Live auction - Lot 553
[Italy]
Italiae veteris specimen.
[Antwerp, s.n., 1609/1612]
Hammer price: €
300
€ 280 / 300
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Lot description
Engr., 34,5 x 48 cm, old hand-coloured (central folding, sm. defects).
Framed (not studied outside frame).
Ortelius's new map of Ancient Italy, based upon Gastaldi's example, made for the Parergon, the 1st historical atlas. With engr. by Jan Wierix. The original copperplate of this map belongs to the collection of Museum Plantin-Moretus, Antwerp.
Ref. Van den Broecke Ort 205.
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