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Tang Dynasty Changsha Bowl from the Belitung Wreck.
A beautiful Tang dynasty sancai glazed bowl made in Tongguan county, Changsha city, Hunan province of China mainly for export. Recovered from the Belitung shipwreck. This...
Place & Date: China, Hunan province, 826
Illuminated leaf from a Psalter.
Very fine 20 lines illuminated leaf from a liturgical Psalter in Latin with the reading from the Vulgate Bible. Lines in a slightly irregular gothic hand, black ink, plum...
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 Besancon, in 1370. Musical notation on 4 bars, the staves are in red and the notes in black: numerous pen-flourishe...
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...
- $1750 / ≈ €1541
Place & Date: France, 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...
- $1500 / ≈ €1321
Place & Date: Besançon, 1370
Leaf on vellum from an antiphonary.
A more than 600 years old antiphonary leaf, written in Besancon, in 1370. Musical notation on 4 bars, the staves are in red and the notes in black: numerous pen-flourishe...
Place & Date: Besançon, 1370
Manuscript leaf on vellum from a Dutch Book of Hours.
RECTO: One 1-line capitals in red, blue or burnished gold with extensive penworkVERSO: One 1-line capitals in red, blue or burnished gold with extensive penwork.
- $250 / ≈ €220
Place & Date: Flanders ca.1450
A manuscript leaf from a Book of Hours. (Calendar month of March)
RECTO : Calendar month of March with a 2-line initial in liquid gold on colored ground. colorful panel border in the left margin of acanthus leaves and flowers, with blac...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1450
Leaf from a manuscript Psalter, written on vellum.
RECTO: 14 lines of text. One 2-line in burnished gold and colors and six 1-line initials in gold and colors, two line-fillers.VERSO: As recto but three 1-line initials an...
- $200 / ≈ €176
Place & Date: Paris, c.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 4 one-line initials in liquid gold or blue ink with ext...
- $380 / ≈ €335
Place & Date: Utrecht, ca.1450 - 1460
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
14 Lines of text in Latin and thirteen 1-line initials in blue on colored grounds with line filler. VERSO : 14 Lines of text in Latin and thirteen 1-line initials in blue...
Place & Date: France, ca.1470
Selling price: $35
Sold in 2017
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
Leaf from a mid 15 th. century manuscript Book of Hours. Written on vellum in neat Gothic book hand.VERSO: 17 lines of text, with 2-line capital in red and blue, heighten...
- $200 / ≈ €176
Place & Date: France ca.1470
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
Leaf from a mid 15 th. century manuscript Book of Hours. Written on vellum in neat Gothic book hand.VERSO: 17 lines of text, with 2-line capital in red and blue, heighten...
- $200 / ≈ €176
Place & Date: France ca.1470
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
Leaf from a mid 15 th. century manuscript Book of Hours. Written on vellum in neat Gothic book hand.RECTO: 17 lines of text, with 2-line capital in red and blue, heighten...
- $200 / ≈ €176
Place & Date: France ca.1470
Manuscript leaf from a Book of Hours on vellum.
RECTO: with two 2-line capitals on red ground in blue, white and liquid gold. Beautifully illuminated with border panels cover three sides with floral designs of acanthus...
- $1750 / ≈ €1541
Place & Date: France, c. 1475
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.
- $100 / ≈ €88
Place & Date: Northern Netherlands ?, ca. 1480
Leaf on vellum from an antiphonary.
A very fine antiphonary leaf, written in Latin, probably Rome. RECTO: The staves are in red and the notes are in black.VERSO: The staves are in red and the notes are in b...
- $750 / ≈ €660
Place & Date: Italy, 1480
Leaf on vellum from an antiphonary.
A very fine antiphonary leaf, written in Latin, probably Rome. RECTO: A wonderful initial "I" decorated with penwork in red, white and blue, in rich burnished g...
- $1000 / ≈ €880
Place & Date: Italy, 1480
Leaf of vellum, with large miniature of Marry and Christ.
RECTO: Large miniature of Marry and Christ and one 1-line initials in burnished gold, on red ground and line-filler on blue ground. Three-sided illuminated borders of pen...
- $2200 / ≈ €1937
Place & Date: France, c.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.
- $100 / ≈ €88
Place & Date: Northern Netherlands ?, ca. 1480
Leaf on vellum from an antiphonary.
A very fine antiphonary leaf, written in Latin , probably Rome. RECTO: A wonderful initial ,O, decorated with pen work in red, white and blue, in rich burnished gold.VERS...
- $600 / ≈ €528
Place & Date: Italy, 1480
La tierce aage. Feuillet ix rr.
Incunable text pages from "La Mer des Hystoires" published in 1488 by Pierre Le Rouge in Paris. "La Mer des Hystoires" is a translation into French of...
- $50 / ≈ €44
Place & Date: Paris, Pierre Le rouge, 1488
Sexta Etas Mudi. (With view of Sabatz.) Folio CCLIII
A imaginary view of Sabatz, Turkey: however the earliest obtainable view of this period.Further including presentations of the popes Sixtus IV and Innocentius VIII. Pag...
- $200 / ≈ €176
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Sexta Etas Mudi. - Data est mihi potestas in celo et in terra: Salvator: CI. (Jesus Christ surrounded by the Twelve Apostles)
A very fine presentation of Jesus Christ surrounded by the Twelve Apostles. Each of the evangelists is represented by his symbol in the corners.Page from the richest illu...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Quita Etas Mundi. Folium.LXVIII (Verona)
The Latin text page is illustrated with an imaginary of Verona, Italy. VERSO are portraits of poets and teachers.Page from the richest illustrated Incunable, the famous:...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Tercia Etas Mundi. Folium. XXXVII
The Latin text page is illustrated with a depictions of Kings, Noble men and women and scientists. Page from the richest illustrated Incunable, the famous: Nuremberg Chro...
- $100 / ≈ €88
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
![Parisius & Maguncia. [Paris & Munich] Folio XXXIX](/uploads/cache/29718-250x250.jpg)
Parisius & Maguncia. [Paris & Munich] Folio XXXIX
Imaginary view of Paris and on verso Munich : however the earliest obtainable views of this period.In the forground a large vessel, who was the symbol of the powerful cor...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Sexta etas mudi CCXXXIX.
The Latin text page is describing the crusade against the Bohemian heretics in the time of emperor Sigismund Nuremberg Chronicle, published the year that Columbus returne...
- $100 / ≈ €88
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
CCLXXV.
The Latin text page is illustrated with an imaginary view of a town in Macedonia (195 x 225mm.) The Nuremberg Chronicle, published the year that Columbus returned to Euro...
- $200 / ≈ €176
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
![Madeburga [ Maagdenburg Folio CLXXX ]](/uploads/cache/12338-250x250.jpg)
Madeburga [ Maagdenburg Folio CLXXX ]
Double-page panoramic view of Magdeburg. A imaginary view, however the earliest obtainable view of this period.Two page from the richest illustrated Incunable, the famous...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
![Terta Etas Mundi. Foliu CX [With view of Metz]](/uploads/cache/46260-250x250.jpg)
Terta Etas Mundi. Foliu CX [With view of Metz]
The Latin text page is illustrated with a depictions of Kings, Noble men and women and scientists, among Eustace (Eustachius) a Roman soldier and martyr, appears as a bea...
- $450 / ≈ €396
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Terta Etas Mundi. Folio CCXVI
Two pages from the richest illustrated Incurable, the famous: Nuremberg Chronicle , published the year that Columbus returned to Europe after discovering America.The wood...
- $100 / ≈ €88
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Quita Etas Mundi. Folium.LXXI (Toulouse)
The Latin text page is illustrated with an imaginary of Toulouse, France. VERSO are portraits of poets and teachers.Page from the richest illustrated Incunable, the famo...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2011
![Monacum. [Munich Folio CCXXVI ]](/uploads/cache/14365-250x250.jpg)
Monacum. [Munich Folio CCXXVI ]
A very fine representation of the city of Munich.Page from the richest illustrated Incunable, the famous: Nuremberg Chronicle, published the year that Columbus returned t...
- $2500 / ≈ €2201
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Sexta etas mundi. CCVIII
On recto the portrait of Dominic, founder of the Dominican Order of Preaching Friars, is represented by a full-length woodcut. Francis, founder of the Franciscan Order, i...
- $100 / ≈ €88
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Terta Etas Mundi. Foliu CXXXV
The Latin text page is illustrated with depictions of Kings, Noble men and women and scientists. RECTO : Including a portrait of Jerome. Represented by a large woodcut, i...
- $100 / ≈ €88
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
![[Text page with Kings and Popes, folio CXLVIII ].](/uploads/cache/47603-250x250.jpg)
[Text page with Kings and Popes, folio CXLVIII ].
Text page with woodcuts of Kings and on verso woodcuts of Popes including Pope Gregorius. Page from the richest illustrated Incunable, the famous: Nuremberg Chronicle, p...
- $70 / ≈ €62
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
PATAVIA (Passau, Germ)
From the first Latin text edition, 1493. The view of PATAVIA (nowadays the city of Passau, Southern Germany) was part of the Liber Chronicarum cum figuris et ymagibus ...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, Germany, 1493
Sexta etas muidi Fo CCV.
The Latin text page is illustrating Baldwin (Baldvinus), the fourth of this name, seventh king of Jerusalem, and son of the aforesaid Amalric, reigned six years after his...
- $75 / ≈ €66
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
![[Text page with imaginary towns in Westphalia and Hesse. CCLXXXIIII ].](/uploads/cache/37487-250x250.jpg)
[Text page with imaginary towns in Westphalia and Hesse. CCLXXXIIII ].
On recto, an imaginary view of towns in Westphalia (230x225mm.). Verso of towns in the province Hesse.Page from the richest illustrated Incunabula, the famous: Nuremberg ...
- $200 / ≈ €176
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Sexta Etas Mundi. Folium. CXXXV
Latin text page with woodcuts on recto a large woodcut of Jerome (Hieronymus), a very pious and celebrated teacher, cardinal of the Roman church, and a priest, whose fath...
- $100 / ≈ €88
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
![Tertia Etas Mundi. Folium. CI [Woodcut of Jesus and his apostles]](/uploads/cache/48519-250x250.jpg)
Tertia Etas Mundi. Folium. CI [Woodcut of Jesus and his apostles]
The Latin text page is illustrated with a depictions of Kings, Noble men and women and scientists. VERSO : A full page woodcut showing Jesus and his apostles.(360x221mm.)...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Tercia Etas Mundi. Foliu. XXVIII (with a view of the city of Lacedaemon or Sparta)
The Latin text page is illustrated with depictions of Kings, Noble men and women and scientists, including Atlas. RECTO : In the first panel, at the left, are some of the...
- $150 / ≈ €132
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Quinta Etas Mudi. Folium. LXV (With view of Babylon)
The Latin text page is illustrated with an imaginary of the Ancient City of Babylon (Dim. H : 138 mm W : 223 mm).Babylon was the capital of Babylonia, the alluvial plain...
- $150 / ≈ €132
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
![Sexta Etas Mundi. Bressla. [Breslau or Wrocław] CCXXXIIII.](/uploads/cache/33138-250x250.jpg)
Sexta Etas Mundi. Bressla. [Breslau or Wrocław] CCXXXIIII.
A very fine presentation of the city of Bresslau / Wrocław (230 x 520mm.), in Poland, centered on the cathedral (Dim. : 232 mm W : 520 mm).Overleaf, the kings Wenceslaw ...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Sexta etas Mundi. Folium. CCXLV
The Latin text page is illustrated with a depiction of two lovers happened to have lived in Italy: a knight named Eurialus, who was the personal attendant of Emperor Sigi...
- $75 / ≈ €66
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Sexta Etas Mundi. Folium. CXXXII
Latin text page with woodcuts on recto and verso of Saints, Kings, and Queens. Page from the richest illustrated Incunable, the famous: Nuremberg Chronicle, published the...
- $80 / ≈ €70
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Leaf on vellum from a printed Book of Hours.
24 lines of printed text, surrounded by renaissance borders decorated with scenes and figures.The firm of Thielman Kerver is best known for its lovely printed Books of Ho...
- $125 / ≈ €110
Place & Date: Paris, Philippe Pigouchet for Simon Vostre, ca. 1502
Leaf on vellum from a printed Book of Hours.
24 lines of printed text, surrounded by Renaissance borders decorated with scenes and figures.The firm of Thielman Kerver is best known for its lovely printed Books of Ho...
- $125 / ≈ €110
Place & Date: Paris, Philippe Pigouchet for Simon Vostre, ca. 1502
Leaf on vellum from a printed Book of Hours.
24 lines of printed text, surrounded by renaissance borders decorated with scenes and figures.The firm of Thielman Kerver is best known for its lovely printed Books of Ho...
- $125 / ≈ €110
Place & Date: Paris, Philippe Pigouchet for Simon Vostre, ca. 1502
Leaf on vellum from a printed Book of Hours.
21 Lines of printed text, surrounded by renaissance borders decorated with putti, flowers and Middle French script around the illustrations.Interesting are the 6 panels w...
- $150 / ≈ €132
Place & Date: Paris, Philippe Pigouchet for Simon Vostre, ca. 1502
Strabonis illustrissimi scriptoris Geographia decem et septem libros continens.
First edition was published in Paris in the sixteenth century and the first with the preface by Thibaud Pigenat. Translation from Greek into Latin by Gregorio Tifernate a...
- $5000 / ≈ €4402
Place & Date: Paris, Hémon Le Fèvre, 1512
Octava Asie Tabula (The Silk Road Area.)
Woodblock printed large-format map showing Northern India with Central Asia including the Himalayas and China. From the 1513 edition of Waldseemüller's Geographia.In the...
Place & Date: Strasburg, 1513
Septima Asie Tabula (Central Asia.)
A woodblock-printed large-format Ptolemaic map showing the region east of the Caspian Sea is labeled SOGDIANA. Sogdia or Sogdiana was an ancient Iranian civilization betw...
Place & Date: Strasburg, 1513
Secunda Asiae Tabula (Ukraine and Russia)
Woodblock printed a large-format Ptolemaic map showing Russia, Ukraine, and the Black Sea region. From the 1513 edition of Waldseemüller's Geographia.One of the earliest...
Place & Date: Strasburg, 1513
![Septima Asie Tabvla. |Walsseemüller's map of Central Asia and the Silk Road]](/uploads/cache/62137-250x250.jpg)
Septima Asie Tabvla. |Walsseemüller's map of Central Asia and the Silk Road]
Trapezoidal woodcut map showing the area east of the Sarygamysh Lake, about midway between the Caspian Sea and the (former) Aral Sea. It is one of the earliest obtainabl...
Place & Date: Strasburg, J. Schott, 1513
Orbis Typus Universalis Iuxta Hydrographorum Traditionem.
Waldseemüller's monumental modern map of the world from the celebrated Strassbourg edition of Ptolemy's Geography, the most important cartographer of the early sixteenth...
Place & Date: Strasburg, 1513 / 1520
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
RECTO: One 2-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds.VERSO: 17 lines of text in Latin.
- $150 / ≈ €132
Place & Date: France, 1500-1520
Leaf on vellum from a antiphonary.
A leaf from an Antiphonal or Choir Missal for Spanish use, in Latin, on extremely heavy vellum. Justification: 360x246mm. Text is in Spanish rounded gothic hand (Rotunda)...
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 an extremely heavy vellum. Justification: 360x246mm. Text is in Spanish rounded gothic hand...
- $250 / ≈ €220
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...
- $250 / ≈ €220
Place & Date: Sevilla, ca.1520
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 paralle...
- $2200 / ≈ €1937
Place & Date: Strassburg, 1525
Claudii Ptolemaei geographicae enarrationis libri octo Bilibaldo Pirckeym hero interprete Annotationes Ioannis de Regio Monte in errores commissos a Iacobo Angelo in translatione sua.
This is a rare and interesting edition of Ptolemy's geography translated by Bilibaldo Pirckheym, accompanied by Regiomantus's annotations, and said to have been edited by...
- $59000 / ≈ €51949
Place & Date: Strassburg, Johann Grüninger, Johann Koberger, 1525
![Tabula III Asiae. [Caucass and Armenia.]](/uploads/cache/47571-250x250.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,...
- $750 / ≈ €660
Place & Date: Lyons, M. Servetus, 1525
Tabula X. Asiae hae sunt e cognitis totius orbis.
This is the earliest printed representation of India west of the Ganges River in Ptolemy's time. It is an important map of southwestern Asia, including Persia, Afghanista...
- $1100 / ≈ €969
Place & Date: Lyons, M. Servetus, 1525
Tabula I Asiae.
Ptolemaic map of Turkey.From Lorenz Fries' edition of Ptolemy's Geographia, largely based on the 1513 map by Waldseemuller. "The elaborate Renaissance woodcut panels...
- $750 / ≈ €660
Place & Date: Vienna, 1490, 1535
Tabula II Asiae.
A striking example of this wood-cut map depicts north of the Black Sea and west of the Caspian Sea (Ukraine, Russia, Georgia and Armenia). Ptolemy collected his data arou...
- $550 / ≈ €484
Place & Date: Lyons, 1535
![Tabula IIII Aphricae. [with Prester John]](/uploads/cache/42945-250x250.jpg)
Tabula IIII Aphricae. [with Prester John]
Early Ptolemaic woodcut map of the regions of Africa that were known to the ancients. The twin lake sources of the Nile are located near the Mons Lune (Mountains of the M...
- $950 / ≈ €836
Place & Date: Vienna, 1522- 1535
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...
- $75 / ≈ €66
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...
- $125 / ≈ €110
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, vases and persons in Medieval dress.From the press of the leading Parisian publisher a...
- $125 / ≈ €110
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, vases and religious scenes.From the press of the leading Parisian publisher and illumi...
- $125 / ≈ €110
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, vases and religious scenes.From the press of the leading Parisian publisher and illumi...
- $125 / ≈ €110
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, vases and religious scenes.From the press of the leading Parisian publisher and illumi...
- $125 / ≈ €110
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...
- $125 / ≈ €110
Place & Date: Paris, Germain Hardouyn, c. 1520-1540
.Tabula nova Italiae. (Modern Italy)
Wood block printed modern map of Italy, prepared by Lorenz Fries and one of the earliest modern maps of Italy and environs. Based on the slightly larger map from 1513 pub...
Place & Date: Vienna, 1525 -1541
.Aphricae Tabula secunda continet.
An important early map of the northern coast of Africa and including parts of the islands of Sicily and Sardine.
Place & Date: Vienne, 1541
![[Arabian Peninsula]](/uploads/cache/33869-250x250.jpg)
[Arabian Peninsula]
Wood block printed map and one of earliest printed representation of the Arabian Peninsula prepared by Martin Waldseemüller. Based on the slightly larger map from 1513 p...
- $2200 / ≈ €1937
Place & Date: Vienna, Trechsel, G., 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
Tabula Asiae VII.
Attractive woodblock map, depicting the Caspian Sea, Black Sea and the Persian Gulf, extending to the Imaus Mountains. according to Ptolemy. In the center of the map is...
- $500 / ≈ €440
Place & Date: Basle, 1542