Jun 22, 2023 - Sale 2642

Sale 2642 - Lot 147

Price Realized: $ 15,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 8,000 - $ 12,000
(ATLAS MINOR.) Gerard Mercator; and Jodocus Hondius. Atlas sive Cosmographicae Meditationes de Fabrica Mundi et Fabricati Figura. Half-title, engraved allegorical title, [8], 676, 47, [1] pages with180 full-page engraved maps (158; 22). French text. Oblong 4to, 9x11 inches, original vellum, normal wear and soiling; moderate staining and paper browning; bookplates, small ink stamp to the title. Amsterdam: Johannes Cloppenburgh, 1630

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"This is the first of the so-called Cloppenburgh editions which was a competitive edition with new engraved maps in larger format" (Koeman II Me 198).