Decorative Prints

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[ 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...

$30 / ≈ €28

Maker / Publisher: MUNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1564
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2009

[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...

$20 / ≈ €19

Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1564
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2011

[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...

$247 / ≈ €231

Maker / Publisher: MUNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basle, 1572
Selling price: $247
Sold in 2012

[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...

$9 / ≈ €8

Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basle 1575-1580
Selling price: $9
Sold in 2015

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...

$10 / ≈ €9

Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER,S.
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...

$10 / ≈ €9

Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER,S.
Place & Date: Basle 1550-1590
Selling price: $10
Sold

[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...

$20 / ≈ €19

Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1590
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2013

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 [+]

$10 / ≈ €9

Maker / Publisher: MUNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1590
Selling price: $10
Sold in 2014

[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.

$10 / ≈ €9

Maker / Publisher: MUNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1590
Selling price: $10
Sold in 2015

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

Maker / Publisher: STRADANUS, Johannes / GALLE, Ph.
Place & Date: Antwerp, Philips Galle, ca 1596