Dec 05, 2017 - Sale 2464

Sale 2464 - Lot 188

Price Realized: $ 4,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,500
PITT, MOSES. Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica ac Hydrographica Tabula. Double-page engraved world map. 20 1/2x24 inches sheet size, wide margins; original hand-color; quite a fine example. Oxford, 1680

Additional Details

Scarce decorative world map which is a reworking of Pieter van den Keere's plate of 1608 (see lot 108.) One of two world maps to appear in Moses Pitt's English Atlas. Shirley 504.