Dec 05, 2013 - Sale 2334

Sale 2334 - Lot 127

Unsold
Estimate: $ 150 - $ 250
ORTELIUS / MARCHETTI. Asiae Nova Desc. Small engraved map, 80x105 mm, wide margins; Italian text on verso; matted. Brescia, after 1598

Additional Details

From a pirated Italian edition of Il Theatro del Mondo. The mapping of Japan most closely relates to Ortelius's map of Asia from 1570. The peculiar mapping would repeat in Merula's world map of 1605.