Live auction - Lot 452

[America]

MERCATOR, Gerard

America sive India Nova [...].


Hammer price: € 850

€ 500 / 600

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Lot description

Engr., 37,2 x 46,5 cm, hand-coloured (sl. browned, particularly on the right half, orig. wrinkle in the upper left corner).

Framed (not studied outside frame).

Important continent map of North and South America represented in a hemisphere, California being attached to the continent. Including the North and South pole and New Guinea. In the corners of the floral ornamental border, 4 inset roundels: the title and 3 small maps figuring the Golf of Mexico and the Isles of Cuba and Haiti. Fine copy of this particular map, published for the first time in 1595.
Ref. Van der Krogt [9000:1A]. - Burden 87.

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Lot 452

America sive India Nova [...].

MERCATOR, Gerard

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