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![Terta Etas Mundi. Foliu CX [With view of Metz]](/uploads/cache/46260-250x250.jpg)
Terta Etas Mundi. Foliu CX [With view of Metz]
The Latin text page is illustrated with a depictions of Kings, Noble men and women and scientists, among Eustace (Eustachius) a Roman soldier and martyr, appears as a bea...
- $450 / ≈ €385
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Sexta Etas Mudi. / Simon Beatus .. / Folio CCLIIII.
A very fine presentation of the circumcision of Simon (192 x 223 mm.). RECTO: a falling star, a portrait of a King and an officer wearing armour. Page from the richest il...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Terta Etas Mundi. Foliu CXXXV
The Latin text page is illustrated with depictions of Kings, Noble men and women and scientists. RECTO : Including a portrait of Jerome. Represented by a large woodcut, i...
- $100 / ≈ €85
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
![[The creation of the world - First day]](/uploads/cache/24509-250x250.jpg)
[The creation of the world - First day]
Attractive page from the Nuremberg Chronicle, showing the creation of the world: the First Day, showing the celestial choir (God\'s creation of the angels) surrounding th...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
![Sexta Etas Mundi. Constancia. [Constance CCXLI ]](/uploads/cache/33141-250x250.jpg)
Sexta Etas Mundi. Constancia. [Constance CCXLI ]
A very fine town view of Constance, in Germany, centered on the cathedral (198 x 520 mm).VERSO, seven insets of scientists, noblemen and Popes.Page from the richest illus...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
![Sexta Etas Mundi. Bressla. [Breslau or Wrocław] CCXXXIIII.](/uploads/cache/33138-250x250.jpg)
Sexta Etas Mundi. Bressla. [Breslau or Wrocław] CCXXXIIII.
A very fine presentation of the city of Bresslau / Wrocław (230 x 520mm.), in Poland, centered on the cathedral (Dim. : 232 mm W : 520 mm).Overleaf, the kings Wenceslaw ...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Tercia Etas Mundi. Folium.XLVI (A English town view)
Large woodcut depicting an imaginary English town (235x223mm.) and on verso the genealogy of King David.Page from the richest illustrated Incunable, the famous: Chronicle...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Quinta Etas Mudi. Folium. LXV (With view of Babylon)
The Latin text page is illustrated with an imaginary of the Ancient City of Babylon (Dim. H : 138 mm W : 223 mm).Babylon was the capital of Babylonia, the alluvial plain...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Sexta Etas Mudi. Folio CCLV. (With portret of Johannes Müller alias Regiomontanus holding a Astrolabe.
A very fine presentation of the astronomer Johannes Müller alias Regiomontanus holding a Astrolabe. A village-scene (Dim. H : 150 mm W : 223 mm) is depicted on the lower...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Secunda etas mundi. Folium XIII.
Schedel's world map was based on the cartographic system of Claudius Ptolemy, the great second-century AD geographer whose scholarship formed the foundation for map produ...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Tercia Etas Mundi. Foliu. XXVIII (with a view of the city of Lacedaemon or Sparta)
The Latin text page is illustrated with depictions of Kings, Noble men and women and scientists, including Atlas. RECTO : In the first panel, at the left, are some of the...
- $150 / ≈ €128
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Sexta Etas Mundi. Folium. CXXXV
Latin text page with woodcuts on recto a large woodcut of Jerome (Hieronymus), a very pious and celebrated teacher, cardinal of the Roman church, and a priest, whose fath...
- $100 / ≈ €85
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
![Etas Prima Mundi. Folium VII. [Adam and Eve, eating the apple and being expelled from paradise]](/uploads/cache/29855-250x250.jpg)
Etas Prima Mundi. Folium VII. [Adam and Eve, eating the apple and being expelled from paradise]
Latin text page with a large woodcut of Adam and Eve, eating the apple and being expelled from paradise.One of the most sought-after prints from the richest illustrated I...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
![Tercia Etas Mundi. Folium XXX. [The flight of Egypt, Moses receiving the Commandments, God's Angel, Balaam and his talking donkey. ]](/uploads/cache/29854-250x250.jpg)
Tercia Etas Mundi. Folium XXX. [The flight of Egypt, Moses receiving the Commandments, God's Angel, Balaam and his talking donkey. ]
On recto two nice woodblock prints (each 128x222mm.) of The flight of Egypt and Moses receiving the Commandments.VERSO : a woodblock print of God's Angel, Balaam and his ...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
![Madeburga [ Maagdenburg Folio CLXXX ]](/uploads/cache/12338-250x250.jpg)
Madeburga [ Maagdenburg Folio CLXXX ]
Double-page panoramic view of Magdeburg. A imaginary view, however the earliest obtainable view of this period.Two page from the richest illustrated Incunable, the famous...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
![Sexta Etas Mundi. Foliu CXXXV [Text page with S. Hieronymus, the patron of theological learning].](/uploads/cache/25763-250x250.jpg)
Sexta Etas Mundi. Foliu CXXXV [Text page with S. Hieronymus, the patron of theological learning].
Text page with woodcuts of the following saints: S. Hieronymus, the patron of theological learning (100x80mm.)VERSO is printed with text and images of Popes and Kings.Pag...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Destruccio Iherosolime.
The view shows the destruction of Jerusalem. Major points in the city are identified with Latin notations. Of interest, in the upper left of the image are two figures...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
![Sexta Etas Mundi. Ratisbonna. [Ratisbonne]](/uploads/cache/13549-250x250.jpg)
Sexta Etas Mundi. Ratisbonna. [Ratisbonne]
A very fine presentation of the city of Ratisbon, in Germany, centered on the cathedral (Dim. : 191 mm W : 525 mm).Overleaf a very nice view of Vienna, with two swans on ...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
![Carthage, etc. [Foliu XL ]](/uploads/cache/26122-250x250.jpg)
Carthage, etc. [Foliu XL ]
VERSO: Portraits of scholars, and an imaginary view on Carthage in Tunisia (12x17cm.) Page from the famous Liber chronicarum of Hartmann-Schedel 1493, the first and Latin...
Place & Date: Nuremberg 12 July 1493
Sexta Etas Mundi. CXCVI.
Latin text page with woodcuts on recto and verso of Saints, Kings, and Queens. Page from the richest illustrated Incunable, the famous: Nuremberg Chronicle, published the...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
(EUROPE).
A woodcut colored map of northern and central Europe. The first modern map of the area. Second printed map of the North, after the woodcut map published in the 'Ulm' Ptol...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1493
Sexta etas Mundi. Folium. CCXLV
The Latin text page is illustrated with a depiction of two lovers happened to have lived in Italy: a knight named Eurialus, who was the personal attendant of Emperor Sigi...
- $75 / ≈ €64
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
![Quarta Etas Mndi. Carvilium / Aquileya. [Carovilli and Aquileia]](/uploads/cache/13525-250x250.jpg)
Quarta Etas Mndi. Carvilium / Aquileya. [Carovilli and Aquileia]
A lovely presentation of Carovilli, in the province of Cremona. Recto, a view of the town of Aquileya in Italy, centered on the castle and the high walls. Aquileia is an ...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Text page with Kings, Queens, Saints and Popes. Sexta Etas Mundi. Folium. CXVI.
Recto verso text page with woodcuts of Kings, Queens, Saints (St.Cecilia), Popes and historical personalities. Page from the richest illustrated Incunable, the famous ...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
![[Text page with Saint Appolonia, the patron saint of dentistry. - Sexta Etas Mundi. Folium. CXX ].](/uploads/cache/26526-250x250.jpg)
[Text page with Saint Appolonia, the patron saint of dentistry. - Sexta Etas Mundi. Folium. CXX ].
Text page with woodcuts of Abdon & Senen, Agatha, Appolonia, Serapion, Meniacus, Victoria. With a woodcut of Appolonia, the patron saint of dentistry. Because of the ...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Prima Etas Mundi. IX (with Eve nursing Kain and Abel)
A very fine presentation of Eve nursing Kain and Abel. Adam is working (255x220 cm). VERSO a genealogy of Adam.Page from the richest illustrated Incunabel, the famous: Li...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
![[Text page with imaginary towns in Westphalia and Hesse. CCLXXXIIII ].](/uploads/cache/37487-250x250.jpg)
[Text page with imaginary towns in Westphalia and Hesse. CCLXXXIIII ].
On recto, an imaginary view of towns in Westphalia (230x225mm.). Verso of towns in the province Hesse.Page from the richest illustrated Incunabula, the famous: Nuremberg ...
- $200 / ≈ €171
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
![[Text page with Kings and historical personalities.] Quita etas mundi. Foliu. LXXXIII](/uploads/cache/26874-250x250.jpg)
[Text page with Kings and historical personalities.] Quita etas mundi. Foliu. LXXXIII
Text page with woodcuts of Kings and historical personalities.Page from the richest illustrated Incunable, the famous: Nuremberg Chronicle, published the year that Columb...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
![[ Secunda etas mundi. Foliu XVIII ].](/uploads/cache/26866-250x250.jpg)
[ Secunda etas mundi. Foliu XVIII ].
Text in Latin, each paragraph separated by the triumphant cross with orb representing Christ's reign over the world (it is often shown atop Christ's scepter in Christian ...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Sexta Etas Mudi. - Data est mihi potestas in celo et in terra: Salvator: CI. (Jesus Christ surrounded by the Twelve Apostles)
A very fine presentation of Jesus Christ surrounded by the Twelve Apostles. Each of the evangelists is represented by his symbol in the corners.Page from the richest illu...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
![Parisius & Maguncia. [Paris & Munich] Folio XXXIX](/uploads/cache/29718-250x250.jpg)
Parisius & Maguncia. [Paris & Munich] Folio XXXIX
Imaginary view of Paris and on verso Munich : however the earliest obtainable views of this period.In the forground a large vessel, who was the symbol of the powerful cor...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Sexta Etas Mudi. (With view of Sabatz.) Folio CCLIII
A imaginary view of Sabatz, Turkey: however the earliest obtainable view of this period.Further including presentations of the popes Sixtus IV and Innocentius VIII. Pag...
- $200 / ≈ €171
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
![Ulma Folio CXCI [With view of Ulm.]](/uploads/cache/29713-250x250.jpg)
Ulma Folio CXCI [With view of Ulm.]
Double-page panoramic view of Ulm.An imaginary view, however, is the earliest obtainable view of this period.Two pages from the richest illustrated Incunabel, the famou...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
![[Page with imaginary towns in Hungary. ] CCLXVIII](/uploads/cache/26932-250x250.jpg)
[Page with imaginary towns in Hungary. ] CCLXVIII
Page with imaginary towns in Hungary (230x225mm.) This leaf is from an edition of Hartmann Schedel's Liber chronicarum or Nuremberg Chronicle. The Chronicle was published...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1493
![Basilae [ Basle, CCXLIIII ]](/uploads/cache/29714-250x250.jpg)
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
![Venecie. [Venice] Foliu XLIIII](/uploads/cache/29716-250x250.jpg)
Venecie. [Venice] Foliu XLIIII
A very fine of Venice (192x525mm.) Verso a view of Padua. Schedel's view of Venice is one of the earliest obtainable views of the city. The view is based on the view of ...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 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
Constatinopolis.
Panoramic town-view of Constantinople (Istanbul). Woodcut published in the so-called pirate edition of the "small Schedel" in Augsburg, 1497, Latin edition. Ori...
Place & Date: Augsburg, Johann Schönsperger. 1497
(Fragment of a text leaf from Universal Chronicle)
Fragment of a text leaf, showing a miniature depicting two Kings who are greeting each other surrounded by their knights. The metal cut has contemporary hand coloring and...
Place & Date: Paris, c.1490-1500
Strabo de situ orbis.
Rare post-incunable 1502 sixth edition of Strabo’s Geographica, translated from Ancient Greek to Latin as De Situ Orbis by Guarino da Verona and Gregorio Tifernate.The ...
Place & Date: Venice, Bartolomeo de Zanis,14th day of January 1502
Leaf on vellum from a printed Book of Hours.
21 Lines of printed text, surrounded by renaissance borders decorated with putti, flowers and Middle French script around the illustrations.Interesting are the 6 panels w...
- $150 / ≈ €128
Place & Date: Paris, Philippe Pigouchet for Simon Vostre, ca. 1502
Leaf on vellum from a printed Book of Hours.
24 lines of printed text, surrounded by renaissance borders decorated with scenes and figures.The firm of Thielman Kerver is best known for its lovely printed Books of Ho...
- $125 / ≈ €107
Place & Date: Paris, Philippe Pigouchet for Simon Vostre, ca. 1502
Leaf on vellum from a printed Book of Hours.
24 lines of printed text, surrounded by Renaissance borders decorated with scenes and figures.The firm of Thielman Kerver is best known for its lovely printed Books of Ho...
- $125 / ≈ €107
Place & Date: Paris, Philippe Pigouchet for Simon Vostre, ca. 1502
Leaf on vellum from a printed Book of Hours.
24 lines of printed text, surrounded by renaissance borders decorated with scenes and figures.The firm of Thielman Kerver is best known for its lovely printed Books of Ho...
- $125 / ≈ €107
Place & Date: Paris, Philippe Pigouchet for Simon Vostre, ca. 1502
Strabonis illustrissimi scriptoris Geographia decem et septem libros continens.
First edition was published in Paris in the sixteenth century and the first with the preface by Thibaud Pigenat. Translation from Greek into Latin by Gregorio Tifernate a...
- $5000 / ≈ €4275
Place & Date: Paris, Hémon Le Fèvre, 1512
A printed leaf from a Book of Hours.
RECTO: Two 2-line and two 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds. Miniature with Saint Anne. Decorative panel border in he right and lower margins.VERSO: One 2...
Place & Date: Paris, G. Hardouin, 1512
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
![Septima Asie Tabvla. |Walsseemüller's map of Central Asia and the Silk Road]](/uploads/cache/62137-250x250.jpg)
Septima Asie Tabvla. |Walsseemüller's map of Central Asia and the Silk Road]
Trapezoidal woodcut map showing the area east of the Sarygamysh Lake, about midway between the Caspian Sea and the (former) Aral Sea. It is one of the earliest obtainabl...
Place & Date: Strasburg, J. Schott, 1513
Octava Asie Tabula (The Silk Road Area.)
Woodblock printed large-format map showing Northern India with Central Asia including the Himalayas and China. From the 1513 edition of Waldseemüller's Geographia.In the...
Place & Date: Strasburg, 1513
Septima Asie Tabula (Central Asia.)
A woodblock-printed large-format Ptolemaic map showing the region east of the Caspian Sea is labeled SOGDIANA. Sogdia or Sogdiana was an ancient Iranian civilization betw...
Place & Date: Strasburg, 1513
Secunda Asiae Tabula (Ukraine and Russia)
Woodblock printed a large-format Ptolemaic map showing Russia, Ukraine, and the Black Sea region. From the 1513 edition of Waldseemüller's Geographia.One of the earliest...
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
Quinta Asie Tabvla.
A woodblock map of ancient Median and Persian lands in modern-day Iran is from Martin Waldseemüller's 1513 edition of Ptolemy, a landmark work that contributed to major ...
Place & Date: Strasbourg, J. Schott, 1513
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 / ≈ €128
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: 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...
- $250 / ≈ €214
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 an extremely heavy vellum. Justification: 360x246mm. Text is in Spanish rounded gothic hand...
- $250 / ≈ €214
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 an Antiphonal or Choir Missal for Spanish use, in Latin, on extremely heavy vellum. Justification: 360x246mm. Text is in Spanish rounded gothic hand (Rotunda)...
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 an Antiphonal or Choir Missal for Spanish use, in Latin, on extremely heavy vellum. Justification: 360x246mm. Text is in Spanish rounded gothic hand (Rotunda)...
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...
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
Orbis Typus Universalis Iuxta Hydrographorum Traditionem.
Waldseemüller's monumental modern map of the world from the celebrated Strassbourg edition of Ptolemy's Geography, the most important cartographer of the early sixteenth...
Place & Date: Strasburg, 1513 / 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: 370x250 mm. Text is in Spanish rounded gothic hand (...
Place & Date: Sevilla, ca.1520
![Claudii Ptolemaei Alexandrini mathematicor[um] ...Octo libri Geographie. . .](/uploads/cache/62656-250x250.jpg)
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 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...
Place & Date: Strassburg, 1525
Tabula X. Asiae hae sunt e cognitis totius orbis.
This is the earliest printed representation of India west of the Ganges River in Ptolemy's time. It is an important map of southwestern Asia, including Persia, Afghanista...
- $1100 / ≈ €940
Place & Date: Lyons, M. Servetus, 1525
![Tabula III Asiae. [Caucass and Armenia.]](/uploads/cache/47571-250x250.jpg)
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 / ≈ €641
Place & Date: Lyons, M. Servetus, 1525
Claudii Ptolemaei geographicae enarrationis libri octo Bilibaldo Pirckeym hero interprete Annotationes Ioannis de Regio Monte in errores commissos a Iacobo Angelo in translatione sua.
This is a rare and interesting edition of Ptolemy's geography translated by Bilibaldo Pirckheym, accompanied by Regiomantus's annotations, and said to have been edited by...
- $59000 / ≈ €50443
Place & Date: Strassburg, Johann Grüninger, Johann Koberger, 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 six 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds and five line-fillers in same...
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 seven 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds and six line-fillers in sam...
Place & Date: France, ca.1530
![.Tabula III Asiae. [Caucass and Armenia.]](/uploads/cache/27894-250x250.jpg)
.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
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 / ≈ €641
Place & Date: Vienna, 1490, 1535
![Tabula IIII Aphricae. [with Prester John]](/uploads/cache/42945-250x250.jpg)
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 / ≈ €812
Place & Date: Vienna, 1522- 1535
.Tabu nova partis Aphri.
This is Laurent Fries' 1535 edition of the earliest acquirable modern mapping of Africa north of the Equator.Based on Waldseemüller's map. The maps show Northern Africa ...
Place & Date: Lyons, M. Servetus, 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 / ≈ €470
Place & Date: Lyons, 1535