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Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
RECTO: Height 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds and four line-fillers in same.VERSO: Six 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds and one 2-lines...
Place & Date: France, ca. 1530
Selling price: $125
Sold in 2023
Charusa, Zinara Levita / Micole / (on verso) Stapodia and Nicaria.
Benedetto Bordone (1460-1531), cartographer and engraver. Published in 1528 his islands book, 'Isolario'.Three maps from Bernadetto Bordone?s ?Isolario?.
Place & Date: Venice, 1532
Selling price: $150
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[No title] Daniel's Dream Map.
A somewhat curious map of Europe, Africa, and Asia is to be found in apocalyptic literature originally emanating from Wittenberg in 1530 or even 1529. One of the first im...
Place & Date: Wittemberg c.1534
Selling price: $2358
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(Morea / Peloponnese peninsula)
Very early map of the Peloponnese peninsula, naming several towns and smaller islands. Published in Bordone's important "Isolario". Italian text below the map a...
Place & Date: Venice, c1534
Selling price: $110
Sold in 2014
(Istria, Lošinj, Krk, Cres, Rab; Vis)
One of the earliest maps showing Croatian (Dalmatian) islands in the Adriatic Sea. Wood cut with italian text on both sides, and with a map on each side. One map, with a ...
Place & Date: Venice, c1534
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2015
[Taurica]
In 1528 the Italian cartographer Benedetto Bordone (1460-1531) produced an atlas of islands. The interior of the island is depicted as mountainous with symbols for severa...
Place & Date: Venice, 1534
Selling price: $190
Sold in 2023
[Taurica chersoneso]
In 1528 the Italian cartographer Benedetto Bordone (1460-1531) produced an atlas of islands. An early, crude, but also fascinating small map depicting the region around C...
Place & Date: Venice, c 1534
Selling price: $95
Sold in 2016
Sumatra] Iava minore / Necumera/Locaz/Patera/Botegon/Mangama.
Two maps on one page of the Isalario. 'Iava minore', the first printed separate map of Sumatra and several islands 'Necumera / Locaz / Patera / Botegon / Mangama. Locaz o...
Place & Date: Venice, 1534
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2019
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
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2016
Tabu Nova Orbis / Diefert Situs Orbis Hydrographorum Ab Eo Quem Ptolomeus Posuit. . .
The second 'modern' world map of Laurent Fries. This map is one of the earliest world maps available to a collector. The map is a reduced version of Martin Waldseemuller'...
Place & Date: Lyon, 1525 or 1535
Selling price: $3250
Sold in 2019
Tabula IX Asia (map of Bengal and Burma.).
Laurent Fries reduced version of Martin Waldseemüller’s map of Ptolemy’s ninth map of Asia, depicting northeast India and Birma. Martin Waldseemüller (1470-1521) dr...
Place & Date: Lyon, 1535
Selling price: $275
Sold in 2019
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
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2021
Tabula I Aphricae.
Trapezoidal Ptolemaic woodcut map by Laurent Fries features the northwest corner of Africa, which is often referred to as the Maghreb (meaning western in Arabic), and inc...
Place & Date: Vienna, 1522- 1535
Selling price: $375
Sold in 2019
[North Africa with Egypt] Tabula III. Aphricae. Hae Sunt E Cognitis Totius Orbis . . . (title on verso)
One of the earliest obtainable maps of North Africa, with Egypt, from Lorenz Fries' (1490-1532) edition of Ptolemy's Geographia, largely based on the 1513 map by Waldseem...
Place & Date: Vienna, 1522, 1535
Selling price: $425
Sold in 2019
Tabula IX Asiae [Pakistan & India] (Title on Verso)
Map of Gedrosia, Eastern Balochistan the southwestern province of Pakistan and parts of southwestern and south-central Afghanistan. Western Balochistan is divided between...
Place & Date: Vienna, 1490, 1535
Selling price: $355
Sold in 2023
Tabula IX Asia (title on verso).
Martin Waldseemüller (1470-1521) drew the maps for the 1513 and 1520 editions of Ptolemy's ' Geographia'. They were revised and reduced by Laurent Fries and used for the...
Place & Date: Lyon, 1535
Selling price: $375
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[ Ptolemaic world map ]
Rare Ptolemaic world map included in Gregor Reisch, compiler of the Margarita Philosophica, (Pearl of Wisdom), first published in Basel in 1503. The world map showing the...
Place & Date: Freiburg 1503 -1535
Selling price: $7625
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[ Ptolemaic world map ]
Rare Ptolemaic world map included in Gregor Reisch, compiler of the Margarita Philosophica, (Pearl of Wisdom), first published in Basel in 1503. The world map showing the...
Place & Date: Freiburg 1503 -1535
Selling price: $9100
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Typus orbis descriptione Ptolemaei.
Waldseemüller Ptolemaic map of 1513 has been redrawn and reduced in size in this publication by Laurent Fries, geographer and physician. The Vienne edition was printed b...
Place & Date: Vienne, 1535
Selling price: $4050
Sold in 2008
Tunes Oppidum Barbarie & Regina fedes ... / Africa olim Aphrodisum. / Penon de Veles.
Three town-views on one sheet: Tunis, Mahdia and Penon de Veles.The Civitates was compiled and written by George Braun, Canon of Cologne Cathedral. Braun gathered togethe...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1535
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2011
Tabula IIII Asiae. [Holy Land, Syria, Cyprus, Arabia.]
One of the earliest maps available to a collector of Cyprus, Syria, Mesopotamia,. Babylonia, Arabia Petraea, Armenia Minor and the Holy Land, based upon the Georgraphy of...
Place & Date: Strassburg, 1535
Selling price: $1550
Sold in 2011
Tabu. Nova Partis Aphri.
Based on Waldseemuller's map. Border and ornament are by Hans Holbein and Graf. The reissued map includes three kings on their thrones, an elephant, a cockatrice and two ...
Place & Date: Lyon, 1535
Selling price: $950
Sold in 2009
Diefert Situs Orbis Hydrographorum Ab Eo Quem Ptolomeus Posuit.
The earliest obtainable map of the World to include the word America in the map. While the majority of Fries maps were derived from Waldseemuller's 1513 edition of Ptolem...
Place & Date: Lyon, M. Servetus, 1535
Selling price: $4500
Sold in 2009
Tabula Terre Sanctae.
"Modern" map of Palestine, oriented to the east. The Mediterranean shore line runs from Sidon to Gaza. Of the inland the whole of Palestine on both sides of the...
Place & Date: Lyon, 1535
Selling price: $1350
Sold in 2009
Tabu nova partis Aphri. (North Africa)
Based on Waldseemuller's map. Border and ornament are by Hans Holbein and Graf. The maps show Northern Africa as it was known to Europeans at the first part of the 16th c...
Place & Date: Lyons, M. Servetus, 1535
Selling price: $2000
Sold in 2011
No title. [China and Japan.]
The earliest printed representation of the China and Japan region in a European Atlas. The first issue of this engraving with minor titular amendments appeared in the 152...
Place & Date: Lyons, M. Servetus, 1535
Selling price: $4900
Sold in 2009
Tabu nova partis aphri.
Ptolemy's double-page wood-engraved map of southern Africa. The map is a derivative of the Waldseemüller map of 1513, with the addition of three kings on their thrones, ...
Place & Date: Lyons, M. Servetus, 1535
Selling price: $4200
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Tabula Terre Sanctae.
Woodcut map of the Holy Land by L. Fries. From the 1535 Lyon edition of Ptolemy's Geographia edited by M. Servetus and published by M. and G. Trechsel, printed from the 1...
Place & Date: Lyon, 1535
Selling price: $2600
Sold in 2011
Tabu. moder. Indiae
Woodcut map of India by L. Fries. From the 1535 Lyon edition of Ptolemy's Geographia edited by M. Servetus and published by M. and G. Trechsel, printed from the 1522 wood...
Place & Date: Lyon, 1535
Selling price: $1400
Sold in 2010
Tabu. Nova Orbis / Diefert Situs Orbis Hydrographorum Ab Eo Quem Ptolomeus Posuit.
The second 'modern' world map of Laurent Fries. 'This map is one of the earliest world maps available to a collector, and is an unsophisticated but attractive rendering o...
Place & Date: Lyon, 1535
Selling price: $4200
Sold in 2011
Orbis typus universalis iuxta hydrographorum traditionem..
One of the earliest world maps that collectors can still obtain and probably the earliest delineation with the name America on it of similar obtainability. It has long be...
Place & Date: Lyons, 1535
Selling price: $6100
Sold in 2011
Tabula Terre Sanctae.
A n early woodcut map of the Holy Land (Palestine, Israel) by Laurent Fries, published by M. & G. Trechsel, Lyon 1535. Title in a banderole above. Verso a nice orname...
Place & Date: Lyon, 1535
Selling price: $760
Sold in 2021
TABULA V ASIAE.
[Antique map of Iran] Tabula V Asiae. Laurent Fries' reduced version of Martin Waldseemuller's map of Persia according to Ptolemy. From the Lyon edition of the 'Geographi...
Place & Date: Lyon, 1535
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2020
World (La Mer des histoires).
The World map was, in its basis and design mediaeval, with the World compressed into the circular frame of the 'T-O' form. The world is portrayed in pictorial form thus, ...
Place & Date: Dupre, Paris, 1536
Selling price: $6100
Sold in 2016
Leaf from De Sphaera.
A leaf from Joannes de Sacrobosco's De Sphaera, illustrated with astronomical figures in wood block.Born at the end from XIIe century, Joannes de Sacrobosco studied in Ox...
Place & Date: Vitteberg, 1538
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2009
[Map of Russia]
Early map of part of Russia, centered on Smolensk, Riga, Moscow and other major cities are mentioned, also the rivers Dvina, Volga, engraved by Sebastian Münster. From P...
Place & Date: Basel, 1538
Selling price: $900
Sold in 2010
Renaissance Gregorian Chant.
Original leaf from a Flemish antiphonal; on animal parchment. From the Antiphonal of Marguerite De Bacovel; Abbey of Mont de Ste-Marie, Gosnay (South Flanders). Completed...
Place & Date: Flanders, ca. 1539
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2010
Renaissance Gregorian Chant.
Original leaf, on animal vellum, from the Antiphonal of Marguerite De Bacovel. Completed for her by Louis de Villechecq, Vicar of the nunnery and a Carthusian monk. Abb...
Place & Date: Flanders, ca. 1539
Selling price: $680
Sold in 2010
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 manuscript Book of Hours.
VERSO: three 2-line illuminated initial with flowers in liquid gold on colored ground, and one line filler in same.RECTO: six 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored gr...
Place & Date: France, 1520-1540
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2023
Title-page of a book, with a woodcut of king Wenceslaus' name, king of Boohemia in the banner.
From : Book on the defense of the Roman Catholic Church against the heresy of the Waldenses. Printed in 1501 by Konrad Baumgarten.On the back two woodcut crests of a Pope...
Place & Date: 1520-1540
Selling price: $75
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Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
RECTO: One 2-lines initial decorated with flower in liquid gold on colored grounds and four 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds and six linefillers in same....
Place & Date: France 1520-1540
Selling price: $120
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Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
RECTO: Three 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds.VERSO: Four 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds and one 2-lines initial decorated with flower...
Place & Date: France 1520-1540
Selling price: $110
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Miniature on vellum from a Belgium manuscript Book of Hours.
The Presentation in the Temple.Mary presents her baby to the priest and Joseph holds a basket with two sacrificial doves as an offering for poor people. Unfortunately the...
Place & Date: Belgium, ca.1540
Selling price: $1350
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Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
VERSO: Eight 1-line initials and four line-fillers in same.RECTO: One 2-lines initial and seven 1-line initial in liquid gold on colored grounds, four line-fillers in sam...
Place & Date: France, 1540
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2016
The calender-leaf of the month of November.
Fine calendar-leaf of the month of November. A 2-line KL (on liquid gold ground, a little bit shaved) for Kalendarium stating that November has 30 days. All days are fill...
Place & Date: France, 1520 -1540
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2020
The calender-leaf of the month of August.
Fine calendar-leaf of the month of August. A 2-line KL (on liquid gold ground) for Kalendarium telling that August has 31 days. All days are filled in with feasts for Sai...
Place & Date: France, 1520 -1540
Selling price: $220
Sold in 2017
The calender-leaf of the month of June.
Fine calendar-leaf of the month of June. A 2-line KL (on liquid gold ground) for Kalendarium telling that June has 30 days. All days are filled in with feasts for Saints....
Place & Date: France, 1520 -1540
Selling price: $175
Sold in 2022
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
VERSO: one 2-line illuminated initial in liquid gold on colored ground, seven 1-line initials and line-fillers in same.RECTO: eight 1-line initials in liquid gold on colo...
Place & Date: France, 1520-1540
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2023
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
RECTO: Height 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds and six line-fillers in same.VERSO: Six 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds and one 2-lines ...
Place & Date: France, 1520-1540
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2018
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...
Place & Date: Paris, Germain Hardouyn, c.1520-1540
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2020
Leaf on vellum from a printed Book of Hours.
21 lines of printed text, surrounded by renaissance borders decorated with Saint Sebastian, a half naked woman, flowers and religious scenes.From the press of the leading...
Place & Date: Paris, Germain Hardouyn, c.1520-1540
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2023
Leaf on vellum from a printed Book of Hours.
21 lines of printed text with small miniature depictions of the Saints Jacob, Stephan and Laurent reading a book, surrounded by renaissance borders decorated with flowers...
Place & Date: Paris, Germain Hardouyn, c.1520-1540
Selling price: $210
Sold in 2020
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
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2022
Leaf on vellum from a printed Book of Hours.
24 lines of printed text, surrounded by renaissance borders decorated with religious and profane scenes. On recto two 7-lines miniatures with Saint Willibrord and another...
Place & Date: Paris, Germain Hardouyn, c.1520-1540
Selling price: $130
Sold in 2022
Leaf on vellum from a printed Book of Hours.
24 lines of printed text, surrounded by renaissance borders decorated religious and profane scenes.From the press of the leading Parisian publisher and illuminator Germai...
Place & Date: Paris, Germain Hardouyn, c.1520-1540
Selling price: $125
Sold in 2021
Leaf on vellum from a printed Book of Hours.
24 lines of printed text, surrounded by renaissance borders decorated with religious and profane scenes.From the press of the leading Parisian publisher and illuminator G...
Place & Date: Paris, Germain Hardouyn, c.1520-1540
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2021
Geographia universalis, vetus et nova, complectens. . .
The rare FIRST EDITION of Sebastian Münster's Geographia Universalis, published in 1540. This was a new and important edition of Ptolemy, with redesigned maps and the te...
Place & Date: Basel, 1540
Selling price: $45000
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Europae Tabula
At the time Sebastian Münster published this map, it was not yet conventional to locate the North at the top of the map. Münster‘s orientation to the South was taken ...
Place & Date: Basle, 1540
Selling price: $800
Sold in 2015
Ptolemaisch General Tafel Begreissend die halbe Rugel der Weldt
A fine colored example of Munster's first ancient map of the World, based upon the writings of Ptolemy. The world map is surrounded by clouds and eleven wind heads (with ...
Place & Date: Basel, 1540
Selling price: $1125
Sold in 2016
Tabula Asiae VI. [Arabia Felix]
This fine woodcut is an early Ptolemaic map of the Arabian Peninsula here called 'Arabia Felix'. It is a fairly decent representation of the peninsula, although perhaps P...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1540
Selling price: $601
Sold in 2017
Leaf on vellum from a printed Book of Hours.
21 lines of printed text, surrounded by renaissance borders decorated with flowers and religious scenes. From the press of the leading Parisian publisher and illuminator ...
Place & Date: Paris, Germain Hardouyn, c. 1520-1540
Selling price: $125
Sold in 2017
Leaf on vellum from a printed Book of Hours.
21 lines of printed text, surrounded by renaissance borders decorated with flowers, vases and figures.From the press of the leading Parisian publisher and illuminator Ger...
Place & Date: Paris, Germain Hardouyn, c.1520-1540
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2020
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
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2018
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
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2019
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...
Place & Date: Paris, Germain Hardouyn, c.1520-1540
Selling price: $90
Sold in 2019
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...
Place & Date: Paris, Germain Hardouyn, c.1520-1540
Selling price: $90
Sold in 2018
Leaf on vellum from a printed Book of Hours.
24 lines of printed text, illustrated on recto with two and verso with one miniatures of St. Margaret and Maria, each 31 x 15mm. The text surrounded by renaissance border...
Place & Date: Paris, Germain Hardouyn, c.1520-1540
Selling price: $190
Sold in 2020
Leaf on vellum from a printed Book of Hours.
24 lines of printed text, illustrated on recto with two and verso with one miniatures of St. Peter and Johannes Baptista, each 31 x 15mm. The text surrounded by renaissan...
Place & Date: Paris, Germain Hardouyn, c.1520-1540
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2023
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
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2020
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
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2019
Leaf on vellum from a printed Book of Hours.
21 lines of printed text, surrounded by renaissance borders decorated with flowers and religious scenes.From the press of the leading Parisian publisher and illuminator G...
Place & Date: Paris, Germain Hardouyn, c.1520-1540
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2020
Leaf on vellum from a printed Book of Hours.
21 lines of printed text, surrounded by renaissance borders decorated with flowers and religious scenes.From the press of the leading Parisian publisher and illuminator G...
Place & Date: Paris, Germain Hardouyn, c.1520-1540
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2023
Leaf on vellum from a printed Book of Hours.
21 lines of printed text, surrounded by renaissance borders decorated with flowers, Judith with the Head of Holofernes and religious scenes.From the press of the leading ...
Place & Date: Paris, Germain Hardouyn, c.1520-1540
Selling price: $240
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Leaf on vellum from a printed Book of Hours.
21 lines of printed text, surrounded by renaissance borders decorated with flowers and religious scenes. Two 7 line illustrations of St. Job and St. Sebastian.From the pr...
Place & Date: Paris, Germain Hardouyn, c.1520-1540
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2021
Italia mit Dreien furnemsten Inseln, Corsica, Sardinia und Sicilia.
One of the earliest woodcut maps of Italy by Sebastian Münster. Showing Italy with the Islands Sardinia, Sicily and Corsica. With Dalmatia in the East. The title on vers...
Place & Date: Basle, ca 1540
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2019
Hispania nach aller seiner gelegenheit, in Bergen, Wassern, Stetten, Volckern, Künigreichen und Inseln.
One of the earliest woodcut maps of Spain and Portugal by Sebastian Münster. Attractively colored and with the islands Majorca and Minorca. The title on verso is surroun...
Place & Date: Basel, ca 1540
Selling price: $190
Sold in 2019
Das gantz Franckreich, so vor zeiten Gallia Narbonensis, Lugdunensis, Belgica und Celtica ist genent worden.
One of the earliest maps of France by Sebastian Münster. With the southern part of England. The title on verso is surrounded by a large and beautiful woodcut border. Fro...
Place & Date: Basel, ca 1540
Selling price: $235
Sold in 2019
Gemeine Beschreibung Aller Mitnachtigen Lander Schweden, Gothen, Nordwegien, Dennmarck &c.
One of the earliest woodcut maps of Scandinavia. Shows Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Scotland, Denmark with the North Sea and Baltic Sea. Sebastian Munster's second m...
Place & Date: Basel, ca 1540
Selling price: $325
Sold in 2019
TEÜTSCHLAND MIT SEINEM GANTZEN BEGRIFF UND EINGSCHLOSZNEN LANDSCHAFFTEN.
A very rare state of Europe or Germany by Sebastian Münster, unlike most maps of Germany from the Cosmographia. Attractively colored and oriented to the South. Showing t...
Place & Date: Basel, ca 1540
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2019