Dec 05, 2017 - Sale 2464

Sale 2464 - Lot 87

Price Realized: $ 1,105
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
HONTER, JOHANN. Universalis Cosmographia. Double-page semi-cordiform woodblock world map on folio leaf with miniature single-hemispheric world map and partial map of Portugal and Spain on verso. 6x8 inches sheet size, wide margins; minor losses along centerfold. Zurich, 1546

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From Honter's Rudimenta Cosmograhica first published in 1546. The cartography is a reduction of the important world maps by Martin Waldseemuller in 1507 and Peter Apian in 1520, depicting a sliver of the New World at the left edge. Shirley 86.