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A double leaf from a breviary.
Three 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.More abou...
Place & Date: Northern Netherlands ?, ca. 1480
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2010
A double leaf from a breviary.
Three 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.More abou...
Place & Date: Northern Netherlands ?, ca. 1480
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2009
A double leaf from a breviary.
Three large 2-line initials in red and or blue for the start of the new capitula.Nice clean leaves, with ample margins, from a breviary, end of the 15th. century.More abo...
Place & Date: Northern Netherlands ?, ca. 1480
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2009
A double leaf from a breviary.
Three large 2-line initials in red and or blue for the start of the new capitula.Nice clean leaves, with ample margins, from a breviary, end of the 15th. century.More abo...
Place & Date: Northern Netherlands ?, ca. 1480
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2009
Leaf on vellum from an antiphonary.
Lovely leaf of fine vellum containing four-line music. Each side is decorated with 3 or 1 large initial executed in a very unusual red and blue pen work.
Place & Date: Italy ca.1480
Selling price: $275
Sold in 2009
A double leaf from a breviary.
Decorative leave with large 2-line initials in red and or blue for the start of the new capitula.Nice clean leaves, with ample margins, from a breviary, end of the 15th. ...
Place & Date: Northern Netherlands ?, ca. 1480
Selling price: $55
Sold in 2009
A double leaf from a breviary.
Decorative leave with large 2-line initials in red and or blue for the start of the new capitula.Nice clean leaves, with ample margins, from a breviary, end of the 15th. ...
Place & Date: Northern Netherlands ?, ca. 1480
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2009
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
Justification: 102x70mm. RECTO: Seven 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds and two line filler in same. VERSO: Seven 1-line initials and two line-fillers in ...
Place & Date: France, ca. 1480
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2010
Giant leaf on vellum from an antiphonary.
A very fine antiphonary leaf, written in Latin. RECTO: A wonderful initial "O" inserting a cross, decorated with penwork in red, purple and blue. The initial is...
Place & Date: Spain, c.1480
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2012
Giant leaf on vellum from an antiphonary.
A very fine antiphonary leaf, written in Latin. RECTO: A wonderful initial "O" inserting a cross, decorated with penwork in red, purple and blue. The initial is...
Place & Date: Spain, c.1480
Selling price: $1300
Sold in 2012
A manuscript leaf from a Book of Hours.
RECTO: One 2-line and eight 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds and five line-fillers. colorful panel border in he right margin of acanthus leaves and flowe...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1480
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2009
Leaf on vellum from an antiphonary.
Lovely leaf of fine vellum containing four-line music. The recto side is decorated with 3 large initials executed in a very unusual red and blue penwork, the verso has 2 ...
Place & Date: Italy ca.1480
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2010
A double leaf from a breviary.
Large 4-line initial and several 2-line initials in red or blue for the start of the new capitula.Nice clean leaves, with ample margins, from a breviary, end of the 15th....
Place & Date: Northern Netherlands ?, ca. 1480
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2011
A double leaf from a breviary.
Large 3-line initial and several 2-line initials in red or blue for the start of the new capitula.Nice clean leaves, with ample margins, from a breviary, end of the 15th....
Place & Date: Northern Netherlands ?, ca. 1480
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2011
A double leaf from a breviary.
Three large 2-line initials in red and or blue for the start of the new capitula.Nice clean leaves, with ample margins, from a breviary, end of the 15th. century.
Place & Date: Northern Netherlands ?, ca. 1480
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2011
Leaf from a breviary.
Large 2-line and 3-line initials in red and or blue for the start of the new capitula.Nice clean leaves, with ample margins, from a breviary, end of the 15th. century.
Place & Date: Northern Netherlands ?, ca. 1480
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2010
Leaf on vellum from an antiphonary.
A wonderful antiphonary leaf, written in Latin, probably Rome. RECTO: A wonderful initial "I," decorated with pen work in red, white, and blue, in rich burnishe...
Place & Date: Italy, 1480
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2021
Leaf on vellum from an antiphonary.
A very fine antiphonary leaf, written in Latin , probably Rome. VERSO: A wonderful initial "E", decorated with penwork in red, and rich burnished gold. RECTO: T...
Place & Date: Italy, 1480
Selling price: $360
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Bifolio leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
Double Leaf on vellum from a French Book of Hours, written around 1480. The decoration on the recto and the verso of one of the leaves has flowers and leaves in bright co...
Place & Date: France, ca.1480
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2011
A printed leaf from Fasciculus temporum.
A page describing the Kings of Syria, Egypt, Macedonia, etc. "Fasciculus temporum" by the Cologne Carthusian Werner Rolewinck (c. 1425-1502) was often reprinted...
Place & Date: Utecht, J. Veldener, 14 February 1480
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2011
Leaf from a French, probably Breton, Book of Hours, written on vellum, with arch topped miniature showing the Flight of the Holy family into Egypt.
Leaf from a French, probably Breton, book of hours, written on vellum in an accomplished book hand.RECTO: 3 lines of text , one 3-line capital, three 1-line capital and 4...
Place & Date: France (propably Brittany) ca 1480
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2020
Leaf from a French, probably Breton, Book of Hours, written on vellum.
Leaf from a French, probably Breton, book of hours, written on vellum in an accomplished book hand.RECTO:15 lines of text, one 2-line and three 1-line initials in burnish...
Place & Date: France (propably Brittany) ca 1480
Selling price: $375
Sold in 2020
[A leaf from a book of hours, with a miniature of Pentecost ].
A leaf from a book of hours, on vellum, written in a well-finished Gothic book hand. A twofold large miniature of Pentecost. Mary kneeling amidst the apostles, the holy s...
Place & Date: France, ca. 1480
Selling price: $1250
Sold in 2020
Use of Liége.
Contents of the Book of Hours : 1. ff. 2-7 : Calendar. In red and brown ink. Justification 115 x 75 mm. 2. ff. 8-11 : 4 passages des Evangiles : - Saint Jean 1, 1-...
Place & Date: c.1480
Selling price: $45000
Sold in 2023
Ad arborum generali.
3 Leaves of the Latin edition of Joh.Andreae's book on trees. "Lectura super arboribus consanguinitatis..." Edited by Heinr. Knoblochtzner in Strassburg ca. 148...
Place & Date: Strassburg 1482
Selling price: $20
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[Untitled world map] 'Insculptum est per Iohanne Schnitzer de Artmsheim' ]
A FIRST EDITION of the first Ptolemy wood block printed world map north of the Alps, by Leonard Holm of Ulm in Germany and is one of the most beautiful of the early maps ...
Place & Date: Ulm, 1482
Selling price: $57600
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Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Brevier.
RECTO: A very rare Breviary leaf due to the elaborate and unusual border decorations on the recto. The Gothic text is written in two columns and the decoration encloses t...
Place & Date: Tours, c.1485
Selling price: $1200
Sold in 2020
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Brevier.
RECTO: A very rare Breviary leaf due to the elaborate and unusual border decorations on the recto. The Gothic text is written in two columns and the decoration encloses t...
Place & Date: Tours c.1485
Selling price: $1050
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Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
A beautiful leaf from a French Book of Hours, written about 1485. Part of the Book was in The Edward Laurence Doheny Memorial Library, St. John?s Seminary, Camarillo, Cal...
Place & Date: France ca.1485
Selling price: $220
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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
Selling price: $600
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Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
Very nice vellum leaf from a French Book of Hours, written in a regular Gothic book hand in Paris, around 1485. The leaf has a panel border on both sides with acanthus le...
Place & Date: France, ca.1485
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2008
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Breviary.
A wonderful leaf from a medieval breviary : ivory-white vellum, wide margins, clearly visible ruling* and the ?prickings*?. A very regular book hand in brown/black ink th...
Place & Date: France, ca.1485
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2008
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Brevier.
RECTO: A very rare Breviary leaf due to the elaborate and unusual border decorations on the recto. The Gothic text is written in two columns and the decoration encloses t...
Place & Date: Tours, c.1485
Selling price: $1450
Sold in 2008
A manuscript leaf from a Book of Hours.
RECTO: Three 2-line and three 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds.VERSO: Five 2-line initials and tone 1-line initial in liquid gold on a red ground
Place & Date: Tours, ca. 1485
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2010
Undecima Asie Tabula.
Incunable wood block printed large-format Ptolemaic map showing Asia east of the Ganges with metal-type lettering within a colored trapezoid border, with a Latin-text on ...
Place & Date: Ulm, 1482-1486
Selling price: $6000
Sold in 2015
[La Mer des Histoires]. Premier aage. Feuillet XXI.
Incunable text page from "La Mer des Hystoires" published in 1488 by Pierre Le Rouge in Paris. "La Mer des Hystoires" is a translation into French of ...
Place & Date: Paris, Pierre Le rouge, 1488
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2019
[La Mer des Histoires]. La tierce aage. Feuillet XXI.
Incunable text page from "La Mer des Hystoires" published in 1488 by Pierre Le Rouge in Paris. "La Mer des Hystoires" is a translation into French of ...
Place & Date: Paris, Pierre Le rouge, 1488
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2019
[Text page]. La sizieme aage. Feuillet IIc XIII.
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...
Place & Date: Paris, Pierre Le rouge, 1488
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2020
[Text page]. Second aage. Feuillets Lxviii .
Incunable text page from "La Mer des Hystoires" published in 1488 by Pierre Le Rouge in Paris. "La Mer des Hystoires" is a translation into French of ...
Place & Date: Paris, Pierre Le rouge, 1488
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2019
La iiiie aage. Feuillet iic xlvii.
Incunable text page from "La Mer des Hystoires" published in 1488 by Pierre Le Rouge in Paris. "La Mer des Hystoires" is a translation into French of ...
Place & Date: Paris, Pierre Le rouge, 1488
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2019
[Text page]. Second aage. Feuillets Lxix.
Incunable text page from "La Mer des Hystoires" published in 1488 by Pierre Le Rouge in Paris. "La Mer des Hystoires" is a translation into French of ...
Place & Date: Paris, Pierre Le rouge, 1488
Selling price: $35
Sold in 2019
[La Mer des Histoires].La sizieme aage. Feuillets IIc XII .
Incunable text page from "La Mer des Hystoires" published in 1488 by Pierre Le Rouge in Paris. "La Mer des Hystoires" is a translation into French of ...
Place & Date: Paris, Pierre Le rouge, 1488
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2020
[La Mer des Histoires].La tierce aage. Feuillet IXxxIII.
Incunable text page from "La Mer des Hystoires" published in 1488 by Pierre Le Rouge in Paris. "La Mer des Hystoires" is a translation into French of ...
Place & Date: Paris, Pierre Le rouge, 1488
Selling price: $15
Sold in 2020
[Text page]. La tierce aage. Feuillet IXxxII.
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...
Place & Date: Paris, Pierre Le rouge, 1488
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2022
Second aage. Feuillet Lxb.
Incunable text page from "La Mer des Hystoires" published in 1488 by Pierre Le Rouge in Paris. "La Mer des Hystoires" is a translation into French of ...
Place & Date: Paris, Pierre Le rouge, 1488
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2020
[La Mer des Histoires].(Jesse Tree).
Woodcut page from "La Mer des Hystoires" published in 1488 by Pierre Le Rouge in Paris. "La Mer des Hystoires" is a translation into French of the fam...
Place & Date: Paris, Pierre Le rouge, 1488
Selling price: $125
Sold in 2020
[La Mer des Histoires].La tierce aage. Feuillet VIIIrrXIX rir
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...
Place & Date: Paris, Pierre Le rouge, 1488
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2021
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
Leaf on vellum from a French Book of Hours, written around 1490. A beautiful vellum leaf from the calendar in a Book of Hours. This leaf details the month of August begin...
Place & Date: France ca.1490
Selling price: $180
Sold in 2008
Miniature of Job on the dung-hill.
>Archtopped 3/4 page miniature on vellum of Job in the dungheap. Job, naked, but seemingly in good health in a heap of straw. Before him one of his richly dressed frie...
Place & Date: Paris ca. 1490
Selling price: $700
Sold in 2009
GRADUAL
Large leaf from a Florentine Gradual, on vellum, written in black ink, with 5 lines of 4-line musical staves. The gradual, the name derives from the practice of singing ...
Place & Date: Italy, Florence ca. 1490
Selling price: $170
Sold in 2009
A manuscript leaf from a Book of Hours.
VERSO: One 4-line initial in liquid gold on colored grounds and one 2-line initial in red and blue. RECTO: Nine 1-line initials in red or blue.
Place & Date: ca. 1490
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2009
Miniature of Job on the dung-hill.
Arch topped 3/4 page miniature on vellum of Job in the dung-heap. Job, naked, but seemingly in good health in a heap of straw. Before him one of his richly dressed friend...
Place & Date: Northern France, ca. 1490
Selling price: $2000
Sold in 2011
Prima Asiae Tabula.
Copperplate printed map of Turkey and including Cyprus from the "Atlas In Hoc Operae Haec Continetur…" printed by Bernardinus Venetus de Vitalibus. The map sh...
Place & Date: Rome, 1478 or 1490
Selling price: $3500
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[Title page] Aristoteles, Commentarium trium librorum de anima, secundum doctrinas venerabilis domini Albert Magni.
Printed by Heinrich Quentell in Cologne 1491.The Woodcut shows Albertus Magnus reading to 6 attendants
Place & Date: Cologne 1491
Selling price: $95
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Astromer with a quadrant.
Text leaf with woodblock portrait of a scholar using a quadrant, from a French edition of Mer des Hiystoires , that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge.
Place & Date: Lyon, c.1491
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2010
[Incunable] (Rudimentum novitiorum: French:) La mer des histoires.
One of the rarest of French illustrated incunables. The Mer des histoires (?A sea of stories?) is the French adaptation of the Latin Rudimentum novitiorum, an abridged h...
Place & Date: Lyon: Jean Du Pré, 20-23 August 1491
Selling price: $37100
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INCUNABLE
Paper leaf with woodcuts, from a book "CRONECKEN DER SASSEN", printed by Konrad Botho. RECTO: Text containing a large woodcut of the city of Lunenurch in Germ...
Place & Date: Mainz, 1492
Selling price: $140
Sold in 2013
Tercia Etas Mundi. Folium.XXXVIII
A Latin text page from the richest illustrated Incunable, the famous: Nuremberg Chronicle, published the year that Columbus returned to Europe after discovering America. ...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $52
Sold in 2011
Tercia Etas Mundi. Folium.XLI
The Latin text page is illustrated with a depiction of Ulysses and Circe in the lower left corner (120x170mm.) VERSO : An impressive engraving of Samuel and other kings, ...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $185
Sold in 2011
Tercia Etas Mundi. Folium.XLVI
Large woodcut depicting an imaginary English town (235x223mm.) on verso the genealogy of King David.Page from the richest illustrated Incunable, the famous: Nuremberg Chr...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $190
Sold in 2011
Quarta Etas Mundi. Folium. XLVII
The Latin text page with a large illustration of the Judgment of Salomon. On recto the genealogy of King David. In top right a little woodcut depicting Joab killing Abner...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $95
Sold in 2011
[Text page with illustrations of Saint Cecilia, Kings, Queens, Saints and Popes.] Sexta Etas Mundi. Folium. CXVI.
Recto verso text page with woodcuts of Saint Cecilia (the patroness of musicians) holding a tablet, Kings, Queens, Saints, Popes and historical personalities. Page from t...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $90
Sold in 2012
De Polonia Sarmatica - Lituania. CCLXXIX
A imaginary view of a Lithuanian or Polish City, however the earliest obtainable view of this period.Page from the richest illustrated Incunabula, the famous: Liber chron...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2012
Tercia Etas Mudi. Babilonias. Folii XXIIII [Babylon]
A very fine presentation of this imaginary view of ancient Babylon (Dim. H : 140 mm W : 223 mm).Capital letters are heighlightened and titles underlined in red.Page from ...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2020
[Jews burned alive during the southern German pogroms of 1298 ] Terta etas mudi Folio CCXX
With a wood block cut of Jews burned alive during the southern German pogroms of 1298. Dimensions of 116x155mm. The text accompanying the illustration redas "The Jew...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2016
Neapolis - Tercia Etas Mundi. Folium. XLII [With view of Naples)
With an imaginary of Naples (19x22cm.), however the earliest obtainable view of this period. The Latin text page is illustrated with a depictions of Kings, Noble men and...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $155
Sold in 2016
Tercia Etas Mundi. Folium. XLV. Pisa.
With an imaginary town view of Pisa (198x222mm.), however the earliest obtainable view of this period. Page from the richest illustrated Incunable, the famous: Nuremberg ...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2017
Destruccio Iherosolime.
A dramatic woodcut that synopsizes the six destruction's of Jerusalem (255x528mm) and on verso a illustration of a punishment (140x222mm.) One of the earliest obtainable ...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1493
Selling price: $1600
Sold in 2015
Walachia
Decorative colored incunable leaf in folio showing an imaginary view of Walachia (Romania) by Hartmann Schedel. From the famous Liber chronicarum or Nuremberg Chronicle i...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1493
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2013
Italia / Portugalia
Decorative colored incunable leaf in folio showing imaginary views of Italy and Portugal by Hartmann Schedel. From the famous Liber chronicarum or Nuremberg Chronicle in ...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1493
Selling price: $280
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[Hungaria]
Decorative colored incunable leaf in folio showing an imaginary landscape in Hungary by Hartmann Schedel. From the famous Liber chronicarum or Nuremberg Chronicle in Lati...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1493
Selling price: $230
Sold in 2013
[Jews burned alive during the southern German pogroms of 1298 ] Terta etas mudi Folio CCXX.
Wit a wood block cut of Jews burned alive during the southern German pogroms of 1298. Dimensions of 116x155mm. On recto illustrations of Kings, doctor, comet, etc. Folio ...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2015
Secunda etas mundi. Folium XIII.
Schedel's world map included in the Chronicle Liber chronicarum was based on the cartographic system of Claudius Ptolemy, the great second-century AD geographer whose sch...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $9500
Sold in 2013
Ultima etas mundi ( The Last Judgment ) CCLXV.
One of the most sought-after prints from the Liber chronicarum or Nuremberg Chronicle. VERSO: full-page woodcut of the last Judgment . Christ on the rainbow and orb, flan...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $1050
Sold in 2013
Secunda etas mudi (The arch of Noah.) Folio XI.
One of the most sought-after prints from the Nuremberg Chronicle : The building of Noah's Arch. Page from the richest illustrated Incunable, the famous: Nuremberg Chronic...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $800
Sold in 2013
Septima etas mudi Imago mortis CCLXIIII ( Dance of Death.)
The Imago mortis or Dance of Death, (191 x 223mm.) has been described as one of the most powerful representations of German art (Stadler, 45).Page from the richest illust...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $1200
Sold in 2013
Anglia Fo CCLXXXVIIII (Town in England)
Text page in latin on recto a hill-side city in England with a series of gates leading up to a citadel. It is one of two woodcuts used for England in the work. On the rer...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2017
Quarta Etas Mundi. Folium. XLVII
The Latin text page with a large illustration of the Judgment of Salomon. On recto the genealogy of King David. (The tree continues on lot 30389) . In top right a little ...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2015
Terta etas mundi Sum pius Eneas sama super ether a notus. CCLXVII
Pope Aeneas Silvio Piccolomini (Pius II) meets Frederick III for coronation as Holy Roman Emperor in 1452. (230 x 220mm.)Page from the richest illustrated Incunable, the ...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2014
Quinta etas mudi Folio LXXXVII [Florencia]
Text page in latin on recto verso with a woodblock of Florence (248 x 500mm. Page from the richest illustrated Incunable, the famous: Chronicle Nuremberg Chronicle, publi...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $1700
Sold in 2016