Dec 04, 2008 - Sale 2165

Sale 2165 - Lot 5

Price Realized: $ 1,592
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
BLAEU, WILLEM. Mappa Aestivarum Insularum alias Barmudas. Double-page engraved map, 410x540 mm, wide margins, Latin text on verso; hand-colored in outline; slightest hint of browning along fold, very light toning. Amsterdam, 1635 or later

Additional Details

Map first appeared in Blaeu''s Atlantis Appendix (1630) and then in numerous editions of the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. The map is based on Speed''s Mapp of the Sommer Islands from 1626. Palmer 7.