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Quinta Etas Mundi. Folium. LXXV
Latin text page with woodcuts on recto and verso of Saints, Kings, and Queens. In upper left Jaddua (Jadus), the sixth priest of the Jews.With one of the earliest descrip...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2018
Destruccio Iherosolime.
A dramatic woodcut that synopsizes the six destruction's of Jerusalem (255x528mm) and on verso a illustration of a punishment (140x222mm.) One of the earliest obtainable ...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $2300
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Quita Etas Mundi. Folium. LXVII
The Latin text page is illustrated with a plan of the Solomon´s TemplePage from the richest illustrated Incunable, the famous: Nuremberg Chronicle, published the year th...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $110
Sold in 2020
Tercia Etas Mundi. Folium.XXXII.
A very fine presentation of a candelabra (275 mm x 227 mm). VERSO, another candelabra is depicted.Page from the richest illustrated Incunable, the famous: Nuremberg Chron...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $185
Sold in 2019
Quita Etas Mundi. Folium.LXVII
The Latin text page is illustrated with a plan of Solomon´s Temple. Page from the richest illustrated Incunable, the famous: Nuremberg Chronicle, published the year that...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2023
Tercia Etas Mundi. Foliu XXIII. [Damascus and Trier)
The Latin text page is illustrated with a depiction of Damascus in Syria; some have suggested it could represent London (192 x 223mm.) and on recto, a view of the German ...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $160
Sold in 2023
Troya.
An imagionary view of Troy with numerous buildings shown. With text on both sides. Published in Hartmann Schedel's famous work: "liber chronicarum". Probably fr...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, c1497
Selling price: $52
Sold in 2013
Troya.
Woodcut imaginary view of Troy published in the so-called pirate edition of the "small Schedel" in Augsburg, 1497, Latin edition. Originally the Chronicle Nurem...
Place & Date: Augsburg, Johann Schönsperger. 1497
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2016
Undecima Asiae Tabula.
A rare, 500 year old woodblock map of SE Asia and China. Sylvanus' map of Southeast Asia, China, India, and adjoining regions, from Sylvanus' Claudii Ptholemaei Alexandri...
Place & Date: Venice, 1511
Selling price: $4900
Sold in 2017
Octava Asie Tabvla.
Wood block map of Central Asia and China from Martin Waldseemüller's 1513 edition of Ptolemy, who was a landmark work that contributed to major advances in both Renaissa...
Place & Date: Strasbourg, J. Schott, 1513
Selling price: $4000
Sold in 2018
Decima Asie Tabvla.
Wood block map of India and part of Sri Lanka from Martin Waldseemüller's 1513 edition of Ptolemy, who was a landmark work that contributed to major advances in both Ren...
Place & Date: Strasbourg, J. Schott, 1513
Selling price: $9100
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Tabula Prima Asie.
Published by Waldseemüller. Woodblock map of Ptolemaic version of Turkey, reflecting place names used in 130 A.D.
Place & Date: Strasburg, 1513
Selling price: $1500
Sold in 2011
Undecima Asiae Tabula (Bangladesh, Burma, India, Thailand)
Wood block printed large-format Ptolemaic map showing Bangladesh, Burma, India, Thailand, from the 1513 edition of Waldseemüller's Geographia.Showing region east of the ...
Place & Date: Strasburg, 1513
Selling price: $2700
Sold in 2013
Quinta Asie Tabula (Persia.)
Wood block printed large-format Ptolemaic map showing the region of Achaemenid Empire, Assyria, Carmania, Hyrcania, Iran, Iraq, Media, Middle East, Parthia, Persia, Turkm...
Place & Date: Strasburg, 1513
Selling price: $1900
Sold in 2018
Four text page with large intitials.
Four text leaves from the Strasburg edition of Ptolemy's atlas edited by Laurent Fries. On VERSO and RECTO 6-lines initials.Each page side has in top a large woodcut titl...
Place & Date: Strassburg 1525
Selling price: $35
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Tabu. VII Asiae
Trapezoidal Ptolemaic woodcut map showing the area around the Caspian Sea. A reduced version of Martin Waldseemullers Ptolemy map from 1513. From the 1525 Strasbourg Edit...
Place & Date: Strasbourg, 1525
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2010
Tabula Quarta Asia (Holy Land and Cyprus)
One of the earliest maps available to a collector of Cyprus, Syria, Mesopotamia,. Babylonia, Arabia Petraea, Armenia Minor and the Holy Land, based upon the Georgraphy of...
Place & Date: Strasburg, 1525
Selling price: $2000
Sold in 2015
Tabula V Asiae.
Woodcut map after Ptolemy by Lorenz Fries published by Grueninger in Strasbourg 1525. The map is from the first edition as a reduced recut of Martin Waldseemueller’s ma...
Place & Date: Strasbourg, 1525
Selling price: $750
Sold in 2017
TABULA V ASIAE. (Persia, Iran)
An early woodcut map after Ptolemy by Lorenz Fries published by Grueninger in Strasbourg , from the rare 1525 edition. The map is a reduced recut of Martin Waldseemueller...
Place & Date: Strasbourg, 1525
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2020
![Sumatra] Iava minore / Necumera/Locaz/Patera/Botegon/Mangama.](/uploads/cache/81948-250x250.jpg)
Sumatra] Iava minore / Necumera/Locaz/Patera/Botegon/Mangama.
Two maps on one page of the Isalario. 'Iava minore', the first printed separate map of Sumatra and several islands 'Necumera / Locaz / Patera / Botegon / Mangama. Locaz o...
Place & Date: Venice, 1534
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2019
Tabula IX Asia (title on verso).
Martin Waldseemüller (1470-1521) drew the maps for the 1513 and 1520 editions of Ptolemy's ' Geographia'. They were revised and reduced by Laurent Fries and used for the...
Place & Date: Lyon, 1535
Selling price: $375
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![Tabula IIII Asiae. [Holy Land, Syria, Cyprus, Arabia.]](/uploads/cache/26877-250x250.jpg)
Tabula IIII Asiae. [Holy Land, Syria, Cyprus, Arabia.]
One of the earliest maps available to a collector of Cyprus, Syria, Mesopotamia,. Babylonia, Arabia Petraea, Armenia Minor and the Holy Land, based upon the Georgraphy of...
Place & Date: Strassburg, 1535
Selling price: $1550
Sold in 2011
Tabula Terre Sanctae.
"Modern" map of Palestine, oriented to the east. The Mediterranean shore line runs from Sidon to Gaza. Of the inland the whole of Palestine on both sides of the...
Place & Date: Lyon, 1535
Selling price: $1350
Sold in 2009
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No title. [China and Japan.]
The earliest printed representation of the China and Japan region in a European Atlas. The first issue of this engraving with minor titular amendments appeared in the 152...
Place & Date: Lyons, M. Servetus, 1535
Selling price: $4900
Sold in 2009
Tabula Terre Sanctae.
Woodcut map of the Holy Land by L. Fries. From the 1535 Lyon edition of Ptolemy's Geographia edited by M. Servetus and published by M. and G. Trechsel, printed from the 1...
Place & Date: Lyon, 1535
Selling price: $2600
Sold in 2011
Tabu. moder. Indiae
Woodcut map of India by L. Fries. From the 1535 Lyon edition of Ptolemy's Geographia edited by M. Servetus and published by M. and G. Trechsel, printed from the 1522 wood...
Place & Date: Lyon, 1535
Selling price: $1400
Sold in 2010
![Taprobana Ins. Tabula XII Asiae. [Sri Lanka.]](/uploads/cache/35395-250x250.jpg)
Taprobana Ins. Tabula XII Asiae. [Sri Lanka.]
Ptolemy's mythical island of Taprobana originally became associated with Sri Lanka although it was sometimes confused with Sumatra. Taprobana, as it was called on most ea...
Place & Date: Lyons, M. Servetus, 1535
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2016
Tabula IX Asia (map of Bengal and Burma.).
Laurent Fries reduced version of Martin Waldseemüller’s map of Ptolemy’s ninth map of Asia, depicting northeast India and Birma. Martin Waldseemüller (1470-1521) dr...
Place & Date: Lyon, 1535
Selling price: $275
Sold in 2019
![Tabula III Asiae. [Caucass and Armenia.]](/uploads/cache/42940-250x250.jpg)
Tabula III Asiae. [Caucass and Armenia.]
Ptolemaic map of the region south of the Caucasus Mountains and between the Caspian Sea as far south as the headwaters of the Tigris River in the south and the Black Sea,...
Place & Date: Lyons, M. Servetus, 1535
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2021
![Tabula IX Asiae [Pakistan & India] (Title on Verso)](/uploads/cache/42944-250x250.jpg)
Tabula IX Asiae [Pakistan & India] (Title on Verso)
Map of Gedrosia, Eastern Balochistan the southwestern province of Pakistan and parts of southwestern and south-central Afghanistan. Western Balochistan is divided between...
Place & Date: Vienna, 1490, 1535
Selling price: $355
Sold in 2023
Tabula Terre Sanctae.
A n early woodcut map of the Holy Land (Palestine, Israel) by Laurent Fries, published by M. & G. Trechsel, Lyon 1535. Title in a banderole above. Verso a nice orname...
Place & Date: Lyon, 1535
Selling price: $760
Sold in 2021
TABULA V ASIAE.
[Antique map of Iran] Tabula V Asiae. Laurent Fries' reduced version of Martin Waldseemuller's map of Persia according to Ptolemy. From the Lyon edition of the 'Geographi...
Place & Date: Lyon, 1535
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2020
![Tabula Asiae VI. [Arabia Felix]](/uploads/cache/39399-250x250.jpg)
Tabula Asiae VI. [Arabia Felix]
This fine woodcut is an early Ptolemaic map of the Arabian Peninsula here called 'Arabia Felix'. It is a fairly decent representation of the peninsula, although perhaps P...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1540
Selling price: $601
Sold in 2017
Sumatra ein grosse Insel, so von den alten Geographen Taprobana, ist genent worden (Sri Lanka).
One of the earliest and highly decorative woodcut maps of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) by Sebastian Münster. To the left of the map a cartouche with explanatory text in 10 lines a...
Place & Date: Basel, ca 1540
Selling price: $225
Sold in 2019
Cyria / Cypern / Palestina / Mesopotamia / Babylonia / Chaldea und zwey Arabia mit Bergen Wassern und Stetten.
An early, attractive woodcut map of the eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East. Covering the area between northern Syria and the Red Sea, with Cyprus, the Holy Land, J...
Place & Date: Basel, ca 1540
Selling price: $190
Sold in 2021
![No title. [China and Japan.]](/uploads/cache/01626-250x250.jpg)
No title. [China and Japan.]
The earliest printed representation of the China and Japan region in a European Atlas. The first issue of this engraving with minor titular amendments appeared in the 152...
Place & Date: Vienne 1541
Selling price: $1800
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ASIAE TABULA quinta continentur Assyria...
This map covers the territory delimited by the Tigris and the Euphrates rives, the so called Mesopotamia.It extends as far as the borders with Iran, the eastern part of T...
Place & Date: Vienne, 1541
Selling price: $300
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Tabula X. Asiae hae sunt e cognitis totius orbis.
The earliest printed representation of India west of the Ganges River in Ptolemy's time. Considerable detail of river systems and mountain ranges.The first issue of this ...
Place & Date: Vienne 1541
Selling price: $550
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Tabula octava Asiae continet.
Woodblock map illustrating the Ptolemaic concept of the region of ancient Schytia Extra in a trapezoidal projection. Title is on verso.Central Asia and China with the cou...
Place & Date: Vienne, 1541
Selling price: $180
Sold in 2009
Tabula IX Asia (title on verso).
Martin Waldseemüller (1470-1521) drew the maps for the 1513 and 1520 editions of Ptolemy's ' Geographia'. They were revised and reduced by Laurent Fries and used for the...
Place & Date: c. 1541
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2008