Dec 04, 2008 - Sale 2165

Sale 2165 - Lot 289

Price Realized: $ 2,160
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
APIANUS - FRISIUS. Charta Cosmographica. Double-page wood-engraved world map, 225x305 mm sheet size; repairs along bottom edge with loss of some of the caption; matted. Antwerp, 1544 or later

Additional Details

First state of the Apian I plate, without Britain identified and "Europa" at an angle. This copy lacking the 13 lines of text which appeared on the sheet beneath the map, thus making it impossible to determine which edition it appeared in. The first state appeared in editions published both in Antwerp and Paris between 1541 and 1553. Shirley 82.