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Ars moriendi.
The Ars moriendi or Art of Dying is one of the great themes of medieval life, and it founds its most poetic expression in a series of wonderful images created around 1460...
Place & Date: Lyon, Johann Siber, ca. 1495
Selling price: $18000
Sold in 2021
Deliciae Batavicae.
It is a charming book illustrated with portraits of Willem of Orange and Prince Maurits and eight engraved armorial plates. Followed by 30 engraved views or scenes of ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius, 1618
Histoire de la Navigation.
A fine example of Linschoten's classic illustrated travelogue to the East and West Indies, termed by Lach “the most important of the firsthand accounts published indepe...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Evert Cloppenburgh, 1638
ALBUM with 170 engravings of animals, landscapes, months, figures, ornamentations, etc. from the 17th century.
A collection of 170 engravings, for the greater part engraved by Jacob Honervogt but also by Mérian, Tempesta and others. - LANGLOIS (François). A series of 12 plate...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1642
'Cows'.
A copper engraving. Print showing cows in different poses.
Place & Date: English, ca 1650
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2019
Hoc-Schema demonstrat terram esse globosam.
This fascinating sheet, from Cluver's "Introductionis in Universam Geographiam" contains the demonstration that the Earth is a globe. Several diagrams, in fact,...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1694
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2021
Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid
AN EARLY ISSUE of this biting and vulgar satire on the Mississippi and South Sea Bubbles and an extraordinary visual record with 78 plates of the first banking crash, sho...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Selling price: $9180
Sold in 2017
Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid.
AN EARLY ISSUE of this biting and vulgar satire on the Mississippi and South Sea Bubbles and an extraordinary visual record with 78 plates of the first banking crash, sho...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Selling price: $5000
Sold in 2018
Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid, vertoonende de opkomst, voortgang en ondergang der Actie, Bubbel en Windnegotie, in Vrankryk, Engeland, en de Nederlanden, ...
FIRST ISSUE of this biting and vulgar satire on the Mississippi and South Sea Bubbles and an extraordinary visual record with 78 plates of the first banking crash, show...
- $7500 / ≈ €7018
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Geographie Universelle dite de Crozat.
A nice geographical dictionair with maps of the world and the continents and maps of European countries. Lacks the maps of France and of the Turkish empire.
Place & Date: Paris, 1823