Dec 08, 2011 - Sale 2264

Sale 2264 - Lot 45

Price Realized: $ 2,640
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
ORTELIUS, ABRAHAM. La Florida / Peruviae Auriferae Regionis Typus / Guastecan. Double-page engraved map with 3 images, 335x465 mm, wide margins, French text on verso; hand-colored; slight even toning. Cumming 5. Antwerp, 1598
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"This is one of the very few maps printed in the sixteenth century that was based upon original Spanish sources . . . [this is] the first regional map of the south-eastern portion of North America . . . its influence was considerable"--Burden 57. Burden dates the map to 1598 based on the signature mark on the verso.