Jul 09, 2020 - Sale 2540

Sale 2540 - Lot 266

Price Realized: $ 688
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
MURR, CHRISTOPHE THEOPHILE de. Histoire Diplomatique du Chevalier Portugais Martin Behaim de Nuremberg. Avec la Description de Son Globe Terrestre. ix, 156, [1] pages, folding woodcut plate, large folding engraved map, extra-illustrated with a stipple engraved portrait of Behaim mounted within a preliminary leaf. bound with: Morris, John G. Martin Behaim, the German Astronomer and Cosmographer of the Times of Columbus. 48 pages. Baltimore: Printed for the Maryland Historical Society by John Murphy & Co., 1855. 8vo, 8 1/2x5 1/4 inches, 19th century half morocco, spine gilt, minor rubbing; the first work uncut. Strasbourg and Paris: Treuttel and Würtz, An X (1802)

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Scarce volume containing a map and plate illustrating Behaim's spurious fifteenth-century claims of a Western Hemisphere discovered by Europeans (...himself?) prior to Columbus.