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Le Canada, ou Nouvelle France, &c, tiree de diverses Relations des Francois, Anglois, Hollandois, &c. . .
A fine smaller map of the north eastern US seaboard, extending to the Great Lakes (shown as open-ended) and beyond into 'Upper Canada' by Nicolas Sanson, and originally f...
Place & Date: Utrecht, 162
Selling price: $420
Sold in 2021
![Die ander Tafel des Rheinstromes, begreiffendt die Pfaltz, Westereich, Eyfel,sc. [Course of the Rhine from approx. Strassbourg to Andernach]](/uploads/cache/84787-250x250.jpg)
Die ander Tafel des Rheinstromes, begreiffendt die Pfaltz, Westereich, Eyfel,sc. [Course of the Rhine from approx. Strassbourg to Andernach]
Wood block map of a part of the course of the Rhine and surrounding lands, by Sebastian Munster.One of the Earliest Modern Maps of the Rhine river. This map is the second...
Place & Date: Basel 1550 ca.
Selling price: $130
Sold in 2020
![[Holy Land, Cyprus]](/uploads/cache/84451-250x250.jpg)
[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.
Place & Date: Petri, Basle, 1550 ca.
Selling price: $175
Sold in 2020
![Marocco [Morocco]](/uploads/cache/1152967-250x250.jpg)
Marocco [Morocco]
Original hand-colored double page map (39 x 53 cm, overall dimensions 50 x 64 cm.).
Place & Date: London: James Wyld. Geographer to the Queen, 457 West Strand, 11 & 12
Selling price: $180
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Nova Europae Descriptio.
A fine uncolored version of Hondius' second map of Europe, first issued in 1606. From: Jodocus Hondius, 'Atlas sive cosmographicæ meditationes de fabrica mundi et fabric...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1621-/23
Selling price: $615
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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 ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1710-20.
Selling price: $150
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Udrone Irlandiae in Catherlagh Baronia.
Depicts present day County Carlow in Leinster Province & Catherlaugh which is now Carlow. The title is surrounded by a strap work design cartouche topped with caliper...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1639-44.
Selling price: $160
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Thessaliae accurata descriptio.
A map of northeast of Greece in classical times by the hand of Johannes Laurenberg appeared in part V of Johannes Janssonius? ?Atlantis Majoris?.Embellished with two deco...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1650-57.
Selling price: $260
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Scotia Regnum.
A attractive example of this fine map of Scotland.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca.165
Selling price: $260
Sold in 2013
Totius AMERICAE Septentrionalis et Meridionalis novissima represestatio quam ex fingulis. . .
A richly ornamented map of North and South America. Title cartouche bottom left is copied from De Fer's map of 1699 and the cartouche containing text (top left) is based ...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1740 ca
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2020
![Das Erst General, inhaltend die beschreibung und den Circkel des gantzen Erdtrichs und Moese.['Modern World' map]](/uploads/cache/84759-250x250.jpg)
Das Erst General, inhaltend die beschreibung und den Circkel des gantzen Erdtrichs und Moese.['Modern World' map]
Münster’s modern map of the world, on an oval projection, was first published in his ​‘Geographia’ of 1540. The early issues are distinguished by the abs...
Place & Date: Basel, 1550 ca
Selling price: $2000
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Middle-Sex described with the most famous cities of London and Westminster.
One of the most famous and sought-after of Speed's County maps. The County of Middlesex surrounded by a splendid border incorporating a plan of Westminster and London. In...
Place & Date: London 1610-23
Selling price: $1950
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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...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1761-62
Selling price: $45
Sold in 2017
![Partie septentrionale du cercle de Haute Saxe [...] Brandebourg.](/uploads/cache/36760-250x250.jpg)
Partie septentrionale du cercle de Haute Saxe [...] Brandebourg.
Finely and crisply engraved map of north eastern part of Germany, including part of Poland. With inset map of Brandenburg. Prepared by Giles Didier Robert De Vaugondy wit...
Place & Date: Venice, 1178
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2016
13th Century Medieval Psalter leaf.
A scarce original leaf from a medieval manuscript Psalter executed in France. Written in Latin on animal parchment. 19 lines executed in small Gothic book-hand with illum...
Place & Date: France, ca. 1200
Selling price: $525
Sold in 2010
Exceptional nice leaf from an early thirteenth, maybe Italian, bible. on vellum.
RECTO: 35 lines of text, double columns in a very refined early gothic hand, red parts of text and red lombards, written in lightbrown ink. Beautiful illuminated initial ...
Place & Date: Italy ca. 1200
Selling price: $650
Sold in 2011
Manuscript leaf from a bible.
Written on vellum in a minute and extremely fine Gothic hand. 46 lines of text in two columns. Text size 110 x 80 mm. From the book of "Kings". At the left han...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1225
Selling price: $225
Sold in 2010
A large leaf of a 13th. century French bible.
A large leaf of a 13th. century French bible, on vellum, written in a neat gothic hand in black ink. RECTO: 52 lines of text, a sermon of St.Paul to the Corinthians.A lar...
Place & Date: France or Paris, ca. 1225
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2015
Leaf from a 13th. century pocketbible, on vellum.
Leaf from a 13th. century pocket bible, on vellum, in two cloumns, 50 lines of text from the book "LE"viticus. Written in dark brown ink in a minute early goth...
Place & Date: France/Paris, ca. 1225
Selling price: $155
Sold in 2013
A large leaf of a 13th. century French bible.
A large 7-line illuminated initial "P", in blue and red and a 3-line initial in red and blue with pen work extensions into the margins in the contrasting color....
Place & Date: France or Paris, ca. 1225
Selling price: $775
Sold in 2016
PSALTER / BREVIARY
Manuscript leaf on vellum from an early 13th century psalter/breviary, written in black ink.RECTO: A large illuminated capital (2 x 2 cm) in blue and red, heightened with...
Place & Date: Northern France/Paris ca. 1225
Selling price: $475
Sold in 2017
13th. century Bible leave.
Large leaf from a 13th.century French bible, written on vellum in black ink, two columns, 53 lines of text. RECTO: On top is written "GU(M)" IIII, second half ...
Place & Date: France / Paris ca. 1225
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2019
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Breviary.
The calf whose skin was used for this piece of parchment grazed the gently rolling hills of Flanders at the time of the last Crusades!! The vellum is quite firm : the boo...
Place & Date: France, ca. 1230
Selling price: $150
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Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Breviary.
A vellum leaf of over 750 years old! The calf whose skin was used for this piece of parchment grazed the gently rolling hills of Flanders at the time of the last Crusades...
Place & Date: France, ca. 1230
Selling price: $310
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Decorated initial at the First Book of Kings, from a manuscript Bible.
The page is illustrated with a seven lines historiated miniature, showing Judith killing Holofernes, extending into margin with Illuminated lapis lazuli, vermilion and go...
Place & Date: Paris, France ca.1235
Selling price: $4500
Sold in 2012
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Breviary.
The calf whose skin was used for this piece of parchment grazed the gently rolling hills of Flanders at the time of the last Crusades!! The vellum is quite firm : the boo...
Place & Date: France, ca. 1240
Selling price: $200
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![T'ien wên t'u [A Map of the Stars]](/uploads/cache/35921-250x250.jpg)
T'ien wên t'u [A Map of the Stars]
The chart was engraved on stone in 1247 by Wang Zhiyuan, but it is based upon an earlier drawing by Huang Shang, made c. 1190-1193 at the beginning of Shaoxi in the South...
Place & Date: China, c.1890-1910, but engraved in 1247
Selling price: $30000
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Large leaf from a Parisian bible on vellum, in two columns.
53 lines to the page, in a very minute well-finished gothic hand. RECTO: Text from the book "Exodus". A large capital "S" in blue with red penwork ext...
Place & Date: Paris ca. 1250
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2012
Leaf from a 13th. century Parisian pocket-bible.
Bible-leaf from a 13th. century Parisian pocket-bible, on vellum, 50 lines of text in a minute and refined Gothic bookhand. The original ruling before writing the text st...
Place & Date: Paris, 1225-1250
Selling price: $125
Sold in 2014
Manuscript leaf from a mid-thirteenth century Parisian Bible, on vellum.
51 lines of text in two columns, finely written in a minute gothic book hand.VERSO: two 3-line capitals "R" and "N", in burnished gold on red and blue...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1250
Selling price: $1500
Sold in 2021
Leaf from a 13th. century Parisian pocket-bible.
Bible-leaf from a 13th. century Parisian pocket-bible, on vellum, 50 lines of text in a minute and refined Gothic book hand. The original ruling before writing the text s...
Place & Date: Paris, 1225-1250
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2015
Manuscript leaf, written on vellum, from a Flemish Psalter.
RECTO: one 2-line initial E in burnished gold on red and blue ground, one 1-line initials in fine red and blue penwork.VERSO: one 2-line initial and one 1-line initials w...
Place & Date: Flanders, c.1250
Selling price: $190
Sold in 2016
Manuscript leaf, written on vellum, from a Flemish Psalter.
RECTO: one 2-line initial A in burnished gold on red and blue ground.VERSO: one 2-line initial with penwork in red and blue.Very fine early Flemish manuscript leaf.
Place & Date: Flanders, c.1250
Selling price: $190
Sold in 2016
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Bible.
Vellum leaf from an early French Bible with decoration typical of the scriptoria of northern France in the second half of the 13th century. There are large initials in re...
Place & Date: Paris, c. 1250
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2018
Leaf on vellum from a 13th century manuscript Bible.
Manuscript Bible leaf on vellum, more than 700 years old!! Probably from Paris. Including John 12:19 to John 14:1.The Bible has, of course, always been the center of Chri...
Place & Date: France, ca.1250
Selling price: $325
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Leaf on vellum from a 13th century manuscript Bible
Manuscript Bible leaf on vellum, more than 700 years old!! Probably from Paris. Including Kings 8 : 66 to Kings 11:1.The Bible has, of course, always been the center of C...
Place & Date: France, ca.1250
Selling price: $350
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Leaf on vellum from a 13th century manuscript Bible
Manuscript Bible leaf on vellum, more than 700 years old!! Probably from Paris. Including Samuel 17 : 23 to Samuel 19 :1.The Bible has, of course, always been the center ...
Place & Date: France, ca.1250
Selling price: $435
Sold in 2020
Leaf on vellum from a 13th century manuscript Bible
Manuscript Bible leaf on vellum, more than 700 years old!! Probably from Paris. Including Samuel 17 : 23 to Samuel 19 :1.The Bible has, of course, always been the center ...
Place & Date: France, ca.1250
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2019
Leaf on vellum from a 13th century manuscript Bible
Manuscript Bible leaf on vellum, more than 700 years old!! Probably from Paris. Including Samuel 14 : 10 to Samuel 15 :1.The Bible has, of course, always been the center ...
Place & Date: France, ca.1250
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2019
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Bible.
A wonderful bible leaf, written on vellum around 1250 in Paris!!There are 42 lines in a very regular gothic book hand. One initial is beautifully decorated in gold, red a...
Place & Date: France ca.1250
Selling price: $420
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