Dec 04, 2014 - Sale 2369

Sale 2369 - Lot 44

Price Realized: $ 562
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
(ECLIPSE MAP.) [León y Gama, Antonio de.] Transitio de la sombra y Penumbra de la Luna sobre la superficie de la Tierra, en el Eclipse de dia 24 de Junio de 1778. Engraved map of shapes meant to represent the Americas and Europe, with overlaid grid charting reports of the eclipse. 205x305 mm, trimmed to neatline in small portion of lower left corner, otherwise trimmed to platemark. [Mexico, 1778]

Additional Details

An interesting map drawn by someone with apparently no cartographic competence whatsoever; very rare as such. Extracted from Antonio de León y Gama's Descripcion orthographica universal de eclipse de sol, itself quite rare at auction. Medina, México, 7003.