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![[Title page] Aristoteles, Commentarium trium librorum de anima, secundum doctrinas venerabilis domini Albert Magni.](/uploads/cache/21598-250x250.jpg)
[Title page] Aristoteles, Commentarium trium librorum de anima, secundum doctrinas venerabilis domini Albert Magni.
Printed by Heinrich Quentell in Cologne 1491.The Woodcut shows Albertus Magnus reading to 6 attendants
Place & Date: Cologne 1491
Selling price: $95
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![[Title page ] Epitoma operu[m] sex dieru[m] de mu[n]di fabrica..](/uploads/cache/28628-250x250.jpg)
[Title page ] Epitoma operu[m] sex dieru[m] de mu[n]di fabrica..
First page to Nuremberg Chronicle, the richest illustrated Incunabel, published the year that Columbus returned to Europe after discovering America. This impressive woodc...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $1450
Sold in 2012
Sexta Etas Mudi. (With view of Sabatz.) Folio CCLIII
An imaginary view of Sabatz, Turkey: however the earliest obtainable view of this period.Further including presentations of the popes Sixtus IV and Innocentius VIII. Page...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2023
SCHEDEL, TITLE PAGE, - Register des buchs der Croniken ...
Title page page from the rare German edition of Hartman Schedel's Liber chronicarum ,widely known as 'Nuremberg Chronicle', printed in 1493 by Koberger, NurembergIncunabl...
Place & Date: Nuremberg 1493
Selling price: $250
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Title page to <I>Expositiones textuales dubiorum et lucentissimae explanationes in libros de coelo et mundo.....</I>
Nearly fullpage woodcut shows St. Thomas addressing three students. Printed in Cologne by Henricus Quentell in 1497
Place & Date: Cologne 1497
Selling price: $45
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Liber in judicii astrorum.
Titlepage to: \"Haly /Albohazen filii Abennagel\" Woodcut. Albohazen on a throne with an astrolobium, flanked by naked \"Astronomia\" and \"Urani...
Place & Date: Venice 1485. or by Battista Hessa 1500
Selling price: $400
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Wood block print showing Ptolemy and Astonomia.
A very nice woodcut print of Ptolemy looking at the stars with a quadrant in the company of Astronomia. Included in Gregor Reisch, compiler of the Margarita Philosophica,...
Place & Date: Strasbourg 1512
Selling price: $350
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Title page from:
Manuscript annotations underneath the woodcut in a contemporary hand. Beautiful renaissance border by Daniel Hopfer (ca,1480-1536)
Place & Date: Augsburg 1517
Selling price: $95
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Opera (Joannis de Basso).
Titlepage to Joannes Bassoli's "OPERA". Printed in Paris with printersmark of Jehan Frellon. To be bought at Francisco Regnault in Paris.Four woodcut borders re...
Place & Date: Paris, before 1517
Selling price: $35
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Liber quartus sentetniarum...
Titlepage for P. Lombardus: "Liber quartus sententiarum textus...Simple 4-sided borders, consisting of four woodblocks, Latin text on verso.
Place & Date: Cracov 1519
Selling price: $18
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Bartolus super prime parte...
Woodcut borders, composed of 6 blocks,with scenes of medieval life. Cetral allegorical figure with 2 shields.
Place & Date: Venice/Italy ca. 1520
Selling price: $50
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Epistolae D.Erasmi roterdami...
Titlepage to "Epistolae" by Erasmus. Edited by J.Frobein/Basel in 1521.Woodcut by Urs Graf. In bottomborder is monogram VG (means Urs Graf).
Place & Date: Basel 1521
Selling price: $50
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Title page to a book:"Phrases in epistolas Pauli ad Thimotheum duas......"
Per Erasmum Rotterdamum MDXXI
Place & Date: 1521
Selling price: $50
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Text page with large initial G.
Text leaf from the Strasburg edition of Ptolemy's atlas edited by Laurent Fries. On recto and verso an introduction with on each page an 6-line initial.VERSO : With a ini...
Place & Date: Strassburg 1525
Selling price: $53
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Text page with diagram and large initial Q.
Text leaf from the Strasbourg edition of Ptolemy's atlas edited by Laurent Fries. On recto a diagram of the world and a star.VERSO: Text with a wonderful 11-line initial.
Place & Date: Strasbourg, 1525
Selling price: $55
Sold in 2015
Text page with large intitials P and A.
Text leaf from the Strasburg edition of Ptolemy's atlas edited by Laurent Fries. On recto a text on Lybia and Asia with 2 six-lines initials.VERSO: A table.
Place & Date: Strassburg 1525
Selling price: $10
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Text page with large decoration.
Text leaf from the Strasburg edition of Ptolemy's atlas edited by Laurent Fries. On recto a table surrounded by a decorative wood block border.VERSO: A table.
Place & Date: Strassburg 1525
Selling price: $10
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Text page with large initial C and I.
Text leaf from the Strasburg edition of Ptolemy's atlas edited by Laurent Fries. On recto and verso an introduction with on each page an 6-line initial.Each page side has...
Place & Date: Strassburg 1525
Selling price: $13
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Text page with coordinate net showing meridians and parallels and large initial.
Text leaf from the Strasburg edition of Ptolemy's atlas edited by Laurent Fries. On recto and verso an introduction with on recto coordinate net showing meridians and par...
Place & Date: Strassburg 1525
Selling price: $17
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Text page with coordinate net showing meridians and parallels and large initial.
Text leaf from the Strasburg edition of Ptolemy's atlas edited by Laurent Fries. On recto and verso an introduction with on recto coordinate net showing meridians and par...
Place & Date: Strassburg 1525
Selling price: $10
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Title Page.
Woodcut of a post-incunable: "Das Dritte tayl des Alten Testaments" Showing the nailing on the cross, Cut of considerable quality. Remarkable scene of a title p...
Place & Date: 1525
Selling price: $55
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Henrici Glareani...
Titlepage of "De geographia liber". Borders on all four sides in 4 compartments with female figures: Iustitia, Prudencia, Fortitudo, Temperancia, Fides, Charita...
Place & Date: Basel 1527
Selling price: $12
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Opera Rhetorica Oratoria et foretia..
A very attractive title page, decorated with two lions holding a coat of arm.
Place & Date: Paris, c.1530
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2009
Biblia cu(m) concordantijs veteris...
Titlepage to "Biblia cum con-cordantijs veteris & novi testamenti".4-sided borders, consisting of four blocks. Borders with leaves and vases.Printer's mark ...
Place & Date: Lyon 1510-1530
Selling price: $25
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Title-page of a book, with a woodcut of king Wenceslaus' name, king of Boohemia in the banner.
From : Book on the defense of the Roman Catholic Church against the heresy of the Waldenses. Printed in 1501 by Konrad Baumgarten.On the back two woodcut crests of a Pope...
Place & Date: 1520-1540
Selling price: $75
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![[Sea monsters] Les monstres marins & terrestres..](/uploads/cache/21687-250x250.jpg)
[Sea monsters] Les monstres marins & terrestres..
Münster's plate of monsters of both land and sea, taken from Olaus Magnus' 'Carta Marina' of 1539, with abundant tusks, horns and twin-spouts. One vignette shows a galle...
Place & Date: Basle 1544
Selling price: $925
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![[Sea monsters] De regnis Septentrion. Monstra marina & terrestria.](/uploads/cache/36206-250x250.jpg)
[Sea monsters] De regnis Septentrion. Monstra marina & terrestria.
Münster's plate of monsters of both land and sea, taken from Olaus Magnus' 'Carta Marina' of 1539, with abundant tusks, horns and twin-spouts. One vignette shows a galle...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1550
Selling price: $1600
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![Europa Virgo [Europe personified as a woman.]](/uploads/cache/90554-250x250.jpg)
Europa Virgo [Europe personified as a woman.]
From Cosmographia and showing the continent (west at the top) with the Iberian peninsula as the head with crown, Italy and Denmark as the arms, carrying an orb and sceptr...
Place & Date: Basle, c.1550
Selling price: $700
Sold in 2008
Europa Virgo.
Allegorical map showing Europe in the shape of a woman. The representation of Europa Regina was first drawn by Jonannes Bucius in 1537. This simplified version appeared i...
Place & Date: Basel, ca. 1550
Selling price: $700
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Mostri marini & terrestri, che si trouano in ogni luogo nelle parti d' aquilone.
One of the most famous charts of mythical sea monsters by Sebastian Munster. The monsters are derivative from the 'Carta Marina' of 1539 by Olaus Magnus and have been use...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550
Selling price: $1100
Sold in 2010
![[Sea monsters] De regnis Septentrion. Monstra marina & terrestria. . .](/uploads/cache/34722-250x250.jpg)
[Sea monsters] De regnis Septentrion. Monstra marina & terrestria. . .
Münster's plate of monsters of both land and sea, taken from Olaus Magnus' 'Carta Marina' of 1539, with abundant tusks, horns and twin-spouts. One vignette shows a galle...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1550
Selling price: $1520
Sold in 2015
![[Europe personified as a woman.]](/uploads/cache/36207-250x250.jpg)
[Europe personified as a woman.]
Among the most striking of early cartographic curiosities is this woodcut of Europe regina or Queen of the world. This is a simplified version of Johannes Bucius' represe...
Place & Date: Basle c.1550
Selling price: $1250
Sold in 2016
Meerwunder und Seltzame Thier/Wie Die In Den Mitnacßtigen Landern Gefunden Werden
Sebastian Münster's famous wood cut printed plate of monsters of both land and sea, as it appeared in his "Cosmographia". Derived from Olaus Magnus' "Cart...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550
Selling price: $1200
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Der Statt Rom boden und circkel sampt thor vnnd porten, wie sie gestanden ist vor zeiten, do sie noch in ihrer herrlichkeit was.
Large format wood engraving by Sebastian Münster with a special map showing the underground of Rome: the hills, the water streams. The city is marked by the city walls a...
Place & Date: 1550
Selling price: $100
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Biblische Figuren.
Titlepage of a so-called "Printbible". Woodcut renaissance borders. Text in German.Initial V and S in bottom border
Place & Date: Nurnberg 1552
Selling price: $14
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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...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1552
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2019
![[Lot of 10 leaves] Catalogus doctorum…in Cosmographia Sebastiani…/ Index Cosmographicus.](/uploads/cache/48294-250x250.jpg)
[Lot of 10 leaves] Catalogus doctorum…in Cosmographia Sebastiani…/ Index Cosmographicus.
Ten leaves with several wood blocks with index taken from the "Cosmographia". From the 1552 Latin text edition of Münster's Cosmographia, which is a short and ...
Place & Date: Basel, 1552
Selling price: $3
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Venetiarum amplissima & maritima urbs cum multis circumiacentibus insulis.
Early bird's-eye view of Venice from the 1552 Latin text edition of Münster's Cosmographia, which is a short and complete summary of Renaissance knowledge.Sebastian Mü...
Place & Date: Basel, 1552
Selling price: $400
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Ptolemy.
With woodblock portrait of Ptolemy using a quadrant, from a French text edition of the Cosmographia .
Place & Date: Basel 1560
Selling price: $50
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Title page to <I>Apellatio D.Martini Lutheri ad Concilium...</I>
Edited in Wittenberg. Nice renaissance borders with a man teaching and a woman reading.
Place & Date: Wittenberg, no date., c. 1560
Selling price: $55
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