Götzfried Antique Maps

26/02/2022

Seamonsters in the North Sea!

A rare and very decorative map of East Frisia (Ostfriesland) by Ubbo
Emmius. This is the forth state of the map, now by Pieter van den Keere, who acquired the plate and cut it at the bottom and left and replaced the two text cartouches with a figural cartouche since it was too big for inclusion in his famous Atlas Germania inferior.

https://www.vintage-maps.com/en/antique-maps/europe/germany/lower-saxony/van-den-keere-lower-saxony-ostfriesland-east-frisia-1622::12662

Price: 1150€

01/08/2021

Rare Ortelius map WITHOUT text on verso.

Anyone could buy at any time a print made by a copperplate belonging to Ortelius' atlas maps in the printing shop of Ortelius. Such a print would not have any text, because it would be a waste of time and energy to typeset a complete text for printing it once. A plate was easily printed for just one copy.

This beautiful map of the Wandering of Abraham is an example of such a map, not printed for bound it into an atlas. Also it is still a black and white version with a strong impression, which is a rarity these days, especially for this Ortelius map. The full extend of the engraving skills can be seen without colour.

https://www.vintage-maps.com/en/antique-maps/asia/holy-land/ortelius-holy-land-israel-and-abraham-s-life-1595::11744

01/08/2021

Europe turned upside down. One of the earliest printed maps of Europe. This example comes from a 1550 edition of Sebastian Münster's Cosmographey.

https://www.vintage-maps.com/en/antique-maps/europe/europe-continent/muenster-europe-continent-1550::12610

15/06/2021

Two new atlases added to my Rare Atlas Gallery:

1604 - Ortelius/Hulsius Pocket Atlas
1552 - Sebastian Münster's Ptolemy Geografia

All maps in high resolution!

Antique Atlas Gallery showing a collection of rare Atlases from the 16th to the 18th centuries.

12/05/2021

I just added around 100 new old maps to my website. Among them a Spanish rarity, Medina's very rare map of America and the Atlantic from the 1st edition of "Arte de Navegar" printed in 1545. Or the mysterious final Blaeu world map in polar projection, never published by him because of the great fire in Blaeu's workshop. Also worth mentioning is a beautiful example of de Bry's map of America.
https://www.vintage-maps.com/en/new-products

11/05/2021

I just found almost identical ships on De Jode and Ortelius maps. Engraved by the Dutch master engraver Joannes van Deutecum. He is also well known for his etchings after genre scenes by Pieter Bruegel and Hieronymus Bosch.

https://www.vintage-maps.com/en/antique-maps/europe/cyprus/ortelius-cyprus-1603::11921

https://www.vintage-maps.com/en/antique-maps/asia/turkey/de-jode-turkey-turkish-empire-ottoman-empire-1578::12556

21/03/2021

John Adams's very rare distance map of England and Wales. The 2-sheet version of his 12-sheet wall map of 1677 printed 1699 from the original plate.

For details visit: https://www.vintage-maps.com/en/antique-maps/europe/british-isles/adams-british-isles-england-and-wales-1679-1699::12435

20/02/2021

Beautiful engraved antique map of Elba. First edition of Porcacchi's very attractive map of Elba.

15/02/2021

Happy
! A beautiful old colored 17th century map of Africa by J. Hondius. With ships and seamonsters. First published in the Mercator-Hondius Atlas of 1606.

https://www.vintage-maps.com/en/antique-maps/africa/africa-continent/hondius-africa-continent-1606::12406