
PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius [translated by ANGELUS, Jacobus, edited by GERMANUS, Nicolaus]
[Sri Lanka] Duodecima et ultima Asie tabula., 1482 Ulm, Lienhart Holle, 16 July 1482. Woodcut map, fine original hand-colour, a few minor worm holes. 430 by 590mm.
17600,- EUR
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PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius [translated by ANGELUS, Jacobus, edited by GERMANUS, Nicolaus]
[Southeast Asia] Undecima Asie tabula., 1482 Ulm, Lienhart Holle, 16 July 1482. Woodcut map, fine original hand-colour, a few minor worm holes. 430 by 590mm.
44000,- EUR
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PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius [translated by ANGELUS, Jacobus, edited by GERMANUS, Nicolaus]
[Central Asia and China] Septima Asie tabula., 1482 Ulm, Lienhart Holle, 16 July 1482. Woodcut map, fine original hand-colour, old repair to bottom of gutter, minor losses to top gutter skilfully repaired.
14000,- EUR
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PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius [translated by ANGELUS, Jacobus, edited by GERMANUS, Nicolaus]
[Africa] Quarta et Ultima Affrice Tabula., 1482 Ulm, Lienhart Holle, 16 July 1482. Woodcut map, fine original hand-colour, minor losses to gutters skilfully repaired. 430 by 590mm.
35100,- EUR
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PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius [translated by ANGELUS, Jacobus, edited by GERMANUS, Nicolaus]
[North Africa, Sardinia and Sicily] Secunda Affrice Tabula., 1482 Ulm, Lienhart Holle, 16 July 1482. Woodcut map, fine original hand-colour, minor losses to top and bottom margins skilfully repaired. 430 by 590mm.
8800,- EUR
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PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius [translated by ANGELUS, Jacobus, edited by GERMANUS, Nicolaus]
[Balkans] Nona Europe tabula., 1482 Ulm, Lienhart Holle, 16 July 1482. Woodcut map, fine original hand-colour, minor losses to higher and lower gutters skilfully repaired 430 by 590mm.
17600,- EUR
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PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius [translated by ANGELUS, Jacobus, edited by GERMANUS, Nicolaus]
[Himilayas and Central Asia] Octava Asie tabula., 1482 Ulm, Lienhart Holle, 16 July 1482. Woodcut map, fine original hand-colour, a few worm holes to gutters skilfully repaired. 430 by 590mm.
10600,- EUR
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WOUTNEEL, Hans; Crispin de PASSE, the elder and younger; and VISSCHER, Claez Jansz, after Jacob and Joris HOEFNAGEL, Assuerus van LONDERSEEL, Nicolaes de BRUYN, and Adrian COLLAERT
[Untitled album of Natural History engravings]., 1630 Amsterdam, [1594-1635]. Oblong quarto (260 by 170mm), 176 engraved plates, numbered in an early hand 1-46, 48-54, 57-69, 80-189, including 8 title-pages, all with fine contemporary hand-colour in full, occasionally heightened in silver, two plates torn with slight loss to image and with early repairs, six plates with slight worming to margins, and three plates trimmed to neatline and laid down on old paper, front free endpaper with later ownership inscription; mid-seventeenth century English red morocco, elaborately gilt, silver clasps and catches.
52600,- EUR
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PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius; translated by ANGELUS, Jacobus, and edited by Nicolaus GERMANUS
Cosmographia., 1482 Ulm, Lienhart Holle, 16 July 1482. Folio (428 by 310mm), 102 leaves, double- column, 44 lines and headline, Gothic letter, 32 double-page woodcut maps with fine original hand-colour, 4 woodcut diagrams in the text, 2 large illuminated historiated initials, one showing Donnus Nicolaus presenting his book to Pope Paul II, the other of Ptolemy, 159 other woodcut initials coloured in red, green and ochre, paragraph marks and initial-strokes supplied in ochre, tear to d6, and repaired tear to the map ‘Tertia Africa’, some dampstaining and discolouration throughout, including spotting affecting the final three maps, skilful reinforcement to weakened lower page corners on maps, single leaf free endpaper bearing ownership inscription; re- cased in contemporary doeskin over clasped oak boards, joints reinforced with vellum waste, remnants of one clasp remaining. [Bound after]: ‘Registrum’ from Johannes Reger’s 1486 edition of Ptolemy’s “Cosmographia”, decorated with 17 5- and 6-line manuscript initials in red and blue, 30 leaves bound in 6s (not 8s as is usually the case); 9 leaves in the ‘registrum’ uncut, tear to d6. Collation: [Registrum]: a-d(6), e(5); [Cosmographia]: [i], a10, b-g8, h11, 32 maps. Watermark: Late fifteenth century Italian watermark of a flower with 7 petals throughout, with the exception of the front endpaper/’initial blank’, which bears the watermark of an upper case letter ‘B’ on a crowned shield. These were used by the le Bé family of Troyes, in this case ‘Ioane le Bé’. Three members of the Troyenne papermaking le Bé family bore the Christian name ‘Jean’: Jean I started his business in 1406. Jean II owned two paper mills around the 1470s, and Jean III lived in Troye in the first half of the 16th century. The le Bé family were accredited papermaker for the Université de Paris from 1520 onwards.
1500000,- EUR
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MÜNSTER, Sebastian
Mappa Europae, Eygentlich für gebildet aussgelegt und beschriebenn., 1536 Frankfurt, Christian Egenolph, 1536. Quarto (200 by 150mm). Title-page woodcut vignette, two double-page woodcut maps at the rear, one bound upside-down, one full-page map, illustrated profusely throughout with woodcuts, including two surveying instruments hand-coloured in part; modern vellum, title inked to spine, bookbinder’s ticket on the front pastedown, top edge dyed blue, some damp stains in margins throughout, small tear to bottom margin at D2-3, not affecting text, small early repairs to heads of both double-page maps. 200 by 150mm.
70200,- EUR
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MÜNSTER, Sebastian
Erklerung des newen instruments der Sunnen Nach allen seinen Scheyben und Circkeln., 1528 Oppenheim, Jakob Kobel, 1528. Quarto (215 x 150 mm). Letterpress title-page, woodcut map and three illustrations, floriated initials abundantly throughout; later grey paper boards, title printed on spine, bottom margins untrimmed, later endpapers, small tears in final two leaves skilfully restored, very small loss to text in upper left corner of D4. 215 by 150mm.
21100,- EUR
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MÜNSTER, Sebastian
Cosmographei, oder beschreibung aller lander, herrschafften, fürnemsten..., 1550 Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1550. Folio (330 by 215mm). Letterpress title-page with woodcut architectural border, 111 woodcut maps, plans, and views, including 63 double-page, illustrated with over 900 vignette woodcuts; contemporary panelled pigskin over bevelled oak boards, roll-tooled border containing small portraits, double central panels composed of different flower roll tools, original brass clasps and catches, manuscript title on a paper label on the spine, in five compartments separated by raised bands, marginal annotations in two hands, including in Hebrew, a few small tears in top and bottom margins, two affecting text, one skilfully repaired, water stains towards the end in the bottom margins. 330 by 215mm.
58500,- EUR
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