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Basilae [ Basle, CCXLIIII ]
A very fine view of Basle (253x520 cm). Verso showing the councils of Florence and Basle and two portraits.Page from the richest illustrated Incunabel, the famous: Nuremb...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Ulma Folio CXCI [With view of Ulm.]
Double page panoramic view of Ulm.A imaginary view, however the earliest obtainable view of this period.Two page from the richest illustrated Incunabel, the famous: Nurem...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Sexta Etas Mundi. Folium. CCXVII (dancers of Maastricht).
Latin text page with woodcuts of male Siamese twins, a man headed lion. The large illustration is the only illustration related to the Netherlands : it shows a bridge col...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
[Text page with Kings, Queens, Saints and Popes. Sexta Etas Mundi. Folium. CXI].
Recto text page with woodcuts of Kings. Verso text page with woodcuts of Saints and Popes. Page from the richest illustrated Incunable, the famous: Nuremberg Chronicle, p...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
(EUROPE).
The map of Europe has been identified as the work of Hieronimus Münzer (1437-1508), a Nuremberg physician who supplied the geographical contents of the chronicle. The Eu...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1493
Miniature of The Crucifixion of Christ.
Page fragment from a Book of Hours with a miniature of the Cruxifiction with Saint Mary and Mary Magdalene in prayer in front of Jesus hung on the cross. This miniature c...
Place & Date: Paris, 1492 - 1494
Quinta Asie Tabvla.
Woodblock map of Persia from Martin Waldseemüller's 1513 edition of Ptolemy, a landmark work that contributed to major advances in both Renaissance geography and map p...
Place & Date: Strasbourg, J. Schott, 1513
Tabula Secunda Europe (Spain & Portugal)
Wood block printed large-format Ptolemaic map of the Iberian Peninsula from the 1513 edition of Waldseemüller's Geographia.This Ptolemaic map comes from the first so cal...
Place & Date: Strasburg, 1513
Tabula Prima Africa.
The map apart from depicting Morocco also shows southern Spain and the Balearic Islands. In north Africa the map extends eastwards toward modern day Algeria and to the we...
Place & Date: Strasbourg, 1513
Leaf on vellum from a antiphonary.
A leaf from a Medieval Antiphonal or Choir Missal for Spanish use, in Latin on extremely heavy vellum. Justification: 360x246mm. Text is in Spanish rounded Gothic hand (R...
Place & Date: Sevilla, ca.1520
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
VERSO: one 2-line illuminated initial showing a bird in fine detail in liquid gold on colored ground, seven 1-line initials and line-fillers in same.RECTO: Seven 1-line i...
Place & Date: France, c. 1520
Leaf on vellum from a antiphonary.
A leaf from a Medieval Antiphonal or Choir Missal for Spanish use, in Latin on extremely heavy vellum. Justification: 360x246mm. Text is in Spanish rounded gothic hand (R...
Place & Date: Sevilla, ca.1520
Leaf on vellum from a antiphonary.
A leaf from a Medieval Antiphonal or Choir Missal for Spanish use, in Latin on extremely heavy vellum. Justification: 360x246mm. Text is in Spanish rounded gothic hand (R...
Place & Date: Sevilla, ca.1520
Leaf on vellum from a antiphonary.
A leaf from a Medieval Antiphonal or Choir Missal for Spanish use, in Latin on extremely heavy vellum. Justification: 360x246mm. Text is in Spanish rounded gothic hand (R...
Place & Date: Sevilla, ca.1520
Claudii Ptolemaei Alexandrini mathematicor[um] ...Octo libri Geographie. . .
Third edition of "Géographie" by Ptolemy and published in Strasbourg. Illustrated with 50 maps engraved in wood. One of the more important maps is showing the ...
Place & Date: Strasbourg, J. Grüninger, 1522
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
RECTO: One 2-lines initial decorated with flower in liquid gold on colored grounds and seven 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds and six line-fillers in sam...
Place & Date: France, ca.1530
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
RECTO: One 2-lines initial decorated with flower in liquid gold on colored grounds and six 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds and five line-fillers in same...
Place & Date: France, ca. 1530
.Taprobana Ins. Tabula XII Asiae. [Sri Lanka.]
Ptolemy's mythical island of Taprobana originally became associated with Sri Lanka although it was sometimes confused with Sumatra. Taprobana, as it was called on most ea...
Place & Date: Lyons, M. Servetus, 1535
.Tabula III Asiae. [Caucass and Armenia.]
Ptolemaic map of the region south of the Caucasus Mountains and between the Caspian Sea as far south as the headwaters of the Tigris River in the south and the Black Sea,...
Place & Date: Lyons, M. Servetus, 1535
[Map of Palestine ]
Map of Palestine from "La Mer des Hystoires" published by Dupré, Paris, 1536 "La Mer des Hystoires" is a translation into French of the famous "...
Place & Date: Dupre, Paris, 1536
Leaf on vellum from a printed Book of Hours.
24 lines of printed text, surrounded by renaissance borders decorated with flowers, vases and religious scenes.From the press of the leading Parisian publisher and illumi...
Place & Date: Paris, Germain Hardouyn, c.1520-1540
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...
Place & Date: Paris, Germain Hardouyn, c. 1520-1540
Leaf on vellum from a printed Book of Hours In Latin and French.
24 lines of printed text, surrounded by renaissance borders decorated with flowers, vases and figures. Gothic type, text in Latin, numerous one and two-line initials in g...
Place & Date: Paris, Germain Hardouyn, c. 1520-1540
Leaf on vellum from a printed Book of Hours In Latin and French.
24 lines of printed text, surrounded by renaissance borders decorated with flowers, vases and figures. Gothic type, text in Latin, numerous one and two-line initials in g...
Place & Date: Paris, Germain Hardouyn, c. 1520-1540
Leaf on vellum from a printed Book of Hours.
24 lines of printed text, surrounded by renaissance borders decorated with flowers, vases and religious scenes.From the press of the leading Parisian publisher and illumi...
Place & Date: Paris, Germain Hardouyn, c.1520-1540
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...
Place & Date: Paris, Germain Hardouyn, c. 1520-1540
.[Balkan region with Austria, Croatia, Slovenia, Switzerland, etc]
Wood block printed map and one of earliest printed representation of Balkan with Austria, Croatia, Slovenia, Switzerland, etc prepared Martin Waldseemüller. Based on the...
Place & Date: Vienna, 1525 -1541
[India and China]
Wood block printed map and one of earliest printed representation of India and China prepared Martin Waldseemüller. Based on the slightly larger map from 1513 published ...
Place & Date: Vienna, 1525 -1541
[East Asia]
Wood block printed map and one of earliest printed representation of East Asia and centered on Amenia, prepared Martin Waldseemüller. Based on the slightly larger map fr...
Place & Date: Vienna, 1525 -1541
.[Georgia (Republic), Sarmatia, Ukraine]
Wood block printed map and one of earliest printed representation of Georgia (Republic), Sarmatia, Ukraine prepared by Martin Waldseemüller. Based on the slightly larger...
Place & Date: Vienna, Trechsel, G., 1525 -1541
[Albania, Bulgaria, Europe, Eastern, Greece, Hungary, Macedonia, Romania]
Wood block printed map and one of earliest printed representation of Albania, Bulgaria, Europe, Eastern, Greece, Hungary, Macedonia, Romania prepared Martin Waldseemülle...
Place & Date: Vienna, Trechsel, G., 1525 -1541
.[Bangladesh, Burma, India, Thailand]
Wood block printed map and one of earliest printed representation of Bangladesh, Burma, India, Thailand prepared Martin Waldseemüller. Based on the slightly larger map f...
Place & Date: Vienna, Trechsel, G., 1525 -1541
Tabula Superioris Indiae & Tartariae maioris. (Modern Map of China, Japan, etc.)
Important map extending from Tartary in the north, to "Prov. Bocat" (Cambodia) in the south. "Tebet" is shown prominently, as is "Zinpangri"...
Place & Date: Vienne, 1541
Tabula nova utriusque Indiae.
This is the fourth and last edition of this map based on Waldseemüller's first "modern" map of Asia. It follows that cartography without change but adds an int...
Place & Date: Vienne, 1541
.[Germany and Poland]
Wood block printed map and one of earliest printed representation of Germany, Poland, The Low Countries, Austria and Switzerland prepared by Martin Waldseemüller. Based ...
Place & Date: Vienna, Trechsel, G., 1525 -1541
.[India]
Wood block printed map and one of earliest printed representation of India prepared by Martin Waldseemüller. Based on the slightly larger map from 1513 published in &quo...
Place & Date: Vienna, Trechsel, G., 1525 -1541
.[Near east with Cyprus]
Wood block printed map and one of earliest printed representation of Near east with Cyprus prepared by Martin Waldseemüller. Based on the slightly larger map from 1513 p...
Place & Date: Vienna, 1525 -1541
Tabula Sexta Asia (Arabian Peninsula)
This is a very desirable early Ptolemaic woodblock map of the Arabian Peninsula, here called Arabia Felix. The map is presented on a trapezoidal projection with par...
Place & Date: Vienna, 1525 -1541
.[Pakistan, Afghanistan]
Wood block printed Ptolemaic map of the region of present-day Pakistan and part of Afghanistan. Convoluted mountain ranges and river systems dominate the trapezoidal map....
Place & Date: Vienna, Trechsel, G., 1525 -1541
[Europe, Eastern, Sarmatia, Ukraine]
Wood block printed map and one of earliest printed representation of Europe, Eastern, Sarmatia, Ukraine prepared L. Fries after Martin Waldseemüller.Based on the slightl...
Place & Date: Vienna, Trechsel, G., 1525 -1541