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SWAS1509

Cartographer: Waldseemuller/Fries
Title: : Tabu Nova Helvetiae
Date: 1541 Size: 16 x 13 inches
Published: Lyon
Description: Early woodcut map of Switzerland from the 1541 edition of Ptolemy's 'Geographia', edited by Michael Servetus. This map was reduced by Laurent Fries from Martin Waldseemuller's rare 1513 map.
Map Ref: SWAS1509

SWAS1432

Cartographer: Sebastian Munster
Title: : De lacu Lemanno
Date: 1558 Size: 7 x 10 inches
Published: Basel
Description: Early woodblock map of Lake Geneva and the larger settlements that surround it.
Map Ref: SWAS1432

SWAS1439

Cartographer: Sebastian Munster
Title: : Helvetiae Moderna Descriptio
Date: 1558 Size: 14 x 11 inches
Published: Basel
Description: Early map of Switzerland with pictorial towns and mountain ranges. An archetypal example of 16th century wood-block printing.
Map Ref: SWAS1439

SWAS1482

Cartographer: Abraham Ortelius
Title: : Lacus Lemani
Date: 1609 Size: 20 x 15 inches
Published: Antwerp
Description: Rare map of Lake Geneva and its environs. Published only in the later editions of Ortelius' atlas. Latin text on verso. Original hand-colour.
Map Ref: SWAS1482

SWAS909

Cartographer: Mercator Hondius
Title: : Das Wiflispvr Gergov
Date: c. 1615 Size: 18 x 14 inches
Published: Amsterdam
Description: Dutch Golden Age map of western Switzerland, particularly the cantons of Vaud, Fribourg, Neuchatel, and part of Bern. Lake Geneva, Lake Neuchatel, and the Thunersee are all marked. English edition. Original hand-colour.
Map Ref: SWAS909

SWAS801

Cartographer: Mercator Hondius
Title: : Wiflispurgergow
Date: 1630 Size: 10 x 8 inches
Published: Amsterdam
Description: Decorative map of southwest Switzerland, particularly the cantons of Vaud, Fribourg, and part of Bern. Lake Geneva, Lake Neuchatel, and the Thunersee are all marked. Cloppenburg edition. Coloured.
Map Ref: SWAS801

SWAS1466

Cartographer: Mercator Hondius
Title: : Helvetia
Date: 1630 Size: 19 x 15 inches
Published: Amsterdam
Description: Golden Age map of the whole of Switzerland based on Mercator's map first issued in the 1590s and re-issued in Hondius's landmark work of the early seventeenth century. French text on verso. Original hand colour.
Map Ref: SWAS1466

SWAS1519

Cartographer: Jodocus Hondius
Title: : Chorographica Tabula Lacus Lemanni
Date: c. 1630 Size: 21 x 12 inches
Published: Amsterdam
Description: Hondius's famous map of Lake Geneva oriented to show north towards the bottom part of the sheet. Based on the map by Jacques Goulart.
Map Ref: SWAS1519

SWAS1517

Cartographer: Jodocus Hondius
Title: : Nova Helvetiae Tabula
Date: c. 1633 Size: 21 x 16 inches
Published: Amsterdam
Description: RARE figure map of Switzerland with illustrated borders featuring traditionally costumed figures and panoramas of Bern, Zurich, Basel, and Lucerne. Original hand-colour.
Map Ref: SWAS1517

SWAS1487

Cartographer: Mercator Hondius
Title: : Das Wiflis Purgergow
Date: 1635 Size: 8 x 6 inches
Published: London
Description: Regional map of Switzerland showing the area between the north coast of Lake Geneva and Lake Neuchatel. Michael Sparke edition. Coloured.
Map Ref: SWAS1487

SWAS1493

Cartographer: Mercator Hondius
Title: : Zurichou
Date: 1635 Size: 7 x 6 inches
Published: London
Description: Early decorative map of Zurich and its surroundings extending to Basel in the west and to Konstanz in the east. From the rare English edition of Hondius's miniature atlas published by Michael Sparke. Coloured.
Map Ref: SWAS1493

SWAS1518

Cartographer: Willem & Jan Blaeu
Title: : Helvetia, cum finitimis regionibus confoederatis
Date: c. 1640 Size: 20 x 15 inches
Published: Amsterdam
Description: This Dutch Golden Age map of Switzerland, curiously divided into seven regions, is credited to two of the leading cartographers of the age: Gerard Mercator and Willem Blaeu. Original hand-colour.
Map Ref: SWAS1518

SWAS530

Cartographer: Matthaus Merian
Title: : Das Landt Underwalden
Date: 1641 Size: 12 x 8 inches
Published: Frankfurt
Description: Early bird's-eye view of the historic Swiss canton of Unterwalden, one of the three founding members of the Swiss Confederacy in 1315. It is has since been split into Obwalden and Nidwalden. Coloured.
Map Ref: SWAS530

SWAS897

Cartographer: Willem & Jan Blaeu
Title: : Das Wiflispvr-Gergow
Date: c. 1650 Size: 20 x 15 inches
Published: Amsterdam
Description: Decorative map of southwest Switzerland, particularly the cantons of Vaud, Fribourg, Neuchatel, and part of Bern. Lake Geneva, Lake Neuchatel, and the Thunersee are all marked. French text on verso. Original hand-colour.
Map Ref: SWAS897

SWAS1520

Cartographer: Willem & Jan Blaeu
Title: : Zurichgow et Basilensis Provincia
Date: c. 1650 Size: 19 x 16 inches
Published: Amsterdam
Description: Northern Switzerland between Basel and Zurich. Original hand colour.
Map Ref: SWAS1520

SWAS1521

Cartographer: Willem & Jan Blaeu
Title: : Argow cum parte merid. Zurichgow
Date: c. 1650 Size: 19 x 16 inches
Published: Amsterdam
Description: Southern part of the north of Switzerland focusing on the northern lakes around Zurich and Argow or modern Aargau. Original hand colour.
Map Ref: SWAS1521

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