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Femme Persienne. (59)

Sought-after copper engraved plate of a woman from Persia. Plate from Laonikos Chalcocondyle’s "L'histoire de la décadence de l'empire grec et establissement de c...

$100 / ≈ €88
Maker / Publisher: NICOLAS DE NICOLAY, Thomas Artus (sieur d'Embry).
Place & Date: Paris, Mathieu Guillemot, 1650

 


Tabula XII - Asiae [Taprobana Ins - Ceylon/Sri Lanka]

Map of Taprobana (Sri Lanka) which depicts the typical misconceptions of Ptolemy showing the island greatly enlarged, surrounded by imaginary islands, and with a small pa...

$1000 / ≈ €881
Maker / Publisher: PTOLEMY,C. / FRIES, L.
Place & Date: Vienne, 1541

 


Cochin (today: Ernakulam)

Small but charming 18th water color on paper depicting Cochin (today : Ernakulam) was from 1500, when the first Portuguese fleet called on its port, a firm ally of the Po...

$900 / ≈ €793
Maker / Publisher: ANONYMOUS
Place & Date: India? c.1750

 


[Title page] La Sphere Royale.

Title page from Nicolas de Fers "La Sphere Royale", published in 1717. Showing a sphere, surrounded by Neptune, Europe, the elements and scholars.

$125 / ≈ €110
Maker / Publisher: DE FER, N.
Place & Date: Paris, 1717