MERCATOR GERARD Galliae Belgii Germaniae

Sale 2027 - Lot 15

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Estimate: $ 30,000 - $ 40,000

MERCATOR, GERARD. Galliae - Belgii - Germaniae. 51 hand-colored maps, nicely colored but probably at a later date; hand-colored portrait of Mercator, trimmed to image and remounted to size. Folio, 400x270, early calf, rebacked; text leaf preceding the index with extensive repairs to tears, with loss of a few letters, final map (Hungary) with repaired tear which just enters the image, usual finger-soiling. Amsterdam, circa 1630

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Map signatures collate with Koeman Me 9; but this is probably a later printing.