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![[Title page] La geografia di Claudio Tolomeo . . .](/uploads/cache/41576-250x250.jpg)
[Title page] La geografia di Claudio Tolomeo . . .
Title page of Girolamo Ruscelli's first edition of Ptolemy's Geographia included newly engraved copperplates by Giulio and Livio Sanuti.
Place & Date: Venice, 1561
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2020
Mörewunder vnd seltzame thier
Spectacular woodcut of mythical land with sea monsters and animals. The monsters were first engraved in the ‘Carta Marina’ of 1539 by Olaus Magnus and have been us...
Place & Date: Basel, 1561
Selling price: $1500
Sold in 2022
![[Title page to 'Landtaflen. Hierinn findst du lieber Läser schöner recht und wolgemachter Landtaflen XII...']](/uploads/cache/37084-250x250.jpg)
[Title page to 'Landtaflen. Hierinn findst du lieber Läser schöner recht und wolgemachter Landtaflen XII...']
Title page with wood cut device to "Landtaflen. Hierinn findst du lieber Läser schöner recht und wolgemachter Landtaflen XII namlich ein Allgemeine Europae demnach...
Place & Date: Zurich, Christoffel Froschover, 1566
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2016
Titlepage: Descrittione di M.L.G.di tutti i Paesi Bassi..
Title page from the first edition of this most important travel book of the Low Countries. Also on verso large architectural facade with figures and surveying instruments...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1567
Selling price: $205
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![[Title Page] Descrittione di M. Lodovico Guicciardini patritio Fiorentino..](/uploads/cache/13998-250x250.jpg)
[Title Page] Descrittione di M. Lodovico Guicciardini patritio Fiorentino..
RARE. A very attractive title page in wood block print. From the first edition of the first description of The Low Countries. VERSO: with a coat of arms.
Place & Date: Antwerp 1567
Selling price: $122
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Les marins monstres & terrestres...
A fine detailed woodcut depicting a superb variety of fantastic sea-monsters, such as might be encountered by a sailor in northern waters. This famous piece may well have...
Place & Date: Basle, 1568
Selling price: $850
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Les Quatre Premiers Livres des Navigations et Peregrinations Orientales.
Rare title page with elaborate woodcut border published 1568 in Paris by Nicolas de Nicolay, seigneur d'Arfeville (1517-1583) who published an illustrated book on his tra...
Place & Date: Paris, 1568
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2014
![[Title page] Theatrum Orbis Terrarum.](/uploads/cache/23108-250x250.jpg)
[Title page] Theatrum Orbis Terrarum.
A decorative title page of the first atlas ever made. Depicting the five continents then known as native goddesses. From a Dutch text edition.On verso a poem : M.TVLLIVS ...
Place & Date: Antwerp c. 1571
Selling price: $500
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![[Title page of Theatrum Orbis Terrarum.]](/uploads/cache/81959-250x250.jpg)
[Title page of Theatrum Orbis Terrarum.]
Title page of "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum" verso text EPIGRAMMA DANIELIS ROGERII ALBIMONTANI, A decorative title page from Ortelius's first atlas. Latin Edition.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1571
Selling price: $275
Sold in 2020
![[Title Page] De Praecipuis, Totius Universi Urbibus.. Liber Secundus.](/uploads/cache/83868-250x250.jpg)
[Title Page] De Praecipuis, Totius Universi Urbibus.. Liber Secundus.
A highly decorative and attractive allegorical title page from volume two of the famous town book of Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg, the 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum', seco...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca. 1572
Selling price: $210
Sold in 2020
![[Title Page] 1573 La Seconde part du Graund Abridgement Collect & escrie](/uploads/cache/37262-250x250.jpg)
[Title Page] 1573 La Seconde part du Graund Abridgement Collect & escrie
Title page of second part of Robert Brooke's "La Graunde Abridgement, Collect & escrie per le Iudge tresreuerend Syr Robert Brooke, Chiualier, nadgairs chiefe Iu...
Place & Date: London, Richardi Totell, 1573
Selling price: $15
Sold in 2017
Title page a bible.
Printed in Frankfurt by Feuerabendt in 1574. Beautiful renaissance borders, with 5 biblical scenes, nice and clear impression
Place & Date: Frankfurt 1574
Selling price: $110
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Amsterdam
This important early map of Amsterdam is from Braun and Hogenberg’s important work Civitates Orbis Terrarum, the first atlas of cities of the world.This particular map ...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1574
Selling price: $1200
Sold in 2023
Byzantium Nunc Constantinopolis
This marvelous engraving of Constantinople in original color is from an early edition of Braun & Hogenberg's Civitates Orbis Terrarum, the most prolific compilation o...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1574
Selling price: $1600
Sold in 2023
Page from La Cosmographie Universelle . . . (Page 54)
Text page with woodblock illustration showing a full lenght portait of Ptolomy (size 105 x 63 mm.) In 1575 Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia was translated into French an...
Place & Date: Paris, 1575
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2022
Page from La Cosmographie Universelle . . . (Page 38)
Text page with small wookblock illustration showing Ptolomeus holding a sextant (size 105 x 63 mm. In the verso an illustration of a astrolabe, size 80 x 75 mm. In 1575 ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1575
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2021
Mörwunder und seltzame Thier, wie die in Mitnächtigen Ländern gefunden werden.
In the early days of the era of discoveries, many ships would depart, never be seen again. Sailors that managed to return used to speak of encounters with large fish that...
Place & Date: Basel, 1578
Selling price: $1450
Sold in 2018
Cosmographey Oder beschreibung Aller Länder herrschafftenn vnd fürnemesten Stetten des gantzen Erdbodens: sampt jhren Gelegenheiten, Eygenschafften, Religion, Gebreuchen, Geschichten vnnd Handthierungen, etc.
The portrait of Sebastian Münster aged 60, as part of a separate typographical titlepage, printed subsequently in red and black.
Place & Date: Basel, 1578
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2022
Titlepage: Parergon, in quo Veteris geographiae aliquot tabulae.
Page to the section of the Ortelius atlas part, Parergon with hand-colored decoration.In 1579 he brought out his first Parergon (a series of maps illustrating ancient his...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1579
Selling price: $375
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Asia secunda pars terrae in forma Pegasir.
Map of Asia in the form of a Pegasus. The seas are adorned with sea monsters and many major cities are indicated and named. There are several states, of this map.Bünting...
Place & Date: Magdeburg,. 1579
Selling price: $2000
Sold in 2012
Asia secunda pars terrae in forma Pegasi.
Wood block map of Asia in the form of a Pegasus. The seas are adorned with sea monsters and many major cities are indicated and named. There are several states, of this m...
Place & Date: Magdeburg, ca. 1579
Selling price: $2200
Sold in 2021
(Portrait of Ortelius )
Beautifully colored portrait of Ortelius of from the 1579 edition of Ortelius’ Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first modern atlas of the world.In this edition the portrai...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1579
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2015
Meerwunder und Seltzame Thier.
A fine detailed woodcut depicting a superb variety of fantastic sea-monsters, such as might be encountered by a sailor in northern waters. This famous piece may well have...
Place & Date: Basel 1580
Selling price: $440
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Monstra marina..
A fine detailed woodcut depicting a superb variety of fantastic sea-monsters, such as might be encountered by a sailor in northern waters. This famous piece may well have...
Place & Date: Basel 1580
Selling price: $850
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Spectandum dedit Ortelius mortalib..
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, 1580
Selling price: $400
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![[Europe depicted as a Queen]](/uploads/cache/24785-250x250.jpg)
[Europe depicted as a Queen]
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: Basel, 1580
Selling price: $1300
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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, 1580
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2008
Meerwunder und Seltzame Thier.
A fine detailed woodcut depicting a superb variety of fantastic sea-monsters, such as might be encountered by a sailor in northern waters. This famous piece may well have...
Place & Date: Basel, 1580
Selling price: $900
Sold in 2013
Meerwunder und Seltzame Thier.
An exceptional, seminal woodcut depicting, in detail, a variety of fantastic sea-monsters and rare animals, such as might be encountered by a sailor in northern waters.Th...
Place & Date: Basle, 1580
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2017
![[Title page] Urbium Praecipuarum Totius Mundi. Liber Tertius.](/uploads/cache/47935-250x250.jpg)
[Title page] Urbium Praecipuarum Totius Mundi. Liber Tertius.
Uncolored example of the title page from Volume 3 of Braun & Hogenberg's Civitates Orbis Terrarum, the most lavish and important town view book published in the 16th ...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1580
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2022
Meerwunder und Seltzame Thier.
A fine detailed woodcut depicting a superb variety of fantastic sea-monsters, such as might be encountered by a sailor in northern waters. Including monsters with abundan...
Place & Date: Basel, 1580
Selling price: $2000
Sold in 2022
Europa Prima Pars Terrae Forma Virginis.
Desirable, famous and relatively scarce-to-rare item usually deemed a curiosity or oddity map. All of Europe is depicted in the form of a Queen wearing her crown and in f...
Place & Date: Magdeburg, ca. 1581
Selling price: $1775
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Asia secunda pars terrae in forma Pegasir.
Map of Asia in the form of a Pegasus. The seas are adorned with sea monsters and many major cities are indicated and named. There are several states, of this map.Bünting...
Place & Date: Magdeburg, ca. 1581
Selling price: $1825
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Title page to: <I>Thesaurus Dictionum et Sententiarum Iuris Civilis.......</I>
By Petro Cornelio, Brederodio Hagocomitano. on civil law. Printed and edited by Philip Tinghi in Lyon 1585. Woodcut borders on all sides, headed by a crown, because of th...
Place & Date: Lyon 1581
Selling price: $55
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![Asia secunda pars terrae in forma Pegasi. [Asia is presented as the mythical winged horse Pegasus.]](/uploads/cache/26984-250x250.jpg)
Asia secunda pars terrae in forma Pegasi. [Asia is presented as the mythical winged horse Pegasus.]
Wood block map of Asia in the form of a Pegasus. The seas are adorned with sea monsters and many major cities are indicated and named. There are several states, of this m...
Place & Date: Magdeburg, c. 1581
Selling price: $2500
Sold in 2009
(Title page) Trofées de chasse dessinez par C. Hüet et gravez par Guélard. . .
Decorative title page from the early and influential costume book "Habitus Variarum Orbis Gentium" or "Costume of the Various Peoples of the World" by...
Place & Date: Maline, Belgium, Casper Ruts,1581
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2020
![Asia secunda pars terrae in forma Pegasi. [Asia is presented as the mythical winged horse Pegasus.]](/uploads/cache/39170-250x250.jpg)
Asia secunda pars terrae in forma Pegasi. [Asia is presented as the mythical winged horse Pegasus.]
Wood block map of Asia in the form of a Pegasus. The seas are adorned with sea monsters and many major cities are indicated and named. There are several states, of this m...
Place & Date: Magdeburg, c. 1581
Selling price: $1600
Sold in 2017
Europa Prima Pars Terrae Forma Virginis.
Desirable, famous and relatively scarce-to-rare item usually deemed a curiosity or oddity map. All of Europe is depicted in the form of a Queen wearing her crown and in f...
Place & Date: Magdeburg, ca. 1581
Selling price: $1250
Sold in 2017
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
Europa Prima Pars Terrae Forma Virginis.
Desirable, famous and relatively scarce-to-rare item usually deemed a curiosity or oddity map. All of Europe is depicted in the form of a Queen wearing her crown and in f...
Place & Date: Magdeburg, ca. 1581
Selling price: $1550
Sold in 2019