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Gouda, elegantiß Hollandiae...
A highly detailed 16th-century birds-eye perspective plan of Gouda, with numerous buildings, streets, places, churches, and squares, together with the city walls, the har...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca. 1590
Selling price: $205
Sold in 2017
Utriusque Frisiorum Regionis Noviss Descriptio.
From 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum [Atlas of the Whole World]'. Dare to go in Black. All early maps were printed in black and white, and many were kept that way for a long t...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1590
Selling price: $240
Sold in 2018
Episcopatus Leodiensis / Bisthumsg. Luttich Leuesche De Liege.
A very rare map of the area around Liege. Extends until Frankfurt, Namur and Antwerp. Engraved by Frans Hogenberg for an Atlas by Johannes Metellus!
Place & Date: Cologne, ca 1590
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2018
Septentrionalium Regionum Descrip.
An influential map of the Arctic. It includes Scandinavia, Iceland, Greenland and part of the North American continent, together with the legendary islands of the north: ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1590
Selling price: $850
Sold in 2018
Perusia gratu musis in Tuscia domicilium. (Perugia)
A large, early, very detailed, strong impression, bird's-eye view of the Italian city of Perugia. From the famous Civitates Orbis Terrarum, compiled and written by George...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1590
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2020
Panormus / Palermo.
A large, early, very detailed, strong impression, bird's-eye view of the Italian city of Palermo in Sicily. From the famous Civitates Orbis Terrarum, compiled and written...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1590
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2018
MOSCAVW.
From the famous Civitates Orbis Terrarum of Braun and Hogenberg, one of the most sought after early views of Moscow. It depicts the city from an elevated viewpoint across...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1590
Selling price: $790
Sold in 2020
Chilonium vulgo Kyell. . .
COMMENTARY BY BRAUN: "Where the Belt meets the Duchy of Schleswig-Holstein and Schleswig, it has numerous bends forming narrow necks of land notably surrounded by wa...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca 1590
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2018
Roma.
Though a contemporaneous view, the structures of Ancient Rome are still much in evidence. The example contains a 119 point legend and figures in typical costume.From the ...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1590
Selling price: $750
Sold in 2019
Kalcar.
An early town plan of Kalkar in Germany, showing an enclosed town with many fine houses and buildings, especially the town hall, the market place and the main church. The...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1590
Selling price: $240
Sold in 2020
![[Matiscona / Chalon-sur-Soane].](/uploads/cache/43146-250x250.jpg)
[Matiscona / Chalon-sur-Soane].
MACON: This is a bird's-eye view from the south of the town, which is fortified with moats, walls and bastions. With numerous churches, including the Gothic cathedral of ...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca 1590
Selling price: $70
Sold in 2019
![[Hesdin]. Hesdinum. . .](/uploads/cache/43147-250x250.jpg)
[Hesdin]. Hesdinum. . .
A perspective birds-eye view of the northern French city of Hesdin. It lies in the 'Pay-de-Calais region. The city is dominated by a large town square and the church of N...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca 1590
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2019
RHOTOMAGUS Galliae... Rouen.
A lovely bird's-eye plan of Rouen by Braun and Hogenberg, with a French key to locations. Two costume figures at bottom. This bird's-eye view from the north conveys a cle...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca 1590
Selling price: $130
Sold in 2019
Schleswig. . .
The ducal coat of arms and the arms of the city of Schleswig at the corners of an equilateral triangle draw attention down to the little church of Hedeby in the foregroun...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca 1590
Selling price: $160
Sold in 2019
Flensburg and Itzehoe.
Flensburg: This view from the east of the harbour city at the end of the Flensburg Fjord shows the long merchants' yards that are typical of old Flensburg - front-gabled ...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca 1590
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2020
![[St. Omer]. S. Audomari Fanum A. Aulmer. Omer Iccius portus Abrahamo Orttelio, artesij urbs munitissima.](/uploads/cache/43145-250x250.jpg)
[St. Omer]. S. Audomari Fanum A. Aulmer. Omer Iccius portus Abrahamo Orttelio, artesij urbs munitissima.
This is a bird's-eye view from the south of the town, which is fortified with moats, walls and bastions. Numerous churches stand out, including the Gothic cathedral of No...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca 1590
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2020
Flensburg and Itzehoe.
Flensburg: This view from the east of the harbour city at the end of the Flensburg Fjord shows the long merchants' yards that are typical of old Flensburg - front-gabled ...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca 1590
Selling price: $340
Sold in 2020
Gottorp.
The ducal coat of arms and the arms of the city of Schleswig at the corners of an equilateral triangle draw our attention down to the little church of Hedeby in the foreg...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca 1590
Selling price: $280
Sold in 2020
De quator Nobilis Potentissimisq Belgicae Civitativus Antverpia, Mechlinia, Bruxella, Grandauo . . .
Early print showing a army position near the town of Dreux in France on 14 March 1590 during the French Wars of Bird's-eye view map of Brabant, showing Antwerp, Gent, Vil...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1590
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2021
Holad.
A very early woodcut map from a Latin edition of Münsters famous 'Cosmographie'. It shows the area from Ameland until Bergen including many famous cities. With a ship sh...
Place & Date: Basel, ca 1590
Selling price: $36
Sold in 2019
Burgundiae Comitatus Recentiss. Descriptio.
A decorative and attractive regional map of Burgundy in France, that is centered on Besancon, Poligny, Quingey and St Anne. It includes a number of famous wine regions, f...
Place & Date: Antwerp, ca 1590
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2020
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Von dem Teutschen land. [Northern Germany]
A nice small map of northern Germany and a part of Poland. Shows the area between Lignitz and Torgau in the south, in the north Gdansk, the Baltic Sea and Holstein, in th...
Place & Date: Basle, ca 1590
Selling price: $4
Sold in 2021
Wratislavia.
Decorative town-plan of the Polish city of Wroclaw, once known as Breslau, ornated with coat of arms in the upper corners. In the lower corners we find two tables with 91...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1587-1590
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2020
Philippus Scrossy Italianisscher Capitein uber des Bapstes kriegsher zogh hinein. . . Plate 65.
Early print showing the battle between Captain Stossi and the Hugonots at la Roche-l'Abeille on 5 June 1569.Plate from the series about the " Eighty Years War" ...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca. 1590
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2023
Flensburg and Itzehoe.
Flensburg: This view from the east of the harbour city at the end of the Flensburg Fjord shows the long merchants' yards that are typical of old Flensburg - front-gabled ...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca 1590
Selling price: $110
Sold in 2022
![Brixiani Agri Typus [Brescia].](/uploads/cache/47101-250x250.jpg)
Brixiani Agri Typus [Brescia].
A very nice map of northern province of Italy, Brecia. Copied after a map prepared in 1560 by Christoforo Sorte. Very large title cartouche on the lower left corner. Abra...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1590
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2021
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[Showing the 1588 defeat of the Spanish Armada in the English Channel]
Beautiful engraving by Michael Eytzinger, showing the 1588 defeat of the Spanish Armada in the English Channel. Latin text on verso. Published in Leonis Belgici Descript...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca. 1590
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2022
(Possitions of a battle at Ivry (Dreux), 1590 )
Early print showing the positions of a battle at Ivry (Dreux), 1590..Plate from the series about the " Eighty Years War" or the independence war of Holland agai...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca. 1590
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2022
Der Teutschen fursten neu Wer zug auff gericht an 1591.
Early print showing the troops of German princes en route to France, 1591.Plate from the series about the " Eighty Years War" or the independence war of Holland...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca. 1590
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2022
Islandia.
Perhaps the most famous map of Iceland. On the south side of the island a collection of all possible sea monsters is depicted. Polar bears on ice flows and volcanoes in t...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1591
Selling price: $5900
Sold in 2015
Islandia
From the 1591 German edition of the Theatrum (75 copies printed). Probably the most famous map of Iceland. The lower part of this map features a big collection of sea mon...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1591
Selling price: $4900
Sold in 2015
Britannicarum Insularum Vetus Descriptio.
Scarce. The upper sheet of a two-sheet map which was issued with the Parergon 1590 and repeated only in the Parergon 1591 and Theatrum 1592 (as present). According to Mar...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1592
Selling price: $390
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Scotiae Tabula.
From the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1592.A fine general map of Scotland with north to the right of the page.Ortelius derived this map from Mercator's 1564 map of the Britis...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1592
Selling price: $750
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Regni Hispaniae Post Omnium Editio..
Very decorative map of Spain and Portugal including Majorca and Minorca.
Place & Date: Antwerp 1592
Selling price: $700
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Europa Prima Pars Terrae Forma Virginis.
Desirable, famous and extremely rare issue of this famous map of Europe, depicted in the form of a Queen wearing her crown and in flowing robes.This is a very rare issue...
Place & Date: Magdeburg, ca. 1592
Selling price: $3200
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Islandia.
Perhaps the most famous map of Iceland. On the south side of the island a collection of all possible sea monsters is depicted. Polar bears on ice flows and volcanoes in t...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1592
Selling price: $5800
Sold in 2009
Peregrinationis divi Pauli typus corographicus
Hand colored map of the Eastern Mediterranean by Abraham Ortelius. Covering the Mediterranean Sea between Israel and Sicily with Cyprus, Italy, Greece and Turkey. With tw...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1592
Selling price: $700
Sold in 2010
Hellas. Graecia, Sophiani
colored engraved map of Greece by A. Ortelius. Showing Greece with the Greek Islands, Crete, Asia Minor and the Aegean Sea. From the 1592 Latin edition of 'Theatrum Orbis...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1592
Selling price: $900
Sold in 2010
Ducatus Mediolanensis, Finitimarumq Regionu Descriptio Auctore Iooanne Georgio Septala Mediolanense
Beautiful colored map of northern Italy by A. Ortelius. Showing the area around Milan with Lago di Como, Genoa, Parma, Cremona and Bergamo. With a nice Renaissance cartou...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1592
Selling price: $650
Sold in 2010
Islandia.
Perhaps the most famous map of Iceland. On the south side of the island a collection of all possible sea monsters is depicted. Polar bears on ice flows and volcanoes in t...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1592
Selling price: $9500
Sold in 2012
Leodiensis Dioecesis Typus
Map of eastern Belgium region from Ortelius' Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. Shows the Meuse River and the cities located on the river, such as Namur, Liege and Maastricht. A be...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1592
Selling price: $165
Sold in 2010
Islandia.
Perhaps the most famous map of Iceland. On the south side of the island a collection of all possible sea monsters is depicted. Polar bears on ice flows and volcanoes in t...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1592
Selling price: $7300
Sold in 2010
Islandia.
Perhaps the most famous map of Iceland. On the south side of the island a collection of all possible sea monsters is depicted. Polar bears on ice flows and volcanoes in t...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1592
Selling price: $9000
Sold in 2011
Scotiae Tabula.
Scarce map of Scotland based on Ortelius. North orientated to the right. Very detailed with many place names. Decorated with sailings ships, a fox holding dividers above ...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1592
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2011
Angliae Regni Florentissimi Nova Descriptio, Auctore Humfredo Lhuyd Denbygiense. 1573.
Attractive map of England and Wales compiled from Mercator's 1564 wall map of the British Isles and Lhuyd's manuscript map of 1568. The countryside is fully engraved with...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1592
Selling price: $750
Sold in 2012
Portugalliae que olim Lusitania.
The best-known map of Portugal, after Alvares Secco (1560), orientated west to the top of the sheet, seen here in a fine, early impression in bright contemporary color. S...
Place & Date: Antwerp, ca.1592
Selling price: $400
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Islandia.
Perhaps the most famous map of Iceland. On the south side of the island a collection of all possible sea monsters is depicted. Polar bears on ice flows and volcanoes in t...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1592
Selling price: $6200
Sold in 2013
ANGLIAE, SCOTIAE ET HIBERNIAE, SIVE BRITANNICAR: INSVLARVM DESCRIPTIO.
A beautiful map of the British Isles, north to the right. The map is based on Mercator's earlier map of the British Isles of 1564. Title in strapwork cartouche at top rig...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1592
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2016
Universe Europae Maritime Eiusque Navigationis Descriptio. Generale Pascaerte van Europa . . .
This general chart of western Europe and the surrounding coastal waters is from the rare pilot-guide Spieghel der Zeevaerdt ,first printed by Christopher Plantin in Leyde...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1592
Selling price: $20490
Sold in 2015
Valentiae Regni.
Early map of Valencia. The second plate, which is very similar to the first, but which has cursive rather than straight capitals for MARIS MEDITERRANEI PARS at the bottom...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1592
Selling price: $440
Sold in 2017
Warhaffte abcontrafactur der namhafften Statt St. Quintin sampt aller Laegerstatt und umbligenden Ort wie sie von Konigs Philippi Heer im jar 1557 belagert worden.
On recto a wood block printed view of the town of St. Quintin besieged by the army of Spanish King Philip II in 1557. From a German text edition of his Geographia , that ...
Place & Date: Basle, 1592
Selling price: $70
Sold in 2018
Islandia.
One of the most decorative atlas maps of all time published by Abraham Ortelius in his atlas “Theatrum Orbis Terrarum”. The map depicts Iceland in truly remarkable de...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1592
Selling price: $6700
Sold in 2018
Veronae Urbis Territorium.
A very fine map of part of Italy, centered on Verona, Vizenza and Lake Garda. Prepared by Bernardino Brugnoli, which was first published in 1574 by Forlani. This Ortelius...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1592
Selling price: $85
Sold in 2019
Pontus Euxinus Aequor Iafonio pulfatum remige premum.
An early map of the Black Sea, Sea of Azov, and its coasts which includes parts of Turkey, Armenia, Georgia, Russia, Ukraine, Crimea, Moldova, Romania, and Bulgaria. It s...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1592
Selling price: $268
Sold in 2020
Gelria, Cliviae, Fini Timorumque Locorum Verissima Descriptio ...
Very decorative map of Gelderland and a part of Cleves in Germany. Shows two ships and a decorative cartouche with birds. Based on a manuscript map by Christiaan Sgrothen...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1592
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2021
Regni Hispaniae Post Omnium Editio..
Very decorative map of Spain and Portugal, including Majorca and Minorca. According to Marcel van den Broecke: Estimated number of copies printed: 8175 Estimated nu...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1592
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2023
Portugalliae que olim Lusitania.
The best-known map of Portugal, after Alvares Secco (1560), map is orientated west to the top of the sheet, seen here in a fine, early impression in good color. Fernando ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1592
Selling price: $325
Sold in 2023
Nova totius Europae tabula.
Very rare map of the continent of Europe, with in top a dedication to Theodor Echter von Mespelbrunn. With an oversized Nova Zemla, including the fictions island "Fr...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1593
Selling price: $5000
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Nova et integra caenomaniae descriptio vulg. Le Mans.
Rare map centered on Le Mans.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1593
Selling price: $130
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Galliae Amplissimi regni tabula..
Rare map of France.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1593
Selling price: $715
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Noua Descriptio Hispaniae..
Very rare and beautifully engraved map from De Jode's atlas Speculum Orbis Terrarum . Detailed map of Spain and Portugal.Engraved by Joan and Lucas van Deutecum.RARE.
Place & Date: Antwerp 1593
Selling price: $2200
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Lotharingia ducatus.
Very rare and beautifully engraved map from De Jode's atlas Speculum Orbis Terrarum . Detailed map of Lorraine.Engraved by Joan and Lucas van Doetecom.RARE.
Place & Date: Antwerp 1593
Selling price: $180
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Sueviae.
Very rare and beautifully engraved map from De Jode's atlas Speculum Orbis Terrarum . Detailed map of region of Ulm, Strasbourg, Bodensee.Engraved by Joan and Lucas van D...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1593
Selling price: $150
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Hessiae seu cattorum noblissimorum ac Bellicosissimorum ..
Very rare and beautifully engraved map from De Jode's atlas Speculum Orbis Terrarum . Detailed map of the regions east and west of the river Fulga.Engraved by Joan van Do...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1593
Selling price: $200
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Typus Corographicus Veromanduae.. / Sabaudiae ducatus..
Very rare and beautifully engraved map from De Jode's atlas Speculum Orbis Terrarum . Detailed map of regions along the river Saône River, including Lyon.Engraved by Joa...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1593
Selling price: $270
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Bavariae utriusque cum in ferioris vera..
Very rare and beautifully engraved map from De Jode's atlas Speculum Orbis Terrarum . Detailed map of southern Germany, with Augsburg, Regensburg, Munich, etc.Engraved by...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1593
Selling price: $110
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Helvetiae seu Sviciae qvae mvltis confoederatvm..
A rare and beautifully engraved map from the second edition of De Jode's atlas Speculum Orbis Terrarum . Includes complete Switzerland.Engraved by Joan and Lucas van Deut...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1593
Selling price: $500
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Videbis totius Grecia
Very rare and beautifully engraved map from De Jode's atlas Speculum Orbis Terrarum . Detailed map of Greece.In 1578, Gerard De Jode published his atlas entitled Speculum...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1593
Selling price: $1900
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Basileae Inclytae Rauracorum Urbis.. / Valesiae Provinciae montanae Italiam.
Two maps on one sheet: in top the canton Valais and in bottom part a detailed map of the area around Basel.Very rare and beautifully engraved map from De Jode's atlas Spe...
Place & Date: Antwerp 1593
Selling price: $300
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Brabantiae Belgarum Provinciae recens. . .
Based on a map by Jacob van Deventer, by order of King Charles V. Jacob van Deventer was one of the first cartographers of the Southern Netherlands. He was famous for his...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1593
Selling price: $2000
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Turingiae Comitatus Provincialis - Misniae Marchionatus
2 maps on one plate depicting the German states of Thüringen and Saxony. Centered respectively on Erfurt and Dresden.Gerard De Jode was the great rival of Ortelius, both...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1593
Selling price: $275
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Comitatus Venayscinensis Nova Discriptio.
Rare map depicting part of Provence with Avignon, Cavaillon, Orange, Carpentras, etc.Gerard De Jode was the great rival of Ortelius, both made a living out of selling map...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1593
Selling price: $280
Sold in 2008
Sueviae utriusq cum Germaniae tum Rhetiae. . .
Very rare and beautifully engraved map from De Jode's atlas Speculum Orbis Terrarum . Detailed map of region of Ulm, Strasbourg, Bodensee.Engraved by Joan and Lucas van D...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1593
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2013
Angliae, Scotiae et Hibernie Nova Descriptio.
Rare map of the British Isles in original color from De Jode's Speculum orbis terrae. Oriented with West at the top. The map was based on Mercator's wall map from 1554. G...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1593
Selling price: $2600
Sold in 2009
Angliae, Scotiae et Hibernie Nova Descriptio.
Rare map of the British Isles in original color from De Jode's Speculum orbis terrae. Oriented with West at the top. The map was based on Mercator's wall map from 1554. G...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1593
Selling price: $2600
Sold in 2010
Nova totius Europae tabula.
Very rare map of the continent of Europe, with in top a dedication to Theodor Echter von Mespelbrunn. With an oversized Nova Zemla, including the fictions islands of the ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1593
Selling price: $6750
Sold in 2011
Hollandt comitatus Utrecht episcop.
The rare first edition, with a large marshland in the Zuiderzee filled with ducks.The country of Holland, i.e.: present Noord- and Zuid-holland, plus Utrecht. Oriented we...
Place & Date: Duisburg, 1593
Selling price: $375
Sold in 2011
ARTOIS Atrebatum regionis vera descriptio.
De Jode's superb map of Artesia/Flanders. Includes the cities of Calais, Lille, Lens, Arras, Douai, Boulogne-sur-mer,... The map is based on the manuscript map Jacques Su...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1593
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2011
Saxonum regionis quatenus eius gentis imperium nomenquqe olim patebat, recens germanaque delineatio. . .
Map of north east Germany with part of Poland. Like all de Jode maps: scarce and much sought after.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1593
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2012
Natoliam Moderni dicunt tam partem quam Asiam minrem appelauere veteres (with Cyprus)
Engraved by Van Deutecum, this is a spectacular example of the 1593 edition of the very rare De Jode's map of the Eastern Mediterranean and Asia Minor. It has two title c...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1593
Selling price: $2900
Sold in 2014