Dec 06, 2007 - Sale 2131

Sale 2131 - Lot 19

Price Realized: $ 96,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 25,000 - $ 35,000
MORTIER, PIETER and JAILLOT, HUBERT. Le Neptune François, ou Atlas Nouveau des Carte Marines. Engraved additional title, 3 ship plates, one plates of scales, 29 hand-colored double-page charts. BOUND WITH--Cartes Marines a l'Usage des Armées du Roy de la Grande Bretagne. Engraved additional title, 9 hand-colored engraved charts. Folio, 635x500 mm, contemporary mottled calf gilt, hinges cracked but still secured with binding cords; offsetting on most charts from the original colors used. Paris [but Amsterdam], 1693; Amsterdam, 1693

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first edition. Quite a nice copy of this desirable atlas, with many of the maps bearing gilt highlights and nice wide margins. The offsetting on the charts is usual with this atlas if the color is original. Koemen IV, page 423-24; Koeman IV, M. Mor 1.