Hartmann Schedel, 1493
Italy and Portugal
[both fanciful].
Excellent.
$ 285
Hartmann Schedel, 1493
Germany
[two fanciful views].
Excellent.
$250.
GERMANY, etc.
Lorenz Fries, 1522 (1525)
$ 450
EASTERN EUROPE
Lorenz Fries, 1522 (1525)
$ 550
Battle of Fornovo, 6 July, 1495
(Parma, Italy)
Woodcut c1517; this strike c1550
Full-page woodcut from the Mer des histoires, c1550. A horizontal woodcut of the battle was included in the book in 1503, then replaced with this single full-page vertical woodcut.
The Battle of Fornovo, about 30 km southwest of Parma, took place on 6 July 1495. It was fought as King Charles VIII of France left Naples upon hearing the news of the grand coalition assembled against him. Despite the numerical advantage of their opponents, the French won the engagement and Charles was able to march his army out of Italy. It was nonetheless devoid of any strategic result as all of their conquests in the Italian Peninsula were abandoned.
The battel at Fornovo was the first major pitched battle of the Italian Wars. (-Wikipedia)
Excellent.
$1800
NAPLES, ISCHIA, and CAPRI (not labelled)
Bordone, 1528 (1534)
Bordone, 1528
Rare first issue of this leaf with two views of the area of Venice.
On verso: map. "Parte de Schiavonia"
$ 300
PORTO SANTO ISLAND (Madeira)
Bordone, 1528 (1534)
$ 200
Peter Apianus / Gemma Frisius
Greece
1544 / 1581
$ 45
London, with the costumes of its people
Carel Allard, engraved for the Orbis habitabilis Oppida et Vestitus of 1695, this example corresponding to that issue.
Excellent. Very wide margins (not shown). Engraved area 8.5 x 11 / 22 x 28 cm.
$ 650