for the Deaf and Mute in WarsawConditionThe work has been restored; there are localized areas of paper loss and some sections that are difficult to read
etching/paperDimensions: 23 x 33 cm (plate print)signed in pencil lower right
etching/paperDimensions: 16.5 x 24 cm (inside the mat)signed on the plate, lower left: 'Ch. Hoffmann.del'The work is from "Chodźko Leonard - La Pologne historique, littéraire, monumentale et illustrée,... Paris 1835–1842."
copperplate engraving/paperDimensions: 43.3 x 54.5 cm (print area)
colored copperplate engraving/paperDimensions: 43 x 54 cm (inside the mat)The work is from *The English Atlas*, second edition, Amsterdam, 1680.
colored copperplate engraving/paperDimensions: 38.4 x 49.5 cm (printed area)A three-part map of Pomerania, Livonia, and the Duchy of Oświęcim-Zator, from the work *Theatrum orbis terrarum*, Antwerp, after 1595.BiographyAbraham Ortelius was an outstanding Flemish cartographer, historian, and map publisher. Trained as an engraver, he ran his own book and antiquarian business at the start of hi...
Homann Heirs Publishing House, World Map ("Planiglobii Terrestris Mappa universalis..."), 1746
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colored copperplate engraving/paperDimensions: 47 x 55.5 cm (inside the mat)Planiglobii Terrestris Mappa universalis is a double-hemispheric world map published in Nuremberg in 1746. It was created through the collaboration of mathematician Johann Matthias Haas and astronomer Georg Moritz Lowitz, and was published by the renowned Homann Heirs (Homann Erben) publishing house. The map depicts th...
colored copperplate engraving/paperDimensions: 15 x 19 cm (inside the mat)A panorama of Gdańsk from the northwest, taken from the work "Commentariorum Rerum Germanicarum libri tres." Publisher: Joannes Janssonius, Amsterdam, 1616.BibliographyDantiscum Emp. G 96/1
copperplate engraving/paperDimensions: 29 x 17.3 cm (inside the mat)"Fürstlich Residentz Schlosz zu Alten Stettin" Publisher: Heirs of M. Merian, Frankfurt am Main, 1652 Perspective view of the Castle of the Dukes of Pomerania in Szczecin from the north, based on a drawing by Carl H. Osten, taken from M. Zeiller’s work “Topographia Electoratus Brandenburgici et Ducatus Pomeraniae.”Biogr...
copperplate engraving/paperDimensions: 10.5 x 15 cm (inside the mat)A rare, miniature map of Pomerania from Abraham Ortelius’s (1527–1598) atlas *Epitome Theatri Orbis Terrarum* from 1609. Publisher: Jan Baptista Vrients, Antwerp, 1609. The maps for this atlas were engraved by Ambrosius and Ferdinand Arsenius and accompanied by text by Michel Coignet (1549–1623).BiographyAbraham Ortelius...
