Live auction - Lot 513
[Wall map - Europe]
L'Europe dressée sur les nouvelles observations faites en toutes les parties de la terre rectifiée [...]. Divisée en tous ses royaumes et états [...].
Paris, by the son of the author, 1740
Hammer price: €
3.800
€ 2.500 / 3.000
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Lot description
Engr., on 12 sheets, together c. 125,3 x 139,5 cm, borders heightened (few spots, traces of folds, few sm. cracks).
Edges enlarged and reinforced with laid paper, c. 3 cm (some marg. dampstaining visible on verso, some soiling).
Large, detailed wall map, incl. the separate decorative border (on 8 sheets) with historical vignettes. The map (on 4 sheets) is ornated with a very large allegorical title cartouche and a sea battle off the coast of Spain and Portugal. The border contains 2 large text cartouches, completed with 30 finely engraved vignettes with text depicting both historical scenes or various countries (o.a. the Sack of Rome, the baptism of Clovis, the fall of Constantinople).