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Antique Map Auction Sale No. 111 - closed 6/8/2005

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Lot #609: "Asiae Pars Potissima" Scherer

Antique map chart Asiae Pars Potissima
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Estimate:
$200.00 - $250.00
This lot was withdrawn

Lot 609
By: Scherer
Subject: Asia - Central
Date: 1710

Publication: Atlas Novus

Condition: +A
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Color: hand color

Size: 7.1 x 9.2 inches
18.1 x 23.4 cm

An attractive map focusing on the central part of Asia but extending to include much of Eastern Europa and Northeastern Africa. The Caspian Sea is depicted with a curious oval shape. Nova Zembla is confidently shown as an island; whereas earlier cartographers depicted only the southern and western coastlines reflecting the discoveries of Barents and Linschoten.

Sharp impression and fine later color.

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