Browse Listings in Map Types
Canibales Insulae.
This is the first Dutch chart to focus on the Lesser Antilles. It covers the Windward and Leeward Isles from Puerto Rico to Trinidad and Margarita. Centered on a compass ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1670
Selling price: $800
Sold in 2019
Christofel Colonus. / Americus Vesputius / Ferdinand Magellanus Francisco Pisarro.
Arnoldus Montanus, writer of ' De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld: of Beschryving van America?, published by Jacob van Meurs. A set of 4 portraits of discoverers of America.F...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1671
Selling price: $450
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Africa.
The decorative frontispice of Olfert Dapper?s description of Africa.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1671
Selling price: $125
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Americus Vesputius / Francisco Pisarro.
Arnoldus Montanus, writer of "De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld: of Beschryving van America", published by Jacob van Meurs. Two portraits of the discoverer of the ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1671
Selling price: $300
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Ferdinand Magellanus.
Copper engraved portrait of Ferdinand Magellan (ca. 1480 – 1521) from Ogilby's 'America', an English edition of Montanus' 'De Nieuwe En Onbekende Weereld', published th...
Place & Date: London, John Ogilby, 1671
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2018
Siege de La Rochelle.
Rare battle plan of the seaport town of LA ROCHELLE illustrating the Siege of La Rochelle between the French Calvinist Huguenots with support of the English and the Catho...
Place & Date: Vienna, 1672
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2023
Le Lion Belgique des Pais Bas contenant les XVII Provinces.
The rare third state, of six, ofthis scarce Leo Belgicus map, of which Van der Heijden only lists 2 other examples. With the publisher's name "Lagnet" in lower ...
Place & Date: Paris, between 1668 - 1672
Selling price: $20000
Sold in 2020
Battaglia di Lutzen
Rare, detailed plan of the Battle of Lützen (6 November 1632) This battle is considered one of the most important battles of the Thirty Years' War. An army led by Swedis...
Place & Date: Vienna, 1672
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2023
[Title page] Cartes de geographie les plus nouvelles et les plus fideles, Avecque leurs divisions regulieres, par P. Du Val Géographe Ordinaire du Roy.
Title page with un until yet unknown date "1676" from the atlas "Cartes de geographie les plus nouvelles et les plus fideles, Avecque leurs divisions regul...
Place & Date: Paris, 1676
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2012
[Portrait of ] Theodorus de Bry Leodinensis . . .
Half-length portrait of Theodorus de Bry standing and looking to right.Born in Liège in 1528, Théodore de Bry learned the art of printmaking from Albert Dürer. Protest...
Place & Date: Germany, 1676
Selling price: $75
Sold in 2022
LibellusNovus Politicus . . . Pars Octava . . .
Decorative title page showing representations of the four continents. The poet Daniel Meisner from Komotau started his "Thesaurus Philo-Politicus. Das ist Politische...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1678
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2013
Thesauri Philo-Politici Quarta pars Das ist Politischen Schatzkästleins. . .
Decorative title page showing representations of the four seasons. The poet Daniel Meisner from Komotau started his "Thesaurus Philo-Politicus. Das ist Politisches S...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1678
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2012
[Title page] Libellus Novus Politicus . . . Pars Octava . . .
Decorative title page showing representations of the four continents. Very skillfully engraved title page from a rare work printed by Eberhard Kieser: Thesaurus Philo-Pol...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1678
Selling price: $70
Sold in 2019
[Title page] Topographia Helvetiae, Rhaetiae . . .
Title page from "Topographia Helvetiae, Rhaetiae . . .".
Place & Date: Frankfurt, Johann Görlin, 1679
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2018
[Title page] Plans, et Profils des principales villes des Duchez de Lorraine, et de Bar, avec la carte générale, et les particulières de chaque gouvernement.
Decorative title page from Plans, et Profils des principales villes..
Place & Date: Paris, 1680
Selling price: $35
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[Two title pages] Atlas Contractus sive Mapparum Geographicarum. . . / The English Atlas.
A pair of charming and decorative title pages. The first is from Schenk's Atlas Contractus sive Mapparum Geographicarum Sansoniarum auctarum et correctarum Nova Congeries...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1700 / Oxford, 1680
Selling price: $130
Sold in 2018
[No Title] Mythological Chart.
A highly decorative and informative chart by Jeremiah Sautter and engraved by Johann Spiegel. This striking engraving depicts the four seasons: Spring with a spade and fr...
Place & Date: Salzburg, ca. 1680
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2020
[Title page] Atlas Tot Amsterdam Bij Iustus Danckers in de Calverstraet inde Damcbaerhrijt.
Decorative title page with the figure of Atlas, standing on a globe of the Old World. The left and bottom right corners have animals and people from different parts of th...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1680
Selling price: $550
Sold in 2024
[Title page] The English Atlas, volume II.
Finely engraved title-piece, of the German Emperor and his courtiers, surmounted by the German double-headed eagle, with the arms of the princedoms. At the foot, German s...
Place & Date: Oxford, 1681
Selling price: $220
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[Title page] The English Atlas, volume II, Tome I.
Title page the English Atlas' of 1681. Finely engraved title-piece, of the German Emperor and his courtiers, surmounted by the German double-headed eagle, with the arms o...
Place & Date: Oxford, 1681
Selling price: $95
Sold in 2012
[Title page] Atlas Minor sive totius Orbis Terrarum. . .
Finely etched frontispiece together with the printed title page from Visscher's Atlas Minor. Showing Atlas supporting the World, and Neptune seated astride a terrestrial...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1682
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2022
Description de l'Univers Suite de L'Europe Ancienne et Moderne, des Terres Australes et de l'Amerique. Tome V.
Alain Manneson Mallet (1603-1706) published in 1683 his ' Description de l' Univers' in 5 volumes. In 1686 a German edition appeared.The attractive frontispice from Malle...
Place & Date: Paris, 1683
Selling price: $85
Sold in 2008
(title page) Description de l'univers suite de l'Europe ancienne et moderne des terres australes et de l'amérique Tome V.
Title page to Mallet's famous "Description de l'univers" showing Europeans and American Indian.
Place & Date: Paris, 1683
Selling price: $65
Sold in 2011
(Title page) Description de L'Univers Tome I. . .
Finely etched title page.From the French text edition of Description d'Univers.. , published in 5 volumes in 1683 by Allain Manneson Mallet (1630-1706), a well travelled ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1683
Selling price: $63
Sold in 2015
Petrus du Val Abbavillaeus Geographus Regius . . .
Portrait of French geographer Pierre Duval, half-length directed to right, looking to front, with shoulder-length curled hair, large band, black robes; in oval. Inscripti...
Place & Date: Paris, 1683
Selling price: $100
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Allain Manesson Mallet Pairisi, Ingeni Des Camps Et Armees du Roy de Protugal.
Rare portrait of Alain Manesson Mallet, engraved by Pierre Landry. Mallet is well-known for his "Description de l'Univers".
Place & Date: Paris, 1683
Selling price: $100
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[Title page ] Germania Inferior Sive XVII Provinciarum Geographicae Generales ut et particulares Tabulae. Kaert-Boeck van de XVII Nederlandtsche Provincien.
Copper engraved allegorical title page. The 17 Provinces are here personified as 17 beautiful young women, some holding the shields of the Province they represent. Other ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1684
Selling price: $700
Sold in 2009
(Dedication page) The Gentleman's Recreation.
Hand-colored allegorical print from Richard Blome's "The Gentleman's Recreation", titled "PAINTING" which was dedicated to Charles Bodwell, Viscount B...
Place & Date: London, 1686
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2021
[Title page] Atlas minor sive geographica compendiosa..
Title page of the Atlas minor of Visscher. De Wit's atlas was first issued in the 1670's with 17 maps, and throughout the 1680's the atlas was expanded as new maps were p...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1688
Selling price: $15
Sold in 2020
The Chiefe Harbours in the Islands of Orkney
This interesting sea chart is the work of Captain Greenville Collins, hydrographer to the King Charles II of England in the 17th century, and one of the best known Englis...
Place & Date: London, 1688
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2023
Novissima Amstelodami Tabula per I. Bormeester
Kip's rare and decorative city map of Amsterdam, with excellent detail on the houses, streets, canals and the harbour. Orientation: south-southwest top. With a panoramic ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1688
Selling price: $690
Sold in 2023
Frontpiece from Veteres Arcus Augustorum Triumphis Insignes.
A finely copper-engraved dedication portrait frontispiece by Lucatellus depicting Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni in an oval frame surrounded by a lovely baroque setting. Ottobo...
Place & Date: Rome, 1690
Selling price: $126
Sold in 2014
Disegni Di Vari Altari E Cappelle Nelle Chiese Di Roma : con le loro facciate, fianchi, piante e misure de piu celebri architetti (Frontispiece)
This is the frontispiece from Cornice Architecttonica Con Figure Allegoriche, featuring engravings of various altars and chapels in the churches of Rome with their facade...
Place & Date: Milan, 1690
Selling price: $130
Sold in 2015
[Title page] Atlas Minor sive totius Orbis Terrarum..
Finely etched title page from Visscher's "Atlas Minor". Showing Atlas supporting the World, and Neptune seated astride a terrestrial globe, showing the Atlantic...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1690
Selling price: $185
Sold in 2017
Conserva Tempus Et Devita a Malo.
Chart from from "Conserva Tempus et Devita a Malo," "Vol. 1, Page 280, Eccli. Cap. 4.V.23," by the seventeenth-century German author of Oculus Artific...
Place & Date: Nutremberg, 1690
Selling price: $475
Sold in 2020
Teatro Belgico di Gregorio Leti Par. 1
Title page of Part 1 of Teatro Belgico by Gregorio Leti. With seven coats of arms of the provinces: Overijssel, Utrecht, Holland, Gelderland, Friesland, en Groningen. Mak...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1690
Selling price: $30
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[Title page] Gli Argonauti In Venetia 1691.
Fine title page from Atlante Veneto / opera, e studio del padre maestro Coronelli Min. Convent ... ad uso dell' Accademia cosmografica de gli Argonauti..More about Corone...
Place & Date: Venice, 1691
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2020
Leopoldo I. per la D.G. Imperatore de Romani, re d'Ungheria, di Boemia, Etc.
Portrait engraving of Leopold I from Isolario Dell'Atlante Vento. Italian text on verso.
Place & Date: Venice, 1692
Selling price: $230
Sold in 2019
[Tittle page] Petit et Nouveau Atlas.
Tittle page by Nicolas de Fer. From his rare "Petit et Nouveau Atlas". The first edition was published in 1697 and was republished in 1705 and 1723. The finely ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1692
Selling price: $70
Sold in 2023
[Lot of 7 frontispieces]
Atlas Nouveau, contenant Toutes les Parties du monde.Janssonius, J. Atlas Minor , Das ist...Beschreibung der ganssen Welt. Robert de Vaugondy, Atlas Portatif, Universel ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1692
Selling price: $110
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Title page : Le Neptune François.
Fine title page, size of paper 56x44cm. From the first edition of Mortier's Atlas Maritime, Neptune François, one of the most spectacular cartographical works ever produ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1693
Selling price: $130
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Frontispiece : Le Neptune François.
Impressive frontispiece engraved by Jan van Vianen, from the first edition of Mortier's Atlas Maritime, Neptune François.This was one of the most spectacular cartographi...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1693
Selling price: $950
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Psyches et Amoris nuptiae ac fabula a Raphaele (Title Page)
Fine copper engraved frontispiece by Nicolas Dorigny from "LOGGIA DI PSYCHE", was published in Rome in 1693.This engraving reproduces the frescoes by Raphael on...
Place & Date: Rome, 1693
Selling price: $75
Sold in 2023
Introduction a la Fortification Dediee a Monseigneur le Duc de Bourgogne, Title Page
A fine copper engraved Title Page by Nicolas De Fer, featuring his large publication detailing plans of military fortifications.With a central armorial, flanked above by ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1693
Selling price: $57
Sold in 2017
(Title page) Le Neptune Francois.
An impressive frontispiece engraved by Jan van Vianen, from the first edition of Mortier's 'Atlas Maritime, Neptune François'. This was one of the most spectacular carto...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1693
Selling price: $550
Sold in 2020
Atlas Maritime.
Title page. Cornelis Mortier (1699-1783) was a Dutch publisher who specialized in geography. Cornelis’ father, Pierre Mortier the Elder (1661-1711), had obtained a pri...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1693
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2020
Carte de la Mer de Dannemark et des Entrees dans la Mer Baltique
This magnificent, important sea chart is the work of French statesman Alexis-Hubert Jaillot. It is from the first edition of a French sea atlas entitled Neptune François...
Place & Date: 1693
Selling price: $550
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Atlas Maritime. (Title page)
Marvellous and huge frontispiece to the Atlas Maritime, published by Pieter Mortier in 1693 Amsterdam. It is signed by Romanus de Hooghe J.U. D. et Com Rég. Tab: hanc f...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1694
Selling price: $375
Sold in 2014
Accurata Utopiae Tabula Das ist Der Neu entdeckten Schalck Welt, oder des so offtbenannten, und doch nie erkanten Schlarraffenlandes Neu erfundene lächerliche Land tabell Worinnen alle und jede laster in besondere Königreich. . .
This curious and decorative Utopia map was printed for the art dealer and publisher Daniel Funck at the end of the seventeenth century together with a comprehensive expla...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1694
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2020
An Introduction to Geography.
A nice woodcut engraving of a compass rose (sometimes called a wind rose or rose of the winds). Made by an anonymous engraver, ca. 1695. The rose is surrounded by English...
Place & Date: Unknown, ca 1695
Selling price: $23
Sold in 2019
Vinc: Coronelli Min: Con Cosmografo Della Serenis Repub: Di Venetia.
Scarce portrait of Vincenzo Maria Coronelli, engraved for his "Corso Geographico". The remarkable Vincenzo Coronelli (1650-1718), encyclopaedist, geographer, in...
Place & Date: Venice, 1696
Selling price: $720
Sold in 2020
[Title page] Atlas Nouveau contenant toutes les parties du monde . . .
Fine title page of classical architectural design incorporating portraits of royalty and battle scenes.
Place & Date: Paris, 1696
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2021
CAREL ALLARD, Orbis Habitabilis et vestitus. 1698
An ornate, elaborately engraved frontispiece from the only edition of the "extremely rare, much sought-after" town book by Carel Allard. A very dark impression ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1698
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2016
Title page for: Le Nouveau & Illuminant Flambeau de la Mer.
Title page of the French edition of Johannes van Keulen's 'Nieuwe Groote Lichtende Zee-Fackel', published as ‘Le Nouveau & Illuminant Flambeau de la Mer’, 1698. ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1698
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2020
Alexius Hubertus Iaillot, Regis christianissimi geographus ordinarius, 1698.
Portrait of Alexis-Hubert Jaillot, half-length directed to left, looking to front, his left arm resting on a pedestal, wearing periwig, jacket and cloak, holding compass ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1698
Selling price: $225
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[Title page] Imprimé a Amsterdam par Jean Van Ceulen . . .
Stunning copper engraving. Below the engraving is the advertisement in French for Joannes van Keulen giving his profession and address.Rare.Read more about decorative atl...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1698
Selling price: $1050
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Title page : NOUVEAUX PLANS et PROFILS de quelques villes considérables de l'Europe..
Uncommon title page, the date adjusted in manuscript.
Place & Date: Paris, 1699
Selling price: $40
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[Title page] Table Des Cartes etc: Du Sr. Sanson..
Large, powerfully engraved title page. Geographic scholars at work in a library are depicted along the bottom.More about title page [+]
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1700
Selling price: $800
Sold in 2021
Title page: Geographie Universelle Tom. III.
Decorative title page illustrating exotic people, animals, trees and monuments from various parts of the world.
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1700
Selling price: $15
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Frontispiece of the sixth part of the Civitates, colored by Anna Beek.
Frontispiece of the sixth part of the Civitates, here implicated, colored and heightened with gold by Mrs. Anna Beek. The engraver and publisher of prints, Mrs. Anna Beek...
Place & Date: The Hague, 1700
Selling price: $1500
Sold in 2012
Title page from '"Atlas François'.
Decorative title page with a cetain holding the title : Atlas François contenant les cartes géographiques ... les Empires, Monarchies, Royaumes et Estats de l'Europe, ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1700
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2010
[Title page] Voyage de C. de Brun.
Title pages from Cornelis de Bruijn's first travel book, engraved by J.Mulder.Cornelis de Bruijn (c.1652-1727) was a Dutch artist and traveler. He is best known for his d...
Place & Date: Delft, H. de Krooneveld, 1700
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2011
Waer wort de wysheyt ghevonden. . ./ Den omganc des hemels heb ick alleen omgegaen en dien doorwandelt.
Small map of an imaginary Land of Wisdom according to Job 28 "Where Can Wisdom Be Found". The map is surrounded with quotes from the bible and inside we see the...
Place & Date: Netherlands, ca. 1700
Selling price: $130
Sold in 2012
[Title page] De Munt der Graaven van Holland.
Title page from Kornelis van Alkemade's important book De Munt der Graaven van Holland. The book was printed in Delft by Andriez Voorstad, and was a banker's guide to cir...
Place & Date: Delft, Andriez Voorstad, 1700
Selling price: $45
Sold in 2013
Title Page from Jacob Cats' Emblem Book.
A lovely allegorical title page from Jacob Cats’s emblem book. A Dutch edition, published in 1700 by Daniel van den Dalen. It includes many figures including: musicians...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1700
Selling price: $130
Sold in 2016
Christophorus Columbus Liguriensis Indiarum Primus Inventor Anno MCCCCXCII.
Portrait of Christopher Columbus (c. 31 October 1451 – 20 May 1506), explorer, colonizer, and navigator, born in the Republic of Genoa, in north-western Italy. Under th...
Place & Date: Antwerp, c.1700
Selling price: $200
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(Geographic scholars at work in a library are depicted )
Clipping from a title page "Table Des Cartes etc: Du Sr. Sanson…", in fine original colors.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1700
Selling price: $90
Sold in 2022
Henricus Hondius.
Portrait of Henricus Hondius. Fredericus Bouttats fecit, Ioan Meyssens excud.
Place & Date: Antwerpen, 1700
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2023
Cimbebas et Caffariae Littora a Catenbela ad Promontorium ..
A delightful Dutch sea chart that shows the coast of Angola, south-west Africa and South Africa up to Port Elizabeth. A truly classic sea chart of Dutch school with excel...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1700
Selling price: $180
Sold in 2023
Famiani Strad Romani E Societate Jesu De Bello Belgico Decas Secunda
This popular history describes the war between the Low Countries and Spain between 1568 and 1648 from a pro-Spanish and pro-Catholic viewpoint. Famiamo Strada was a Jesui...
Place & Date: Rome, 1701
Selling price: $700
Sold in 2008
[ Title page ] Le Theatre de la Guerre dessus et aux environs du Rhein.
Title page with a military scene that took place in the Rhine region during the Spanish Succession War of 1701-1714. The regions involved: Alsace, Cologne and Lorraine.Fr...
Place & Date: Paris, 1702
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2016
[Title page] Theatri Europaei, continu ati Vierzehender Theil. . .
Two title pages
Place & Date: Frankfurt, Johann Görlin, 1702
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2016
Title page : Le Théâtre de la Guerre dans les Pais Bas.
Decorative title page from atlas by DuVal Le Théâtre de la Guerre dans les Pais Bas..
Place & Date: Paris, 1703
Selling price: $50
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[Title page]
Beautiful title page by Ottens from the famous book about the butterflies of Suriname. Maria Sybilla Merian is shown with six putti observing various floral species and b...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1705
Selling price: $250
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[Title page] Algemene Wereldbeschryving..
In lower part small vignette (37x64mm)
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1705
Selling price: $32
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Algemeene Wereldbeschrijving..Asia, Africa en America.
Decorative allegorical title page.
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1705
Selling price: $60
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Sr. Francis Drake.
Fine, highly detailed copper engraving of Sir Francis Drake, the famous explorer, Admiral & Circumnavigator. It was engraved by Robert White and comes from the book &...
Place & Date: London, 1705
Selling price: $16
Sold in 2018
[Title page] L'Atlas curieux ou le Monde réprésente dans des cartes. . .
Engraved title page from Nicolas de Fer's "L'Atlas curieux ou le Monde réprésente dans des cartes. ". In lower part figures symbolizing mapmaking and architec...
Place & Date: Paris, 1705
Selling price: $75
Sold in 2022
[Title page] L'Atlas curieux ou le Monde réprésente dans des cartes. . .
Engraved title page from Nicolas de Fer's "Atlas Curieux". Text heightened with gold and silver, now oxidized. In lower part figures symbolizing mapmaking and a...
Place & Date: Paris, 1705
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2021
[Title page] Geographia Die Erd Beschreibung.
Decorative title page engraved by Johannes Meyer. In each corner 4 women representing the four continents, accompanied by native flora and fauna. In center an dramatic en...
Place & Date: Zurich, 1706
Selling price: $800
Sold in 2008