Ventes live - Lot 1059
[Cartographic oddities]
Discus chronologicus in quo omnes imperatores et reges orbis Europaei [...].
Nuremberg, J.C. Weigel, ca. 1723
€ 200 / 300
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Description du lot
Engr., 51,5 x 48 cm, contemp. hand-coloured (margins sl. soiled and with sm. tear).
Curious time chart in the form of a dial with a pivoting pointer. Its rings represent kingdoms, its radial wedges centuries; in global it provides a chronology of the Holy Roman Emperors, Popes and kings of Europe. Issued in some copies of J. D. Köhler’s undated school atlas "Atlas Scholasticus et Itinerarius".
Ref. Tooley (MCC - Geographical Oddities) 41. - Phillips Atlases 568.