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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,...

$350 / ≈ €328

Maker / Publisher: REISCH,G.
Place & Date: Strasbourg 1512
Selling price: $350
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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...

$53 / ≈ €50

Maker / Publisher: PTOLEMY,C./ FRIES,L.
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.

$55 / ≈ €51

Maker / Publisher: PTOLEMY, C./ FRIES, L.
Place & Date: Strasbourg, 1525
Selling price: $55
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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.

$10 / ≈ €9

Maker / Publisher: PTOLEMY,C./ FRIES,L.
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.

$10 / ≈ €9

Maker / Publisher: PTOLEMY,C./ FRIES,L.
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...

$13 / ≈ €12

Maker / Publisher: PTOLEMY,C./ FRIES,L.
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...

$17 / ≈ €16

Maker / Publisher: PTOLEMY,C./ FRIES,L.
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...

$10 / ≈ €9

Maker / Publisher: PTOLEMY,C./ FRIES,L.
Place & Date: Strassburg 1525
Selling price: $10
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[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...

$925 / ≈ €866

Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER,S.
Place & Date: Basle 1544
Selling price: $925
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[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...

$1600 / ≈ €1497

Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1550
Selling price: $1600
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