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

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Lot #518: "Burgundia, Com." Ortelius/Galle

Antique map chart Burgundia Com
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Estimate:
$90.00 - $140.00
Sold for: $60.00

Lot 518
By: Ortelius/Galle
Subject: France
Date: 1588

Publication: Epitome du theatre

Condition: A
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Color: hand color

Size: 4.1 x 3.1 inches
10.5 x 7.9 cm

A nice miniature map of the Franche-Comte region centered on Besançon, formerly a fiefdom of the dukes of Burgundy. French text on verso.

Nice old color on a strong sheet with some minor toning. The verso has a French sentence in a manuscript ink contemporary to the map.


Ref: King (2nd Ed. ) pp. 140-41.

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