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Antique Map Auction Sale No. 121 - closed 9/26/2007

Featuring 885 lots of rare antique maps, charts, pocket maps, globes and atlases
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Lot #6: "Ferdinand Magellanus" Arnoldus Montanus

Antique atlas title page Ferdinand Magellanus
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Estimate:
$200.00 - $250.00
Passed

Lot 6
By: Arnoldus Montanus
Subject: Portraits
Date: 1673

Publication:

Condition: B
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Color: uncolored

Size: 6.5 x 11 inches
16.6 x 28.0 cm

A strongly engraved portrait of the first circumnavigator, enclosed in an elaborately engraved cartouche-like frame. The background is a view of one of the exotic ports visited by Magellan.

A nice impression on a sheet that has some foxing.

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