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![[Title page] Aristoteles, Commentarium trium librorum de anima, secundum doctrinas venerabilis domini Albert Magni.](/uploads/cache/21598-250x250.jpg)
[Title page] Aristoteles, Commentarium trium librorum de anima, secundum doctrinas venerabilis domini Albert Magni.
Printed by Heinrich Quentell in Cologne 1491.The Woodcut shows Albertus Magnus reading to 6 attendants
Place & Date: Cologne 1491
Selling price: $95
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![[Title page ] Epitoma operu[m] sex dieru[m] de mu[n]di fabrica..](/uploads/cache/28628-250x250.jpg)
[Title page ] Epitoma operu[m] sex dieru[m] de mu[n]di fabrica..
First page to Nuremberg Chronicle, the richest illustrated Incunabel, published the year that Columbus returned to Europe after discovering America. This impressive woodc...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $1450
Sold in 2012
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...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2023
SCHEDEL, TITLE PAGE, - Register des buchs der Croniken ...
Title page page from the rare German edition of Hartman Schedel's Liber chronicarum ,widely known as 'Nuremberg Chronicle', printed in 1493 by Koberger, NurembergIncunabl...
Place & Date: Nuremberg 1493
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2022
![Madeburga [ Maagdenburg Folio CLXXX ]](/uploads/cache/47601-250x250.jpg)
Madeburga [ Maagdenburg Folio CLXXX ]
Double page panoramic view of Magdeburg. A imaginary view, however the earliest obtainable view of this period.Two page from the richest illustrated Incunable, the famous...
- $2000 / ≈ €1871
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
![Quarta etas mudi Folio LVIII [Rome]](/uploads/cache/48488-250x250.jpg)
Quarta etas mudi Folio LVIII [Rome]
Double text page in German with a woodblock Rome (23x53cm.)On verso a view of Genua (193x222mm). Page from the richest illustrated Incunable, the famous: Nuremberg Chro...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Basilea (Basel)
Probably the first-ever, woodcut view of the city of Basel in Switzerland from a 15th-century incunable.Page from the richest illustrated Incunable, the famous: Nuremberg...
Place & Date: Nüremberg, 1493
Title page to <I>Expositiones textuales dubiorum et lucentissimae explanationes in libros de coelo et mundo.....</I>
Nearly fullpage woodcut shows St. Thomas addressing three students. Printed in Cologne by Henricus Quentell in 1497
Place & Date: Cologne 1497
Selling price: $45
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Liber in judicii astrorum.
Titlepage to: \"Haly /Albohazen filii Abennagel\" Woodcut. Albohazen on a throne with an astrolobium, flanked by naked \"Astronomia\" and \"Urani...
Place & Date: Venice 1485. or by Battista Hessa 1500
Selling price: $400
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Wood block print showing Ptolemy and Astonomia.
A very nice woodcut print of Ptolemy looking at the stars with a quadrant in the company of Astronomia. Included in Gregor Reisch, compiler of the Margarita Philosophica,...
Place & Date: Strasbourg 1512
Selling price: $350
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Title page from:
Manuscript annotations underneath the woodcut in a contemporary hand. Beautiful renaissance border by Daniel Hopfer (ca,1480-1536)
Place & Date: Augsburg 1517
Selling price: $95
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Opera (Joannis de Basso).
Titlepage to Joannes Bassoli's "OPERA". Printed in Paris with printersmark of Jehan Frellon. To be bought at Francisco Regnault in Paris.Four woodcut borders re...
Place & Date: Paris, before 1517
Selling price: $35
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Liber quartus sentetniarum...
Titlepage for P. Lombardus: "Liber quartus sententiarum textus...Simple 4-sided borders, consisting of four woodblocks, Latin text on verso.
Place & Date: Cracov 1519
Selling price: $18
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Bartolus super prime parte...
Woodcut borders, composed of 6 blocks,with scenes of medieval life. Cetral allegorical figure with 2 shields.
Place & Date: Venice/Italy ca. 1520
Selling price: $50
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Epistolae D.Erasmi roterdami...
Titlepage to "Epistolae" by Erasmus. Edited by J.Frobein/Basel in 1521.Woodcut by Urs Graf. In bottomborder is monogram VG (means Urs Graf).
Place & Date: Basel 1521
Selling price: $50
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Title page to a book:"Phrases in epistolas Pauli ad Thimotheum duas......"
Per Erasmum Rotterdamum MDXXI
Place & Date: 1521
Selling price: $50
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Text page with large initial G.
Text leaf from the Strasburg edition of Ptolemy's atlas edited by Laurent Fries. On recto and verso an introduction with on each page an 6-line initial.VERSO : With a ini...
Place & Date: Strassburg 1525
Selling price: $53
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Text page with diagram and large initial Q.
Text leaf from the Strasbourg edition of Ptolemy's atlas edited by Laurent Fries. On recto a diagram of the world and a star.VERSO: Text with a wonderful 11-line initial.
Place & Date: Strasbourg, 1525
Selling price: $55
Sold in 2015
Text page with large intitials P and A.
Text leaf from the Strasburg edition of Ptolemy's atlas edited by Laurent Fries. On recto a text on Lybia and Asia with 2 six-lines initials.VERSO: A table.
Place & Date: Strassburg 1525
Selling price: $10
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Text page with large decoration.
Text leaf from the Strasburg edition of Ptolemy's atlas edited by Laurent Fries. On recto a table surrounded by a decorative wood block border.VERSO: A table.
Place & Date: Strassburg 1525
Selling price: $10
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Text page with large initial C and I.
Text leaf from the Strasburg edition of Ptolemy's atlas edited by Laurent Fries. On recto and verso an introduction with on each page an 6-line initial.Each page side has...
Place & Date: Strassburg 1525
Selling price: $13
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Text page with coordinate net showing meridians and parallels and large initial.
Text leaf from the Strasburg edition of Ptolemy's atlas edited by Laurent Fries. On recto and verso an introduction with on recto coordinate net showing meridians and par...
Place & Date: Strassburg 1525
Selling price: $17
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Text page with coordinate net showing meridians and parallels and large initial.
Text leaf from the Strasburg edition of Ptolemy's atlas edited by Laurent Fries. On recto and verso an introduction with on recto coordinate net showing meridians and par...
Place & Date: Strassburg 1525
Selling price: $10
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Title Page.
Woodcut of a post-incunable: "Das Dritte tayl des Alten Testaments" Showing the nailing on the cross, Cut of considerable quality. Remarkable scene of a title p...
Place & Date: 1525
Selling price: $55
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Henrici Glareani...
Titlepage of "De geographia liber". Borders on all four sides in 4 compartments with female figures: Iustitia, Prudencia, Fortitudo, Temperancia, Fides, Charita...
Place & Date: Basel 1527
Selling price: $12
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Opera Rhetorica Oratoria et foretia..
A very attractive title page, decorated with two lions holding a coat of arm.
Place & Date: Paris, c.1530
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2009
Biblia cu(m) concordantijs veteris...
Titlepage to "Biblia cum con-cordantijs veteris & novi testamenti".4-sided borders, consisting of four blocks. Borders with leaves and vases.Printer's mark ...
Place & Date: Lyon 1510-1530
Selling price: $25
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Title-page of a book, with a woodcut of king Wenceslaus' name, king of Boohemia in the banner.
From : Book on the defense of the Roman Catholic Church against the heresy of the Waldenses. Printed in 1501 by Konrad Baumgarten.On the back two woodcut crests of a Pope...
Place & Date: 1520-1540
Selling price: $75
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![[Lot of 4 title Title pages] America Tertia Pars](/uploads/cache/IMG_0094-250x250.jpg)
[Lot of 4 title Title pages] America Tertia Pars
The beautiful frontispice of the Latin edition of Theodor de Bry's 'Grand Voyages'- the description of the Americas - Part III, which describes the land of Brazil bas...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1542
![[Sea monsters] Les monstres marins & terrestres..](/uploads/cache/21687-250x250.jpg)
[Sea monsters] Les monstres marins & terrestres..
Münster's plate of monsters of both land and sea, taken from Olaus Magnus' 'Carta Marina' of 1539, with abundant tusks, horns and twin-spouts. One vignette shows a galle...
Place & Date: Basle 1544
Selling price: $925
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![[Sea monsters] De regnis Septentrion. Monstra marina & terrestria.](/uploads/cache/36206-250x250.jpg)
[Sea monsters] De regnis Septentrion. Monstra marina & terrestria.
Münster's plate of monsters of both land and sea, taken from Olaus Magnus' 'Carta Marina' of 1539, with abundant tusks, horns and twin-spouts. One vignette shows a galle...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1550
Selling price: $1600
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![Europa Virgo [Europe personified as a woman.]](/uploads/cache/90554-250x250.jpg)
Europa Virgo [Europe personified as a woman.]
From Cosmographia and showing the continent (west at the top) with the Iberian peninsula as the head with crown, Italy and Denmark as the arms, carrying an orb and sceptr...
Place & Date: Basle, c.1550
Selling price: $700
Sold in 2008
Europa Virgo.
Allegorical map showing Europe in the shape of a woman. The representation of Europa Regina was first drawn by Jonannes Bucius in 1537. This simplified version appeared i...
Place & Date: Basel, ca. 1550
Selling price: $700
Sold in 2009
Mostri marini & terrestri, che si trouano in ogni luogo nelle parti d' aquilone.
One of the most famous charts of mythical sea monsters by Sebastian Munster. The monsters are derivative from the 'Carta Marina' of 1539 by Olaus Magnus and have been use...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550
Selling price: $1100
Sold in 2010
![[Sea monsters] De regnis Septentrion. Monstra marina & terrestria. . .](/uploads/cache/34722-250x250.jpg)
[Sea monsters] De regnis Septentrion. Monstra marina & terrestria. . .
Münster's plate of monsters of both land and sea, taken from Olaus Magnus' 'Carta Marina' of 1539, with abundant tusks, horns and twin-spouts. One vignette shows a galle...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1550
Selling price: $1520
Sold in 2015
![[Europe personified as a woman.]](/uploads/cache/36207-250x250.jpg)
[Europe personified as a woman.]
Among the most striking of early cartographic curiosities is this woodcut of Europe regina or Queen of the world. This is a simplified version of Johannes Bucius' represe...
Place & Date: Basle c.1550
Selling price: $1250
Sold in 2016
Meerwunder und Seltzame Thier/Wie Die In Den Mitnacßtigen Landern Gefunden Werden
Sebastian Münster's famous wood cut printed plate of monsters of both land and sea, as it appeared in his "Cosmographia". Derived from Olaus Magnus' "Cart...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550
Selling price: $1200
Sold in 2016
Der Statt Rom boden und circkel sampt thor vnnd porten, wie sie gestanden ist vor zeiten, do sie noch in ihrer herrlichkeit was.
Large format wood engraving by Sebastian Münster with a special map showing the underground of Rome: the hills, the water streams. The city is marked by the city walls a...
Place & Date: 1550
Selling price: $100
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Biblische Figuren.
Titlepage of a so-called "Printbible". Woodcut renaissance borders. Text in German.Initial V and S in bottom border
Place & Date: Nurnberg 1552
Selling price: $14
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Seb. Munst. Ayant 60. Ans.
This is a portrait of Sebastian Munster at age 60. On a full sheet of French text.Sebastian Münster (1489 - 1552) was one of the three most renowned cartographers of the...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1552
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2019
![[Lot of 10 leaves] Catalogus doctorum…in Cosmographia Sebastiani…/ Index Cosmographicus.](/uploads/cache/48294-250x250.jpg)
[Lot of 10 leaves] Catalogus doctorum…in Cosmographia Sebastiani…/ Index Cosmographicus.
Ten leaves with several wood blocks with index taken from the "Cosmographia". From the 1552 Latin text edition of Münster's Cosmographia, which is a short and ...
Place & Date: Basel, 1552
Selling price: $3
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Venetiarum amplissima & maritima urbs cum multis circumiacentibus insulis.
Early bird's-eye view of Venice from the 1552 Latin text edition of Münster's Cosmographia, which is a short and complete summary of Renaissance knowledge.Sebastian Mü...
Place & Date: Basel, 1552
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2023
Ptolemy.
With woodblock portrait of Ptolemy using a quadrant, from a French text edition of the Cosmographia .
Place & Date: Basel 1560
Selling price: $50
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Title page to <I>Apellatio D.Martini Lutheri ad Concilium...</I>
Edited in Wittenberg. Nice renaissance borders with a man teaching and a woman reading.
Place & Date: Wittenberg, no date., c. 1560
Selling price: $55
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![[Title page] La geografia di Claudio Tolomeo . . .](/uploads/cache/41576-250x250.jpg)
[Title page] La geografia di Claudio Tolomeo . . .
Title page of Girolamo Ruscelli's first edition of Ptolemy's Geographia included newly engraved copperplates by Giulio and Livio Sanuti.
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2020
Mörewunder vnd seltzame thier
Spectacular woodcut of mythical land with sea monsters and animals. The monsters were first engraved in the ‘Carta Marina’ of 1539 by Olaus Magnus and have been us...
Place & Date: Basel, 1561
Selling price: $1500
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![[Title page to 'Landtaflen. Hierinn findst du lieber Läser schöner recht und wolgemachter Landtaflen XII...']](/uploads/cache/37084-250x250.jpg)
[Title page to 'Landtaflen. Hierinn findst du lieber Läser schöner recht und wolgemachter Landtaflen XII...']
Title page with wood cut device to "Landtaflen. Hierinn findst du lieber Läser schöner recht und wolgemachter Landtaflen XII namlich ein Allgemeine Europae demnach...
Place & Date: Zurich, Christoffel Froschover, 1566
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2016
Titlepage: Descrittione di M.L.G.di tutti i Paesi Bassi..
Title page from the first edition of this most important travel book of the Low Countries. Also on verso large architectural facade with figures and surveying instruments...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1567
Selling price: $205
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![[Title Page] Descrittione di M. Lodovico Guicciardini patritio Fiorentino..](/uploads/cache/13998-250x250.jpg)
[Title Page] Descrittione di M. Lodovico Guicciardini patritio Fiorentino..
RARE. A very attractive title page in wood block print. From the first edition of the first description of The Low Countries. VERSO: with a coat of arms.
Place & Date: Antwerp 1567
Selling price: $122
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Les marins monstres & terrestres...
A fine detailed woodcut depicting a superb variety of fantastic sea-monsters, such as might be encountered by a sailor in northern waters. This famous piece may well have...
Place & Date: Basle, 1568
Selling price: $850
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Les Quatre Premiers Livres des Navigations et Peregrinations Orientales.
Rare title page with elaborate woodcut border published 1568 in Paris by Nicolas de Nicolay, seigneur d'Arfeville (1517-1583) who published an illustrated book on his tra...
Place & Date: Paris, 1568
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2014
![[Title page] Theatrum Orbis Terrarum.](/uploads/cache/23108-250x250.jpg)
[Title page] Theatrum Orbis Terrarum.
A decorative title page of the first atlas ever made. Depicting the five continents then known as native goddesses. From a Dutch text edition.On verso a poem : M.TVLLIVS ...
Place & Date: Antwerp c. 1571
Selling price: $500
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![[Title page of Theatrum Orbis Terrarum.]](/uploads/cache/81959-250x250.jpg)
[Title page of Theatrum Orbis Terrarum.]
Title page of "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum" verso text EPIGRAMMA DANIELIS ROGERII ALBIMONTANI, A decorative title page from Ortelius's first atlas. Latin Edition.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1571
Selling price: $275
Sold in 2020
![[Title Page] De Praecipuis, Totius Universi Urbibus.. Liber Secundus.](/uploads/cache/83868-250x250.jpg)
[Title Page] De Praecipuis, Totius Universi Urbibus.. Liber Secundus.
A highly decorative and attractive allegorical title page from volume two of the famous town book of Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg, the 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum', seco...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca. 1572
Selling price: $210
Sold in 2020
![[Title Page] 1573 La Seconde part du Graund Abridgement Collect & escrie](/uploads/cache/37262-250x250.jpg)
[Title Page] 1573 La Seconde part du Graund Abridgement Collect & escrie
Title page of second part of Robert Brooke's "La Graunde Abridgement, Collect & escrie per le Iudge tresreuerend Syr Robert Brooke, Chiualier, nadgairs chiefe Iu...
Place & Date: London, Richardi Totell, 1573
Selling price: $15
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Title page a bible.
Printed in Frankfurt by Feuerabendt in 1574. Beautiful renaissance borders, with 5 biblical scenes, nice and clear impression
Place & Date: Frankfurt 1574
Selling price: $110
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Die Länder Asie nach ihrer gelegenheit biß in India...
One of the earliest maps of the whole continent of Asia, published in Sebastian Münster’s "Cosmographia." The Pacific Ocean shows an archipelago of 7448 is...
Place & Date: Basle, c1574
Amsterdam
This important early map of Amsterdam is from Braun and Hogenberg’s important work Civitates Orbis Terrarum, the first atlas of cities of the world.This particular map ...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1574
Selling price: $1200
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Page from La Cosmographie Universelle . . . (Page 54)
Text page with woodblock illustration showing a full lenght portait of Ptolomy (size 105 x 63 mm.) In 1575 Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia was translated into French an...
Place & Date: Paris, 1575
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2022
Page from La Cosmographie Universelle . . . (Page 38)
Text page with small wookblock illustration showing Ptolomeus holding a sextant (size 105 x 63 mm. In the verso an illustration of a astrolabe, size 80 x 75 mm. In 1575 ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1575
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2021
Londinum Feracissimi Angliae Regni Metropolis.
Very desirable and early plan of London - in a second state - shown from the Tower to Westminster, with the City already built-up and a ribbon development westwards along...
Place & Date: Cologne, (1572) 1577
Mörwunder und seltzame Thier, wie die in Mitnächtigen Ländern gefunden werden.
In the early days of the era of discoveries, many ships would depart, never be seen again. Sailors that managed to return used to speak of encounters with large fish that...
Place & Date: Basel, 1578
Selling price: $1450
Sold in 2018
Cosmographey Oder beschreibung Aller Länder herrschafftenn vnd fürnemesten Stetten des gantzen Erdbodens: sampt jhren Gelegenheiten, Eygenschafften, Religion, Gebreuchen, Geschichten vnnd Handthierungen, etc.
The portrait of Sebastian Münster aged 60, as part of a separate typographical titlepage, printed subsequently in red and black.
Place & Date: Basel, 1578
Selling price: $300
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Titlepage: Parergon, in quo Veteris geographiae aliquot tabulae.
Page to the section of the Ortelius atlas part, Parergon with hand-colored decoration.In 1579 he brought out his first Parergon (a series of maps illustrating ancient his...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1579
Selling price: $375
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Asia secunda pars terrae in forma Pegasir.
Map of Asia in the form of a Pegasus. The seas are adorned with sea monsters and many major cities are indicated and named. There are several states, of this map.Bünting...
Place & Date: Magdeburg,. 1579
Selling price: $2000
Sold in 2012
Asia secunda pars terrae in forma Pegasi.
Wood block map of Asia in the form of a Pegasus. The seas are adorned with sea monsters and many major cities are indicated and named. There are several states, of this m...
Place & Date: Magdeburg, ca. 1579
Selling price: $2200
Sold in 2021
(Portrait of Ortelius )
Beautifully colored portrait of Ortelius of from the 1579 edition of Ortelius’ Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first modern atlas of the world.In this edition the portrai...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1579
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2015
Meerwunder und Seltzame Thier.
A fine detailed woodcut depicting a superb variety of fantastic sea-monsters, such as might be encountered by a sailor in northern waters. This famous piece may well have...
Place & Date: Basel 1580
Selling price: $440
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Monstra marina..
A fine detailed woodcut depicting a superb variety of fantastic sea-monsters, such as might be encountered by a sailor in northern waters. This famous piece may well have...
Place & Date: Basel 1580
Selling price: $850
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Spectandum dedit Ortelius mortalib..
This famous portrait, engraved by Galle, was included in Ortelius' atlases from 1579 onwards.The title translation is By looking, Ortelius gave to mortal beings the world...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1580
Selling price: $400
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![[Europe depicted as a Queen]](/uploads/cache/24785-250x250.jpg)
[Europe depicted as a Queen]
Among the most striking of early cartographic curiosities is this woodcut of Europe regina or Queen of the world. This is a simplified version of Johannes Bucius' represe...
Place & Date: Basel, 1580
Selling price: $1300
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Spectandum dedit Ortelius mortalib. Orbem, Orbi spectandum Galleus Ortelium. Papins.
This famous portrait, engraved by Galle, was included in Ortelius' atlases from 1579 onwards.The title translation is By looking, Ortelius gave to mortal beings the world...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1580
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2008
Meerwunder und Seltzame Thier.
A fine detailed woodcut depicting a superb variety of fantastic sea-monsters, such as might be encountered by a sailor in northern waters. This famous piece may well have...
Place & Date: Basel, 1580
Selling price: $900
Sold in 2013
Meerwunder und Seltzame Thier.
An exceptional, seminal woodcut depicting, in detail, a variety of fantastic sea-monsters and rare animals, such as might be encountered by a sailor in northern waters.Th...
Place & Date: Basle, 1580
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2017
![[Title page] Urbium Praecipuarum Totius Mundi. Liber Tertius.](/uploads/cache/47935-250x250.jpg)
[Title page] Urbium Praecipuarum Totius Mundi. Liber Tertius.
Uncolored example of the title page from Volume 3 of Braun & Hogenberg's Civitates Orbis Terrarum, the most lavish and important town view book published in the 16th ...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1580
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2022
Meerwunder und Seltzame Thier.
A fine detailed woodcut depicting a superb variety of fantastic sea-monsters, such as might be encountered by a sailor in northern waters. Including monsters with abundan...
Place & Date: Basel, 1580
Selling price: $2000
Sold in 2022
Meerwunder und Seltzame Thier.
A fine detailed woodcut depicting a superb variety of fantastic sea-monsters, such as might be encountered by a sailor in northern waters. Including monsters with abundan...
- $1950 / ≈ €1825
Place & Date: Basel, 1580
Europa Prima Pars Terrae Forma Virginis.
Desirable, famous and relatively scarce-to-rare item usually deemed a curiosity or oddity map. All of Europe is depicted in the form of a Queen wearing her crown and in f...
Place & Date: Magdeburg, ca. 1581
Selling price: $1775
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Asia secunda pars terrae in forma Pegasir.
Map of Asia in the form of a Pegasus. The seas are adorned with sea monsters and many major cities are indicated and named. There are several states, of this map.Bünting...
Place & Date: Magdeburg, ca. 1581
Selling price: $1825
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Title page to: <I>Thesaurus Dictionum et Sententiarum Iuris Civilis.......</I>
By Petro Cornelio, Brederodio Hagocomitano. on civil law. Printed and edited by Philip Tinghi in Lyon 1585. Woodcut borders on all sides, headed by a crown, because of th...
Place & Date: Lyon 1581
Selling price: $55
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