Dec 17, 2020 - Sale 2555

Sale 2555 - Lot 67

Price Realized: $ 3,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
DE BRY, THEODORE. America Sive Novus Orbis Respectu Europaeorum Inferior Globi Terrestris. Hand-colored double-page engraved map of the Americas. 14x17 1/2 inches sheet size, wide margins; extremely skillful reinstatement of lower margin including the hachured border edge and small portions of the anchor at right. Frankfurt, 1596

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Attractive map of the Western Hemisphere originally published in Part Six of de Bry's Grand Voyages at the close of the sixteenth century. The single hemispheric presentation is nicely decorated in the borders with standing portraits of Christopher Columbus, Amerigo Vespucci, Ferdinand Magellan and Francisco Pizarro. Burden 91.