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Antique Map Auction Sale No. 122 - closed 1/5/2007

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Lot #569: "Bavaria Ducatus" Mercator/Jansson

Antique map chart Bavaria Ducatus
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Estimate:
$60.00 - $110.00
Sold for: $40.00

Lot 569
By: Mercator/Jansson
Subject: Germany
Date: 1631

Publication: Atlas Minor

Condition: B+
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Color: hand color

Size: 8 x 5.5 inches
20.4 x 14.0 cm

Nice small map of Bavaria with the Danube River along the top. Fully engraved to show the mountainous terrain, lakes, forests and ornamented with strapwork title and scale of miles cartouches. German text on the verso.

A nice impression with a little faint show-through of the text on verso. One small spot of foxing near the cartouche, else fine.

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