Search Results: Germany, Austria & Switzerland from Bryars and Bryars

Paris, 1683. Copper engraving, 15.5 x 11.5 cms, recent hand-colour, French text on verso, from Mallet’s ‘Description de l’Univers’. Map

Amsterdam, 1636. Copper engraving, 36.5 x 48 cms, from the scarce English language edition, with distinctive original English hand-colour, closed centrefold split, vertical crease to left of centrefold, English text on verso. Part of Alsatian Haut-Rhin, with Breisach. The original Mercator Atlas (parts published from 1585 onwards) was not a commercial success; the copper printing plates were bought by Hondius c. 1604, and a large number of maps were added for his first edition of 1606, still trading on Mercator's name. Janssonius was his son-in-law, who took over the business in the mid 1630s. He began to erase Hondius' name and replace it with his own at about this time. He also reworked the decorative elemts without necessarily revising the cartography, as here. English was still a relatively provincial language in early seventeenth-century Europe and there is only one edition of this major series of atlases with English text (Koeman indicates the possibility of a second edition of 1641,… Read More

Cologne, c. 1572. Copper engraving, 32.5 x 39.5 cms, recent hand-colour, numbered in an old hand top-right, Latin text on verso. Aachen, or Aix-la-Chapelle, Germany. Map

Frankfurt, c. 1650. Copper engraving, 27.5 x 31 cms, black and white, minor spotting, blank verso. Aachen, or Aix-la-Chapelle, Germany, published by Merian and his heirs in various works, including the Theatrum Europaeum. Map

Amsterdam, c. 1630. Copper engraving, 14.5 x 19.2 cms, recent hand colour, Dutch text on verso. Map

Frankfurt, c. 1650. Copper engraving, 20 x 31 cms, black and white, blank verso. Augsburg, published by Merian and his heirs in various works, including the Archontologia cosmica, Theatrum Europaeum and the Topographia Germaniae. Merian was born in Basel, but he learned his trade working for Johann Theodor de Bry in Frankfurt, and married de Bry’s daughter. His own business flourished: talented engravers who worked with him include Wenceslaus Hollar. After his death in 1650 the firm passed through three generations of his family. Map

Amsterdam, Jodocus Hondius, 1616. Copper engraving, 9.5 x 13.5 cms, recent hand-colour, Latin text on verso. Map

Antwerp, 1595. Copper engraving, 35.5 x 48.5 cms, recent-hand-colour, Latin text on verso. First published in a 1592 edition of the ‘Theatrum’, replacing the earlier ‘Austriae Ducatus’ plate; Wolfgang Lazius is credited as the source. Van den Broecke 106 Map

Frankfurt, c. 1650. Copper engraving, 27.5 x 35 cms, black and white, printer’s crease running across the upper part of the legend, blank verso. Baden in Switzerland, published by Merian and his heirs in various works, including the Archontologia cosmica, Theatrum Europaeum and the Topographia Germaniae. Merian was born in Basel, but he learned his trade working for Johann Theodor de Bry in Frankfurt, and married de Bry’s daughter. His own business flourished: talented engravers who worked with him include Wenceslaus Hollar. After his death in 1650 the firm passed through three generations of his family. Map

Antwerp, 1602. Copper engraving, 9 x 12 cms, later hand-colour, French text on verso. From the Epitome. Map

Antwerp, 1595. Copper engraving, 38.5 x 49.5 cms, recent-hand-colour, Latin text on verso. First published in a 1573 edition of the ‘Theatrum’, Philip Appian is credited as the source; Van den Broecke notes minor ornamental changes (horizontal cross hatching) which indicate that our map was printed from the plate in its third state. Map

Amsterdam, 1636. Copper engraving, 47 x 38.5 cms, from the scarce English language edition, with distinctive original English hand-colour, closed centrefold split, English text on verso. Map

Amsterdam, Jodocus Hondius, 1616. Copper engraving, 10 x 13.5 cms, recent hand-colour, Latin text on verso. Map

Amsterdam, Jodocus Hondius, 1616. Copper engraving, 9.7 x 13.5 cms, modern hand-colour, trivial spotting, Latin text on verso. Brandenburg, from the first edition of Tabularum geographicarum contractarum libri, a geographical work which is normally catalogued under the name of its author, Bertius. The maps are generally reduced from the cartography in the folio Mercator-Hondius atlas, and were mostly engraved by Jodocus Hondius, eldest son of the printer, who also bears the same name. Geoffrey King calls them "undoubtedly the finest set of miniature maps ever printed" (Miniature Antique Maps p. 96). Map

Antwerp, Plantin-Moretus, 1595. Copper engraving, 31 x 47.5 cms, modern hand-colour, Latin text on verso. Two maps on one sheet, the Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg and the environs of Nuremberg.Van den Broecke 99a.1/99b.2 Map

Frankfurt, c. 1650. Copper engraving, 28 x 36 cms, black and white, blank verso. Bremen, published by Merian and his heirs in various works, including the Theatrum Europaeum. Map

Amsterdam, 1607. Copper engraving, 13.5 x 18.6 cm, black and white, numbered in an early hand in upper margin, light waterstaining in lower margin, Latin text on verso. Britanny and Normandy, engraved by Jodocus Hondius for the ‘Atlas Minor’. Koeman Me 186. Map

Cologne, c. 1572. Copper engraving, 34 x 48 cms, recent hand-colour, numbered in an old hand top-right. Latin text on verso. Four north German towns on one sheet: Braunschweig, Lüneburg and Bremen, with Stade - mis-captioned Oldenburg in Holstein. Map

Paris, 1683. Copper engraving, 15 x 11.5 cms, recent hand-colour, French text on verso, from Mallet’s ‘Description de l’Univers’. Map

London: John & Paul Knapton,, 1744. Copper engraving, 35.5 x 43 cms, engraved by Emanuel Bowen, later hand-colour, blank verso. Map