Jun 07, 2018 - Sale 2481

Sale 2481 - Lot 4

Price Realized: $ 175
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
(AMERICAS.) Together two unusual anonymous maps of America. Vp, vd

Additional Details

The first a decorative Turkish manuscript map of North and South America showing California as an island. A map made to look old but created for the tourist trade, likely in Istanbul in the latter part of the twentieth century. 16 1/2x12 1/2 inches sheet size, wide margins; light soiling. and: An engraved map of North America without toponyms, bordered by elaborate margins of American fauna. Boundaries of the United States, Canada and Mexico hand-colored in outline; circular printed label "Severnaya America" in Cyrillic alphabet pasted on. 14 1/4x12 inches sheet size; n.p., circa 1845.