Beautiful commemorative medal, designed by Martin Holtzhey for William IV, Prince of Orange (1711-1751) and Princess Anne (1709-1759), celebrating the birth of Prince William V of Orange, Silver Medalet, 1748, , conjoined busts right, rev angel with infant child, 24mm. Free Shipping.

A miniature size hand written in Latin manuscript page, double sided, measuring 4 1/4" by 3", and 8 1/2" by 6 1/2" nicely framed, likely of religious content. Written neatly in brown ink with red capitals in places, much as would be seen in an antiphonal sheet. Condition of this little item, a survivor at many hundreds of years old, is excellent.

Antique early map of central England's Oxfordshire county, by cartographer Robert Morden, originally published in 1695. This map is nicely hand colored. It measures 17" by 15" inside the green mat and 24" by 22" framed (no glass). The mat was seemingly permanently affixed over the margins of the map by the framer, but the central portion of the map does not appear to be laid down as there is play to the surface. There is central horizontal crease and slight handling creases in the field...

HAMBURG, REICHSSTADT - FERDINAND II, 1619-1637 - Reichstaler.

obv. Castle with three towers and open doors and risen porticullis (arms of Hamburg) with date (1-6-2-1) split between towers within circle of beads. In outer circle the legend MONETA•NOVA•CIVITATIS•HAMBURGENSIS• and fist with tinhook

rev. Crown above double-headed eagle with value in shillings (32) on breast within circle of beads...

Rare antique Map of Alderney c1691 by Robert Morden with watercolor . Small scale map in nice condition framed and matted c19303s. Overall 9.75 by 6.5" map 5.25" by 3"

An example of an original 17th century copper engraving map with later hand coloring, titled "The Road from Oxford to Cambridge", from the first road atlas of England and Wales, by noted mapmaker JOHN OGILBY (1600-1676). The piece measures 14 1/2" by 17 1/2" inside the mat, 26 1/2" by 28 1/2" as framed...

Early map titled "A Description of the Land of Goshen and Moses passage through the desert", 1614, by the English cartographer William Hole. Hole was active in cartography from about 1601 to about 1624. The map measures 10 3/4" by 14" inside the present mats (not examined out of the frame but would be happy to do so upon request). This is an uncommon map with a compass rose at lower right and cartouches at upper portion, the cartographer's name at lower left edge...

This is a miniature map, 3 3/8" by 4 7/8" inside the mat, titled at upper right "EUROPA", and bearing at lower right the name of the engraver cartographer, Pieter van den Keere (Petrus Kaerius). The entire sweep of Europe is shown, from Greenland and Atlantic islands on the west to as far east as Turkey, the Middle East, and "Tartaria". Kaerius (circa 1571-1646) was born in the Low Countries and fled to London due to religious persecution, in 1584...

A very rare and complete antique license document, Spanish and signed by the Spanish King Philip the IV (Ruler 1621-1665).

The document is binded with 8/16 pages with 14 decorated or with signatures (let us know if you like to receive pictures of all pages by e-mail). We would like to stress the importance of the document which signed by no less than 15-20 signatures, besides the signature of Philip himself...

A beautiful and very sharp German silver thaler, from Saxony or Sachsen 1638.

Dav 7601 (scarce in this quality!)

Condition: Finely toned, EF, flan flaw at 10, uncleaned reverse.

Weight: 28,46 grams

Ex. Danish Private Collection

Three historical coins from the old Russian Empire. 1) Ivan the Terrible- silver kopek, 1553-1589, Moscow mint, W: 15mm. 2) Boris Godunov- silver kopek, 1598-1605, Moscow mint, W: 13mm. 3) Peter the Great silver kopek, 1689-1725, W: 12mm. Free shipping.

XF silver coin from Hungary under Ferdinand I - Holy Roman Emperor. 1537CE. Depicting Madonna and child and coat of arms. Diameter: 15mm and 0.6gram. Free shipping.

2 Roman Silver Coins Caracalla and Gordian good condition .

Medieval English silver hammered, 1/2 groat, coin Henry the the Seventh, Canterbury Mint, crowned facing bust. 1485-1509CE. Diameter 15mm. Free shipping.

The Nuremberg Chronicles is considered a landmark work in the history of the printed book, and an example of incunabulum (book printed before the year 1500). Described in Wikipedia as essentially a biblical paraphrase, and a history of the known world to that date, it is one of the most extensively illustrated books of the 15th century, considered one of the first to successfully integrate illustrations and text...

Good bronze coin from the Yapahuwa Kingdom, King Buwanekabahu reign circa 1273-1285 CE, Sri Lanka. Cool coin, sort of looks like one of those artifacts proving that we have been visited by aliens. Free shipping via unregistered Hong Kong Airmail in an envelope.

Beautiful silver coin from Bulgaria, Ivan Aelxander 1337-1371. Coin reverse: Ivan Alexander with one of his sons, co-emperor Michael Asen IV obverse: Christ standing. D: 17mm. i gram. Free shipping.

An page from a fifteenth century "Book of Hours", DOUBLE SIDED, page 6 3/4" by 4 3/4, framed with glass on both sides to facilitate viewing. There are 16 lines of text in Latin, decorative borders and capitals with extensive use of gold. According to Wikipedia, books of hours were Christian devotional books popular in the Middle Ages. They are considered the most common type of surviving medieval illustrated manuscripts. Generally they contained prayers and psalms...