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The Dutch are attacked by giant crabs.

During their return voyage, the Portuguese were wrecked on a sandbank (the Seychelles?) From the debris they began building a smaller ship in which they hoped to return t...

$100 / ≈ €88
Maker / Publisher: DE BRY, Th.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1598

 


Nazareth.

Decorative view of Nazareth, below a decorative cartouche with numbered key and surrounded by 2 cherubins. Taken from a very rare travel book by Anthonius Gonsales, "...

$80 / ≈ €70
Maker / Publisher: GONSALES, A
Place & Date: Antwerpen, Michiel Cnobbaert, 1673

 


Double page manuscript page from a Shahnameh, The Book of Kings, written by Ferdowsi.

Fine double page brilliantly illuminated gilt leaves written by the scribe Abu Bakr Jami in Isfahan. The Arabic text contains Islamic prayers with beautiful headings thro...

$100 / ≈ €88
Maker / Publisher: ABU BAKR JAMI
Place & Date: Isfahan, ca. 1780

 


Cosmography in Four Books. Containing the Chorography and History of the Whole World: and all the Principal Kingdoms, Provinces, Seas,

Extensive description of the world by Peter Heylyn. Here the 6th edition corrected and enlarged by the author. Including 4 maps.The map of America showing California as a...

$900 / ≈ €792
Maker / Publisher: HEYLYN, P.
Place & Date: London, 1682