Jun 20, 2002 - Sale 1940

Sale 1940 - Lot 91

Price Realized: $ 575
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(HOLY LAND.) Mercator, Gerard. Terra Sancta. Double-page engraved map, 365x500 mm, wide margins, French text on verso; light staining in the margins, restoration along the bottom fold in the margin, light diagonal crease. Amsterdam, 1619

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This map by Mercator is after the Ortlelius map of 1584, oriented to the East and with a small image in the bottom left corner of Jonah being thrown from a ship to a whale.<