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Tang Dynasty Changsha Bowl from the Belitung Wreck.
A beautiful Tang dynasty sancai glazed bowl made in Tongguan county, Changsha city, Hunan province of China mainly for export. Recovered from the Belitung shipwreck. This...
Date: China, Hunan province, 826
Leaf on vellum from an antiphonary.
A more than 600 years old antiphonary leaf, written in Besancon, in 1370. Musical notation on 4 bars, the staves are in red and the notes in black: numerous pen-flourishe...
Date: France, 1370
Leaf on vellum from an antiphonary.
A more than 600 years old antiphonary leaf, written in Besancon, in 1370. Musical notation on 4 bars, the staves are in red and the notes in black: numerous pen-flourishe...
Date: Besançon, 1370
Leaf on vellum from an antiphonary.
A more than 600 years old antiphonary leaf, written in Besançon, in 1370. Musical notation on 4 bars, the staves are in red and the notes in black, numerous pen-flourish...
- $1500 / ≈ €1260
Date: Besançon, 1370
Leaf on vellum from an antiphonary.
A more than 600 years old antiphonary leaf, written in Besançon, in 1370. Musical notation on 4 bars, the staves are in red and the notes in black: numerous pen-flourish...
- $1750 / ≈ €1469
Date: France, Besançon, 1370
Handwritten leaf on vellum.
RECTO": justfication: 140 x 85 mm.16 lines of text in a good gothic bookhand, black ink.Large Initial "D"eus, 50 x 35 mm. 4 lines high in blue and purple w...
Date: Paris, 1450
Manuscript leaf on vellum from a Dutch Book of Hours.
RECTO: One 1-line capitals in red, blue or burnished gold with extensive penworkVERSO: One 1-line capitals in red, blue or burnished gold with extensive penwork.
- $250 / ≈ €210
Date: Flanders ca.1450
A manuscript leaf from a Book of Hours. (Calendar month of March)
RECTO : Calendar month of March with a 2-line initial in liquid gold on colored ground. colorful panel border in the left margin of acanthus leaves and flowers, with blac...
Date: Paris, ca. 1450
Leaf from a manuscript Psalter, written on vellum.
RECTO: 14 lines of text. One 2-line in burnished gold and colors and six 1-line initials in gold and colors, two line-fillers.VERSO: As recto but three 1-line initials an...
- $200 / ≈ €168
Date: Paris, c.1450
Manuscript leaf on vellum from a Dutch Book of Hours.
A leaf from a medieval manuscript Book of Hours, written in Utrecht.Fourteen lines of monastic Textura script with 4 one-line initials in liquid gold or blue ink with ext...
- $380 / ≈ €319
Date: Utrecht, ca.1450 - 1460
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
Leaf from a mid 15 th. century manuscript Book of Hours. Written on vellum in neat Gothic book hand.VERSO: 17 lines of text, with 2-line capital in red and blue, heighten...
- $200 / ≈ €168
Date: France ca.1470
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
Leaf from a mid 15 th. century manuscript Book of Hours. Written on vellum in neat Gothic book hand.RECTO: 17 lines of text, with 2-line capital in red and blue, heighten...
- $200 / ≈ €168
Date: France ca.1470
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
Leaf from a mid 15 th. century manuscript Book of Hours. Written on vellum in neat Gothic book hand.VERSO: 17 lines of text, with 2-line capital in red and blue, heighten...
- $200 / ≈ €168
Date: France ca.1470
Leaf on vellum from an antiphonary.
A very fine antiphonary leaf, written in Latin , probably Rome. RECTO: A wonderful initial ,O, decorated with pen work in red, white and blue, in rich burnished gold.VERS...
- $600 / ≈ €504
Date: Italy, 1480
Leaf on vellum from an antiphonary.
A very fine antiphonary leaf, written in Latin, probably Rome. RECTO: The staves are in red and the notes are in black.VERSO: The staves are in red and the notes are in b...
- $750 / ≈ €630
Date: Italy, 1480
A leaf from a breviary.
Two large 2-line initials in red and or blue for the start of the new chapter.Nice clean leaves, with ample margins, from a breviary, end of the 15th. century.
- $100 / ≈ €84
Date: Northern Netherlands ?, ca. 1480
Leaf of vellum, with large miniature of Marry and Christ.
RECTO: Large miniature of Marry and Christ and one 1-line initials in burnished gold, on red ground and line-filler on blue ground. Three-sided illuminated borders of pen...
- $2200 / ≈ €1847
Date: France, c.1480
A leaf from a breviary.
Two large 2-line initials in red and or blue for the start of the new chapter.Nice clean leaves, with ample margins, from a breviary, end of the 15th. century.
- $100 / ≈ €84
Date: Northern Netherlands ?, ca. 1480
Leaf on vellum from an antiphonary.
A very fine antiphonary leaf, written in Latin, probably Rome. RECTO: A wonderful initial "I" decorated with penwork in red, white and blue, in rich burnished g...
- $1000 / ≈ €840
Date: Italy, 1480
Leaf on vellum from an antiphonary.
A very fine antiphonary leaf, written in Latin , probably Rome. RECTO: The staves are in red and the notes in black.VERSO: Tw wonderful initial ,A and O, decorated with p...
- $800 / ≈ €672
Date: Italy, 1480
Page from a printed bible with wood block print of St. Gregorius.
This early leaf consists of text printed in gothic letter in two columns, illustrated with a hand-colored woodcut engraving of St. Gregorius. An original leaf from the 14...
- $150 / ≈ €126
Date: Nuremberg 1483-1488
Page from a printed bible with wood block print of Anthony the Abbot defeated the devil.
This early leaf consists of text printed in gothic letter in two columns, illustrated with a hand-colored woodcut engraving of St. Anthony the Abbot defeated the devil. A...
- $150 / ≈ €126
Date: Nuremberg 1483-1488
Page from a printed bible with wood block print of St. Anthony the Abbot defeated the devil.
This early leaf consists of text printed in gothic letter in two columns, illustrated with a hand-colored woodcut engraving of St. Anthony the Abbot defeated the devil. A...
- $150 / ≈ €126
Date: Nuremberg 1483-1488
La tierce aage. Feuillet ix rr.
Incunable text pages from "La Mer des Hystoires" published in 1488 by Pierre Le Rouge in Paris. "La Mer des Hystoires" is a translation into French of...
- $50 / ≈ €42
Date: Paris, Pierre Le rouge, 1488
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 / ≈ €63
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 / ≈ €126
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 / ≈ €84
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 / ≈ €84
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...
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 / ≈ €168
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 ...
Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
![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 / ≈ €378
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 / ≈ €168
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...
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...
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 / ≈ €63
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 / ≈ €84
Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Quinta Etas Mundi. Folium. XCIIII [Portrait of Strabo]
The Latin text page is illustrated with a depictions of Kings, Noble men and women and scientists, like Strabo, a historian, geographer and philosopher. Mother Mary and Z...
- $25 / ≈ €21
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...
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 ...
Date: Nuremberg, Germany, 1493
![Tertia Etas Mundi. Folium. CI [Woodcut of Jesus and his apostles]](/uploads/cache/48519-250x250.jpg)
Tertia Etas Mundi. Folium. CI [Woodcut of Jesus and his apostles]
The Latin text page is illustrated with a depictions of Kings, Noble men and women and scientists. VERSO : A full page woodcut showing Jesus and his apostles.(360x221mm.)...
Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Terta Etas Mundi. Folio CCXVI
Two pages from the richest illustrated Incurable, the famous: Nuremberg Chronicle , published the year that Columbus returned to Europe after discovering America.The wood...
- $100 / ≈ €84
Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
![[Text page with Kings and Popes, folio CXLVIII ].](/uploads/cache/47603-250x250.jpg)
[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 / ≈ €59
Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Prima Etas Mundi. VI
A very fine presentation of Eve, being created by God from Adam’s side.Page from the richest illustrated Incunable, the famous: Nuremberg Chronicle, published the year ...
- $400 / ≈ €336
Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Prima Etas Mundi. IX
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...
- $600 / ≈ €504
Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Sexta Etas Mudi. Lucas Evagelista. Folium CVIII.
A very nice presentation of Lucas the Evangelist (100x80mm.) and the representation of Maria Magdalena held by angels 210x135mm.).VERSO : Showing the line of the popes Cl...
- $100 / ≈ €84
Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Quinta Etas Mundi. Folium. XCIIII [Portrait of Strabo]
The Latin text page is illustrated with a depictions of Kings, Noble men and women and scientists, like Strabo, a historian, geographer and philosopher. Mother Mary and Z...
- $50 / ≈ €42
Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Sexta Etas Mundi. Folium. CXXV
Latin text page with woodcuts on recto and verso of Saints, Kings, and Queens. Including Lucia (Lucia Martyr) is represented with a nimbus and crown of martyrdom. A sword...
- $50 / ≈ €42
Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
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 / ≈ €126
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 / ≈ €105
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 / ≈ €105
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 / ≈ €105
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 / ≈ €4198
Date: Paris, Hémon Le Fèvre, 1512
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...
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...
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...
Date: Strasburg, J. Schott, 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...
- $250 / ≈ €210
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 / ≈ €210
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 / ≈ €126
Date: France, 1500-1520
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...
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 essential map of southwestern Asia, including Persia, Afghanista...
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 / ≈ €49541
Date: Strassburg, Johann Grüninger, Johann Koberger, 1525
![Tabula III Asiae. [Caucasus and Armenia.]](/uploads/cache/47571-250x250.jpg)
Tabula III Asiae. [Caucasus 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 / ≈ €630
Date: Lyons, M. Servetus, 1525
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 / ≈ €462
Date: Lyons, 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 / ≈ €630
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 / ≈ €798
Date: Vienna, 1522- 1535
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 / ≈ €105
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 / ≈ €105
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 / ≈ €105
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 / ≈ €105
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 / ≈ €63
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 / ≈ €105
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 / ≈ €105
Date: Paris, Germain Hardouyn, c.1520-1540
.Tabula nova Italiae. (Modern Italy)
Wood block printed modern map of Italy, prepared by Lorenz Fries and one of the earliest modern maps of Italy and environs. Based on the slightly larger map from 1513 pub...
Date: Vienna, 1525 -1541
![[Arabian Peninsula]](/uploads/cache/33869-250x250.jpg)
[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 / ≈ €1847
Date: Vienna, Trechsel, G., 1525 -1541