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 ...
Date: Ulm, 1482-1486
Selling price: $6000
Sold in 2015
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...
Date: Strasbourg, J. Schott, 1513
Selling price: $9100
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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...
- $1000 / ≈ €920
Date: Lyons, M. Servetus, 1525
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...
Date: Lyon, 1535
Selling price: $1400
Sold in 2010
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...
Date: Lyon, 1535
Selling price: $375
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![Taprobana Ins. Tabula XII Asiae. [Sri Lanka.]](/uploads/cache/35395-500x500.jpg)
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...
Date: Lyons, M. Servetus, 1535
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2016
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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...
Date: Vienna, 1490, 1535
Selling price: $355
Sold in 2023
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...
Date: Basel, ca 1540
Selling price: $225
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...
Date: c. 1541
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2008
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 ...
Date: Vienne 1541
Selling price: $550
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Tabula nova utriusque Indiae
This is the fourth and last edition of this map based on Waldseemüller's first "modern" map of Asia. It follows that cartography without change but adds an int...
Date: Vienne, L.Fries, Servetus, 1541
Selling price: $1550
Sold in 2011
Tabula Asiae XI.
Attractive early woodblock map of South East Asia, with inset panel of tiger, cockerels and parrot. Woodcut map with full hand-coloring as known to Ptolemy. From his Geog...
Date: Basle, H. Petri, c. 1542
Selling price: $650
Sold in 2011
Tabula Asiae VIII (India & Central Asia with Monsters and Anthropomorphs)
The first edition of Munster's map of central Asia, based upon Claudius Ptolemy which appeared in his "Geographia Universalis", first published in 1540. This fa...
Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1545
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2014
Tabula Asiae IX (Northern India and Pakistan)
The first edition of Munster's map of Northern India, present-day Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan, with the delta of the Indus River graphically depicted. Based upon Claud...
Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1545
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2016
Tabula Asiae X (India)
The first edition of Münster's map of India and the Indian Ocean with the sources of the Indus and Ganges Rivers, based upon Claudius Ptolemy which appeared in his "...
Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1545
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2016
Tabula Asiae XII (Sri Lanka, with Elephant)
The FIRST edition of Munster's first modern map of Sri Lanka, which appeared in his "Geographia Universalis", first published in 1540. The Geographia was a new ...
Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1545
Selling price: $230
Sold in 2014
Tabula Asiae X (India)
The first edition of Munster's map of India and the Indian Ocean with the sources of the Indus and Ganges Rivers, based upon Claudius Ptolemy which appeared in his "...
Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1545
Selling price: $180
Sold in 2017
Tabula Asiae XI.
Attractive early woodblock map of the Indian Ocean.
Date: Basle, c. 1552
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2016
![Taprobana [Ceylon/Sri Lanka].](/uploads/cache/84457-500x500.jpg)
Taprobana [Ceylon/Sri Lanka].
Ptolemy's mythical island of Taprobana originally became associated with Sri Lanka. Later, as this theory was discredited, Sumatra became the next candidate. Almost a dec...
Date: Basle, 1561
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2020
India.
A woodcut from P. Mela's "De Orbis Situ Libri tres". Published by Henric Perti. Almost a decade after the death of Sebastian Münster, his publisher and stepson...
Date: Basle, 1561
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2020
Tabvla Asiae XII.
[Antique map of Sri Lanka] Tabvla Asiae XII. An elegantly engraved early map of Sri Lanka, (misshapen) with left the image of an elephant.
Date: Venice, 1561
Selling price: $130
Sold in 2020
Tabvla Asiae XII.
An elegantly engraved early map of Sri Lanka, with left the image of an elephant. Ref.: Paranavitana, maps of Dutch Ceylon, p.7.
Date: Venice, 1561
Selling price: $400
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Calecut Nuova Tavola.
Scarce FIRST edition of this early map of Indian peninsular, being one of the earliest modern maps of the region.Girolamo Ruscelli's edition of Ptolemy's Geographia inclu...
Date: Venice, Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1561
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2021
Tabula Asiae XII. (Taprobana)
Scarce FIRST edition of this map depicting the island of Ceylon (Taprobana), based on Gastaldi's 1548 map. An elephant with descriptive text next to the map.Ptolemy's myt...
Date: Venice, 1561
De Terris Asiae Maioris de India Ultra Gangem Fluvium Sita.
One text page with a woodcuts of a fanciful creatures along the River Ganges in India from Münster's Cosmographia Universalis.The Cosmographia by Sebastian Munster from ...
Date: Basle, ca. 1564
Selling price: $10
Sold in 2018
Calecut Nova Tavola.
A fine early map of Indian peninsula,it being one of the earliest modern maps of the region, extending from west of the Gujarat peninsula eastward to Bengal and south as ...
Date: Venice, 1564
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2020
Calecut Nuova Tavola.
Early map of India, extending from west of the Gujarat peninsula eastward to Bengal and south as far as northern Ceylon (“Ceilam”). Girolamo Ruscelli first published ...
Date: Venice, 1564
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2020
Tabula Asiae XI.
Early map of part of India. Girolamo Ruscelli first published the map in his "La Geographi di Claudio Tolomeo" (Venice, 1561). In 1574 a new plate was used whic...
Date: Venice, 1564
Selling price: $70
Sold in 2020
Tabula Asiae IX. (Pakistan, including part of India)
Double-page woodcut Ptolemaic-style map by Sebastian Münster figuring Pakistan, including part of India, published in the edition of Strabo by Henri Petri in 1571."...
Date: Basle, Henri Petri, 1571
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2019
Tabula Indiae X. (part of India and the Indian Ocean)
Double-page woodcut Ptolemaic-style map by Sebastian Münster figuring part of India and the Indian Ocean, published in the edition of Strabo by Henri Petri in 1571."...
Date: Basle, Henri Petri, 1571
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2022
Tabula Asiae IX. (North India and Pakistan)
Double-page woodcut Ptolemaic-style map by Sebastian Münster figuring North India and Pakistan, published in the edition of Strabo by Henri Petri in 1571."Strabonis...
Date: Basle, Henri Petri, 1571
Selling price: $65
Sold in 2020
Descrittione del l'Isola di Taprobana.
Charming map of the island of Sri Lanka (Celon). The map is oriented with north to the right. Fancy strapwork cartouche with two faces and a unique compass rose. Printed ...
Date: Venice, 1572
Selling price: $99
Sold in 2013
Sumatra ein grosse Insel, so von den alten Geographen Taprobana, ist genent worden (Sri Lanka).
A nice impression of this great map of island of Tabrobana, which was variously thought to be Ceylon or Sumatra. This map depicts Ceylon with the typical misconceptions o...
Date: Basle, 1574
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2021
Calechut Celeberrimum Indiae Emporium
Birdeye view of Kozhikode (Calicut) with ships and elefants.
Date: Cologne, 1575
Selling price: $210
Sold in 2009
Plan, et figure de la riche cité de Calecut en la premiere Inde.
A rare and early woodcut view of Calcutta in India. Decorated with several ships on the sea, shipbuilding, fishermen and elephants.This woodcut was published in La Cosmog...
- $750 / ≈ €690
Date: Paris, 1575
Goa fortissima Indiae urbs in Christianorum potestatem anno Salutis 1509. devenit.
A rare and early woodcut view of Goa in India. Decorated with one ship. This woodcut was published in La Cosmographie Universelle de tout le monde, printed 1575 in two vo...
- $750 / ≈ €690
Date: Paris, 1575
![Calechut Celeberrimum Indiae Emporium [on sheet with] Ormus [and] Canonor [and] S. Georgii Oppidum Mina.](/uploads/cache/33683-500x500.jpg)
Calechut Celeberrimum Indiae Emporium [on sheet with] Ormus [and] Canonor [and] S. Georgii Oppidum Mina.
Four very desirable and early town-plans of Kozhikode, Hormuz, Kannur and Almina. "KOZHIKODE (CALICUT) : "The city is viewed from the sea, just as it would hav...
Date: Cologne, (1572) 1577
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2017
![Anfa, quibusdam Anaffa [on sheet with] Azaamurum [and] Diu [and] Goa.](/uploads/cache/33685-500x500.jpg)
Anfa, quibusdam Anaffa [on sheet with] Azaamurum [and] Diu [and] Goa.
Four very desirable and early town-plans of Casablanca (Anfa) - Azemmour (Azamor) - Diu - Old Goa (Velha Goa) "CASABLANCA (ANFA) : "The engraving shows the rav...
Date: Cologne, (1572) 1577
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2020
![Calechut Celeberrimum Indiae Emporium [on sheet with] Ormus [and] Canonor [and] S. Georgii Oppidum Mina.](/uploads/cache/41270-500x500.jpg)
Calechut Celeberrimum Indiae Emporium [on sheet with] Ormus [and] Canonor [and] S. Georgii Oppidum Mina.
Four very desirable and early town-plans of Kozhikode, Hormuz, Kannur and Almina. "KOZHIKODE (CALICUT) : "The city is viewed from the sea, just as it would hav...
Date: Cologne, (1572) 1577
Selling price: $325
Sold in 2018
![Calechut Celeberrimum Indiae Emporium [on sheet with] Ormus [and] Canonor [and] S. Georgii Oppidum Mina.](/uploads/cache/46221-500x500.jpg)
Calechut Celeberrimum Indiae Emporium [on sheet with] Ormus [and] Canonor [and] S. Georgii Oppidum Mina.
Four very desirable and early town-plan of Kozhikode, Hormuz, Kannur and Almina. "KOZHIKODE (CALICUT) : "The city is viewed from the sea, just as it would have...
Date: Cologne, (1572) 1577
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2022
![Calechut Celeberrimum Indiae Emporium [on sheet with] Ormus [and] Canonor [and] S. Georgii Oppidum Mina.](/uploads/cache/36842-500x500.jpg)
Calechut Celeberrimum Indiae Emporium [on sheet with] Ormus [and] Canonor [and] S. Georgii Oppidum Mina.
Four very desirable and early town-plan of Kozhikode, Hormuz, Kannur and Almina. "KOZHIKODE (CALICUT) : "The city is viewed from the sea, just as it would have ...
Date: Cologne, (1572) 1577
Selling price: $900
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Calechut Celeberri mum Indiae Emporium/ Ormus/ ..
Four panoramic views on one sheet: the upper approximately two-thirds of this double page sheet contains a fine panoramic view of Calicut which is on the west coast of In...
Date: Cologne, 1580
Selling price: $610
Sold in 2018
Sumatra ein grosse Insel..
A nice impression of this great map of island of Tabrobana, which was variously thought to be Ceylon or Sumatra.This map depicts Ceylon with the typical misconceptions of...
Date: Basle 1580
Selling price: $200
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ANFA. / AZAAMURUM. / DIU. / GOA.
Four fine coastal views of these fortified cities, which were important to European trade with Asia. Goa (130x465mm.) and Diu on the western coast of India, together with...
Date: Cologne, 1580
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2011
![[Dragons and Gryfons].](/uploads/cache/14197-500x500.jpg)
[Dragons and Gryfons].
On recto an early representation of a dragon from India and Ethiopia. VERSO : Snakes and scorpions (65x135 mm) and a griffon.From a French text edition of his Cosmographi...
Date: Basle 1575 - 1580
Selling price: $5
Sold in 2016
Sumatra Ein Grosse Insel / So Von Den alten Geographen Taprobana...
A fine map of what is regarded as the island of Sri Lanka, by the early, important, and influential German cartographer, Sebastian Münster. The map title, in old German ...
Date: Basle ca. 1550 - 1580
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2018
![Tabula Asiae XII [Sri Lanka -- with Elephant]](/uploads/cache/00684-500x500.jpg)
Tabula Asiae XII [Sri Lanka -- with Elephant]
Attractive woodblock map, depicting Sri Lanka as known to Ptolemy. Left of the map a large elephant with descriptive text identifies the island of Taprobana with Sumatra ...
Date: Basle, 1580
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2017
ANFA. / AZAAMURUM. / DIU. / GOA.
Text on the back in Latin.Four fine coastal views of these fortified cities, which were important to European trade with Asia. Goa (130x465mm.) and Diu on the western coa...
Date: Cologne 1580
Selling price: $230
Sold in 2009
Calechut Celeberri mum Indiae Emporium/ Ormus/ ..
Four panoramic views on one sheet: The upper approximately two-thirds of this double page sheet contains a fine panoramic view of Calicut which is on the west coast of In...
Date: Cologne 1580
Selling price: $350
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Sumatra Ein Grosse Insel / So Von Den alten Geographen Taprobana...
A fine map of what is regarded as the island of Sri Lanka, by the early, important, and influential German cartographer, Sebastian Munster. The map title, in old German s...
Date: Basle ca. 1550 - 1580
Selling price: $170
Sold in 2016
Calechut Celeberri mum India Emporium.
A finely rendered presentation of three Indian Ocean port cities and one African, that formed part of the Portuguese maritime empire. The larger upper half plate (Calicut...
Date: Cologne, ca. 1581
Selling price: $525
Sold in 2008
![Nova India, ut nostro tempore est explorata & cognita. [India]](/uploads/cache/32576-500x500.jpg)
Nova India, ut nostro tempore est explorata & cognita. [India]
On recto a wood block engraved map of India.From a Latin text edition of his Geographia , that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge.
Date: Basle, 1550-1590
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2013
![Taprobana. [Sri Lanka]](/uploads/cache/39986-500x500.jpg)
Taprobana. [Sri Lanka]
An attractive map of the island of Ceylon, or Sri Lanka, with north orientated to the right.Third edition from Porcacchi's L'isole piu famose.It features a pretty strap-w...
Date: Venice, 1590
Selling price: $95
Sold in 2017
![Taprobana. [Sri Lanka]](/uploads/cache/47369-500x500.jpg)
Taprobana. [Sri Lanka]
An attractive map of the island of Ceylon, or Sri Lanka, with north orientated to the right. Third edition from Porcacchi's L'isole piu famose.It features a pretty strap-...
Date: Venice, 1590
Selling price: $95
Sold in 2021
Indo di Conditione.
Full portrait of a woman and two children from India, by Cesare Vecellio (1521–1601). From "De gli habiti antichi, e moderni di diverse parti del mondo libri du du...
Date: Venice, Damian Zenaro, 1590
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2017
Indiana Di Conditione.
Full portrait of a woman and two children from India, by Cesare Vecellio (1521–1601). From "De gli habiti antichi, e moderni di diverse parti del mondo libri du du...
Date: Venice, Damian Zenaro, 1590
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2017
Indiana Mediocre.
Full portrait of a woman and two children from India, by Cesare Vecellio (1521–1601). From "De gli habiti antichi, e moderni di diverse parti del mondo libri du du...
Date: Venice, Damian Zenaro, 1590
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2017
Cochini Rex elephante vectus, cum procerum comitatu, quos Nairos...
In this elegant copperplate engraving you see the King of Cochin, astride an Elephant leading his army, gathered below him. Linschoten was a Dutch Merchant, Trader and Hi...
Date: Amsterdam, after 1596
Selling price: $63
Sold in 2016
Inquilini e Cananor Mahometani infectiss Lusitanorum hostes...
In this attractive copperplate engraving you see a Moslem from Cananor in Kerala, India, and the inhabitants of the Malabar coast between Goa and Cochin, with a rural sce...
Date: Amsterdam, after 1596
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2016
Virginis Lusitane in India gestus et amictus...Der Portugeesen gehoude Vrouwen habyt en cyraet...
In this detailed copperplate engraving you seethe various costume and dress of Portuguese ladies and rank. Linschoten was a Dutch Merchant, Trader and Historian, who trav...
Date: Amsterdam, after 1596
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2016
Gestus et habitus tam civium que militum Lusitanorum in oriente agentium...
In this charming copperplate engraving you see wealthy Portuguese citizens and soldiers of the East Indies, in all their finery, walking under umbrellas. Linschoten was a...
Date: Amsterdam, after 1596
Selling price: $55
Sold in 2016
Mercador / Baniane / Bramene.
In this attractive copperplate engraving you see various peoples of the Indies, including a merchant and a Brahmin priest. In the background people pray before an idol se...
Date: Amsterdam , after 1596
Selling price: $41
Sold in 2016
Nuptiarum ritus, et epule in Provincia Ballagate supra Goam.
In this charming copperplate engraving you see a Wedding ceremony in Goa, bride and groom, family and friends and musicians.Linschoten was a Dutch Merchant, Trader and Hi...
Date: Amsterdam, after 1596
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2016
Regnum Narsingae.
Early map of Southern India, the Gulf of Bengal, Malay Peninsula, and the northern part of Sumatra and Burma, Thailand. The city of ‘Achem’ (Bandar Aceh) appears in n...
Date: Cologne, 1596
Selling price: $1500
Sold in 2015
Tabula Asiae XII.
A very decorative copperplate map of Ceylon / Sri Lanka with a very elaborate cartouche and a charming engraving of an elephant.From the 1597 edition of Magini's "Ge...
Date: Venice, 1597
Selling price: $140
Sold in 2018
Calecut Nuova Tavola.
Fine 1598 edition of this early map of India. Girolamo Ruscelli first published the map in his "La Geographi di Claudio Tolomeo" (Venice, 1561), with the presen...
Date: Venice, 1598
Selling price: $175
Sold in 2018
A picture of the Aloë, Maguey mexicanum & Sycomorg.
Here is the aloë, or semper vivum, which is as tall as a man and found in great numbers in Agua de Sanbras. Also the maguey, often called metl, grows here, but originate...
Date: Frankfurt, 1598
Selling price: $75
Sold in 2021
The Indian coconut, fig-tree and others.
The Indians have many uses for the palm or coconut tree. Not only do they obtain food and drink from its fruit, they can also make clothing, ships’ sails, rope and othe...
Date: Frankfurt, 1598
Selling price: $75
Sold in 2018
A ilhae cidade de Goa metropolitanada Indiae. . .
One of the earliest printed detailed plans of a European trading post in the Indies, this finely engraved and designed bird's-eye plan was made by Baptista a Doetecum and...
Date: Amsterdam, 1598
Selling price: $2500
Sold in 2019
Calecut Nova Tavola.
Fine early map of Indian peninsula, being one of the earliest modern maps of the region.Girolamo Ruscelli first published the map in his "La Geographi di Claudio Tol...
Date: Venice, 1598
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2016
Tabula Asiae IX.
The third state of Ruscelli's map of part of Northern India, based upon Claudius Ptolemy. Showing India, Pakistan and the Indian Ocean. Girolamo Ruscelli first published ...
Date: Venice, 1598
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2018
Tabula Asiae X.
The third state of Ruscelli's map of part of India and the Indian Ocean, based upon Claudius Ptolemy. Showing part of India and the Indian Ocean, extending north to the s...
Date: Venice, 1598
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2018
De foro Goae frequentao, Leylon. . . (The daily market at Goa).
This famous and desirable scene of the daily market of Goa, drawn after Jan Huijgen van Linschoten during his visit to the East of 1583-1592 here published by De Bry the ...
Date: Frankfurt, 1599
Selling price: $220
Sold in 2020
A Ilha e Cidade de Goa Metropolitana da India e Partes Orientais que esta em 15 Graos da Banda do Norte.
A bird's-eye town-plan of Goa, the capital of the Portuguese trading empire in Asia. This is a reduced version of Doetechum's view that illustrated editions of Jan Huygen...
Date: Frankfurth, 1599
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2013
Regis in candt et Admiralis effigies. (The king of Candy meets the Dutch Admiral)
This shows the mighty king who received the name: Fimala Derura Suriada as a child in Colombo. He was also christened Don Lean d'Austria do Colombo. He is of royal blood ...
Date: Frankfurt, 1599
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2016
XIV. Festum Poenitentiae Apud Populos, Qui. . . ( Strange ceremonies in the state of Silon.)
Strange ceremonies in the state of Silon. Among the Oriental Indians are several from Casta who, whenever a man dies, digs a large pit. Then the corpse is placed in the o...
Date: Frankfurt, 1599
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2018
XI. Insignia et Sigilla Regum in Celon.
Theodore de Bry, a German engraver and book dealer, began a compilation of early voyages in 1590 and had published six parts at the time of his death in 1598. His widow, ...
Date: Frankfurt, 1599
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2018
Status Officiatorum Lusitanorum in India.
A scene of Portuguese officials in India from Linschoten's famous voyages to the East of 1583-1592 here published by De Bry the year after they first appeared as a separa...
Date: Frankfurt, 1599
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2013
Malabar.
Attractive little map of the southern part of the Indian subcontinent, focusing on the Malabar coast from Goa to Cape Comorin and its important trading posts. Also depict...
Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2023
Maldivae Insulae.
A miniature map of The Maldives islands, situated southwest of Ceylon situated in the Arabian Sea, located in the Indian Ocean. North is orientated to the left. The south...
Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2019