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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...
- $250 / ≈ €234
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 an extremely heavy vellum. Justification: 360x246mm. Text is in Spanish rounded gothic hand...
- $250 / ≈ €234
Place & Date: Sevilla, ca.1520
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...
- $250 / ≈ €234
Place & Date: France, c. 1520
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, c. 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 manuscript Book of Hours.
RECTO: One 2-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds.VERSO: 17 lines of text in Latin.
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: France, 1500-1520
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: 370x250 mm. Text is in Spanish rounded gothic hand (...
Place & Date: Sevilla, ca.1520
Leaf on vellum from a antiphonary.
A leaf from an Antiphonal or Choir Missal for Spanish use, in Latin, on extremely heavy vellum. Justification: 360x246mm. Text is in Spanish rounded gothic hand (Rotunda)...
- $200 / ≈ €187
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
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,...
- $750 / ≈ €702
Place & Date: Lyons, M. Servetus, 1525
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 paralle...
- $2200 / ≈ €2059
Place & Date: Strassburg, 1525
Tabula X. Asiae hae sunt e cognitis totius orbis.
The earliest printed representation of India west of the Ganges River in Ptolemy's time. Considerable detail of river systems and mountain ranges.The first issue of this...
- $1000 / ≈ €936
Place & Date: Lyons, M. Servetus, 1525
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
.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
.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 I Asiae.
Ptolemaic map of Turkey.From Lorenz Fries' edition of Ptolemy's Geographia, largely based on the 1513 map by Waldseemuller. "The elaborate Renaissance woodcut panels...
- $750 / ≈ €702
Place & Date: Vienna, 1490, 1535
Tabula II Asiae.
A striking example of this wood-cut map depicts north of the Black Sea and west of the Caspian Sea (Ukraine, Russia, Georgia and Armenia). Ptolemy collected his data arou...
- $550 / ≈ €515
Place & Date: Lyons, 1535
Tabula IIII Aphricae. [with Prester John]
Early Ptolemaic woodcut map of the regions of Africa that were known to the ancients. The twin lake sources of the Nile are located near the Mons Lune (Mountains of the M...
- $950 / ≈ €889
Place & Date: Vienna, 1522- 1535
.Tabu nova partis Aphri.
Based on Waldseemüller's map. The maps show Northern Africa as it was known to Europeans at the first part of the 16th century. There is great details across north Afric...
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...
- $125 / ≈ €117
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, vases and religious scenes.From the press of the leading Parisian publisher and illumi...
- $125 / ≈ €117
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, vases and religious scenes.From the press of the leading Parisian publisher and illumi...
- $125 / ≈ €117
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, vases and persons in Medieval dress.From the press of the leading Parisian publisher a...
- $125 / ≈ €117
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, vases and religious scenes.From the press of the leading Parisian publisher and illumi...
- $125 / ≈ €117
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, skeletons and religious scenes.From the press of the leading Parisian publisher...
- $150 / ≈ €140
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...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Paris, Germain Hardouyn, c.1520-1540
Leaf on vellum from a printed Book of Hours with miniature of the Virgin of the Litanies.
The full-page panel depicts The Virgin of the Litanies (120 x 77mm.) with 2 printed lines of text. The verso has 21 lines of printed text, surrounded by renaissance borde...
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...
- $125 / ≈ €117
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 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...
- $75 / ≈ €70
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
.Aphricae Tabula secunda continet.
An important early map of the northern coast of Africa and including parts of the islands of Sicily and Sardine.
Place & Date: Vienne, 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
[Arabian Peninsula]
Wood block printed map and one of earliest printed representation of the Arabian Peninsula prepared by Martin Waldseemüller. Based on the slightly larger map from 1513 p...
- $2200 / ≈ €2059
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
.[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
.[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
.[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
.[Italy]
Wood block printed map and one of earliest printed representation of Italy prepared by Martin Waldseemüller. Based on the slightly larger map from 1513 published in &q...
Place & Date: Vienna, Trechsel, G., 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
[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
.[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
[Taprobana - Sri Lanka]
Wood block printed map and one of earliest printed representation of Ceylon prepared Martin Waldseemüller.Based on the slightly larger map from 1513 published in "P...
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 XII - Asiae [Taprobana Ins]
Map of Taprobana (Sri Lanka) which depicts the typical misconceptions of Ptolemy showing the island greatly enlarged, surrounded by imaginary islands, and with a small pa...
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
[Map of Turkey]
Page with an early representation of Turkey with Cyprus and Syria. This text page with a fine wood block printed map is from the rare work "C. Iulii Solini Polyhisto...
- $275 / ≈ €257
Place & Date: Basle, Michael Isengrin, 1544
Tabula Asiae V. (Persia)
The first edition of Munster's map between the Persian Gulf and the Caspian Sea, extending from Armenia and Mesopotamia eastward, based upon Claudius Ptolemy which appear...
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1545
Tabula Asiae II (Black Sea and Caspian Sea)
The first edition of Munster's map of Ukraine and the region north of the Black Sea, based upon Claudius Ptolemy which appeared in his "Geographia Universalis",...
- $500 / ≈ €468
Place & Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1545
Tabula Asiae V (Persia)
The first edition of Munster's map between the Persian Gulf and the Caspian Sea, extending from Armenia and Mesopotamia eastward, based upon Claudius Ptolemy which appear...
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1545
Tabula Asiae VII (Central Asia and Russia)
The first edition of Munster's map of the region north and east of the Black Sea and Caspian Sea, extending to the Imaus Mountains, based upon Claudius Ptolemy which appe...
- $400 / ≈ €374
Place & Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1545
Tabula Asiae XII (Sri Lanka, with Elephant)
The FIRST edition of Munster's first modern map of Sri Lanka, which appeared in his "Geographia Universalis", first published in 1540. The Geographia was a new ...
Place & Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1545
Tabula Asiae II (Black Sea and Caspian Sea).
The first edition of Münster's map of Ukraine and the region north of the Black Sea, based upon Claudius Ptolemy which appeared in his "Geographia Universalis"...
- $400 / ≈ €374
Place & Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1545
Tabula Asiae I (Turkey)
The first edition of Munster's map of Turkey, based upon Claudius Ptolemy which appeared in his "Geographia Universalis", first published in 1540. The Geographi...
- $500 / ≈ €468
Place & Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1545
Scythia.
Woodblock engraved map covering the region between the Caspian and the Sea of China, much of which is Terra Incognita in the North and East. In 1546 Honter’s Cosmograph...
- $190 / ≈ €178
Place & Date: Zürich, 1546
Flandria Barbantia e Holanda No.
Gastaldi's modern map of the Low Countries of the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg. It includes parts of England, France and Germany.According to van der Heijden This ...
Place & Date: Venice, 1548
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2021
Tabula Africae IIII.
Gastaldi's map of the Northern Africa, based on Ptolemy. Showing all of the Mediterranean, Ethiopian Interior, the Red Sea, Egypt, the source of the Nile, Red Sea, Dead S...
- $400 / ≈ €374
Place & Date: Venice, 1548
Tabula Asiae I.
Gastaldi's map of Asia Minor and the Bosporus Straits, based upon Ptolemy.It is one of the earliest obtainable maps of the region .From Giacomo Gastaldi's Atlas of 1548 w...
- $400 / ≈ €374
Place & Date: Venice, 1548
Tabula Asiae XII. (Sri Lanka)
Gastaldi's map showing Sri Lanka, based upon Ptolemy's twelfth map of Asia depicting Taprobana. With a decorative scene with elephant and descriptive text next to the map...
- $350 / ≈ €328
Place & Date: Venice, 1548
Tabula Europae II. (Spain and Portugal)
Gastaldi's map showing Spain and Portugal, based upon Ptolemy.It is one of the earliest obtainable maps of the region.From Giacomo Gastaldi's Atlas of 1548 which has been...
- $375 / ≈ €351
Place & Date: Venice, 1548
Tabula Asiae IIII. (Cyprus, Holy Land, Syria, Jordan, Iraq)
Gastaldi's map showing Cyprus, the Holy Land, Syria, Jordan and Iraq, based upon Ptolemy's map It is one of the earliest obtainable maps of the region.From Giacomo Gastal...
- $350 / ≈ €328
Place & Date: Venice, 1548
Moscovia Sigismundi Liberi Baronis In Herberstein, Neiperg et Gutehnag Anno M.D XLIX
The forst modern plan of Moscow. A rare and important cornerstone map for Russia collections.Sigismund von Herberstein made two visits to Russia. In 1517-18 he travelled ...
- $3000 / ≈ €2807
Place & Date: Vienna, 1549
Moscovia Sigismundi Liberi Baronis In Herberstein, Neiperg et Gutehnag Anno M.D XLIX
First Modern Map of Russia. A rare and important cornerstone map for Russia collections.Sigismund von Herberstein made two visits to Russia. In 1517-18 he travelled as a ...
- $3000 / ≈ €2807
Place & Date: Vienna, 1549
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
RECTO: Six 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds and five line-fillers in same.VERSO: Five 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds and one 2-lines i...
Place & Date: France, 1520-1550
[Lot of 25 leaves of France, Brabant, Netherlands, Luxemburg]
Twenty-five text leaves with wood block illustrations relating to France, Brabant, the Netherlands, Luxemburg. From the 1552 Latin text edition of Münster's Cosmographia...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Basel, 1552
Tabula Asiae XI.
Attractive early woodblock map of the Indian Ocean, extending from Southeast Asia to the Ganges River and north to the Himalayas.In upper left inset panel of tiger, cocke...
- $600 / ≈ €561
Place & Date: Basle, H. Petri, c. 1552
Colonia Agrippina civitas…
A wood block printed early panoramic view of Cologne (Germany). A lettered key A-Z beneath the view. The 1552 Latin text edition of Münster's Cosmographia is a short and...
- $70 / ≈ €66
Place & Date: Basel, 1552
[Lot of 25 leaves of Africa and Egypt]
Twenty-five text leaves with wood block illustrations relating to Africa and Egypt illustrated with maps, animals, plants.... From the 1552 Latin text edition of Münster...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Basel, 1552
[Lot of 8 leaves relating to the Holy Land]
Eight printed text leaves with maps and views relating to the Holy Land. From the 1552 Latin text edition of Münster's Cosmographia, which is a short and complete summar...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Basel, 1552