Dec 10 at 12:00 PM - Sale 2689 -

Sale 2689 - Lot 147

Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(WORLD.) Group of 5 seventeenth-to-eighteenth-century engraved world maps. Vp, vd

Additional Details

- Mercator/Hondius. Designatio Orbis Christiani. On a folio leaf of English text, 12¾x8 inches sheet size; light foxing. London, 1625.

- Philipp Cluver. Orbis Terrarum Typus. 7¼x11½ inches sheet size, wide margins; paper deckle. Amsterdam 1683.

- Henri Chatelain. Mappe-Monde pour Connoitre les Progres & les Conquestes les plus Remarquables des Provinces. 14½x19 inches sheet size, wide margins; hand-colored; age toned, small stains and edge tears. Amsterdam, 1719.

- Jean-Francois Lafitau. Histoire des Decouvertes et Conquestes des Portugais dans le Nouveau Monde. 10½x19 inches sheet size, wide margins, trimmed at lower right for binding; old folds, closed tear at mount point. Paris, 1733.

- Thomas Bowen. A New & Complete Mercator Chart of the World. 914¾ inches sheet size, wide margins; damp stain at the edges. London, circa 1780.