Live auction - Lot 82
[Flemish]
"Nova reperta".
Antwerp, Philips Galle, c. 1591
Hammer price: €
3.400
€ 120 / 150
Live bidding (Drouot*) Live bidding (Invaluable*)Bidding is closed
Lot description
3 engravings, c. 20,1 x 27,2 cm, laid paper, signed "Ioan. Stradanus invent.", address "Ph(i)l(ip)s Galle excud.", 1 signed "Ioan. Collaert sculp.", numb. 11, 15, 16, Latin text (few spots, trimmed outside platemark).
Good impressions and condition. Mounted on paper at left edges.
From the famous series on modern inventions: the windmill (n. 11), eyeglasses (n. 15) and the discovery of the establishment of longitudes (n. 16).
Ref. New Hollstein (Johannes Stradanus) 333.II (of IV), 337.II (of IV), 338.II (of IV).