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[Title page colored by Georg Mack Jr. to : Hortus Eystettensis, Sive Diligens et Accurata Omnium Plantarum, Florum, Stirpium,. . .]

Title page to the first edition, one of about 300 copies printed, from one of the largest and most magnificent of the great flower books, depicting more than 1000 flowers...

$4000 / ≈ €3420
Maker / Publisher: BESLER, Basilius (1561-1629)
Place & Date: Nuremberg, ca 1613

 


[Title page from ] Le Theatre du Monde ou le nouvel atlas mis en lumière par Guillaume et Jean Blaeu. La seconde partie de la premiere.

Frontispiece of the second part of the first part of this fine atlas. At top, a coat of arms surmounted by a crown and surrounded by two golden chains, the bigger carryin...

$350 / ≈ €299
Maker / Publisher: BLAEU, J. / C.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1644

 


[Portrait of Gerard Mercator and Jodocus Hondius.]

Arguably the finest engraved portrait of early mapmakers. In the well-executed design, Gerard Mercator and Jodocus Hondius are seated within an architectural cartouche of...

$1750 / ≈ €1496
Maker / Publisher: HONDIUS, J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630