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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...

$50 / ≈ €47

Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1552
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2019

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 ...

$25 / ≈ €23

Maker / Publisher: DE BELLE-FOREST, F.
Place & Date: Paris, 1575
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2021

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...

$25 / ≈ €23

Maker / Publisher: DE BELLE-FOREST, F.
Place & Date: Paris, 1575
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2022

Abrahamus Ortelius Antwerpianus cosmographus natus..

Rare head and shoulder portrait of Abraham Ortelius.

$250 / ≈ €234

Maker / Publisher: ANONYMOUS
Place & Date: Antwerp c.1590
Selling price: $250
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Abrahamus Ortelius Antverpianus.

Portrait of Abraham Ortelius, made by Philippe Galle. Abraham Ortelius (April 14, 1527 - June 28, 1598) was a Flemish cartographer and geographer. Beginning as a map-engr...

$200 / ≈ €187

Maker / Publisher: ANONYMOUS
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1590
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2022

Gerardus Mercator Imprimis nostro

Portrait of Gerard Mercator taken from " Imagines L. doctorum virorum Galle, P. Imagines L. doctorum virorum, qui bene de studiis literarum merure, cum singulorum el...

$175 / ≈ €164

Maker / Publisher: GALLE, P.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1595
Selling price: $175
Sold in 2023

Americvs Vespvccivs Florentinvs..

From a series composed in 1592, to celebrate the centenary of the discovery of the New World by Columbus, and the following explorations by Vespucci and Magellan. The eng...

$950 / ≈ €889

Maker / Publisher: STRADANUS, J.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1596
Selling price: $950
Sold in 2018

Ferdinandes Magellanes Lusitanus. . .

Showing Magellan involved in navigational pursuits, although he suffers from a broken mast, the fires of Tierra de Fuego burn on the coast to the left, in all three plate...

$950 / ≈ €889

Maker / Publisher: STRADANUS, J.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1596
Selling price: $950
Sold in 2018

[Lot of 4 portraits, including Abraham Ortelius]

The portrait of Abraham Ortelius appeared in the editions of his ‘Theatrum’ published after his death in 1598. See M.C.C. no.105.The engraver is Ph. Galle.Lot of 4 po...

Maker / Publisher: Vrients, J.B.
Place & Date: Antwerp, after 1598
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2022

Sebastianus Munsterus Cosmographus.

Very decorative portrait of Sebastian Münster (20 January 1488 – 26 May 1552), engraved by Theodor de Bry (1528-1593) and published in Jean Jacques Boissard, "Ico...

$375 / ≈ €351

Maker / Publisher: DE BRY, Th.
Place & Date: Frankfurt a.M. 1597 - 1599
Selling price: $375
Sold in 2017