Astrolabium. Americus Vespuccius, cum quattuor Stellis crucem silente nocte repperit by STRADANUS, Johannes

Hildesheim, Olms, 2000 (reprint of the 1578-edition). Oblong 4to, plates, boards.

Fight among a Lion, Horse, Bull and Dogs, within a room with barred, arched windows behind them, and two spheres on the floor among them.Signed at bottom left of center:'Ioes Stradanus inuen.'and towards the right:'Ioan. Galle excu.'.Below four lines of Latin text:'Sic Leo.... Latratibus iras'. Number on the bottom left corner erased. Engraving on paper with small margins; total: 211 x 291mm; state IV/4, New Hollstein 542.

Antwerp: Philips Galle, Circa 1582. Engraving on contemporary laid paper. 27 x 32.5 cm. sheet size. Wide margins.... Philips Galle. After Johannes Stradanus. Pl. from the series «Acta Apostolorum»: The gentile centurion, Cornelius kneeling before St Peter. Ref. New Hollstein (Ph. Galle), 208; BM 1954,0813.11.28.From a series of 35 plates after Heemskerck and Stradanus first published by Philips Galle in 1575 and 1582.

Flanders: Philips Galle, circa 1587. 3 engravings on contemporary laid paper. 195 x 26 mm.. sheet size. Thread margins. Hinged on support sheets.Adriaen Collaert. After Johannes Stradanus. 3 engr. (pl. 17, 18, 20) from the series «Passio, mors et resurrectio dn. Nostri Jesu Christi», published by Philips Galle: the crowning with thorns, Christ declared innocent by Pontius Pilate, Pontius Pilate questioning Christ again. Ref. New Hollstein (The Collaert Dynasty), 343.

Antwerp. unbound. Johannes Galle. View. Uncolored engraving. Images measures 8 1/4" x 10.5".<br/><br/> Beautiful impression of the frontispiece to "Nova Reperta", ca. 1596. Johannes Stradanus or van der Straat, (1523-1605) was a Flemish artist but spent most of his life in Florence. Stradanus sent his original drawings of "Nova Reperta" ("New Inventions"), a Renaissance celebration of recent discoveries both scientific and geographical, to Antwerp where they were first engraved and published by Phillipe Galle circa 1600. This edition was republished by Galle's grandson. The frontispiece shows an array of discoveries and inventions, being welcomed by a female figure (Modernity), while a male figure turns away (representing the Old Order). Specific objects represented include the Americas, a compass, a cannon, a printing press, a clock, tools of alchemy, a Mulberry tree (used to harvest silkworms), a saddle with stirrups, and logs of the guaiacum… Read More

c.1578. Plates worn with occasional scratches and loss of the image, with occasional commentary in period ink, generally a very charming series of old master’s plates of every day’s life (Farming, Hunting….) mounted on contemporary boards with cotton strings meant to display.. Binding: 33 (of 43) loose copper plates mounted on contemporary 16th century boards, with display string, half inch contemporary marbled paper around the plates., Notes: Flemish School Engravings by Philips Galle and Published by Philips Galle After: Jan van der Straet., Size: Oblong Folio (214 x 296 m, Illustration: 33 (of 43) loose copper plates mounted on contemporary 16th century boards, with display string, half inch contemporary marbled paper around the plates.Title with Medici coat-of-arms, surmounted by a crown, adorned below with the Order of the Golden Fleece and arranged upon hunting paraphernalia, including spears and horns; to far left, a statue of Diana, with bow, arrows and a crescent moon; to far right,… Read More

[1], 104 engraved ll.Rare complete set of Stradanus's magnificent series of 104 large hunting prints, including falconry, fishing and even bee-keeping, engraved in the years 1578 to ca. 1596 by Philips Galle and others associated with him. It includes scenes of catching birds of prey and of hunting with them, not only hawks or falcons, but also owls. The other hunting prints show the hunting of elephants, various wild cats, wild boars, bears, crocodiles and other big game, apes (putting on boots!), smaller animals such as rabbits, badgers and porcupines, but also unicorns, fauns (playing pan-pipes!), giant snakes, dragons, sea monsters and other mythical creatures. Some scenes are certainly disturbing for anyone who cares about animals: one shows a live elephant with its trunk cut off. The Belgian Johannes Stradanus "was employed by Duke Cosimo de' Medici in Florence, who commissioned him to make a number of designs for tapestries representing fowling, fishing and hunting scenes, for the adornment of… Read More