Early maps

A collection of five, including:

Martin Waldseemüller, Tabula nova Angliae & Hiberniae, Ptolemaic woodcut map, depicting Brazil as a small island off the coast of Ireland, on laid paper with partial bunch of grapes watermark, no text verso, partially hand-coloured, c. 30 x 41 cm, Lorenz Fries, 1541 § Sebastian Munster, Das Engelland, mit dem anstossenden Reich Schottland, hand-coloured, from the German edition of Sebastian Münster’s Cosmography, Heinrich Petri, Basel, 1540 [1578] § Das Heylig Jüdisch land [The Holy Land], hand-coloured, German text verso, a few worm holes § Contrafehtung der uralten Statt Trier, bird’s eye view of Trier, hand-coloured, edition by David Kandel, with his monogram; with another by Munster: Tabula Asiae IIII; v.s. (5)