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Der Beycht Spiegel.
Woodcut showing Moses receiving the ten commandments, and showing the tables to the Jewish people.
Place & Date: Ingolstadt 1420-1450
Selling price: $20
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Portrait of an astronomer.
Incunabula text leaf with in lower right corner charming wood block print of an astronomer with a sphere, pair of dividers, etc. looking at the stars. On verso two 5-line...
Place & Date: c.1480
Selling price: $60
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The crowned Holy Virgin.
Engraving by Albrecht Duerer. Showing the crowned Holy Virgin, within a small mandorla, standing on the crescent moon. On her left arm she is carrying the child Jesus, wh...
Place & Date: Germany, dated 1508
Selling price: $500
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Title page.
Title page to: "Chrysopassus predestinationis....." Edited by J. Eckius and printed in Augsburg, officina Willania 1512/1514. Fullpage woodcut Jacob, crowned by...
Place & Date: Augsburg 1512/1514
Selling price: $95
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Fragmenta passionis dni nostri Jesu Christi.....
Title Page. 5 figures in a medieval gothic interior
Place & Date: Starssburg 1520
Selling price: $10
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Autoritates Aristotelis...
Woodcut of a teacher at his desk, with 4 pupils attending. This same woodcut is also used by Henri Quentell in Cologne for his "Composita Verborum" in 1494. See...
Place & Date: Perhaps Cologne 1529
Selling price: $35
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Annunciation.
Woodcut of the annunciation of the angel to the Holy Virgin.
Place & Date: Germany 1510-1530
Selling price: $40
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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
The mocking of Christ.
The mocking of Christ. by A. Duerer.(1471-1528) From the "passion" series. B.No.8. 2nd state.Monogrammed at centrebottom AD.On the back is text in 16th.century...
Place & Date: Germany c. 1550
Selling price: $500
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King David.
RECTO: An engraving showing king David, who is receiving the messenger telling him king Saul is killed in a battle, and bringing him Saul's crown. Text in Dutch. VERSO: 4...
Place & Date: The Netherlands 1550
Selling price: $10
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![[Two Putti wrestling, while two putti try to stop them]](/uploads/cache/24000-250x250.jpg)
[Two Putti wrestling, while two putti try to stop them]
Fine print made by Bernardo Daddi (1512 - 1570) and published by Antonio Lafreri. Two Putti wrestling, while two putti try to stop them, and a small dog bites one on the ...
Place & Date: Venice, 1550
Selling price: $750
Sold in 2023
Niche in the form of a cartouche.
A lavishly decorated etching by the famous brother's Joannes and Lucas van Doetecum, after Cornelis II de Vriendt or better known as Cornelis FLORIS (1514 - 1572 or 1575)...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1556
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2022
Patientia (Patience)
Engraving after a design by Pieter Bruegel the Elder and engraved by Pieter van der Heyden. From the series "The Seven Virtues".Published in Antwerp by Hieronym...
Place & Date: Antwerp, Hieronymus Cock, 1557
Selling price: $30250
Sold in 2021
Mercure and the Trojan wars.
Two leaves, each of which has an engraving at either side of the page.Page 31/2 has engravings on the god "Mercure", with ornamental borders.Page 161/2 has engr...
Place & Date: Lyons 1559
Selling price: $10
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View of a farm with a large barn.
The Van Doetecum brothers were active as engravers in the second half of the 16th. Century. They made many prints for the Antwerp market. They later worked in Haarlem. R...
Place & Date: 1559-1561
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2021
![[ Two knights jousting ].](/uploads/cache/27198-250x250.jpg)
[ Two knights jousting ].
A woodcut of two knights jousting.Jousting is a sport played by two armored combatants mounted on horses. It consists of martial competition between two mounted knights u...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1564
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2009
![[medieval banquet.]](/uploads/cache/27203-250x250.jpg)
[medieval banquet.]
RECTO: a woodcut of a medieval banquet.VERSO: a woodcut of a flood in The Netherlands in the year 1420 or 1446.Taken from Sebastian Münster's encyclopedic work, the &quo...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1564
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2011
![[Elch Moose]](/uploads/cache/38519-250x250.jpg)
[Elch Moose]
One Latin text page with on recto a wood cut illustration of an Elch Moose (11,5 x 16 cm). From Münster's Cosmographia Universalis.The Cosmographia by Sebastian Münster...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1564
Selling price: $15
Sold in 2018
Astrologia-allegory of Astrology
After the design by Frans Floris, published by Hieronymus Cock in Antwerp. Cornelis Cort (1533-1578) was a renowned Dutch draughtsman and engraver. He was known as Cornel...
Place & Date: 1565
Selling price: $205
Sold in 2021
![[Creation of earth]](/uploads/cache/32160-250x250.jpg)
[Creation of earth]
RECTO: A wood block print of visualizing the creation of earth.Text page taken from Sebastian Münster's encyclopedic work, the Cosmographia Universalis. The Cosmographia...
Place & Date: Basle, 1572
Selling price: $247
Sold in 2012
Two genii holding a coat of arms.
Lucas van Leyden (1494 - 1533), also named either Lucas Hugensz or Lucas Jacobsz, a Dutch engraver and painter, born and mainly active in Leiden. Lucas van Leyden was amo...
Place & Date: 1527-ca. 1575
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2021
Page from La Cosmographie Universelle . . . (Page 70)
Text page with woodblock illustration showing Adam and Eve (110 x 155 mm.) In 1575 Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia was translated into French and published in Paris by ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1575
Selling price: $30
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Page from La Cosmographie Universelle . . . (Page 6)
Text page with a woodblock illustration showing God's creation of the earth (117 x 150 mm.) In 1575 Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia was translated into French and publ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1575
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2021
Sic hastile vagis errantes montibus apres - culpide, vel flamma rumpit precordia plumbum.
This is a plate from a series "Venationes ferarum, avium, piscium, pugnae bestiariorum & mutuae bestiarum". Published by Philippe Galle (Haarlem 1537 - 1612...
Place & Date: Antwerp, Philips Galle, ca 1577
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2021
Rhino. On verso elephant.
An early representation of a Rhino.VERSO: an early depiction of an elephant carrying people in a basket.From a French text edition of his Cosmographia , that great compen...
Place & Date: Basle 1580
Selling price: $125
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Abundance.
Engraving, showing allegorically Abundance. signed in right bottom-corner J.BO.
Place & Date: Bologna. 1550-1580
Selling price: $75
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Woodcut showing the Holy Family.
Woodcut showing the holy family, 2nd.state. Signed in topright corner HsP. Hans Sebald Beham (1500-1550)
Place & Date: 1550-1580
Selling price: $65
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3 leaves from Münster's Cosmographia Universalis
3 leaves from Münster's Cosmographia Universalis, illustrated with heterogeneous figures in woodblock engravings. One page features the mouse-tower of Bingen with rats e...
Place & Date: Basel, 1580
Selling price: $110
Sold in 2010
![[Two knights]](/uploads/cache/14195-250x250.jpg)
[Two knights]
On recto an early representation of two knights (74x155 mm). From a French text edition of his Cosmographia , that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge. With contemp...
Place & Date: Basle 1575-1580
Selling price: $9
Sold in 2015
![[River horse]](/uploads/cache/14199-250x250.jpg)
[River horse]
On verso a presentation of a river horse, a fantastic animal. From a French text edition of his Cosmographia , that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge. In 1575 Seb...
Place & Date: Basle 1575 - 1580
Selling price: $5
Sold in 2015
The apostle St. Andrew.
Lucas van Leyden (1494 - 1533), also named either Lucas Hugensz or Lucas Jacobsz, a Dutch engraver and painter, born and mainly active in Leiden. Lucas van Leyden was amo...
Place & Date: ca. 1510/1580
Selling price: $230
Sold in 2021
Men's Bathhouse.
Albrecht Dürer made this large-scale woodcut, shortly after his first trip to Italy (1494–95), he exploited the traditional setting of an outdoor bathhouse to demonstr...
Place & Date: Nüremberg, ca. 1496 but c.1580
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2023
Temperance (Temperantia) from The Virtues.
Very decorative engraving by Philip Galle (Haarlem 1537–1612 Antwerp) after Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Breda (?) ca. 1525–1569 Brussels). The print was published by Hi...
Place & Date: Antwerp, Hieronymus Cock, 1580
America, sive Bresilia. . .
Allegorical print of the continent of America. Engraved by Jan Sadeler (1550-1601) after Theodor Bernard, dated 1581. Rare print and one of the earliest representations o...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca 1581
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2020
Portrait of a virgin (Agnes ?)
Etching by Herman Muller, of a seated woman with a palm leaf in her hand as sign of martyrdom, a lamb and part of an anchor in the foreground, probably St.Agnes.Engraved ...
Place & Date: The Netherlands ca. 1585
Selling price: $50
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![Insidijs circumuentum, puteo que profundo. . . Gene[sis] 37](/uploads/cache/47691-250x250.jpg)
Insidijs circumuentum, puteo que profundo. . . Gene[sis] 37
A superb example of this illustration from the series of the Story of Joseph. Joseph is taken out of the pit and sold by his brothers to a group of Ishmaelites. From ther...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1585
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2021
![Beniamin adducto repetunt cum munere Joseph, Quos fratres tendem prodidit esse suos. Gene[sis] 43](/uploads/cache/47692-250x250.jpg)
Beniamin adducto repetunt cum munere Joseph, Quos fratres tendem prodidit esse suos. Gene[sis] 43
A superb example of this illustration from the series of the Story of Joseph. Joseph receives his brothers and Benjamin.Copper engraving published in " Thesaurus sac...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1585
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2021
![Isarides suasu matris benedicitur, atque Efficitur foelix a genitore suo Gene[sis]](/uploads/cache/48558-250x250.jpg)
Isarides suasu matris benedicitur, atque Efficitur foelix a genitore suo Gene[sis]
A superb example of this illustration from the series of the Story of Joseph. A blind Isaac is blessing Jacob.Copper engraving published in " Thesaurus sacrarum hist...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1585
Aeternum Florida Virtus
Board representing plants and insects.Joris Hoefnagel (Anvers 1542-Vienne 1600) was a painter, illuminator and draughtsman of flowers, fruits, insects, etc. He became the...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1590
Selling price: $200
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Apotheosis d. Isabellae Clarae Eugeniae.
Architectural frontage after design by P.P.Rubens. Engraved and published by Ta Thul.
Place & Date: Antwerp, c.1590
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2009
Arcus ad d. Michaelis pars pior Hercules Prodicius.
Architectural frontage after design by P.P.Rubens. Engraved and published by Ta Thul.
Place & Date: Antwerp c.1590
Selling price: $255
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Canons.
On recto an early representation of a siege of a town with canons: To the right a presentation of the devil with a monk. (Print : 70x96 mm). With the initial DK David Kan...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1590
Selling price: $10
Sold in 2011
[Costumes of Schwaben)
On recto an early scene showing the costumes of the people of Schwaben. (Print : 95x135 mm).The second scene shows a couple ragging wool. From a Latin text edition of his...
Place & Date: Basle 1550-1590
Selling price: $10
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Nigra Sylva olim pars Herciniae Sylvae.
On recto an early scene showing the Foret Noire with different animals (a wolf, dear, bear, etc. (Print : 77x150 mm).From a Latin text edition of his Geographia , that gr...
Place & Date: Basle 1550-1590
Selling price: $25
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[Panther]
On verso an early wood block printed depicting of a panther. Engraved by Rudolf Manuel Deutsch (1525 - 1571) with his monogram.Hans Rudolf Manuel Deutsch was a painter, d...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1590
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2013
![Stoliditas struthionis [Ostrich]](/uploads/cache/32592-250x250.jpg)
Stoliditas struthionis [Ostrich]
On verso an early depiction of a ostrich .From a German text edition of his Geographia , that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge.Read more [+]
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1590
Selling price: $10
Sold in 2014
![[Vates Sibyllinae]](/uploads/cache/32587-250x250.jpg)
[Vates Sibyllinae]
On recto an early birds-eye view of three graces.From a German text edition of his Geographia , that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge.
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1590
Selling price: $10
Sold in 2015
![[Crocodile]](/uploads/cache/32589-250x250.jpg)
[Crocodile]
On recto a crocodile and on verso an early birds-eye Alexandria in Egypt.From a German text edition of his Geographia , that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge.
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1590
Selling price: $10
Sold in 2015
Lapis polaris magnes.
This is a plate from a series of twenty prints illustrating new inventions and discoveries (Nova Reperta) after Jan van der Straet. Plated numbered 2. Lettered in margin,...
Place & Date: Antwerp, Philips Galle, c. 1590
Selling price: $800
Sold in 2018
Hyacum et lues venera
This is a plate from a series of twenty prints illustrating new inventions and discoveries (Nova Reperta) after Jan van der Straet. Plated numbered 6. Lettered in margin,...
Place & Date: Antwerp, Philips Galle, c. 1590
Selling price: $800
Sold in 2018
Distillatio.
This is a plate from a series of twenty prints illustrating new inventions and discoveries (Nova Reperta) after Jan van der Straet. Plated numbered 7. Lettered in margin,...
Place & Date: Antwerp, Philips Galle, c. 1590
Selling price: $800
Sold in 2018
![[Showing the 1588 defeat of the Spanish Armada in the English Channel]](/uploads/cache/20220907_173700-250x250.jpg)
[Showing the 1588 defeat of the Spanish Armada in the English Channel]
Beautiful engraving by Michael Eytzinger, showing the 1588 defeat of the Spanish Armada in the English Channel. Latin text on verso. Published in Leonis Belgici Descript...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca. 1590
Selling price: $200
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Sic capiunt Ibices iaculo, sic cuspide ferri, / Vel canibus, duro aut flammantis turbinis ictu.
A fine early illustration of capturing a mountain goat hunt. In the left foreground, a group of hunters rest, three dead mountain goats lying beside them; to the right, a...
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: Antwerp, Philips Galle, ca 1596
Faber marinus, Halee, Gabio, Acipenser Zeelandicus. (Piscium Vivæ Icones - Fish)
Depiction of Faber marinus, Halee, Gabio, Acipenser Zeelandicus. Set against a mountainous landscape in the manner of Pieter Brueghel the Elder. Plate number 8. The engra...
Place & Date: Antwerp, after 1598
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2023
Alosa, Acipenser, Manula, Apua cobitis, (Piscium Vivæ Icones - Fish)
Depiction of Alosa, Acipenser, Manula, Apua cobitis, set against a mountainous landscape in the manner of Pieter Brueghel the Elder. Plate number 10. The engraving is cop...
Place & Date: Antwerp, after 1598
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2023
Asellus, Cancellus, Asellus mollis. (Piscium Vivæ Icones - Fish)
Depiction of Asellus, Cancellus, Asellus mollis. Fish set against a mountainous landscape in the manner of Pieter Brueghel the Elder. Plate number 13. The engraving is co...
Place & Date: Antwerp, after 1598
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2017
Dondem Leutschen Lande.
A woodcut leaf from Munster's Cosmographia. It features two workers with implements and other workers building a house. There is German text on the front and back and a s...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1598
Selling price: $11
Sold in 2013
(12 Month's of the year)
Complete set of the 12 month's after Joan Anthony de Pauli (Giovanni Antonio de Paoli, c. 1589-1630) and etched by Antonio Tempesta, also called il Tempestino, (1555 – ...
Place & Date: Rome, 1599
Selling price: $1400
Sold in 2020
![[set of 4] Terra; Aer; Ignis; Aqua;](/uploads/cache/82269-250x250.jpg)
[set of 4] Terra; Aer; Ignis; Aqua;
Very rare set of engravings illustrating the Four Elements. Published in Paris by Thomas de Leu after Johan Sadeler and Maarten de Vos. Thomas de Leu (or Leeuw, 1560-1612...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1600
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2019
Geometrica.
Geometrica, engraving by Joan Sadeler (1550-1600), after Maerten de Vos (1532-1603). One fo the seven liberal arts.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1570-1600
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2021
Rhetorica.
Rhetorica, engraving by Joan Sadeler (1550-1600),after Maerten de Vos (1532-1603). One of the seven liberal arts.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1570-1600
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2021
QUONIAM TUUM EST REGNUM ET POTENTIA ET GLORIA IN SECULA AMEN
FOR THINE IS THE KINGDOM, AND THE POWER, AND THE GLORY, FOR EVER, AMEN.Adoration of the Trinity. In the centre of the sun, the Hebrew name of the LORD, Yahweh, and around...
Place & Date: Amstserdam, ca 1600
Geometria, from The Seven Liberal Arts.
A female figure with a castle on her head measures a globe with a compass; representing geometry. Engraving by Johann Sadeler I after M. de Vos.
- $750 / ≈ €702
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1570 - 1600
Perspective print after Vredeman de Vries.
Engraving after Hans, or Johannes Vredeman de Vries (ca.1527-1604), a famous Dutch architect and draughtsman, known in the Low Countries as "The king of architects&q...
Place & Date: Antwerp, c. 1562 - 1601
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2016
Perspective print after Vredeman de Vries.
Engraving after Hans, or Johannes Vredeman de Vries (ca.1527-1604), a famous Dutch architect and draughtsman, known in the Low Countries as 'The king of architects'. Born...
Place & Date: Antwerp, c. 1562 - 1601
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2020
The third Dutch artic voyage by W.Barentsz.
Desirable scene during the third Dutch arctic voyage in order to find the north-east passage to India.Barentsz made three voyages (1594, 1595, 1596-1597) in search of the...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1601
Selling price: $120
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The third Dutch artic voyage by W.Barentsz.
These famous and desirable scene is engraved by de Bry depicting a scene during the third Dutch arctic voyage in order to find the north-east passage to India.Despite the...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1601
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2018
Perspective print by Vredeman de Vries.
Page from "Perspective, Dat is, de hooch-gheroemde conste eens schijnende in oft door-siende ooghen-ghesichtespunt ... (&c.). by Hans, or Johannes Vredeman de Vr...
Place & Date: Leiden 1604
Selling price: $80
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Perspective print by Vredeman de Vries.
Engraving from Perspective, Dat is, de hooch-gheroemde conste eens schijnende in oft door-siende ooghen-ghesichtespunt ... (&c.) by Hans, or Johannes Vredeman de Vrie...
Place & Date: The Hague 1604
Selling price: $100
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Perspective print by Vredeman de Vries.
Engraving from Perspective, Dat is, de hooch-gheroemde conste eens schijnende in oft door-siende ooghen-ghesichtespunt ... (&c.) by Hans, or Johannes Vredeman de Vrie...
Place & Date: The Hague 1604
Selling price: $100
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Perspective print by Vredeman de Vries.
Engraving from Perspective, Dat is, de hooch-gheroemde conste eens schijnende in oft door-siende ooghen-ghesichtespunt ... (&c.) by Hans, or Johannes Vredeman de Vrie...
Place & Date: The Hague 1604
Selling price: $80
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Perspective print by Vredeman de Vries.
Engraving from Perspective, Dat is, de hooch-gheroemde conste eens schijnende in oft door-siende ooghen-ghesichtespunt ... (&c.) by Hans, or Johannes Vredeman de Vrie...
Place & Date: The Hague, 1604
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2012
Perspective print by Vredeman de Vries.
Engraving from Perspective, Dat is, de hooch-gheroemde conste eens schijnende in oft door-siende ooghen-ghesichtespunt ... (&c.) by Hans, or Johannes Vredeman de Vrie...
Place & Date: The Hague, 1604
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2016
Perspective print by Vredeman de Vries.
Engraving from Perspective, Dat is, de hooch-gheroemde conste eens schijnende in oft door-siende ooghen-ghesichtespunt ... (&c.) by Hans, or Johannes Vredeman de Vrie...
Place & Date: The Hague, 1604
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2023
![[ Perspective print by Vredeman de Vries. ]](/uploads/cache/17311-250x250.jpg)
[ Perspective print by Vredeman de Vries. ]
Engraving from Perspective, Dat is, de hooch-gheroemde conste eens schijnende in oft door-siende ooghen-ghesichtespunt ... (&c.) by Hans, or Johannes Vredeman de Vrie...
Place & Date: The Hague, 1604
Selling price: $130
Sold in 2009
Perspective print by Vredeman de Vries.
Engraving from Perspective, Dat is, de hooch-gheroemde conste eens schijnende in oft door-siende ooghen-ghesichtespunt ... (&c.) by Hans, or Johannes Vredeman de Vrie...
Place & Date: The Hague, 1604
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2009
Perspective print by Vredeman de Vries.
Engraving from Perspective, Dat is, de hooch-gheroemde conste eens schijnende in oft door-siende ooghen-ghesichtespunt ... (&c.) by Hans, or Johannes Vredeman de Vrie...
Place & Date: The Hague, 1604
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2009
![[ Perspective print by Vredeman de Vries ]](/uploads/cache/17320-250x250.jpg)
[ Perspective print by Vredeman de Vries ]
Engraving from Perspective, Dat is, de hooch-gheroemde conste eens schijnende in oft door-siende ooghen-ghesichtespunt ... (&c.) by Hans, or Johannes Vredeman de Vrie...
Place & Date: The Hague, 1604
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2009
Perspective print by Vredeman de Vries.
Engraving from Perspective, Dat is, de hooch-gheroemde conste eens schijnende in oft door-siende ooghen-ghesichtespunt ... (&c.) by Hans, or Johannes Vredeman de Vrie...
Place & Date: The Hague, 1604
Selling price: $160
Sold in 2009
Perspective print by Vredeman de Vries.
Engraving from Perspective, Dat is, de hooch-gheroemde conste eens schijnende in oft door-siende ooghen-ghesichtespunt ... (&c.) by Hans, or Johannes Vredeman de Vrie...
Place & Date: The Hague, 1604
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2015