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

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Lot #545: "Andaluziae Descriptio" Gabriel Bucelin

Antique map chart Andaluziae Descriptio
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Estimate:
$100.00 - $130.00
Sold for: $75.00

Lot 545
By: Gabriel Bucelin
Subject: Andalusia, Spain
Date: 1658

Publication: Praecipuarum Universi Terrarum Orbis

Condition: A
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Color: hand color

Size: 4.3 x 2.5 inches
11.0 x 6.4 cm

This tiny map shows Andalusia, Spain, with castles marking the major cities and major rivers noted. In the first edition of King's book on miniature maps, he attributed Bucelin's maps to Johann Praetorius who was the publisher of Historiae Universalis Auctorium, which was often bound with the Praecipuarum Universi. Bucelin's maps are very scarce. Latin text on verso.

Nice impression with some light spots in blank margins.


Ref: King (2nd ed.) pp. 126-127.

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