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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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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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![[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
Sold in 2009
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
Sold in 2016
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
Sold in 2022
![[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
Sold in 2022
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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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
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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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
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
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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![[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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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
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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![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
![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
![Asia secunda pars terrae in forma Pegasi. [Asia is presented as the mythical winged horse Pegasus.]](/uploads/cache/44699-250x250.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: $1000
Sold in 2019
![[Ship Victoria of Ferdinand Magellan]](/uploads/cache/32588-250x250.jpg)
[Ship Victoria of Ferdinand Magellan]
On recto a description of the expedition of Ferdinand Magellan with a wood block printed depiction of his ship "Victoria" (69x65mm.)From a Latin text edition of...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1590
Selling price: $26
Sold in 2013
![[Ptolemée]](/uploads/cache/32591-250x250.jpg)
[Ptolemée]
On verso a wood block print showing Ptolemy sitting at a table surrounded with surveying instruments and an atlas. (53x75mm.) From a Latin text edition of his Geographia ...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1590
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2013