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SWAS510

Cartographer: Waldseemuller/Fries
Title: : Tabv Nova Helvetiae
Date: 1535 Size: 16 x 13 inches
Published: Lyon
Description: Early woodcut map of Switzerland from the 1535 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: SWAS510

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

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. Original hand colour.
Map Ref: SWAS1466

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

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

SWAS1479

Cartographer: Mercator Hondius
Title: : The Lake Lemann
Date: 1635 Size: 8 x 6 inches
Published: London
Description: Lake Geneva. Rare Michael Sparke edition with English descriptive text on verso. Coloured.
Map Ref: SWAS1479

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: Wiflispurgerow. Cartouche. Original colour.
Map Ref: SWAS897

SWAS1266

Cartographer: Robert Morden
Title: : Of Helvaetia, or Schwitzerlandt
Date: 1688 Size: 5 x 7 inches
Published: London
Description: Switzerland. Descriptive text on lower margin. Coloured.
Map Ref: SWAS1266

SWAS1492

Cartographer: Pierre Mortier
Title: : La Suisse divisee en ses Treze Cantons, ses Alliez & ses Sujets
Date: c. 1690 Size: 33 x 23 inches
Published: Amsterdam
Description: Exquisite map of Switzerland, first published by Nicolas Sanson, but here published by Mortier. Embellished with the coats of arms of the 13 cantons, 11 allies, and 9 subjects of Switzerland. Vibrant original hand-colour. (C)
Map Ref: SWAS1492

SWAS1465

Cartographer: Nicolas Sanson
Title: : Les Cantons des Suisses
Date: 1700 Size: 10 x 7 inches
Published: Amsterdam
Description: The Cantons of Switzerland. F. Halma edition. Vivid original hand colour.
Map Ref: SWAS1465

SWAS1468

Cartographer: Johann Baptist Homann
Title: : Potentissimae Helvetiorum Reipublicae Cantones Tredecim cum Foerderatis et Subjeclis Provinciis exhibiti A. Ioh. Batista Homanno Noribergae
Date: c. 1715 Size: 24 x 20 inches
Published: Nuremberg
Description: Switzerland shown in fine detail with the arms of the Thirteen Cantons illustrated on the cartouche and several vignettes embellishing the map. Original hand colour.
Map Ref: SWAS1468

SWAS1498

Cartographer: Herman Moll
Title: : Switzerland
Date: 1719 Size: 8 x 11 inches
Published: London
Description: Switzerland divided into its cantons with a charming contemporary description of the country below and on verso. Coloured.
Map Ref: SWAS1498

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