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Illuminated leaf from a lithurgical Psalter with King David.
Very fine illuminated leaf from a lithurgical Psalter in Latin with the reading from the Vulgate Bible. Lines in a slightly irregular gothic hand, black ink, plummet ruli...
Place & Date: Flanders, Rhineland, or possibly England, c. 1280
Leaf on vellum from an antiphonary.
A more than 600 years old antiphonary leaf, written in Besançon, in 1370. Musical notation on 4 bars, the staves are in red and the notes in black: numerous pen-flourish...
Place & Date: Besançon, 1370
Leaf on vellum from an antiphonary.
A more than 600 years old antiphonary leaf, written in Besançon, in 1370. Musical notation on 4 bars, the staves are in red and the notes in black: numerous pen-flourish...
Place & Date: Besançon, 1370
Leaf on vellum from an antiphonary.
A more than 600 years old antiphonary leaf, written in Besançon, in 1370. Musical notation on 4 bars, the staves are in red and the notes in black: numerous pen-flourish...
Place & Date: France, 1370
Leaf on vellum from an antiphonary.
A more than 600 years old antiphonary leaf, written in Besançon, in 1370. Musical notation on 4 bars, the staves are in red and the notes in black: numerous pen-flourish...
Place & Date: Besaçon, 1370
Leaf on vellum from an antiphonary.
A more than 600 years old antiphonary leaf, written in Besançon, in 1370. Musical notation on 4 bars, the staves are in red and the notes in black: numerous pen-flourish...
Place & Date: Besançon, 1370
Leaf on vellum from a Missal.
A very fine Missal leaf, written in Latin. RECTO: A wonderful initial O decorated with pen work in red, purple and blue. The initial is 6x6cm. VERSO: one initial "I&...
Place & Date: France, c. 1410
Leaf on vellum from a Missal.
A very fine Missal leaf, written in Latin. RECTO: A wonderful initial P decorated with pen work in red, purple and blue. The initial is 6x6cm. VERSO: 18 lines written in ...
Place & Date: France, c. 1410
A manuscript leaf from a Book of Hours.
RECTO: Four 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds. colorful panel border of acanthus leaves and flowers, with black penwork.VERSO: One 2-line initial and seve...
Place & Date: Western France, ca. 1445
A manuscript leaf from a Book of Hours. (Calendar month of August)
RECTO : Calendar month of August with a 2-line initial in liquid gold on colored ground. colorful panel border in the left margin of acanthus leaves and flowers, with bla...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1450
Leaf on vellum, from a manuscript book of hours.
Scatter border of flowers. Borders of very high quality, executed by an artist of the Ghent-Bruges school.VERSO: 19 lines of Dutch text in brown ink. A 6-lines capital &q...
Place & Date: Flanders, 1450
Manuscript leaf on vellum from a Dutch Book of Hours.
A leaf from a medieval manuscript Book of Hours, written in Utrecht.Fourteen lines of monastic Textura script with fourteen 1-line initials in blue or gold with extensive...
Place & Date: Utrecht, ca.1450 - 1460
Manuscript leaf on vellum from a Dutch Book of Hours.
A leaf from a medieval manuscript Book of Hours, written in Utrecht.Fourteen lines of monastic Textura script with 4 two-line initial "I" in liquid gold on a bl...
Place & Date: Utrecht, ca.1450 - 1460
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
14 Lines of text in Latin and three 1-line initials in blue on colored grounds.RECTO: 14 Lines of text in Latin and three 1-line initials in blue on colored grounds with ...
Place & Date: France, ca.1470
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
14 Lines of text in Latin and three 1-line initials in blue on colored grounds.RECTO: 14 Lines of text in Latin and four 1-line initials in blue on colored grounds with l...
Place & Date: France, ca.1470
Leaf on vellum from an antiphonary.
A large vellum antiphonary leaf, written in Latin , probably Rome. RECTO: A wonderful initial "Q",, decorated with penwork in red, white and blue, in rich burni...
Place & Date: Italy, 1480
Leaf on vellum from an antiphonary.
A large vellum antiphonary leaf, written in Latin, probably Rome. RECTO: A wonderful initial ,Q, decorated with pen work in red, white and blue, in rich burnished gold.VE...
Place & Date: Italy, 1480
Leaf on vellum from an Italian manuscript Book of Hours.
A leaf from an Italian Book of Hours, written on vellum in the neighborhood of Ferrara, around 1480.The decorations of this leaf are extraordinary : the bouquet of flower...
Place & Date: Italy, Ferrara, ca.1480
A leaf from a breviary.
Two large 2-line initials in red and or blue for the start of the new chapter.Nice clean leaves, with ample margins, from a breviary, end of the 15th. century.
Place & Date: Northern Netherlands ?, ca. 1480
A leaf from a breviary.
Two large 2-line initials in red and or blue for the start of the new chapter.Nice clean leaves, with ample margins, from a breviary, end of the 15th. century.
Place & Date: Northern Netherlands ?, ca. 1480
A leaf from a breviary.
Two large 2-line initials in red and or blue for the start of the new chapter.Nice clean leaves, with ample margins, from a breviary, end of the 15th. century.
Place & Date: Northern Netherlands ?, ca. 1480
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Brevier.
RECTO: One 3-line illuminated initial in burnished gold on colored grounds. Panel border of acanthus leaves, flowers and birds on a partly liquid gold and dark red ground...
Place & Date: Tours, c.1485
Quinta Etas Mundi. Folium. LXXXII
Latin text page with woodcuts on recto and verso of Saints, Kings, and Queens. On verso a large wood cut of A giant colossus, executed by Chares of Lindus (Clare Lydo), t...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Sexta Etas Mundi. Folium. CCXVII (dancers of Maastricht).
Latin text page with woodcuts of male Siamese twins, a man headed lion. The large illustration is the only illustration related to the Netherlands : it shows a bridge col...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2024
![Etas Prima Mundi. Folium VII. [Adam and Eve, eating the apple and being expelled from paradise]](/uploads/cache/29855-250x250.jpg)
Etas Prima Mundi. Folium VII. [Adam and Eve, eating the apple and being expelled from paradise]
Latin text page with a large woodcut of Adam and Eve, eating the apple and being expelled from paradise.One of the most sought-after prints from the richest illustrated I...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
![Tercia Etas Mundi. Folium XXX. [The flight of Egypt, Moses receiving the Commandments, God's Angel, Balaam and his talking donkey. ]](/uploads/cache/29854-250x250.jpg)
Tercia Etas Mundi. Folium XXX. [The flight of Egypt, Moses receiving the Commandments, God's Angel, Balaam and his talking donkey. ]
On recto two nice woodblock prints (each 128x222mm.) of The flight of Egypt and Moses receiving the Commandments.VERSO : a woodblock print of God's Angel, Balaam and his ...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Prima Etas Mundi. IX (with Eve nursing Kain and Abel)
A very fine presentation of Eve nursing Kain and Abel. Adam is working (255x220 cm). VERSO a genealogy of Adam.Page from the richest illustrated Incunabel, the famous: Li...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
![Venecie. [Venice] Foliu XLIIII](/uploads/cache/29716-250x250.jpg)
Venecie. [Venice] Foliu XLIIII
A very fine of Venice (192x525mm.) Verso a view of Padua. Schedel's view of Venice is one of the earliest obtainable views of the city. The view is based on the view of ...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
![Basilae [ Basle, CCXLIIII ]](/uploads/cache/29714-250x250.jpg)
Basilae [ Basle, CCXLIIII ]
A very fine view of Basle (253x520 cm). Verso showing the councils of Florence and Basle and two portraits.Page from the richest illustrated Incunabel, the famous: Nuremb...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
![Ulma Folio CXCI [With view of Ulm.]](/uploads/cache/29713-250x250.jpg)
Ulma Folio CXCI [With view of Ulm.]
Double page panoramic view of Ulm.A imaginary view, however the earliest obtainable view of this period.Two page from the richest illustrated Incunabel, the famous: Nurem...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Nuremberga. Folio C.
Double page panoramic view of Nuremberg. Lettered above the view: "NVREMBERGA"; and with the names of the city's two most famous churches, S. Lorenz and S. Seba...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $1500
Sold in 2023
(EUROPE).
A woodcut colored map of northern and central Europe. The first modern map of the area. Second printed map of the North, after the woodcut map published in the 'Ulm' Ptol...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1493
![[Page with imaginary towns in Hungary. ] CCLXVIII](/uploads/cache/26932-250x250.jpg)
[Page with imaginary towns in Hungary. ] CCLXVIII
Page with imaginary towns in Hungary (230x225mm.) This leaf is from an edition of Hartmann Schedel's Liber chronicarum or Nuremberg Chronicle. The Chronicle was published...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1493
![Carthage, etc. [Foliu XL ]](/uploads/cache/26122-250x250.jpg)
Carthage, etc. [Foliu XL ]
VERSO: Portraits of scholars, and an imaginary view on Carthage in Tunisia (12x17cm.) Page from the famous Liber chronicarum of Hartmann-Schedel 1493, the first and Latin...
Place & Date: Nuremberg 12 July 1493
![Sexta Etas Mundi. Foliu CXXXV [Text page with S. Hieronymus, the patron of theological learning].](/uploads/cache/25763-250x250.jpg)
Sexta Etas Mundi. Foliu CXXXV [Text page with S. Hieronymus, the patron of theological learning].
Text page with woodcuts of the following saints: S. Hieronymus, the patron of theological learning (100x80mm.)VERSO is printed with text and images of Popes and Kings.Pag...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Secunda etas mundi. Folium XIII.
Schedel's world map was based on the cartographic system of Claudius Ptolemy, the great second-century AD geographer whose scholarship formed the foundation for map produ...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
![[The creation of the world - First day]](/uploads/cache/24509-250x250.jpg)
[The creation of the world - First day]
Attractive page from the Nuremberg Chronicle, showing the creation of the world: the First Day, showing the celestial choir (God\'s creation of the angels) surrounding th...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Sexta Etas Mudi. / Simon Beatus .. / Folio CCLIIII.
A very fine presentation of the circumcision of Simon (192 x 223 mm.). RECTO: a falling star, a portrait of a King and an officer wearing armour. Page from the richest il...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Constantinopolis.
A spectacular woodcut panorama of the ancient city of Constantinople, proporting to show the pre-Turk city (for example naming St Sophia). (235x522mm).One of the earliest...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Quita Etas Mundi. Folium. CII
Text page with wood block cuts on recto MARY AND THE APOSTLES. The Virgin Mary is seated on a throne surrounded by the apostles, among whom we are able to identify Pe...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
![[Moses and Joshua descending from Mount Sinai] Quita Etas Mundi. Folium. XXXI](/uploads/cache/46254-250x250.jpg)
[Moses and Joshua descending from Mount Sinai] Quita Etas Mundi. Folium. XXXI
The Latin text page is illustrated with a large woodblock cut depiction Moses and Joshua descending from Mount Sinai with the tablets of the Law broken and found the Isra...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
(EUROPE).
The map of Europe has been identified as the work of Hieronimus Münzer (1437-1508), a Nuremberg physician who supplied the geographical contents of the chronicle. The Eu...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1493
![Sexta Etas Mundi. Ratisbonna. [Ratisbonne]](/uploads/cache/13549-250x250.jpg)
Sexta Etas Mundi. Ratisbonna. [Ratisbonne]
A very fine presentation of the city of Ratisbon, in Germany, centered on the cathedral (Dim. : 191 mm W : 525 mm).Overleaf a very nice view of Vienna, with two swans on ...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
![Quarta etas mudi Folio LVIII [Rome]](/uploads/cache/48488-250x250.jpg)
Quarta etas mudi Folio LVIII [Rome]
Double text page in German with a woodblock Rome (23x53cm.)On verso a view of Genua (193x222mm). Page from the richest illustrated Incunable, the famous: Nuremberg Chro...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Miniature of The Crucifixion of Christ.
Page fragment from a Book of Hours with a miniature of the Cruxifiction with Saint Mary and Mary Magdalene in prayer in front of Jesus hung on the cross. This miniature c...
Place & Date: Paris, 1492 - 1494
Tabula Prima Africa.
The map apart from depicting Morocco also shows southern Spain and the Balearic Islands. In north Africa the map extends eastwards toward modern day Algeria and to the we...
Place & Date: Strasbourg, 1513
Quinta Asie Tabvla.
Woodblock map of Persia from Martin Waldseemüller's 1513 edition of Ptolemy, a landmark work that contributed to major advances in both Renaissance geography and map p...
Place & Date: Strasbourg, J. Schott, 1513
Tabula Secunda Europe (Spain & Portugal)
Wood block printed large-format Ptolemaic map of the Iberian Peninsula from the 1513 edition of Waldseemüller's Geographia.This Ptolemaic map comes from the first so cal...
Place & Date: Strasburg, 1513
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...
Place & Date: Sevilla, ca.1520
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...
Place & Date: Sevilla, ca.1520
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...
Place & Date: Sevilla, ca.1520
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
VERSO: one 2-line illuminated initial showing a bird in fine detail in liquid gold on colored ground, seven 1-line initials and line-fillers in same.RECTO: Seven 1-line i...
Place & Date: France, c. 1520
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...
Place & Date: Sevilla, ca.1520
![Claudii Ptolemaei Alexandrini mathematicor[um] ...Octo libri Geographie. . .](/uploads/cache/62656-250x250.jpg)
Claudii Ptolemaei Alexandrini mathematicor[um] ...Octo libri Geographie. . .
Third edition of "Géographie" by Ptolemy and published in Strasbourg. Illustrated with 50 maps engraved in wood. One of the more important maps is showing the ...
Place & Date: Strasbourg, J. Grüninger, 1522
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
RECTO: One 2-lines initial decorated with flower in liquid gold on colored grounds and seven 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds and six line-fillers in sam...
Place & Date: France, ca.1530
![Pomponii Melae De Orbis Situ Libri tres…[with Oronce Fine double-cordiform worldmap in a first state].](/uploads/cache/49009-250x250.jpg)
Pomponii Melae De Orbis Situ Libri tres…[with Oronce Fine double-cordiform worldmap in a first state].
Third edition with the commentary of Joachim Vadian with some contemporary notes in Latin, issued with the first edition of Oronce Fine full-sheet woodcut map of the worl...
Place & Date: Paris, (Chretien Wechel), 1530
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
RECTO: One 2-lines initial decorated with flower in liquid gold on colored grounds and six 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds and five line-fillers in same...
Place & Date: France, ca. 1530
![.Taprobana Ins. Tabula XII Asiae. [Sri Lanka.]](/uploads/cache/27928-250x250.jpg)
.Taprobana Ins. Tabula XII Asiae. [Sri Lanka.]
Ptolemy's mythical island of Taprobana originally became associated with Sri Lanka although it was sometimes confused with Sumatra. Taprobana, as it was called on most ea...
Place & Date: Lyons, M. Servetus, 1535
![.Tabula III Asiae. [Caucass and Armenia.]](/uploads/cache/27894-250x250.jpg)
.Tabula III Asiae. [Caucass and Armenia.]
Ptolemaic map of the region south of the Caucasus Mountains and between the Caspian Sea as far south as the headwaters of the Tigris River in the south and the Black Sea,...
Place & Date: Lyons, M. Servetus, 1535
![[Map of Palestine ]](/uploads/cache/42176-250x250.jpg)
[Map of Palestine ]
Map of Palestine from "La Mer des Hystoires" published by Dupré, Paris, 1536 "La Mer des Hystoires" is a translation into French of the famous "...
Place & Date: Dupre, Paris, 1536
Leaf on vellum from a printed Book of Hours In Latin and French.
24 lines of printed text, surrounded by renaissance borders decorated with flowers, vases and figures. Gothic type, text in Latin, numerous one and two-line initials in g...
Place & Date: Paris, Germain Hardouyn, c. 1520-1540
Leaf on vellum from a printed Book of Hours.
21 lines of printed text, surrounded by Renaissance borders decorated with flowers and little miniatures with figures on both sides.From the press of the leading Parisian...
Place & Date: Paris, Germain Hardouyn, c. 1520-1540
Leaf on vellum from a printed Book of Hours.
24 lines of printed text, surrounded by renaissance borders decorated with flowers, vases and religious scenes.From the press of the leading Parisian publisher and illumi...
Place & Date: Paris, Germain Hardouyn, c.1520-1540
Leaf on vellum from a printed Book of Hours.
24 lines of printed text, surrounded by renaissance borders decorated with flowers, vases and religious scenes.From the press of the leading Parisian publisher and illumi...
Place & Date: Paris, Germain Hardouyn, c.1520-1540
Leaf on vellum from a printed Book of Hours.
21 lines of printed text, surrounded by Renaissance borders decorated with flowers and little miniatures with figures on both sides.From the press of the leading Parisian...
Place & Date: Paris, Germain Hardouyn, c. 1520-1540
Leaf on vellum from a printed Book of Hours In Latin and French.
24 lines of printed text, surrounded by renaissance borders decorated with flowers, vases and figures. Gothic type, text in Latin, numerous one and two-line initials in g...
Place & Date: Paris, Germain Hardouyn, c. 1520-1540
Tabula Superioris Indiae & Tartariae maioris. (Modern Map of China, Japan, etc.)
Important map extending from Tartary in the north, to "Prov. Bocat" (Cambodia) in the south. "Tebet" is shown prominently, as is "Zinpangri"...
Place & Date: Vienne, 1541
![.[Georgia (Republic), Sarmatia, Ukraine]](/uploads/cache/33870-250x250.jpg)
.[Georgia (Republic), Sarmatia, Ukraine]
Wood block printed map and one of earliest printed representation of Georgia (Republic), Sarmatia, Ukraine prepared by Martin Waldseemüller. Based on the slightly larger...
Place & Date: Vienna, Trechsel, G., 1525 -1541
![[East Asia]](/uploads/cache/33873-250x250.jpg)
[East Asia]
Wood block printed map and one of earliest printed representation of East Asia and centered on Amenia, prepared Martin Waldseemüller. Based on the slightly larger map fr...
Place & Date: Vienna, 1525 -1541
![[India and China]](/uploads/cache/33875-250x250.jpg)
[India and China]
Wood block printed map and one of earliest printed representation of India and China prepared Martin Waldseemüller. Based on the slightly larger map from 1513 published ...
Place & Date: Vienna, 1525 -1541
Tabula Sexta Asia (Arabian Peninsula)
This is a very desirable early Ptolemaic woodblock map of the Arabian Peninsula, here called Arabia Felix. The map is presented on a trapezoidal projection with par...
Place & Date: Vienna, 1525 -1541
![[Albania, Bulgaria, Europe, Eastern, Greece, Hungary, Macedonia, Romania]](/uploads/cache/33868-250x250.jpg)
[Albania, Bulgaria, Europe, Eastern, Greece, Hungary, Macedonia, Romania]
Wood block printed map and one of earliest printed representation of Albania, Bulgaria, Europe, Eastern, Greece, Hungary, Macedonia, Romania prepared Martin Waldseemülle...
Place & Date: Vienna, Trechsel, G., 1525 -1541
![.[Bangladesh, Burma, India, Thailand]](/uploads/cache/33867-250x250.jpg)
.[Bangladesh, Burma, India, Thailand]
Wood block printed map and one of earliest printed representation of Bangladesh, Burma, India, Thailand prepared Martin Waldseemüller. Based on the slightly larger map f...
Place & Date: Vienna, Trechsel, G., 1525 -1541
![.[Germany and Poland]](/uploads/cache/33862-250x250.jpg)
.[Germany and Poland]
Wood block printed map and one of earliest printed representation of Germany, Poland, The Low Countries, Austria and Switzerland prepared by Martin Waldseemüller. Based ...
Place & Date: Vienna, Trechsel, G., 1525 -1541
![.[India]](/uploads/cache/33861-250x250.jpg)
.[India]
Wood block printed map and one of earliest printed representation of India prepared by Martin Waldseemüller. Based on the slightly larger map from 1513 published in &quo...
Place & Date: Vienna, Trechsel, G., 1525 -1541
![.[Balkan region with Austria, Croatia, Slovenia, Switzerland, etc]](/uploads/cache/33858-250x250.jpg)
.[Balkan region with Austria, Croatia, Slovenia, Switzerland, etc]
Wood block printed map and one of earliest printed representation of Balkan with Austria, Croatia, Slovenia, Switzerland, etc prepared Martin Waldseemüller. Based on the...
Place & Date: Vienna, 1525 -1541
![[Europe, Eastern, Sarmatia, Ukraine]](/uploads/cache/33854-250x250.jpg)
[Europe, Eastern, Sarmatia, Ukraine]
Wood block printed map and one of earliest printed representation of Europe, Eastern, Sarmatia, Ukraine prepared L. Fries after Martin Waldseemüller.Based on the slightl...
Place & Date: Vienna, Trechsel, G., 1525 -1541
![.[Pakistan, Afghanistan]](/uploads/cache/33849-250x250.jpg)
.[Pakistan, Afghanistan]
Wood block printed Ptolemaic map of the region of present-day Pakistan and part of Afghanistan. Convoluted mountain ranges and river systems dominate the trapezoidal map....
Place & Date: Vienna, Trechsel, G., 1525 -1541
![.[Near east with Cyprus]](/uploads/cache/33857-250x250.jpg)
.[Near east with Cyprus]
Wood block printed map and one of earliest printed representation of Near east with Cyprus prepared by Martin Waldseemüller. Based on the slightly larger map from 1513 p...
Place & Date: Vienna, 1525 -1541
Tabula nova utriusque Indiae.
This is the fourth and last edition of this map based on Waldseemüller's first "modern" map of Asia. It follows that cartography without change but adds an int...
Place & Date: Vienne, 1541