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Leaf on vellum from a printed Book of Hours.

21 lines of printed text, surrounded by Renaissance borders decorated with flowers and little miniatures with figures on both sides.From the press of the leading Parisian...

$125 / ≈ €110
Maker / Publisher: BOOK OF HOURS
Place & Date: Paris, Germain Hardouyn, c. 1520-1540

 


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