May 29 at 12:00 PM - Sale 2706 -

Sale 2706 - Lot 94

Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
(HOLY LAND.) Claudius Ptolemaeus; and Johann Reger. Quarta Asie Tabula. Double-page woodcut map of present-day Cyprus, Palestine, Israel, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, Iraq, and Kuwait bounded by the Mediterranean Sea and Persian Gulf. 16½x22¼ inches sheet size, wide margins, Latin text on verso; old hand-color in full; cracked verdigris in the lower Mediterranean stabilized on verso, skilled reinstatement of small areas of loss along the center fold; attractively float-mounted and framed in gilt by Eli Wilner. Laor 604. Ulm, 1486