May 19, 2015 - Sale 2384

Sale 2384 - Lot 150

Price Realized: $ 27,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 30,000 - $ 50,000
[RENARD, LOUIS.] Atlas de la navigation et du commerce qui se fait dans toutes les parties du monde. Engraved frontispiece by Picart, title in red and black with vignette of the royal arms in original hand-color and heightened with gold, 27 double-page maps, one folding map, and two folding plans. Folio, 540x350 mm, original gilt red morocco with elaborate device depicting Atlas holding an armillary sphere, hinges starting, covers and spine rubbed; maps with beautiful original hand-color in outline; very small separations to the folding map of Europe, some sheets with minor foxing and offsetting. Koeman IV, Ren1; Phillips, Atlases, 559. Amsterdam: Louis Renard, 1715