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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...

$900 / ≈ €788
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
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...

$1500 / ≈ €1314
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
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...

$1750 / ≈ €1533
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493

 


Bamberga. Folium CLXXV [Bamberg]

Double page panoramic view of Bamberg. One of the earliest obtainable view of this period.Two page from the richest illustrated Incunable, the famous: Nuremberg Chronicl...

$2000 / ≈ €1752
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493

 


Adam and Eve, eating the apple and being expelled from paradise. Folio VII

One of the most sought-after prints from the Nuremberg Chronicle , Adam and Eve, eating the apple and being expelled from paradise.Page from the richest illustrated Incun...

$700 / ≈ €613
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493

 


[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 ...

$150 / ≈ €131
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
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. ]

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 ...

$1000 / ≈ €876
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493

 


Sexta Etas Mudi. - Data est mihi potestas in celo et in terra: Salvator:

A very fine presentation of Jesus Christ surrounded by the Twelve Apostles. Each of the evangelists being represented by his symbol in the corners.Page from the richest i...

$700 / ≈ €613
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493

 


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...

$2200 / ≈ €1927
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493

 


Sexta Etas Mundi. Folium. CXXXII

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...

$80 / ≈ €70
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493

 


[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 / ≈ €175
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493

 


Sexta Etas Mudi. Symon Apostolus.. Folio CVII.

A very nice presentation of the martyr of Simon, sawn in half at Suanir, and Mathias stoned to death at Colchis in 80 AD. Overleaf, it shows the martyr of Matthew and Jud...

$400 / ≈ €350
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
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 / ≈ €88
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493

 


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 ...

$1400 / ≈ €1227
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
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 / ≈ €175
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493

 


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 / ≈ €394
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493

 


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...

$1250 / ≈ €1095
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493

 


Monacum. [Munich Folio CCXXVI ]

A very fine representation of the city of Munich.Page from the richest illustrated Incunable, the famous: Nuremberg Chronicle, published the year that Columbus returned t...

$2500 / ≈ €2190
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493

 


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...

$1000 / ≈ €876
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493

 


Tercia Etas Mundi. Folium. XXXVII

The Latin text page is illustrated with a depictions of Kings, Noble men and women and scientists. Page from the richest illustrated Incunable, the famous: Nuremberg Chro...

$100 / ≈ €88
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493

 


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...

$100 / ≈ €88
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg 12 July 1493

 


Sexta etas mundi. CCVIII

On recto the portrait of Dominic, founder of the Dominican Order of Preaching Friars, is represented by a full-length woodcut. Francis, founder of the Franciscan Order, i...

$100 / ≈ €88
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493

 


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...

$400 / ≈ €350
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
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...

$100 / ≈ €88
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
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...

$2000 / ≈ €1752
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493

 


PATAVIA (Passau, Germ)

From the first Latin text edition, 1493.  The view of PATAVIA (nowadays the city of Passau, Southern Germany) was part of the Liber Chronicarum cum figuris et ymagibus ...

$900 / ≈ €788
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, HARTMANN
Place & Date: Nuremberg, Germany, 1493

 


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 ...

$1700 / ≈ €1489
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
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...

$25000 / ≈ €21902
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
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...

$200 / ≈ €175
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493

 


Quita Etas Mundi. Folium.LXXI (Toulouse)

The Latin text page is illustrated with an imaginary of Toulouse, France. VERSO are portraits of poets and teachers.Page from the richest illustrated Incunable, the famo...

$200 / ≈ €175
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2011

 


Constantinopolis.

A spectacular woodcut panorama of the ancient city of Constantinople, proporting to show the pre-Turk city (for example naming St Sophia). (235x522mm).One of the earliest...

$3500 / ≈ €3066
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493

 


CCLXXV.

The Latin text page is illustrated with an imaginary view of a town in Macedonia (195 x 225mm.) The Nuremberg Chronicle, published the year that Columbus returned to Euro...

$200 / ≈ €175
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493

 


[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...

$1200 / ≈ €1051
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493

 


[Text page with Kings and Popes, folio CXLVIII ].

Text page with woodcuts of Kings and on verso woodcuts of Popes including Pope Gregorius. Page from the richest illustrated Incunable, the famous: Nuremberg Chronicle, p...

$70 / ≈ €61
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
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...

$400 / ≈ €350
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493

 


Sexta etas mudi CCXXXIX.

The Latin text page is describing the crusade against the Bohemian heretics in the time of emperor Sigismund Nuremberg Chronicle, published the year that Columbus returne...

$100 / ≈ €88
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493

 


No title: Scandinavia/ Central Europe/ British Isles.

Map of Northern Europe from Nuremberg Chronicle . German text on verso. Printed by Anton Koberger. The map has been identified as the work of Hieronimus Münzer (1437-150...

$3000 / ≈ €2628
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493

 


Sexta etas muidi Fo CCV.

The Latin text page is illustrating Baldwin (Baldvinus), the fourth of this name, seventh king of Jerusalem, and son of the aforesaid Amalric, reigned six years after his...

$75 / ≈ €66
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
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...

$1000 / ≈ €876
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
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...

$2000 / ≈ €1752
Maker / Publisher: Master de Liénart Barronnat
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...

$600 / ≈ €526
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
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...

$750 / ≈ €657
Maker / Publisher: VERARD, A. ?
Place & Date: Paris, c.1490-1500

 


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 / ≈ €110
Maker / Publisher: BOOK OF HOURS
Place & Date: Paris, Philippe Pigouchet for Simon Vostre, ca. 1502

 


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 ...

$4750 / ≈ €4161
Maker / Publisher: STRABON.
Place & Date: Venice, Bartolomeo de Zanis,14th day of January 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 / ≈ €110
Maker / Publisher: BOOK OF HOURS
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 / ≈ €110
Maker / Publisher: BOOK OF HOURS
Place & Date: Paris, Philippe Pigouchet for Simon Vostre, ca. 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 / ≈ €131
Maker / Publisher: BOOK OF HOURS
Place & Date: Paris, Philippe Pigouchet for Simon Vostre, ca. 1502

 


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...

$150 / ≈ €131
Maker / Publisher: BOOK OF HOURS
Place & Date: Paris, G. Hardouin, 1512

 


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 / ≈ €4380
Maker / Publisher: STRABO.
Place & Date: Paris, Hémon Le Fèvre, 1512

 


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...

$4500 / ≈ €3942
Maker / Publisher: PTOLEMY, C. / WALDSEEMÜLLER, M.
Place & Date: Strasbourg, 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...

$4750 / ≈ €4161
Maker / Publisher: PTOLEMY, C. / WALDSEEMÜLLER, M.
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...

$5000 / ≈ €4380
Maker / Publisher: PTOLEMY, C. / WALDSEEMÜLLER, M.
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...

$4750 / ≈ €4161
Maker / Publisher: PTOLEMY, C. / WALDSEEMÜLLER, M.
Place & Date: Strasburg, 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...

$4000 / ≈ €3504
Maker / Publisher: PTOLEMY, C. / WALDSEEMÜLLER, M.
Place & Date: Strasburg, 1513

 


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...

$5000 / ≈ €4380
Maker / Publisher: PTOLEMY, C. / WALDSEEMÜLLER, M.
Place & Date: Strasbourg, J. Schott, 1513

 


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...

$7000 / ≈ €6133
Maker / Publisher: PTOLEMY, C. / WALDSEEMÜLLER, M.
Place & Date: Strasburg, 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...

$350 / ≈ €307
Maker / Publisher: BOOK OF HOURS.
Place & Date: France, c. 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 / ≈ €175
Maker / Publisher: ANTIPHONARIUM.
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 / ≈ €219
Maker / Publisher: ANTIPHONARIUM.
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 / ≈ €219
Maker / Publisher: ANTIPHONARIUM.
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 / ≈ €219
Maker / Publisher: ANTIPHONARIUM.
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 / ≈ €219
Maker / Publisher: ANTIPHONARIUM.
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 / ≈ €175
Maker / Publisher: ANTIPHONARIUM.
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 / ≈ €219
Maker / Publisher: ANTIPHONARIUM.
Place & Date: Sevilla, ca.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...

$75000 / ≈ €65706
Maker / Publisher: PTOLOMY, C. / WALDSEEMÜLLER, M.
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...

$230 / ≈ €201
Maker / Publisher: ANTIPHONARIUM.
Place & Date: Sevilla, ca.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 / ≈ €131
Maker / Publisher: BOOK OF HOURS.
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 (...

$200 / ≈ €175
Maker / Publisher: ANTIPHONARIUM.
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 / ≈ €219
Maker / Publisher: BOOK OF HOURS.
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...

$225 / ≈ €197
Maker / Publisher: BOOK OF HOURS.
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 an extremely heavy vellum. Justification: 360x246mm. Text is in Spanish rounded gothic hand...

$250 / ≈ €219
Maker / Publisher: ANTIPHONARIUM.
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 ...

$85000 / ≈ €74467
Maker / Publisher: PTOLEMEE, C. / FRIES. L.
Place & Date: Strasbourg, J. Grüninger, 1522

 


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 / ≈ €51689
Maker / Publisher: PTOLEMY,C. / FRIES, L.
Place & Date: Strassburg, Johann Grüninger, Johann Koberger, 1525

 


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 / ≈ €657
Maker / Publisher: PTOLEMY / FRIES, L.
Place & Date: Lyons, M. Servetus, 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 / ≈ €964
Maker / Publisher: PTOLEMY,C.
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...

$2600 / ≈ €2278
Maker / Publisher: WALDSEEMULLER, M. / FRIES, L.
Place & Date: Strassburg, 1525

 


Pomponii Melae De Orbis Situ Libri tres…[with Oronce Fine double-cordiform worldmap in a first state].

The third edition, with the commentary of Joachim Vadian with some contemporary notes in Latin, was issued with the first edition of Oronce Fine's full-sheet woodcut map ...

$30000 / ≈ €26282
Maker / Publisher: POMPONIUS MELA / ORONCE FINE.
Place & Date: Paris, (Chretien Wechel), 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...

$450 / ≈ €394
Maker / Publisher: BOOK OF HOURS.
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...

$400 / ≈ €350
Maker / Publisher: BOOK OF HOURS
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,...

$1800 / ≈ €1577
Maker / Publisher: PTOLEMY, C.
Place & Date: Lyons, M. Servetus, 1535