Live veiling - Lot 520
[World - America]
America in praecipuas ipsius partes distributa [...]. L'Amérique selon les nouvelles observations [...].
Leiden, P. Van Der Aa, [c. 1713]
Hamerprijs: €
900
€ 800 / 1.200
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Beschrijving lot
Engr., 47,2 x 66,4 cm, hand-coloured (few tiny spots).
Hinged at upper edge.
Elaborate map, with an insular California, engraved by J. Baptist after Jan Goeree. Large decorative title cartouche with a victorious native woman holding a bow high and a cannibalistic feast in the background. Only 1 publication known: "Le Nouveau Théâtre du Monde ou La Geographie Royale" in 1713. Verso blank.
Ref. Koeman I Aa6 (49).