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Illuminated leaf from a liturgical Psalter.
Very fine illuminated leaf from a liturgical Psalter in Latin. Lines in a slightly irregular gothic hand, black ink, plummet ruling. Very fine initial extended in the mar...
Place & Date: England, c. 1280
Selling price: $1000
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Manuscript leaf, on vellum from a book of hours.
The flesh side of the vellum has 2 large 2-line initials illuminated initials "G" and "M" in blue and red with white heightening, on a very heavily bu...
Place & Date: Paris, 1450
Selling price: $155
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Ultima etas mundi ( The Last Judgment ) CCLXV.
One of the most sought-after prints from the Nuremberg Chronicle . VERSO: full-page woodcut of the last Judgment . Christ on the rainbow and orb, flanked by St.John and t...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $900
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Ars moriendi.
The Ars moriendi or Art of Dying is one of the great themes of medieval life, and it founds its most poetic expression in a series of wonderful images created around 1460...
Place & Date: Lyon, Johann Siber, ca. 1495
Selling price: $18000
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Leaf on vellum from a printed Book of Hours.
A metal cut of the crusification (85x6cm) with 8 lines of text and with many initials hand painted in red, blue and gold. Verso 30 lines of printed text, surrounded by a...
Place & Date: Paris, Philippe Pigouchet for Simon Vostre, ca. 1502
Selling price: $200
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[Illuminated MS leaf from a medieval devotional book of hours].
An attractive fully colored page from a devotional book of hours, published in France during the 16th century. The main page is beautifully presented with a line in Latin...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1520
Selling price: $625
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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
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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
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Tierra Nova
Gastaldi's map of South America from Giacomo Gastaldi's Atlas of 1548 which has been called the most comprehensive atlas, produced between Martin Waldseemüller's Geograp...
Place & Date: Venice, 1548
Selling price: $700
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Sconladia Nova.
Gastaldi's modern map of Scandinavia, Iceland, and the Baltic According to Bill Ginsberg the map was "built upon previous publications, in particular, the representa...
Place & Date: Venice, 1548
Selling price: $1100
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