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Antique Map Auction Sale No. 113 - closed 12/7/2005

Featuring 872 lots of rare antique maps, charts, pocket maps, globes and atlases
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Lot #627: Hispaniae Veteris Descriptio

Antique map chart Hispaniae Veteris Descriptio
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Estimate:
$450.00 - $500.00
Sold for: $350.00

Lot 627
By: Abraham Ortelius
Subject: Spain & Portugal
Date: 1586

Publication: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum

Condition: A
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Color: hand color

Size: 19 x 14.8 inches
48.3 x 37.6 cm

Elegant map of the Iberian peninsula depicting the region in ancient times. The map was based on modern information from Clusius' six-sheet map of 1571 with ancient knowledge from Strabo, Appianus, Bongarius, Livius, Valerius Maximus and Suetonius. The region of Gibraltar and Cadiz are included in an inset. The map is beautifully engraved with a stippled sea, strapwork cartouches and calligraphy. Latin text on verso, published circa 1601-1612.

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