Dec 03, 2009 - Sale 2198

Sale 2198 - Lot 181

Price Realized: $ 1,020
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
JANSSONIUS, JOANNES. Tabula Itineraria ex illustri Peutingerorum Bibliotheca. Engraved 8-section map on 4 double-page mapsheets, 190x2040 mm overall if sectioned and joined, ample margins; few scattered brown spots, mounted to uniform larger sheets. Amsterdam, circa 1652

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"Map showing the military roads throughout the Roman Empire from its westermost to its easternmost borders. Oriented to the west. Palestine appears in the right-hand bottom part of the 'Segmentum VI.' The shoreline runs from Sidon as far as the Nile Delta. The Wandering of the Jews in the Desert is mentioned. Jerusalem appears with the Roman name and the former one 'Antea dicta Hierusalem Halya capitolina'"--Laor 562B.