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Antique Map Auction Sale No. 136 - closed 6/1/2011

Featuring 845 lots of rare antique maps, charts, pocket maps, globes and atlases
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Lot #541: "Regni Hispaniae Postomnium Editiones Locupleissima descriptio" Ortelius/Marchetti

Antique map chart Regni Hispaniae Postomnium Editiones Locupleissima d
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Estimate:
$120.00 - $160.00
Sold for: $90.00

Lot 541
By: Ortelius/Marchetti
Subject: Spain & Portugal
Date: 1598

Publication: Theatro del Mondo

Condition: A+
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Color: hand color

Size: 4.3 x 3 inches
11.0 x 7.7 cm

This is an attractive miniature version of Ortelius' important map of the Iberian peninsula. Pietro Maria Marchetti produced the second pocket atlas based on Abraham Ortelius' folio Theatrum. It is often referred to as the plagiarized version of the Epitome. The copper plates are closely copied from those of Philip Galle's 1593 Italian edition. On a full sheet (5.5 x 7.5") of Italian text.




Ref: King (2nd ed.) pp.78-79.

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