Engravings
Lot. 5204 ENGR “RHODIS” complete page with a woodcut engraving of the town of Rhodes (not actual topographic dipiction) (17.5x22.5cm) from the book “Liber chronicarum Secunda etas Mundi” by Hartmann Schedel, popularly known as “The Nuremberg Chronicle”, the first Latin edition, published in July 1493 in Nuremberg by Anton Koberger for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister. Sheet size: 28 x 40 cm. Excellent condition & very rare. Starting Price: 100 €
Lot. 5205 ENGR “Rhodys die Insel und Hauptstatt darinn.” complete page with a woodcut engraving of the town of Rhodes (12,3 x 15,5 cm) from the book “Cosmographia” by Sebastian Munster, first published in 1544 by H. Petri, followed by 46 publications till 1628 in various languages. This sheet has german text. Sheet size: 23 x 36. Excellent condition. Starting Price: 90 €
Lot. 5206 ENGR “Die insel Rhodus” Decorative hand colored in wash woodcut map on the full textsheet, with a bird’s eye view of the city of Rhodes with its port, published in a German text edition of the ‘Cosmographia’ by Sebastian Muenster. Published: Basel, Henricus Petri, 1567. Size: [16 x 12,3 cm]. Condition: Excellent, in frame. Ref. Zacharakis p.120. Starting Price: 80 €
Lot. 5207 ENGR “Ordinis RHODIORU militu initium” complete page with a woodcut engraving of the town of Rhodes (6,5 x 8,3 cm) from the book “Pomponii Melae de situ Orbis Libri Tres..” first published in 1534 by Sebastian Munster, followed by Sebastian Henric Petri in 1576 (latin) & 1595 (italian). This sheet has latin text. Sheet size: 20 x 30. Excellent condition. Starting Price: 15 €
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