Jun 20, 2002 - Sale 1940

Sale 1940 - Lot 94

Price Realized: $ 460
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 350 - $ 500
(HOLY LAND.) Ortelius, Abraham. Palestinae Sive Totius Terrae Promissionis Nova Descriptio. Double-page engraved map, 345x465 mm, wide margins, French text on verso; hand-colored; two small worm holes only visible when held to light, some restoration along the fold. Antwerp, 1587

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This is the second state after Ortelius's map of 1570, with the date 1579 in the upper left cartouche. This state was first published in the 1579 Latin edition of the Theatrum; this version in the French edition of the 1587 Theatre de l'Univers.<