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Antique Map Auction Sale No. 124 - closed 5/7/2008

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Lot #543: "Tab. IX. Europae, Continens Daciam, Misiam, Thraciam, ac Macedoniae Partem" Ptolemy/Mercator

Antique map chart Tab IX Europae Continens Daciam Misiam Thraciam ac M
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Estimate:
$275.00 - $350.00
Sold for: $275.00

Lot 543
By: Ptolemy/Mercator
Subject: Balkans
Date: 1730

Publication: Claudii Ptolemaei's Atlas Tabulae geographicae Orbis Terrarum

Condition: B+
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Color: hand color

Size: 17.7 x 13.7 inches
45.0 x 34.8 cm

This Ptolemaic map covers the northern Balkans with emphasis on the Danube River valley. A strapwork title cartouche lies in the Black Sea. Mercator originally published this map in his 1578 edition of Ptolemy's great Geography. Although he is most renowned today for the projection he popularized and for first using the term 'atlas' for a collection of maps, he devoted much of his life to his Ptolemaic maps. The maps were beautifully engraved as nearly as possible to their original form.

There are a few ink line by city names, else very good.


Ref: Mickwitz & Miekkavaara, (Nordenskiold-2) #235-27.

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