[Early Balkans]

Sebastian Munster
[The Balkans.]

Basle, 1552, French edition. Woodcut, printed area 150 x 190mm, set in text. Coloured.
An early map of the Balkans
MUNS0016

[Ortelius's map of the northern Balkans in fine colour]

Abraham Ortelius.
Schlavoniae, Croatiae, Carniae, Istriae, Bosniae, Finitimarumque Regionem Nova Decsriptio, Auctore Augustino Hirsvogelio.

Antwerp, Vrients, 1602, Spanish text edition. 340 x 465mm. Fine original colour.
The northern Balkans, with Slovenia and Croatia, based on the map by Augustin Hirschvogel, 1565. The original hand colour is particularly fine, with the woodcut initial on verso also coloured.
ORTE0037

[Decorative map of the Eastern Balkans]

Gerard Mercator
Walachia Servia, Bulgaria, Romania.

Amsterdam, Johannes Jansson, 1634. 350 x 470mm. Coloured.
Part of Serbia, with southern Romania, Bulgaria, northern Macedonia and the western part of Turkey including Istambul. By Gerard Mercator himself., with an ornate strapwork title cartouche.
MERC0041

[Hungary, Croatia and Bosnia]

Nicolas Sanson.
Partie Meridionale du R.me de Hongrie...

Paris, Pierre Mariette, c.1654. 350 x 555mm. Original outline colour. Small spot in centre.
Map of southern Hungary, centred on the Danube. Also shown are Croatia and Bosnia.
SANS0013

[Map of the Balkans]

Philip Cluver,
Daciarum, Moesiarum et Thraciæ Vetus et Nova Descriptio.

c.1700. 210 x 250mm.
The northern Balkans.
CLUV0001

[Map of the northen Balkans]

Johannes Jansson.
Magni Mogolis Imperium.

Amsterdam, Schenk & Valk, c.1700. 410 x 460mm. Original colour.
Jansson's map of Serbia, Bulgaria & Romania, with Istanbul marked on the right. For this state Schenk & Valk have added lines of longitude and latitude.
JANS0089

[Map of the Eastern Danube]

Johann Baptist Homann.
Danubii Fluminis (hic ab urbe Belgrado, per Mare Negrum usq, Constantinopolim defluentis exhibiti) Pars Infima...

Nuremberg, c.1720. 490 x 590mm. Original body colour.
Map of the Danube from Belgrade to the Black Sea, with Istambul in the lower right.
HOMA0036

[Uncommon Map of the Southern Balkans]

Giovanni Maria Cassini.
L'Albania e la Macedonia con porzione della Dalmazia, Servia, Vallachia Bulgaria e Romania.

Rome, 1788. 350 x 480mm. Coloured.
Albania and Macedonia, with parts of Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria and Romania, with a decorative title cartouche. Cassini's atlas was not a financial success, so few examples were printed.
CASS1003

[Miniature Map of Croatia]

Petrus Bertius.
Liburnia.

Amsterdam, Jodocus Hondius, 1616, First edition. 100 x 135mm. Coloured. Tiny wormhole in margin.
Hondius engraved new plates for his edition of the Bertius atlas 'Tabularum Geographicarum Contractarum', which he sold alongside the Mercator 'Atlas Minor'. KOEMAN: Lan 11a, 'With the new plates, the work was certainly improved'.
BERT0054

[Early woodcut plan of Zadar in Croatia]

Sebastian Munster
[Untitled plan of Zadar.]

Basle, c.1590. Woodcut, printed area 125 x 255mm, set in text.
Concentrating on the city defences. With a galley in the foreground representing the Turkish threat.
MUNS0023

[View of Belgrade]

Lasor à Varea.
Belgrad.

Padua, Lasor à Varea, 1713. 75 x 130mm, set in a page of text.
View of Belgrade.
LASO0001

[Town plan of Belgrade]

Christoph Weigel.
Umständliche Orts-Gelegenheit und Grund Riss Der mit Göttlichen Beystand durch die Christliche Waffen bekriegten und Hoffendlich bald Besiegte Türkischen Gränz-Vestung Belgrad oder Griechisch Weissenburg...

Nuremburg, 1718. 335 x 420mm. Original colour.
The year of publication of this map the Austrians and the Ottomans signed the Treaty of Passarowitz, under which Austria gained control of Belgrade, and established the border between Islam and Christianity as the Danube River.
WEIG0018

[Early Slovenia]

Sebastian Munster
Istria peninsola, cioè quasi Isola.

Basle, 1575, Italian edition. Woodcut, printed area 140 x 155mm, set in text.
Early map of Slovenia.
MUNS0017