Dec 06, 2012 - Sale 2297

Sale 2297 - Lot 151

Price Realized: $ 3,120
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
BERTIUS, PETRUS. Geographia Vetus ex Antiquis, et melioris notae scriptoribus nuper collecta. 20 engraved maps; hand-colored in outline. Oblong 4to, 190x220 mm, contemporary vellum; somewhat unevenly browned throughout, offsetting from color on maps to facing text leaves, text leaf facing the polar projected world map is defective at fore-edge and lacking some text, color on maps beginning to oxidize. Paris, 1630
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The atlas contains 5 world maps, including 3 of the ancient world after Pomponius Mela, Poseidonius, and Ptolemaeus. The modern world maps include a polar projected double-hemispheric and a double-hemispheric stereographic projection. All maps in the atlas were engraved by Melchior Tavernier and are dated 1628. The atlas was reprinted by Boiseau in 1645.
We find no auction records for this First Edition Bertius atlas. Only 3 institutional holdings have been located, none in the United States. Shirley 321 and 322 for the modern hemispheric maps.