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[Holy Land, Cyprus]

Attractive colored woodcut map showing the Holy Land with Cyprus. With a ship and a sea monster. From a Latin edition of Cosmographia by Sebastian Munster.

$175 / ≈ €164
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, Sebastian
Place & Date: Petri, Basle, 1550 ca.
Selling price: $175
Sold in 2020

 


Vue et description de quelques-uns des principaux forts des Hollandois dans les Indes.

Henri Abraham Chatelain was a Amsterdam-based geographer and publisher. His main product is the Atlas Historique et Méthodique, in seven volumes, published between 1710 ...

$150 / ≈ €140
Maker / Publisher: CHATELAIN, H.A.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1710-20.
Selling price: $150
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Description Generale de L'Asie.

A basic map of Asia published in the 'Atlas Methodique et Elementaire de Geographie et d'Histoire'. Textural information in French flanking the map. De Mornas was Geograp...

$45 / ≈ €42
Maker / Publisher: DE MORNAS.
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1761-62
Selling price: $45
Sold in 2017

 


Undecima Asie Tabula.

Incunable wood block printed large-format Ptolemaic map showing Asia east of the Ganges with metal-type lettering within a colored trapezoid border, with a Latin-text on ...

$6000 / ≈ €5614
Maker / Publisher: PTOLEMAEUS, C.
Place & Date: Ulm, 1482-1486
Selling price: $6000
Sold in 2015

 


Prima Asiae Tabula.

Copperplate printed map of Turkey and including Cyprus from the "Atlas In Hoc Operae Haec Continetur…" printed by Bernardinus Venetus de Vitalibus. The map sh...

$3500 / ≈ €3275
Maker / Publisher: PTOLEMY, C. / SWEYNHEYM, C.
Place & Date: Rome, 1478 or 1490
Selling price: $3500
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[Constantinopolis expugnatio a turchis. Folio CCXLIX ]

Panoramic of Istanbul to show the capture of the city by the Turks in 1453. A imaginary view: however the earliest obtainable view of this period.Page from the richest i...

$1200 / ≈ €1123
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $1200
Sold in 2014

 


Constantinopel.

A large view representing a fire at Constantinople showing the famous mosque, Aya Sophia. Originally a Christian church during the Roman Empire, the church was burned in ...

$500 / ≈ €468
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL,H.
Place & Date: Nurenberg 1493
Selling price: $500
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Tercia etas mundi. Folio XLI - Samson and King Saul..Circe and Ulysses.

On recto a fine woodblock print of Saul and in lower left Circe and Ulysses. To the left portraits of Yepte, Abessan, Abyalon and Abdon.On verso Samsom among 10 other his...

$200 / ≈ €187
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $200
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Troya.

Imaginary view of Troy. From the richest illustrated Incunabula, the famous: Nuremberg Chronicle , published the year that Columbus returned to Europe after discovering A...

$60 / ≈ €56
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $60
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Constantinopel.

A large view representing a fire at Constantinople showing the famous mosque, Aya Sophia. Originally a Christian church during the Roman Empire, the church was burned in ...

$700 / ≈ €655
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL,H.
Place & Date: Nurenberg 1493
Selling price: $700
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Tercia Etas Mudi. Troya. Folio XXXVI

A imaginary view of Troy: however the earliest obtainable view of this period. The castle is presented at the top of the city, protected by the high walls. Troy, also kno...

$650 / ≈ €608
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $650
Sold in 2013

 


Quarta Etas Mudi. / Perusia [Perugia, Italy - Temple of Salomon] / Folio XLVIII.

A view of Solomon's Temple, with portraits of prophets and the genealogy of Sadoch and Achimas.VERSO : A very fine presentation of the city of Perugia, in Umbria, Italy, ...

$500 / ≈ €468
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2013

 


Tracia & De Turchis. [Thrace recto & De Turchis verso].

Attractive woodblock leaf in Latin text with large imaginary views of Thrace (Tracia) on the recto and the Dardanelles ( De Turchis) on the verso. Hartmann Schedel's Nure...

$450 / ≈ €421
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2008

 


Quarta etas mundi Folium L. Jericho, The Prophet Elijah Ascending to Heaven. L

Panoramic view of Jericho. A imaginary view: however the earliest obtainable view of this period. Underneath the prophet Elijah ascending to Heaven in a fiery chariot.VER...

$120 / ≈ €112
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2011

 


Constantinopolis. . . Sexta etas mudi CCXLIX

One of the first wood block printed views of Istanbul.Page from the richest illustrated Incunabula, the famous: Nüremberg Chronicle, published the year that Columbus ret...

$720 / ≈ €674
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1493
Selling price: $720
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Quita etas mudi. Foliu LXV. [ With destruction of Babylon ]

Text page with a view of the destruction of Babylon (105x170mm.) with small woodcuts of Kings on verso. Text page with woodcuts of Saints on recto with an image of Salomo...

$75 / ≈ €70
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $75
Sold in 2009

 


Destruccio Iherosolime.

A dramatic woodcut that synopsizes the six destruction's of Jerusalem (255x528mm) and on verso a illustration of a punishment (140x222mm.) One of the earliest obtainable ...

$1500 / ≈ €1404
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $1500
Sold in 2020

 


Tercia Etas Mundi. Folium.XXXVI (Troy)

The Latin text page is illustrated with an imaginary of Troy, Turkey. VERSO are portraits of poets and teachers. The ancient city of Troy, also known as Troya, Troia, an...

$250 / ≈ €234
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2017

 


Quinta Etas Mudi. Folium.LXV (Babylon)

The Latin text page is illustrated with an imaginary of the Ancient City of Babylon (Dim. H : 138 mm W : 223 mm).VERSO are portraits of poets and teachers.Page from the ...

$100 / ≈ €94
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2011

 


Quarta Etas Mundi. Folium.XLVIII

Text page with a view of Solomon's Temple, with portraits of prophets and the genealogy of Sadoch and Achimas. Verso : A imaginary view of the city of Perugia, in Umbria,...

$172 / ≈ €161
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $172
Sold in 2011

 


Hiericho (Jericho) Quarta Etas Mundi. Folium. L

Panoramic view of Jericho. A imaginary view: however the earliest obtainable view of this period. Underneath The Prophet Elijah Ascending to Heaven in a Fiery Chariot, on...

$150 / ≈ €140
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2017

 


Quita Etas Mundi. Folium.LXVII

The Latin text page is illustrated with a plan of the Solomon´s TemplePage from the richest illustrated Incunable, the famous: Nuremberg Chronicle, published the year th...

$110 / ≈ €103
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $110
Sold in 2011

 


[Hierosolima - Jerusalem ] Secunda etas mudi Folio XVII

A imaginary view of Jerusalem, with in the center the Temple of Salomon: however the earliest obtainable view of this period.On verso a large illustration of a medieval c...

$300 / ≈ €281
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2016

 


[Jews burned alive during the southern German pogroms of 1298 ] Terta etas mudi Folio CCXX

With a wood block cut of Jews burned alive during the southern German pogroms of 1298. Dimensions of 116x155mm. The text accompanying the illustration redas "The Jew...

$500 / ≈ €468
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2016

 


Destruccio Iherosolime.

A dramatic woodcut that synopsizes the six destruction's of Jerusalem (255x528mm) and on verso a illustration of a punishment (140x222mm.) One of the earliest obtainable ...

$1600 / ≈ €1497
Maker / Publisher: Schedel, H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1493
Selling price: $1600
Sold in 2015

 


[Jews burned alive during the southern German pogroms of 1298 ] Terta etas mudi Folio CCXX.

Wit a wood block cut of Jews burned alive during the southern German pogroms of 1298. Dimensions of 116x155mm. On recto illustrations of Kings, doctor, comet, etc. Folio ...

$500 / ≈ €468
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2015

 


Constantinopolis. Folium CXXX. [Istanbul]

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

$2000 / ≈ €1871
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $2000
Sold in 2017

 


[Text page Sexta etas mundi CCLVII].

A large town view representing Constantinople (Istanbul)showing the famous mosque, Aya Sophia. Originally a Christian church during the Roman Empire, the church was burne...

$600 / ≈ €561
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2013

 


Portugalia / Istanbul CCXC. [With mentioning of Portuguese voyage of discovery along the coast of Africa ]

The verso of this page CCXC is of particular interest for its brief account (not appearing in the subsequent German edition of the same year) of the “Portuguese voyage ...

$500 / ≈ €468
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2020

 


Quinta Etas Mundi. Folium.LXXV

The Latin text page including a description of the life of Alexander the Great.VERSO : Portraits of Jaddua (Jadus), the sixth priest of the Jews. An description of the co...

$150 / ≈ €140
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2015

 


[Text page Sexta etas mundi CCLVII].

A large town view representing Constantinople (Istanbul) showing the famous mosque, Aya Sophia. Originally a Christian church during the Roman Empire, the church was burn...

$850 / ≈ €795
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $850
Sold in 2014

 


Secunda Etas Mundi. Ninive Folio XX. (With view of city of Ninive, in the northern part of Iraq.)

A imaginary but very nice presentation of the city of Ninive, in the northern part of Iraq. Verso, a genealogy of Nachorve, Job, Bethuel, Rebecca, Caleth, etc. Page from ...

$300 / ≈ €281
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2020

 


Tercia Etas Mundi. Folium.XXXII

A very fine presentation of a candelabra (275 mm x 227 mm). VERSO, another candelabra is depicted.Page from the richest illustrated Incunable, the famous Chronicle Nuremb...

$150 / ≈ €140
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2016

 


Tercia Etas Mundi. Folium.XXXIII

The Latin text page is illustrated with a depictions of Altar of the Burnt Offerings, the Vestments of the High Priest, Laver. On verso illustrations of the tabernacle, h...

$100 / ≈ €94
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2018

 


Sexta Etas Mudi. (With view of Sabatz.) Folio CCLIII

An imaginary view of Sabatz, Turkey: however the earliest obtainable view of this period.Further including presentations of the popes Sixtus IV and Innocentius VIII. Page...

Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2023

 


Tercia Etas Mundi. Folium.XXXII (with a candelabra)

A very fine presentation of a candelabra (275 mm x 227 mm). VERSO, another candelabra is depicted.Page from the richest illustrated Incunable, the famous: Nuremberg Chron...

$150 / ≈ €140
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2016

 


Sexta Etas Mudi. Sabatz. Folio CCLIII (with view of Sabatz, Turkey)

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. Page ...

$100 / ≈ €94
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2017

 


Quarta etas mudi Folium LIII. The prophet Elisha and King Cyrus, - Prophets and Kings of Israel.

A beautiful woodblock print from the Nuremberg Chronicle. A Latin text page is illustrated with depictions of The prophet Elisha and King Cyrus, and on the verso the page...

$100 / ≈ €94
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1493
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2020

 


CONSTANTINOPOLIS, view (Turkey, Istanbul).

A gorgeous example of Hartmann Schedel's incunable view of Constantinople / Istanbul from a Latin edition of Schedel's ' Liber Chronicum,' perhaps the single most influen...

$1000 / ≈ €936
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, Hartmann
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1493
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2020

 


Quinta Etas Mundi. Folium. LXVII

The Latin text page is illustrated with a plan of the Solomon´s Temple. Page from the richest illustrated Incunable, the famous: Nuremberg Chronicle, published the year ...

$60 / ≈ €56
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2017

 


Quinta Etas Mundi. Folium. LXXV

Latin text page with woodcuts on recto and verso of Saints, Kings, and Queens. In upper left Jaddua (Jadus), the sixth priest of the Jews.With one of the earliest descrip...

$60 / ≈ €56
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2018

 


Destruccio Iherosolime.

A dramatic woodcut that synopsizes the six destruction's of Jerusalem (255x528mm) and on verso a illustration of a punishment (140x222mm.) One of the earliest obtainable ...

$2300 / ≈ €2152
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $2300
Sold

 


Quita Etas Mundi. Folium. LXVII

The Latin text page is illustrated with a plan of the Solomon´s TemplePage from the richest illustrated Incunable, the famous: Nuremberg Chronicle, published the year th...

$110 / ≈ €103
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $110
Sold in 2020

 


Tercia Etas Mundi. Folium.XXXII.

A very fine presentation of a candelabra (275 mm x 227 mm). VERSO, another candelabra is depicted.Page from the richest illustrated Incunable, the famous: Nuremberg Chron...

$185 / ≈ €173
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $185
Sold in 2019

 


Quita Etas Mundi. Folium.LXVII

The Latin text page is illustrated with a plan of Solomon´s Temple. Page from the richest illustrated Incunable, the famous: Nuremberg Chronicle, published the year that...

Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2023

 


Constantinopolis expugnatio a turchis

Nice example of Hartmann Schedel's incunable view of Constantinople (Istanbul). One of the oldest illustrations of the city. It shows the city with a windmill, and nume...

Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1493

 


Constatinopolis. [Istanbul]

Panoramic town-view of Constantinople (Istanbul). Woodcut published in the so-called pirate edition of the "small Schedel" in Augsburg, 1497, Latin edition. Ori...

Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Augsburg, Johann Schönsperger, 1497
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2009

 


Troya.

An imagionary view of Troy with numerous buildings shown. With text on both sides. Published in Hartmann Schedel's famous work: "liber chronicarum". Probably fr...

$52 / ≈ €49
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, c1497
Selling price: $52
Sold in 2013

 


Troya.

Woodcut imaginary view of Troy published in the so-called pirate edition of the "small Schedel" in Augsburg, 1497, Latin edition. Originally the Chronicle Nurem...

$100 / ≈ €94
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Augsburg, Johann Schönsperger. 1497
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2016

 


Undecima Asiae Tabula.

A rare, 500 year old woodblock map of SE Asia and China. Sylvanus' map of Southeast Asia, China, India, and adjoining regions, from Sylvanus' Claudii Ptholemaei Alexandri...

$4900 / ≈ €4585
Maker / Publisher: SYLVANUS, B.
Place & Date: Venice, 1511
Selling price: $4900
Sold in 2017

 


Octava Asie Tabvla.

Wood block map of Central Asia and China from Martin Waldseemüller's 1513 edition of Ptolemy, who was a landmark work that contributed to major advances in both Renaissa...

$4000 / ≈ €3743
Maker / Publisher: PTOLEMY, C. / WALDSEEMÜLLER, M.
Place & Date: Strasbourg, J. Schott, 1513
Selling price: $4000
Sold in 2018

 


Decima Asie Tabvla.

Wood block map of India and part of Sri Lanka from Martin Waldseemüller's 1513 edition of Ptolemy, who was a landmark work that contributed to major advances in both Ren...

$9100 / ≈ €8515
Maker / Publisher: WALDSEEMULLER.
Place & Date: Strasbourg, J. Schott, 1513
Selling price: $9100
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Tabula Prima Asie.

Published by Waldseemüller. Woodblock map of Ptolemaic version of Turkey, reflecting place names used in 130 A.D.

$1500 / ≈ €1404
Maker / Publisher: PTOLEMY,C.
Place & Date: Strasburg, 1513
Selling price: $1500
Sold in 2011

 


Undecima Asiae Tabula (Bangladesh, Burma, India, Thailand)

Wood block printed large-format Ptolemaic map showing Bangladesh, Burma, India, Thailand, from the 1513 edition of Waldseemüller's Geographia.Showing region east of the ...

$2700 / ≈ €2526
Maker / Publisher: PTOLEMY, C. / WALDSEEMÜLLER, M.
Place & Date: Strasburg, 1513
Selling price: $2700
Sold in 2013

 


Quinta Asie Tabula (Persia.)

Wood block printed large-format Ptolemaic map showing the region of Achaemenid Empire, Assyria, Carmania, Hyrcania, Iran, Iraq, Media, Middle East, Parthia, Persia, Turkm...

$1900 / ≈ €1778
Maker / Publisher: PTOLEMY, C. / WALDSEEMÜLLER, M.
Place & Date: Strasburg, 1513
Selling price: $1900
Sold in 2018

 


Four text page with large intitials.

Four text leaves from the Strasburg edition of Ptolemy's atlas edited by Laurent Fries. On VERSO and RECTO 6-lines initials.Each page side has in top a large woodcut titl...

$35 / ≈ €33
Maker / Publisher: PTOLEMY,C./ FRIES,L.
Place & Date: Strassburg 1525
Selling price: $35
Sold

 


Tabu. VII Asiae

Trapezoidal Ptolemaic woodcut map showing the area around the Caspian Sea. A reduced version of Martin Waldseemullers Ptolemy map from 1513. From the 1525 Strasbourg Edit...

$1000 / ≈ €936
Maker / Publisher: Fries, L.
Place & Date: Strasbourg, 1525
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2010

 


Tabula Quarta Asia (Holy Land and Cyprus)

One of the earliest maps available to a collector of Cyprus, Syria, Mesopotamia,. Babylonia, Arabia Petraea, Armenia Minor and the Holy Land, based upon the Georgraphy of...

$2000 / ≈ €1871
Maker / Publisher: PTOLEMY, C . / WALDSEEMÜLLER, M. / FRIES, L.
Place & Date: Strasburg, 1525
Selling price: $2000
Sold in 2015

 


Tabula V Asiae.

Woodcut map after Ptolemy by Lorenz Fries published by Grueninger in Strasbourg 1525. The map is from the first edition as a reduced recut of Martin Waldseemueller’s ma...

$750 / ≈ €702
Maker / Publisher: WALDSEEMÜLLER / FRIES, L.
Place & Date: Strasbourg, 1525
Selling price: $750
Sold in 2017

 


TABULA V ASIAE. (Persia, Iran)

An early woodcut map after Ptolemy by Lorenz Fries published by Grueninger in Strasbourg , from the rare 1525 edition. The map is a reduced recut of Martin Waldseemueller...

$350 / ≈ €328
Maker / Publisher: WALDSEEMÜLLER / FRIES, L.
Place & Date: Strasbourg, 1525
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2020

 


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
Maker / Publisher: PTOLEMY,C.
Place & Date: Lyons, M. Servetus, 1525

 


Sumatra] Iava minore / Necumera/Locaz/Patera/Botegon/Mangama.

Two maps on one page of the Isalario. 'Iava minore', the first printed separate map of Sumatra and several islands 'Necumera / Locaz / Patera / Botegon / Mangama. Locaz o...

$350 / ≈ €328
Maker / Publisher: BORDONE, B.
Place & Date: Venice, 1534
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2019

 


Tabula IX Asia (title on verso).

Martin Waldseemüller (1470-1521) drew the maps for the 1513 and 1520 editions of Ptolemy's ' Geographia'. They were revised and reduced by Laurent Fries and used for the...

$375 / ≈ €351
Maker / Publisher: WALDSEEMÜLLER, M. / L. FRIES / PTOLEMY.
Place & Date: Lyon, 1535
Selling price: $375
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Tabula IIII Asiae. [Holy Land, Syria, Cyprus, Arabia.]

One of the earliest maps available to a collector of Cyprus, Syria, Mesopotamia,. Babylonia, Arabia Petraea, Armenia Minor and the Holy Land, based upon the Georgraphy of...

$1550 / ≈ €1450
Maker / Publisher: FRIES, L.
Place & Date: Strassburg, 1535
Selling price: $1550
Sold in 2011

 


Tabula Terre Sanctae.

"Modern" map of Palestine, oriented to the east. The Mediterranean shore line runs from Sidon to Gaza. Of the inland the whole of Palestine on both sides of the...

$1350 / ≈ €1263
Maker / Publisher: FRIES / TRECHSEL
Place & Date: Lyon, 1535
Selling price: $1350
Sold in 2009

 


No title. [China and Japan.]

The earliest printed representation of the China and Japan region in a European Atlas. The first issue of this engraving with minor titular amendments appeared in the 152...

$4900 / ≈ €4585
Maker / Publisher: PTOLEMY, C.
Place & Date: Lyons, M. Servetus, 1535
Selling price: $4900
Sold in 2009

 


Tabula Terre Sanctae.

Woodcut map of the Holy Land by L. Fries. From the 1535 Lyon edition of Ptolemy's Geographia edited by M. Servetus and published by M. and G. Trechsel, printed from the 1...

$2600 / ≈ €2433
Maker / Publisher: Fries, L.
Place & Date: Lyon, 1535
Selling price: $2600
Sold in 2011

 


Tabu. moder. Indiae

Woodcut map of India by L. Fries. From the 1535 Lyon edition of Ptolemy's Geographia edited by M. Servetus and published by M. and G. Trechsel, printed from the 1522 wood...

$1400 / ≈ €1310
Maker / Publisher: Fries, L.
Place & Date: Lyon, 1535
Selling price: $1400
Sold in 2010

 


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...

$400 / ≈ €374
Maker / Publisher: PTOLEMY, C.
Place & Date: Lyons, M. Servetus, 1535
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2016

 


Tabula IX Asia (map of Bengal and Burma.).

Laurent Fries reduced version of Martin Waldseemüller’s map of Ptolemy’s ninth map of Asia, depicting northeast India and Birma. Martin Waldseemüller (1470-1521) dr...

$275 / ≈ €257
Maker / Publisher: Waldseemüller, M. / L. FRIES.
Place & Date: Lyon, 1535
Selling price: $275
Sold in 2019

 


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,...

$450 / ≈ €421
Maker / Publisher: PTOLEMY / FRIES, L.
Place & Date: Lyons, M. Servetus, 1535
Selling price: $450
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Tabula IX Asiae [Pakistan & India] (Title on Verso)

Map of Gedrosia, Eastern Balochistan the southwestern province of Pakistan and parts of southwestern and south-central Afghanistan. Western Balochistan is divided between...

Maker / Publisher: PTOLEMY / FRIES, L.
Place & Date: Vienna, 1490, 1535
Selling price: $355
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Tabula Terre Sanctae.

A n early woodcut map of the Holy Land (Palestine, Israel) by Laurent Fries, published by M. & G. Trechsel, Lyon 1535. Title in a banderole above. Verso a nice orname...

$760 / ≈ €711
Maker / Publisher: FRIES, Laurent, after PTOLOMAEUS, Claudius.
Place & Date: Lyon, 1535
Selling price: $760
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TABULA V ASIAE.

[Antique map of Iran] Tabula V Asiae. Laurent Fries' reduced version of Martin Waldseemuller's map of Persia according to Ptolemy. From the Lyon edition of the 'Geographi...

$300 / ≈ €281
Maker / Publisher: WALDSEEMULLER, Martin.
Place & Date: Lyon, 1535
Selling price: $300
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Tabula Asiae VI. [Arabia Felix]

This fine woodcut is an early Ptolemaic map of the Arabian Peninsula here called 'Arabia Felix'. It is a fairly decent representation of the peninsula, although perhaps P...

$601 / ≈ €562
Maker / Publisher: MUNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1540
Selling price: $601
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Sumatra ein grosse Insel, so von den alten Geographen Taprobana, ist genent worden (Sri Lanka).

One of the earliest and highly decorative woodcut maps of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) by Sebastian Münster. To the left of the map a cartouche with explanatory text in 10 lines a...

$225 / ≈ €211
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, Sebastian.
Place & Date: Basel, ca 1540
Selling price: $225
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Cyria / Cypern / Palestina / Mesopotamia / Babylonia / Chaldea und zwey Arabia mit Bergen Wassern und Stetten.

An early, attractive woodcut map of the eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East. Covering the area between northern Syria and the Red Sea, with Cyprus, the Holy Land, J...

$190 / ≈ €178
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, Sebastian.
Place & Date: Basel, ca 1540
Selling price: $190
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No title. [China and Japan.]

The earliest printed representation of the China and Japan region in a European Atlas. The first issue of this engraving with minor titular amendments appeared in the 152...

$1800 / ≈ €1684
Maker / Publisher: PTOLEMY,C./ TRECHSEL,G.
Place & Date: Vienne 1541
Selling price: $1800
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ASIAE TABULA quinta continentur Assyria...

This map covers the territory delimited by the Tigris and the Euphrates rives, the so called Mesopotamia.It extends as far as the borders with Iran, the eastern part of T...

$300 / ≈ €281
Maker / Publisher: PTOLEMEE, C. / TRECHSEL, G.
Place & Date: Vienne, 1541
Selling price: $300
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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 ...

$550 / ≈ €515
Maker / Publisher: PTOLEMY,C.
Place & Date: Vienne 1541
Selling price: $550
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