Live auction - Lot 548
[Africa]
2 maps of Northern Africa.
Hammer price: €
200
€ 120 / 150
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Lot description
Engr., 33/33,7 x 48/50 cm, hand-coloured (traces of central fold).
Hinged at upper edges. Under passe-partout.
Extracted from the 1609 or 1612 Latin "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum" (leaves xxxii & 127). 1. Africae propriae tabula, in qua, Punica regna vides; Tyrios, et Agenoris urbem [...]. (Some very light stains). First state, with an inset map of Carthago. - 2. Barbariae et Biledulgerid, nova descriptio. 2nd state.
Ref. Van den Broecke (2011) Ort218 (1) & Ort176 (2).