Auction: December 8, 2024

Lot #309: Map and Post-Incunable Woodcut Assortment

(7) items including (3) engravings by Henri Abraham Chatelain (French, 1684-1743) including a "Carte Genealogique Des Princes et Rois de Pologne", early 18th century, in a shrink wrapped mat, a hand colored "Carte Pour Servir a l'Intelligence de l'Histoire de Gutave Adolphe de Christine" and a "Carte des Trois Ordres qui Composent l'Etat de la Republique de Pologne", a Hartmann Schedel (German, 1440-1514), "De Sarmacia Regione Europe" woodblock print c.1493, pulled from "The Nuremberg Chronicles", a botanical woodcut of a woad flower by Adam Lonicer (German, 1528-1586) from "Krauterbuch", Frankfurt, 1557, as well as (2) Sebastian Munster (German, 1489-1552) including a woodcut depicting the Monster of Cracow after Jost Amman (Swiss, 1539-1591) and a woodcut map "Regni Polonici Contracta Descriptio", both from "Cosmographia Universalis", Basel, 16th century, unknown edition