Dec 09, 2021 - Sale 2591

Sale 2591 - Lot 90

Price Realized: $ 1,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
(HOLY LAND.) Johann Bongars; after Pietro Vesconte. [Untitled engraved folding map]. Watermarked laid paper, 12x16 3/4 inches sheet size, wide margins; virtually flawless condition. Hanau, 1611

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Scarce example of Bongars' unedited seventeenth-century engraved rendering of this important Medieval map of the Holy Land, which, until the time of the present publication, was only seen in a 14th-century manuscript of Vesconte's geography compiled by Marino Sanudo.