Mar 30, 2006 - Sale 2074

Sale 2074 - Lot 78

Price Realized: $ 5,290
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,500
AMERICAN CLASSIC ORTELIUS, ABRAHAM. Americae sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio. Double-page engraved map, 355x485 mm, wide margins, French text on verso; hand-colored in outline; border elements entirely hand-colored. Antwerp, 1587 [i.e. 1598]
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A lovely copy of this classic map. First state from the third plate by Ortelius. Though dated 1587 in the plate, this copy of the map derives from the second French edition of 1598, with the "nes de la grandeur" reading in the final line of text on the verso. Burden 64.