Sexta Etas Mudi. /Ordo Cartusiensum.. / Nicea Urbs.. / Folio XCIIII
A imaginary view of Nice: however the earliest obtainable view of this period. On verso, it shows the first house of the Order of the Carthusians, founded by St Bruno, he...
Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $300
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Parisius & Maguncia
The imaginary view of Paris, France and Munich, Germany (verso) by Hartmann Schedel from the Latin edition of the “Liber chronicarum”.
Date: Nurenberg, 1493
Nissa. (Nice)
A imaginary view of Nice (200x508mm.) : however the earliest obtainable view of this period. On verso the right hand part of a double page panoramic view of Lübeck in Sc...
Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $240
Sold in 2015
Sexta etas Mudi. Metis. [Metz] Folio CX.
A imaginary view of Metz: however the earliest obtainable view of this period. Shows in upper left a castle and to the right the cathedral depicted as a mosque. It includ...
Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $200
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Quarta Etas Mundi. Folium.LXI
The Latin text page is illustrated with a imaginary view of Marseille, however the earliest obtainable view of this period. VERSO : Kings, Noble men and women and scienti...
Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $75
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Massilia.
Very early imaginary view of Marseilles, the earliest available view of the city. There are several uncolored portraits on verso. On a full page with Latin text.
Date: Nuremberg, 1493
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2016
Tolosa. Folio LXXI (Toulouse)
Panoramic view of Toulouse. A imaginary view: however the earliest obtainable view of this period.Page from the richest illustrated Incunable, the famous: Nuremberg Chron...
Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $500
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Nicea urbs.
Very early imaginary view of Nice in France, the earliest available view of the city. On a full page with Latin text on both side.
Date: Nuremberg, 1493
Selling price: $160
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Das gantz Franckreich, so vor zeiten Gallia Narbonensis, Lugdunensis, Belgica und Celtica ist genent worden.
One of the earliest maps of France by Sebastian Münster. With the southern part of England. The title on verso is surrounded by a large and beautiful woodcut border. Fro...
Date: Basel, ca 1540
Selling price: $235
Sold in 2019
Tabula Europae III (France)
The first edition of Munster's Ptolemaic map of France appeared in his "Geographia Universalis", first published in 1540. This was a new and important edition o...
Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1545
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2016
Gallia IIII Nova Tabula (France)
Sebastian Münster's map of France. Appeared in his "Geographia Universalis", first published in 1540. The Geographia was a new and important edition of Ptolemy...
Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1545
Selling price: $240
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Gallia Nova Tavola.
Gastaldi's modern map of France. From Giacomo Gastaldi's Atlas of 1548 which has been called the most comprehensive atlas, produced between Martin Waldseemüller's Geogra...
Date: Venice, 1548
Selling price: $150
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Die Statt Paris etlicher mass figuriert und contrafehtet nach ietziger gelegenheit.
A remarkable cityscape, because unlike most cityscapes in the Cosmographia, where the bird's-eye perspective or the profile view on cities is used, here we find what come...
Date: Basel, H.Petri, ca. 1550
Selling price: $300
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Warhaffte abcontrafactur der namhafften Statt St. Quintin sampt aller Laegerstatt und umbligenden Ort wie sie von Konigs Philippi Heer im jar 1557 belagert worden
Rare and charming woodcut of St. Quentin. A bird's eye view of the siege of St. Quentin in Aisne (France) by the forces of King Philip II of Spain, in 1557. It shows the ...
Date: Basel, H.Petri, ca. 1550
Selling price: $90
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Galliae Regionis Nova Descriptio.
Sebastian Münster's handsome and fascinating 1550 map of France and Belgium from the Pyrenees to Holland, also showing the south coast of England and the Channel Islands...
Date: Basle, 1550
Selling price: $170
Sold in 2014
Paris, - La ville de ...
Old, antique bird's-eye view plan of Paris by Sebastian Münster. Woodcutter: Hans Rudolf Manuel Deutsch.This is the older - and rarer - plan of the two published in the ...
Date: BASEL, ca 1550
Selling price: $505
Sold in 2022
Gallia oder Franckrych / Die Landtafel des dritten Buchs.
One of the earliest available maps of France. The wood cut printed map also shows small parts of Italy, Germany, and England. Filled with place names, rivers, mountains, ...
Date: Zurich, ca 1550
Selling price: $235
Sold in 2018
Das gantz Franckreich..Belgica und Celtica. . .
This fine and beautifully hand colored original antique map of modern contemporary France in the mid 16th century was published by Sebastian Münster in the 1550's. Date ...
Date: Basel, ca 1550
Selling price: $130
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Don Gallia.
A detailed vieGravelines, from an early edition of Sebastian Münster's 'Cosmography'.Münster's 'Cosmography' was one of the most influential geographical works of the 1...
Date: Basil, c 1550
Selling price: $35
Sold in 2016
[Lot of 2 leaves] Rubeaquum cum arce Isenburgo…/ Wyssenburg…
Two wood block printed early bird's-eye views of Rouffach (lies along the Alsatian wine route) and Wissembourg (Alsace). From the 1552 Latin text edition of Münster's Co...
- $100 / ≈ €92
Date: Basel, 1552
Le rhein de la Gaule, pourtraicte selon la figure qu'elle a auiourdhuy.
Panoramic town-view along River Rhine in French Alsace. In lower left HSD. There is no information available for the monogamist HSD, we think he originates from Worms.Tak...
Date: Basle, c.1560
Selling price: $80
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Selestat ou Schletstat, cité impériale, située au milieu du pays d'Alsace. . .
Panoramic of Sélestat in the French Alsace region. In lower right corner: RMD [Rudoplh Manuel called Deutsch who was a well-known wood-cutter].Taken from Sebastian Mün...
Date: Basle, ca. 1560
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2014
Tabula Europae III.
Ptolemaic style map of France, the Low Countries, and the Rhine river. Includes numerous historic place names. Italian text on verso.
Date: Venice, c1561
Selling price: $54
Sold in 2013
Rubeaquum Rusach (Château D'Isenbourg)
Rubeaquum Rufach is a detailed woodcut by Sebastian Münster showing the famous Château D'Isenbourg located in the heart of the vineyards on the Alsace wine route and th...
Date: Basil, 1564
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2018
Tabula Europae III (France)
Early map of France. Girolamo Ruscelli first published the map in his "La Geographi di Claudio Tolomeo" (Venice, 1561). In 1574 a new plate was used which laste...
Date: Venice, 1564
Selling price: $60
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[De Regionibus, Ubibus et Fluviis Galliae . . . ]
One text page with a map of Europe on the recto (12,2 x 15,5 cm). From Münster's Cosmographia Universalis.The Cosmographia by Sebastian Munster from 1544 is the earliest...
Date: Basle, ca. 1564
Selling price: $25
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[De Galliae et eius fitu, item de eius patitione . . . . . . ]
One text page with a map of France on the recto (7,8 x 13,5 cm). On verso, a text page in one hand , and in the other a horn from Münster's Cosmographia Universalis.The ...
Date: Basle, ca. 1564
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2018
Galliae exactissima descriptio.
A unique opportunity to acquire a fine example from a map from the early Lafreri school. It was the custom for Italian map sellers to bind together available maps into a ...
Date: Venice, 1566
Selling price: $4500
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CHALES [Calais]
Rare Lafreri School town-plan of Calais, engraved by Paolo Forlani, of the Lafreri school of mapmakers, first published in "Il Primo Libro Delle Citta, Et Fortezze P...
Date: Venice, Zaltieri, (1567) 1567
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2018
Gravelinga.
Rare Lafreri School town-plan of Gravelines, engraved by Paolo Forlani, of the Lafreri school of mapmakers, first published in "Il Primo Libro Delle Citta, Et Fortez...
Date: Venice, Zaltieri, (1567) 1568
Selling price: $52
Sold in 2014
Guines.
Rare Lafreri School town-plan of Guines, engraved by Paolo Forlani, of the Lafreri school of mapmakers, first published in "Il Primo Libro Delle Citta, Et Fortezze P...
Date: Venice, Zaltieri, (1567) 1568
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2014
Thion ville.
Rare Lafreri School town-plan of Thionville, engraved by Paolo Forlani, of the Lafreri school of mapmakers, first published in "Il Primo Libro Delle Citta, Et Fortez...
Date: Venice, Zaltieri, (1567) 1568
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2014
Parisi.
Rare Lafreri School town-plan of Paris, engraved by Paolo Forlani, of the Lafreri school of mapmakers, first published in "Il Primo Libro Delle Citta, Et Fortezze Pr...
Date: Venice, Zaltieri, (1567) 1568
Selling price: $1200
Sold in 2011
Perpignan.
Extremely rare panoramic view showing the siege of the town of Perpignan in 1595. Also showing the towns of Narbonne, Rivesaltes along with the Mediterranean coast.Engrav...
Date: Venice 1568
Selling price: $300
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Desegno et circutio della citta di Metz.
Extremely rare panoramic view showing a plan of the siege of the town of Metz. In bottom left a numbered key 1-53. Engraved by Paolo Furlani (active 1561-1577), his addre...
Date: Venice 1568
Selling price: $300
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Montpellier, - Die Statt Montpellier mit ihrer gelegenheit
Nice example of Munster's large woodcut panoramic view of Montpellier , with extensive key to locations under the view. Captions in GermanSebastian Münster, a German geo...
Date: BASEL, ca 1570
Tabula Galliae. (France)
Double-page woodcut Ptolemaic-style map by Sebastian Münster figuring France, published in the edition of Strabo by Henri Petri in 1571."Strabonis rerum geographica...
Date: Basle, Henri Petri, 1571
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2018
Nimes and Bordeaux.
Text in top frame: "Rotomagus, vulgo Roan, Normandiae Metropolis depingebat Georgius Hoefnagle, cum privilegio."Lower Left Frame - Text: "Nemausus; Nismes ...
Date: Cologne, ca. 1572
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2013
Lutetia vulgari Nomine Paris, Urbs Galliae Maxima, ...
Based on Sebastian Munster's map of 1569, this exceptional town plan of 16th Century Paris depicts in details the city as it evolved from a small settlement on an island ...
Date: Cologne, c.1572
Selling price: $3000
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Lutetia vulgari Nomine Paris, Urbs Galliae Maxima ...
Based on Sebastian Munster's map of 1569, this exceptional town plan of 16th Century Paris depicts in details the city as it evolved from a small settlement on an island ...
Date: Cologne, 1572
Selling price: $800
Sold in 2012
Montpellier,Tours,Poitiers. - Monsiessulanus [on sheet with] Turo [and] Pictavis, sive Pictavia, Vernaculo Idiomate...
Fine antique copper engraved sheet with three bird's-eye views by Braun and Hogenberg: Montpellier, Tours and Poitiers from the first volume of Braun & Hogenberg's &q...
Date: Cologne, 1572
Selling price: $280
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Lutetia vulgari Nomine Paris…
One of the earliest and most beautiful panoramic view of Paris, based on Sebastian Munster’s map from 1569. Latin title in cartouche top-left and French title in cartou...
Date: Cologne, c. 1572
Rouen, Nîmes, Bordeaux. - Rotomagus, vulgo Roan, Normandiae Metropolis [on sheet with] Nemavsus, Nismes, Civitas Narbonensie Galliae Vetustissima [and] Civitas Burdegalensis in Aquitanea, Genuina Descrip.
Fine antique copper engraved sheet with three - one panorama and two bird's-eye - views by Braun and Hogenberg: Rouen, Nîmes and Bordeaux, after Georg Hoefnagel. From th...
Date: Cologne, 1572
Lutetia, vulgari nomine Paris, urbs Gallia...
Beautiful and early town-plan of Paris with title cartouche and figures in the foreground. The Bastille is shown at the upper center of the engraving and the Notre-Dame c...
Date: Cologne, ca. 1572
Selling price: $1500
Sold in 2020
Lutetia, Vulgari Nomine Paris, Urbs Gallia Maxima, sequana navigabili flumine irrigatur. . . frequeta universitate excelenti, stupendi opera Tempso B. Maria..
Beautiful and early town-plan of Paris with title cartouche and figures in the foreground. The Bastille is shown at the upper center of the engraving and the Notre-Dame c...
Date: Cologne, ca. 1572
Selling price: $2400
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Regionis Biturigum Exactiss Descriptio per D. 10 Annem Calamaeum / Limaniae Topographia Gabriele Symeoneo Auct.
Two detailed regional maps of France by Ortelius showing the regions of Berry and Limagne. Accompanying Latin text is on verso.
Date: Antwerp, 1573
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2010
Venuxini Comitatus Nova Descr. / Gallia Narbonensis / Sabaudiae Ducat.
Interesting with three maps on one sheet. Upper left the coast of the Mediterranean Sea (with places like Narbonne, Aigues Mortes, Avignon, Arles etc. In the bottom left ...
Date: Antwerp, 1573
Selling price: $57
Sold in 2018
Regionis Biturigum Exactiss / Limaniae Topographia Gabriele.
Two detailed regional maps of France on one page by Ortelius; showing the regions of Berry and Limagne.The larger map covers the Loire region from Gian to Le Blang and Ar...
Date: Antwerp, 1573
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2018
Caletensium et Bononi Ensium Ditionis Accurata delineation / Veromandy Orum Eorum Que Confini.
Two fine Ortelius maps on one sheet. The left hand map shows the Opal Coast (Côte d'Opale) within Pas-de-Calais between Gravelines to Étaples, including Calais & Bo...
Date: Antwerp, 1573
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2018
Regionis Biturigum Exactiss Descriptio per D. 10 Annem Calamaeum / Limaniae Topographia Gabriele Symeoneo Auct.
Two detailed regional maps of France by Ortelius showing the regions of Berry and Limagne. Accompanying Latin text is on verso with hand-colored rubric letters. Striking,...
Date: Antwerp, 1573
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2010
Rochella munitissimum galliae opp :
Town-plan of La Rochelle, with a numbered key (1-16) in the upper left corner gives the locations of the important buildings and landmarks.From volume II of Braun and Hog...
Date: Cologne, ca. 1574
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2012
Gallia Nova Tabula.
Early map showing parts of France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Cornwall, and the Ligurian coast with Genoa and Milan. Engraved with mountains and rivers wi...
Date: Venice, c1574
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2013
Die statt Montpellier . . .
Panoramic view of Montpellier by Sebastian Münster. Title and a description of the city on verso. With a lettered key underneath the engraving. From the German edition o...
Date: Basel, 1574
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2019
Rochella munitissimum galliae opp :
Town-plan of La Rochelle, with a numbered key (1-16) in the upper left corner gives the locations of the important buildings and landmarks.From volume II of Braun and Hog...
Date: Cologne, ca. 1574
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2011
Lugdunum.
Bird's eye view of Lyon.
Date: Cologne, ca. 1575
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2014
Paris
One of the earliest and most beautiful panoramic views of Paris, based on Sebastian Muenster’s map from 1569. Latin title in cartouche top-left and French title in a ca...
Date: Cologne, 1575
Selling price: $2200
Sold in 2022
Lugdunum
Fine bird's-eye view plan of Lyons, with excellent detail of the city and its surroundings. Decorated with a finely dressed man and woman in foreground and two strapwor...
Date: Cologne, c1575
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2023
Bloys.
Early and detailed birds-eye town-view of Bloys. From the greatest publication in this genre!. The Civitates was compiled and written by George Braun, Canon of Cologne Ca...
Date: Cologne, 1575
Selling price: $240
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Le Vray pourtraict de la ville d'Aix en Provence.
A very decorative and rare town-plan of Aix en Provence from Franc¸ois de Belleforest's "La Cosmographie universelle de tout le monde". Paris, 1575. The book w...
Date: Nicolas Chesneau and Michel Sonnius, Paris,1575
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2012
Augustodunum Flauia Heduorum.
A fine engraved view of the city of Autun, in France, on the Loire River. Taken from the Latin edition of George Braun and Frans Hogenberg's landmark "Civitates Orbi...
Date: Cologne, 1575
Selling price: $121
Sold in 2017
Dunkirk,Gravelines,Bourbourg. - Duynkercke [on sheet with] Grevelinge [and] Borborch.
Fine antique copper engraved sheet with one panorama of Dunkirk and other two bird's-eye views by Braun and Hogenberg: Dunkerque, Gravelines and Bourbourg from the second...
Date: Cologne, 1575
BLOIS. - BLOYS
Decorative early view of Blois, from Braun & Hogenberg's Civitatus Orbis Terrarum. The view shows Blois from the southeast, from across the Loire River. The cit...
Date: Cologne, 1575
Blâmont. - Blanmont au Pays de Vauge en Loreyne.
Decorative early panoramic view of Blâmont by Braun and Hogenberg .From the second volume of Braun & Hogenberg's "Civitas Orbis Terrarum. " Latin text to v...
Date: Cologne, 1575
Selling price: $180
Sold in 2021
Description Générale de toute la France.
Detailed and uncommon wood block map of France after Ortelius, from François Belleforest's Paris version of Münster's cosmography : Histoire Universe du Monde ..
Date: Paris 1575
Selling price: $400
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Bloys.
An early and detailed birds-eye town-view of Bloys. From the greatest publication in this genre!. The Civitates was compiled and written by George Braun, Canon of Cologne...
Date: Cologne, 1575
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2020
La ville et Chasteau de Nice.
A rare and early woodcut view of Nice in the Provence, published in "La Cosmographie Universelle de tout le monde", A French version of Sebastian Münster's Cos...
Date: Paris, Nicolas Chesneau, Michel Sonnius, 1575
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2019
Besançon, - Vesontionis Antiquissimae Celeberrimaeq Sequanorum qui in Celtica Gallia Burgundiae Comitatus Nomine Censentur Metropolis Imperialisq Civitatis delineatio.
A fine antique map - bird's-eye view of Besançon, by Braun and Hogenberg, from the: Civitates Orbis Terrarum, ... Part 2. Köln, 1575. CAPTION: The Sequani called thi...
Date: Cologne, 1575
Selling price: $300
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Le vif portaict de la noble ville, & cité de Tours.
Early bird's eye of Tours. In 1575 Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia was translated into French and published in Paris by François de Belle-Forest.
Date: Paris, 1575
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2012
Monsiessulanus, Montpellier [on sheet with] Turo, Tours [and] Pictavis, sive Pictavia, Vernaculo Idiomate Poitiers.
Three very desirable and early town-views of Montpellier, Tours and Poitiers.Montpellier: With key to locations. In his brief description of the city, Braun focuses prima...
Date: Cologne, (1572) 1577
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2015
Rotomagus, vulgo Roan, Normandiae Metropolis [on sheet with] Nemavsus, Nismes, Civitas Narbonensie Galliae Vetustissima [and] Civitas Burdegalensis in Aquitanea, Genuina Descrip.
Three very desirable and early town-views of Rouen, Nîmes and Bordeaux.Montpellier: With key to locations. In his brief description of the city, Braun focuses primarily ...
Date: Cologne, (1572) 1577
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2014
Argentoratum, cuius ob antiquitatem Ptolemeus. . .
Very desirable and early town-plans of Strasbourg in a first state. "Strasbourg is seen from a bird's-eye perspective in a plan view in which the blocks of houses ar...
Date: Cologne, (1572) 1577
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2016
Exacta novaqve descriptio dvcatvs Andegravensis qvem vvlgari nomine Le Duche d'Aniou Indigitant.
Centered on the town of Angiers. From the first edition of De Jode's Speculum Orbis Terrarum, the second general atlas of the world, after Ortelius. Engraved by Ioannes V...
- $750 / ≈ €690
Date: Antwerp, 1578
Von der Statt Cales.
Very attractive and detailed birds-eye plan of Calais, France showing the full extent of rivers and moated fortification. It is set in a page of Old German text with text...
Date: Basel, 1578
Selling price: $15
Sold in 2017
Anjou. Andegavensium Ditionis Vera et Integra Descriptio
Beautiful map of the Anjou region of western France along the Loire River. Include the city of Angers in the center. Accompanying text on verso
Date: Antwerp, 1579
Selling price: $70
Sold in 2010
Burgundiae Comitatus Recentiss. Descriptio Dno Ferdinando Lannoyo auctore
From Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. Published in Antwerp, Latin text, “29” on verso.
Date: Antwerp, 1579
Picardiae, Belgicae regionis descriptio. Joanne Surhonio auctore
Beautiful original old colored map of the Picardie region in Northwest France by Abraham Ortelius. Showing the Picardy from the sea to Abbeville, Amiens and Laon in the e...
Date: Antwerp, 1579
Selling price: $220
Sold in 2009
Anjou : Andegavensium ditionis vera et integra descriptio.
Attractive map of the Loire River valley centred on Angers. The map displays the river system with mountains and forests and hundreds of tiny villages. Large strapwork t...
Date: Antwerp, 1579
Selling price: $160
Sold in 2015
Caletensium Et Bononiensium Ditionis Accurata Delineatio [with] Veromanduorum Eorum Que Confinium Exactissima Descriptio.
Two finely detailed maps by Ortelius. The map on the left shows the Belgian and French Coastal regions, while the map on the right focuses on a small region surrounding S...
Date: Antwerp, ca. 1580
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2010
Schletstatt erwan ein Dorff des Heiligen Römischen Reichs.
Woodcut. A topographical map of the imperial city of SELESTAT or Schletstad in the province of Alsace, France. Published by Münster in the German edition of “Cosmogra...
Date: Basel, 1580
Selling price: $19
Sold in 2016
De Germania Colmariensis ciuitatis & circumiacentis agri pictura ad uiuum expressa.
Early bird\'s eye view of Colmar. From a French text edition of S. Münster\'s Cosmographia, which was a complete summary of Renaissance knowledge.
Date: Basle, 1550-1580
Selling price: $45
Sold in 2009