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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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SWAS897
Cartographer: Willem & Jan Blaeu
Title: : Das Wiflispvr-Gergow
Date: c. 1650      Size: 20 x 15 inches
Published: Amsterdam
Description: Wiflispurgerow. Cartouche. Original colour.
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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.
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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)
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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.
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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.
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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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