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Leaf on vellum from a antiphonary.

A leaf from a Medieval Antiphonal or Choir Missal for Spanish use, in Latin on extremely heavy vellum. Justification: 360x246mm. Text is in Spanish rounded gothic hand (R...

$250 / ≈ €220
Maker / Publisher: ANTIPHONARIUM.
Place & Date: Sevilla, ca.1520

 


Riga.

Decorative view of Riga. This well executed engraving was published in 1729 and 1727 by Pieter van der AA, in Leiden in "Les Voyages tres-curieux et tres-renommez fa...

$600 / ≈ €529
Maker / Publisher: VAN DER AA, P. / OLEARIUS, A.
Place & Date: Leiden, 1719

 


(Island of Pearls) Perlarum insula ob unionum copiam sic dicta.

A depiction of Cubagua as the Perlarum Insula (Island of Pearls), with in the foreground, two large ships send dinghies toward busy Native Americans collecting pearl oyst...

$250 / ≈ €220
Maker / Publisher: DE BRY, Th.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1594

 


Tafel der Lender darin der Apostel Paulus geprediget hat.

Rare wood block map depicting the Mediterranean, with an over-sized Cyprus from the final Dutch edition of Heinrich Bünting's famous Itinerarium Sacrae Scripturae, a boo...

$800 / ≈ €705
Maker / Publisher: BÜNTING,H.
Place & Date: Magdeburg, 1581