Dec 06, 2012 - Sale 2297

Sale 2297 - Lot 50

Price Realized: $ 420
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
HOMANN / WEIGEL. Nova Asiae tabula. Double-page engraved map, 290x360 mm, wide margins; hand-colored; matted. Nuremberg: Weigel, circa 1720
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One of the strangest mappings of Japan from the early 18th century. An enormous Yedso is joined to Honshû by a land bridge. The Homann/Weigel map borrows heavily from the Scherer map of Asia issued circa 1705.