Jun 20, 2002 - Sale 1940

Sale 1940 - Lot 87

Price Realized: $ 978
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(HOLY LAND.) Blaeu, Guillaume. Terra Sancta quae in Sacris Terra Promissionis olim Palestina. Double-page engraved map, 380x495 mm, wide margins, French text on verso; hand-colored; clean separation along bottom of fold just to neat line, minor marginal edge tear. Amsterdam, 1629 [but 1635]

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This map, from the French edition of Le Theatre du Monde, is oriented to the west, contains images of Moses and Aaron on either side of the cartouche, and depicts Pharaoh's troops drowning in the Red Sea. <