| Antique Maps and Prints of Germany and Switzerland |
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| Helvetia, wood cut map of Switzerland. From Sebastian Munster "Von dem Teutchen Lande", circa 1590. 13.5 x 8 cm, condition good. Price £98.00 /$196.00. Click for info |
Around the year 1450 a most important event occurred. It was the invention of printing by Gutenberg. The success of the printing press was not immediate, after all there were very few people who could read.
The first outstanding landmark in German cartography was the printing of Ptolemy's Geographia in Ulm in 1482. A second edition was publised in 1486 and another one in Strassburg in 1513. However the list of authors selected for publication soon expanded. By 1480 there were 111 towns in Europe that had printing presses.
Nuremburg, a major cultural centre of Europe, became especially prominent in geographical sciences. Nuremberg's artisans (goldsmiths and metal workers) produced the best globes and finest compasses. She also boasted many scholars, like Regiomantus, Behaim, Schoner, Hirschvogel, Erhard Etzlaub, Albrecht Durer and others. In 1493 Hartmann Schedel published the Nuremberg Chronicle. This was a topographical and historical work, issued seven months after Columbus landed in the New world. These medieval books are called incunables. In the 13th century a German antiquarian book collector discovered a Roman road map which was from the year 3 A.D. This was dubbed the Peutinger Table, after its discoverer. The original is now in Vienna.
Martin Waldseemuller(1470-1518) first suggested the name America in his Cosmographia Introductio, 1507. Sebastian Munster (1489-1552) was a mathematician and linguist. He was a Professor of Hebrew and Greek at the University of Heidelberg, but settled in Basle. He produced the "Cosmographia" in 1544 and "Geographia". In these there were maps and illustrations of towns from all over the known world that Munster had asked to be sent to him bt cartographers, surveyors, etc.
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| Bohemia,Silesia,Moravia, and Lusace. Copper engraved map with historical descriptions, dated 1720. Price £160.00 /$320.00 Click for info |
After the flowering of German mapmaking in the 16th century, there was something of a gap until the 18th century, when the Homan family, Johann Baptiste (1663-1724) and his son, Johann Christoph, started producing maps.
Maps were produced after Johann Christophe's death by his son-in-law under the name Homann Heirs.
Selected German & Swiss maps currently in stock
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Lotharingiae, showing Luxembourg, Lorraine, Metz, Clermont, Chur, Trier, Pfaultz,Hesse, and others. Nicholas Visscher, Copper plate map, original hand colouring, engraved in Amsterdam circa 1710. 56.5 x 62 cm
£285.00 / $570.00
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Germany, showing its Ancient Circles and its present 39 States. Description of Battles, Sieges, Commerce, Universities and more. Hand coloured engraved map intended for elucidation of Lavoisnes Historical Atlas, dated 1828. 57 x 48 cm
£95.00 / $190.00
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Rivers and Mountains (Fluss und Bergkarte ) of Germany and the Adjacent Countries. Stielers Hand Atlas. Detailed information on hight, elevation, and description of mountains by Adolf Stieler in 1820, corrected in 1857. Coloured map, published by Gotha; Justus Perthes in 1876. 41 x 33 cm
£48.00 / $96.00
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German Empire, coloured map, circa 1880. 30 x 23 cm
£25.00 / $50.00
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Germania Antiqua. Cellarius, Copper plate engraving showing Germany at the time of the Romans. Engraved by R.W.Seale, c1776. 31 x 20 cm
Price £54.00 / $108.00
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Selected German & Swiss prints currently in stock
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Berlin, Schiller-Platz. A.Deroy, wood engraving, circa 1875. 18.5 x 13 cm
Price £28.00 /$56.00
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Dresden, published by R.Bowyer. Aquatint, 1815. 33 x 23 cm
Price £95.00 /$190.00
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"Mayence" by Birket Foster. Steel engraving, hand coloured, circa 1840. 16.5 x 11.5 cm
£38.00 / $76.00
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The Cathedral at Worms, on the Rhine. S.Prout, steel engraving, hand coloured, engraved by W.Wallis. Published by Fisher 1845. 10.5 x 15 cm
£38.00 / $76.00
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Kloster Neuburg,Austria. W.H.Bartlett, steel engraving circa 1840. 18.5 x 12 cm
£38.00 / $76.00
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Children of Berlin Westend, Ball Game, The English Marine. Honeymoon in Switzerland, C.W.Allers, Collotype dated 1889.Published by F.& P. Lehmann, Berlin. 18.5 x 25cm
£45.00 / $90.00
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Honeymoon in Switzerland, C.W.Allers, Collotype dated 1889, showing Sketches of the the Saturday market at Thun, and a girl of the Canton Bern.Published by F.& P. Lehmann, Berlin. 25 x 19cm
£45.00 / $90.00
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Basle, by S. Prout. Steel engraving, hand coloured, 1845. 15 x 11 cm
£45.00 / $90.00
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Grindelwald. Drawn by J.S.Cooper, Steel engraving, published by Fullerton, c. 1840. 13.5 x 9 cm
£40.00 / $80.00
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Lausanne. Drawn by Copley Fielding, Steel engraving, published by J.Murray, 1832. 13 x 9 cm
£40.00 / $80.00
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Martigny. Drawn by J.D.Harding, Steel engraving, published by J.Murray, 1833. 13 x 9 cm
£35.00 / $70.00
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Thun. T.S.Cooper, Steel engraving, hand coloured, engraved by Finden, published by J.Murray, 1833. 13 x 9 cm
£30.00 / $60.00
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The Summit of the Jungfrau. W.H. Bartlett, Steel engraving, hand coloured, engraved by W.Taylor, published by George Virtue, 1836. 17.5 x 12 cm
£40.00 / $80.00
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A Glimpse of Zermatt. Wood cut print, hand coloured , from Picturesque Europe? 1890. 23.5 x 17.5 cm
£40.00 / $80.00
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