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Antique Map Auction Sale No. 133 - closed 9/1/2010

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Lot #494: "[Argow]" Mercator/Hondius

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Estimate:
$200.00 - $250.00
This lot was withdrawn

Lot 494
By: Mercator/Hondius
Subject: Switzerland
Date: 1609-19

Publication:

Condition: A
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Color: hand color

Size: 18.5 x 14.2 inches
47.0 x 36.1 cm

Handsome map of central Switzerland with Bern and Lucerne located. Icons locate the larger towns with small villages indicated by small circles. The mountains are graphically illustrated. French text on verso with page number 349 at right.

The map image and impression are fine. The very wide margins have a small area of paper weakness at bottom along centerfold with archival tape on verso poorly applied.


Ref: KOEMAN Me 19.

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