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

Featuring 741 lots of rare antique maps, charts, pocket maps, globes and atlases
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Lot #603: "Tartaria" Mercator/Cloppenburgh

Antique map chart Tartaria
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Estimate:
$170.00 - $230.00
Sold for: $130.00

Lot 603
By: Mercator/Cloppenburgh
Subject: Northern Asia
Date: 1630

Publication: Atlas Minor

Condition: A
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Color: hand color

Size: 10.2 x 7.4 inches
25.9 x 18.8 cm

From the enlarged version of Mercator's famous small format atlas. This map covers all of northern Asia from Moscow to the Anian Fretum and a bit of what is today Alaska. Korea is shown as an island. The Great Wall separates Tartary from China. Novaya Zemlya is connected to the mainland by a long narrow isthmus.

Pleasantly toned with a tiny fold separation in the top margin.

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