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Antique Map Auction Sale No. 127 - closed 2/25/2009

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Lot #22: "Orbis Terrae Compendiosa Descriptio" Giuseppe Rosaccio

Antique map chart Orbis Terrae Compendiosa Descriptio
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Estimate:
$600.00 - $700.00
This lot was withdrawn

Lot 22
By: Giuseppe Rosaccio
Subject: World
Date: 1713

Publication: Universus Terranam Orbis Scriptorum

Condition: A+
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Color: uncolored

Size: 9.8 x 6.8 inches
24.9 x 17.3 cm

A finely engraved double hemisphere map based on Rumold Mercator's great map of 1587. It includes a large southern continent, no Korean peninsula, the "kite" shaped Japan, and several mythical islands in the North Atlantic. The engraving is in the Italian style with a stipple engraved sea and simple border. This map originally appeared in Rosaccio's edition of Ptolemy's Geographia in 1598, and subsequently in Lasor a Varea's Universus Terranam Orbis Scriptorum (with T.2.pag.284 printed at the top right).

There is a bit of printer's ink residue, otherwise clean and bright with wide original margins.


Ref: Shirley #217.

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