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[Title page]. Le second livre, journal ou comptoir, contenant le vray discours et narration historique, du voyage fait par les huit navires d'Amsterdam. . .
The title page has a large engraving of the Dutch arriving at Tuban, including an elephant. From "[Le second livre, Iournal ou comptoir, contenant le vray discours e...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cornille Nicolas, 1609
Selling price: $120
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Belgii inferioris descriptio..
A very attractive title page, decorated with cherubs, fruits and flowers.
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1610
Selling price: $155
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[Title page] from "Caroli Scribani..".
Title page with copper engraved printers device (72x96mm). Christoffel Plantin (± 1520 - 1589) established himself in Antwerp around 1549. First, he worked as a bookbind...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1610
Selling price: $30
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'Britannia' Frontispiece - William Camden.
Above the title, a cartouche depicting the figure of Britannia, with shield and spear, seated on a rock beside the sea. Below a map of Britain, inscribed with the Latin n...
Place & Date: London, 1610
Selling price: $210
Sold in 2018
The Achievement of Our Soveraigne King James as he Nowe Beareth With the Armes of Severall kings that have aunciently raigned within his nowe Dominions
This is the frontispiece to John Speed's “The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine.” The central panel contains the Royal Arms, allegorical motifs including putti,...
Place & Date: London, 1611
Selling price: $220
Sold in 2015
[Title page] Theatro Del Mondo Di Abrahamo Ortelio . . .
Fine decorative title page of the Italian text edition of the 1612 edition of Theatro Del Mondo Di Abrahamo Ortelio (31:652) printed by the Moretus brothers. On the vers...
Place & Date: Antwerp, Moretus, 1612
Selling price: $240
Sold in 2022
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, 1612
[Titlepage] Galliae tabulae geographicae..
Decorative title page.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1613
Selling price: $200
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Title page.
This is the title leaf of an Atlas by Mercator, describing the Netherlands.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1613
Selling price: $135
Sold in 2010
Plantarum Horti Eystaettensis Classis Hybernia.
A decorative and beautiful frontispiece page .
Place & Date: Nuremberg, ca 1613
Selling price: $112
Sold in 2018
[Title page] Plantarum Horti Eystaettensis Classis Hybernia.
A decorative and beautiful frontispiece page from the 'Winter' section one of the largest and most magnificent of the great flower books, depicting more than 1000 flowers...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, ca 1613
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2021
[Title page for] Galliae tabule geographicae . . .
Very fine title page by Gerard Mercator, composed of an elaborate strapwork design with the portrait of a King at the top.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1613
(Title page) Commentariorum Rerum Germanicarum Libri Tres
Map of ancient Europe, prepared by Petrus Bertius (1565-1629). From "Commentariorum Rerum Germanicarum Libri Tres : Primus est Germaniae veteris. Secundus, Germaniae...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, J.Janssonius, 1616
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2015
Liber Tertius: Generalem Inspectionem Siue Consyde-Rationem Scotiae.
A dedication page from John Speed's 1616 Atlas - Latin edition.On the verso is the Royal coat of arms: “Dieu Et Mon Droit”. Hand colored.
Place & Date: London, 1616
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2018
[Title page] Theatri Geographiae Veteris Tomus prior in quo. . .
This is the lovely title page to Bertius' edition of Ptolemy's 'Geographia' that was copied from Mercator's edition from 1578. The two great Greek geographers stand benea...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca 1618
Selling price: $160
Sold in 2019
THEATRI PRAECIPUARUM TOTIUS MUNDI URBIUM LIBER SEXTUS, ANNO MDCXVIII.
Title page to volume six of Braun G. & Hogenberg F. 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum'. With the related dedication sheet , dedicated to King Ferdinand of Bohemia.The Civitat...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1618
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2021
[Title page part two] Itinerarium Hierosolymitanum et Syriacum. . .
Title page with copper engraved view of Jaffa (85x120mm) within letter press, taken from the rare book Itinerarium Hierosolymitanum et Syriacum, in quo variarum Gentium M...
Place & Date: Antwerp, Verdussen, 1619
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2009
[No Title] Gerardus Mercator natus rupelmundae III . . .
The double portraits of two of the greatest men in cartography, Gerard Mercator of Rupelmund and Judocus Hondius of Flandria. A superb example of the engravers skill of C...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1619
Selling price: $1300
Sold in 2019
Atlas sive Cosmographicae Meditationes . . . (Title page)
Architectural frontage with personifications of the four Continents, Atlas, Peruana and Magalanica. This is the updated version with the lower text panel stippled and ove...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1619
Selling price: $475
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[Title page] Belgii Inferioris Geographicae Tabulae.
A lovely frontispiece in the Dutch Renaissance style with the title surrounded with strapwork designs, garlands, fruit, fish and cherubs. From the Atlas sive Cosmographie...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca 1619
Selling price: $110
Sold in 2020
[Title page] Theatre Geographique du Royaume de France. . . .
Title page by Nicolas de Clerc of ' Theatre Geographique du Royaume de France ". Joined page of " Table de toutes les cartes des provinces contenues", with...
Place & Date: Paris, 1619
[Title page] Wereld Spiegel Waer in Vertoont word De Beschrijvinge der Rijken Staten, etc. . .]
Title page engraved by Adriaan Matham after a design of Boons. Showing representations of 4 continents, Price Maurits and other rulers. Included in the rare book : "...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1621
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2017
A relation of a journey begun . . . An: Dom: 1610. Fovre bookes. Containing a description of the Turkish Empire, of Ægypt, of the Holy Land, of the remote parts of Italy, and ilands adioyning
Title page from "A relation of a journey begun An: Dom: 1610. Fovre bookes. Containing a description of the Turkish Empire, of Ægypt, of the Holy Land, of the remot...
Place & Date: London, 1621
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2019
Germania inferior id es XVII Provinciarum. 1622.
The attractive frontispiece of Petrus Kaerius' atlas of the Seventeen Provinces of the Netherlands.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1622
Selling price: $575
Sold in 2008
[Title page] Thesauri Philo-Politci pars Altera. . .
Very skillfully engraved title page from a rare work printed by Eberhard Kieser: Thesaurus Philo-Politicus. Das ist Politisches Schatzkästlein guter Herren und bestendig...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1624
Selling price: $55
Sold in 2013
[Title page] Thesauri Philo-Politci Quarta pars. . .
Very skillfully engraved title page from a rare work printed by Eberhard Kieser: Thesaurus Philo-Politicus. Das ist Politisches Schatzkästlein guter Herren und bestendig...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1624
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2013
[Title page] Thesauri Philo-Politci pars Altera. . .
Very skillfully engraved title page from a rare work printed by Eberhard Kieser: Thesaurus Philo-Politicus. Das ist Politisches Schatzkästlein guter Herren und bestendig...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1624
Selling price: $75
Sold in 2016
[Title page] Thesauri Philo-Politci pars . . .
Very skillfully engraved title page from a rare work printed by Eberhard Kieser: Thesaurus Philo-Politicus. Das ist Politisches Schatzkästlein guter Herren und bestendig...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1624
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2019
[Title page] Thesauri Philo-Politci pars Altera. . .
Very skillfully engraved title page from a rare work printed by Eberhard Kieser: Thesaurus Philo-Politicus. Das ist Politisches Schatzkästlein guter Herren und bestendig...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1624
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2017
[Title page] Thesauri Philo-Politci pars Altera. . .
Very skillfully engraved title page from a rare work printed by Eberhard Kieser: Thesaurus Philo-Politicus. Das ist Politisches Schatzkästlein guter Herren und bestendig...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1624
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2020
[Title page] Thesauri Philo-Politci Quarta pars. . .
Very skillfully engraved title page from a rare work printed by Eberhard Kieser: Thesaurus Philo-Politicus. Das ist Politisches Schatzkästlein guter Herren und bestendig...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1625
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2013
[Title page] Politisches Schatz Kästlein Siebender Theil. . .
Very skillfully engraved title page from a rare work printed by Eberhard Kieser: Thesaurus Philo-Politicus. Das ist Politisches Schatzkästlein guter Herren und bestendig...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1626
Selling price: $65
Sold in 2013
[Title page] Thesauri Philo-Politci Pars octava po-strema. . .
Very skillfully engraved title page from a rare work printed by Eberhard Kieser: Thesaurus Philo-Politicus. Das ist Politisches Schatzkästlein guter Herren und bestendig...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1626
Selling price: $55
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[Title page] Thesauri Philo-Politci Tertia Pars. . .
Very skillfully engraved title page from a rare work printed by Eberhard Kieser: Thesaurus Philo-Politicus. Das ist Politisches Schatzkästlein guter Herren und bestendig...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1626
Selling price: $50
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[Title page] Thesauri Philo Politci pars septima. . .
Very skillfully engraved title page from a rare work printed by Eberhard Kieser: Thesaurus Philo-Politicus. Das ist Politisches Schatzkästlein guter Herren und bestendig...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1626
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2017
[Title page] Libellus Novus Politicus.. Pars Septima.
Very skilfully engraved title page from a rare work printed by Eberhard Kieser: Thesaurus Philo-Politicus. Das ist Politisches Schatzkästlein guter Herren und bestendige...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1626
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2018
[Title page] Libellus Novus Politicus.. Pars Sexta.
Very skillfully engraved title page from a rare work printed by Eberhard Kieser: Thesaurus Philo-Politicus. Das ist Politisches Schatzkästlein guter Herren und bestendig...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1626
Selling price: $50
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[Title page] Politica - Politica.
Very skilfully engraved title page from a rare work printed by Eberhard Kieser: Thesaurus Philo-Politicus. Das ist Politisches Schatzkästlein guter Herren und bestendige...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1626
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2020
[Title page] Libellus Novus Politicus.. Pars Spetima.
Very skillfully engraved title page from a rare work printed by Eberhard Kieser: Thesaurus Philo-Politicus. Das ist Politisches Schatzkästlein guter Herren und bestendig...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1626
Selling price: $14
Sold in 2022
The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine (Title Page & Frontispiece Together)
Offered here together are the titlepage and frontispiece from John Speed's 1627 edition of “Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine”, his monumental atlas of the Brit...
Place & Date: London, 1627
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2015
The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine.
The decorative title page from John Speed's Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine Published by George Humble in 1627.
Place & Date: London, 1627
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2018
[Title page] Belgii inferioris Geographicae tabule.
Very fine title page. Prepared by Gerard Mercator. Size of the engraving 227x 164mm, size of the paper 470x300mm.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2012
[Title page] Thesauri Philo-Politci Pars Quinta Tomi secundi. . .
Very skillfully engraved title page from a rare work printed by Eberhard Kieser: Thesaurus Philo-Politicus. Das ist Politisches Schatzkästlein guter Herren und bestendig...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1630
Selling price: $55
Sold in 2013
[Title page] Thesauri Philo-Politci Pars Sexta. . .
Very skillfully engraved title page from a rare work printed by Eberhard Kieser: Thesaurus Philo-Politicus. Das ist Politisches Schatzkästlein guter Herren und bestendig...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1630
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2013
Gerardus Mercator natus Iudocus Hondius. .
Arguably the finest engraved portrait of early map makers. In the well-executed design, Gerard Mercator and Jodocus Hondius are seated within an architectural cartouche o...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Selling price: $2200
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Gerardus Mercator natus ruppelmundae...
Arguably the finest engraved portrait of early map makers. In the well-executed design, Gerard Mercator and Jodocus Hondius are seated within an architectural cartouche o...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Selling price: $1100
Sold in 2015
[Portrait of Gerard Mercator and Jodocus Hondius.]
Arguably the finest engraved portrait of early mapmakers. In the well-executed design, Gerard Mercator and Jodocus Hondius are seated within an architectural cartouche of...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Selling price: $1600
Sold in 2015
Thesauri Philopolitici Tomi Secundi Pars Quarta (Title Page)
Striking, highly decorative title page from a rare work by Daniel Meisner "Thesauri Philo-Politici Oder Politisches Schatzkästlein guter Herren und bestendiger Freu...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1630
Selling price: $66
Sold in 2018
[Title page] Gerardus Mercator Natus Rupelmundae III Non. Mart II Anno CICICXII..
Beautifully engraved double portrait of Gerard Mercator and his successor Jodocus Hondius the elder, sitting together at a table and surrounded by maps, books and globes....
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Selling price: $1800
Sold in 2019
[Title page for] : Atlas Minor ou Briefve, & vive description de tout le Monde. . .".
Title page from a French 1630 edition of Atlas Minor (352:11). Engraved title page, pasted-on title and imprint (over the original Latin title and imprint 1628). Read mor...
- $250 / ≈ €234
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
[Title page] Atlas sive Cosmographicae Meditationes..
Decorative title page from an famous pocket atlas.
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1632
Selling price: $150
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[Titlepage] Atlas ou representation du Monde. . .
Architectural frontage with personifications of the four Continents, Atlas, Peruana, and Magalanica.Together with a text page, "advertissement au lecteur" and o...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1633
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2008
[Title page] Cartes particulières des costes de France de la mer mediterrannée . . .
Title page by Tassin for the atlas " Cartes particulières des costes de France de la mer mediterrannée. . .".
Place & Date: Paris, 1633
[Title page] Les plans et profils de toutes les principales villes et lieux considerables de France . . .
Title page of the first part of the atlas "Les plans et profils de toutes les principales villes et lieux considerables de France", by Nicolas Tassin.Nicolas Ta...
Place & Date: Paris, 1634
[Set of 14 title pages] Les plans et profils de toutes les principales villes et lieux considerables de France . . .
Set of 14 title pages of the first part of the atlas "Les plans et profils de toutes les principales villes et lieux considerables de France", by Nicolas Tassin...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Paris, 1634
[Title page] Cartes generale et particulières de toutes les costes de France. . .
Title page by Tassin for the atlas "Cartes generale et particulières de toutes les costes de France. . .".
Place & Date: Paris, 1634
[Title page] Les plans et profils de toutes les principales villes et lieux considerables de France . . .
Title page of the first tome of the atlas "Les plans et profils de toutes les principales villes et lieux considerables de France", by Nicolas Tassin.Read more ...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Paris, 1634
[Title page] Theatrum Europaeum, oder auszführliche und warhafftige Beschreibung. . .
Letter press with copper engraved title piece. Title page from "Theatrum Europaeum, oder auszführliche und warhafftige Beschreibung. . ."
Place & Date: Frakfurt, Wolffgang Hoff, 1635
Selling price: $10
Sold in 2017
Ander Theil Novi Atlantis Das ist Abbildung und Beschreibung von allen Ländern des Erdreichs. . .
Architectural frontage with a wealth of figures.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1635
Selling price: $180
Sold in 2016
(Title page) Ander Theil Novi Atlantis Das ist Abbildung und Beschreibung von allen Ländern des Erdreichs. . .
Architectural frontage with a wealth of figures, among them figures representing astronomy and geography surveying a celestial and terrestrial globe. Other figures repres...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1635
Selling price: $210
Sold in 2019
[Title page] Nieuwen ATLAS ofte Weereldt-Beschrijvinghe Eerste Deels Vervolgh/ Inhoudende Duytschlandt.
Title page from Jansson's 'Atas Novus', first published in 1636. With a fine ornate coat of arms above, held by eagles, coat of arms with a crowned double eagle in center...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1636
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2020
Le Theatre du Monde Ou Nouvel Atlas.
Johan Blaeu succeeded his father Willem when the latter died in 1638. Johan led the Blaeu firm to its greatest achievement the ' Atlas Maior' in 12 parts, the greatest an...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1638
Selling price: $600
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[Title page] Theatre des principales villes de tout l'univers, Liber VI
A very attractive title page from Theatre des principales villes de tout l'univers, Liber VI. Showing With personifications, portraits and war scenes. In attractive origi...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1638
Selling price: $195
Sold in 2019
[Title page] Theatre des principales villes de tout l'univers, Liber V.
The most decorative frontispiece of the 5th part of the 'Theatre des principales villes de tout l'univers'. Showing heraldic figures, representations of the four continen...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1638
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2020
[Title page] Le Theatre du Monde ou le nouvel atlas contenant les chartes et descriptions de tous les Païs de la Terre mis en lumière par Guillaume et Jean Blaeu.
Frontispiece of " Le Theatre du Monde ou le nouvel atlas contenant les chartes et descriptions de tous les Païs de la Terre mis en lumière par Guillaume et Jean Bl...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1638
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2022
[Title page for Janssonius atlas with past-on.]
Unique title page for an atlas by Janssonius with a past-on of an engraving of a still life with vase and fish-bowl.Read more about decorative atlas title pages [+]
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1638
Selling price: $550
Sold in 2022
[Title page] Le Nouveau Theatre du Monde Nouvel Atlas Second Tome.
A very attractive title page from Le Nouveau Theatre du Monde Nouvel Atlas Second Tome. .
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1639
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2021
(Title page) Teatrum Orbis Terrarum.
Architectural frontage with the title and imprint printed on paste-on slips.The heraldic shield, with crown and garters.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Selling price: $240
Sold in 2013
Theatrum Orbis Terrarum sive Atlas Novus. Partis Primae Pars Altera.
Johan Blaeu succeeded his father Willem when the latter died in 1638. Johan led the Blaeu firm to its greatest achievement the ' Atlas Maior' in 12 parts, the greatest an...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Selling price: $300
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Title page from "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum sive Atlas Novus".
Attractive title page of Blaeu's Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. The title is printed on a paste-on slip.Decorative and finely engraved architectural façade with figures. Some ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Selling price: $250
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Historischer Chronicken Continuation, oder, Warhafftre Beschreibung . . .
Beautiful German baroque allegorical title page from and Merian's Historischer Chronicken Continuation, oder Warhafftre Beschreibung. Frankreich.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, ca. 1640
Selling price: $70
Sold in 2009
Historischer Chronicken Continuation, oder, Warhafftre Beschreibung . . .
Beautiful German baroque allegorical title page from Merian's Historischer Chronicken Continuation, oder Warhaffte Beschreibung. . . ..
Place & Date: Frankfurt, ca. 1640
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2010
[Title page] Le Theatre du Monde ou Nouvel Atlas. . .
Architectural frontage with the title and imprint printed on paste-on slips.With manuscript ex libris "Caminade".
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2019
[Title page] Theatrum orbis Terrarum sive Atlas Novus pars Secunda.
Glorious mid-seventeenth century engraved frontispiece by Joan and Cornelis Blaeu from the second part of his 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum'.Read more about decorative atlas ...
- $350 / ≈ €328
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1640
[Title page from ] Le Theatre du Monde ou le nouvel atlas mis en lumière par Guillaume et Jean Blaeu. Troisieme partie.
Frontispiece of " Le Theatre du Monde ou le nouvel atlas mis en lumière par Guillaume et Jean Blaeu. Troisieme partie." Very clear print with nice cartouches a...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Title page from \"Novus Atlas, Das ist Weltbeschreibung..\".
Attractive title page of Blaeu\'s New Atlas. Highly decorative, and finely engraved architectural façade with figures. Some elements highlighted with gold.The title is p...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1641
Selling price: $300
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Title page from "Novus Atlas, Das ist Weltbeschreibung..".
Attractive title page of Blaeu's New Atlas. Highly decorative, and finely engraved architectural façade with figures.The title is printed on a paste-on slip and surmount...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1641
Selling price: $370
Sold in 2008
[Title page] Le Nouveau Theatre du Monde Nouvel Atlas Tome Troisieme.
A very attractive title page from Le Nouveau Theatre du Monde Nouvel Atlas Tome Troisieme. .
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1641
Title page from \"Novus Atlas, Das ist Weltbeschreibung..\".
Attractive title page of Blaeu\'s New Atlas. Decorative and finely engraved architectural façade with figures. Some elements highlighted with gold.The title is printed o...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1642
Selling price: $250
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Title page from Blaeu's New Atlas.
Attractive title page of Blaeu's New Atlas. Decorative and finely engraved architectural façade with figures. Some elements highlighted with gold.The title is printed on...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1642
Selling price: $275
Sold in 2013