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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 #566: "Bohemia" Mercator/Cloppenburgh

Antique map chart Bohemia
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Estimate:
$160.00 - $200.00
Sold for: $120.00

Lot 566
By: Mercator/Cloppenburgh
Subject: Czech Republic
Date: 1632

Publication: Atlas Minor

Condition: A
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Color: hand color

Size: 10 x 7.3 inches
25.4 x 18.6 cm

This is a slightly larger version of Mercator's small map of Bohemia focused on the Vltava (Molda) River with Prague near the center. It was boldly engraved by Petrus Kaerius with mountains, forests and scores of tiny villages and is graced with a pair of strapwork cartouches. Latin text on verso.

There is a light stain at the bottom right corner reinforced with paper on verso.

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