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

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Lot #590: "Trassilvania" Barent Langenes

Antique map chart Trassilvania
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Estimate:
$90.00 - $120.00
Sold for: $150.00

Lot 590
By: Barent Langenes
Subject: Romania
Date: 1598

Publication: Caert-Thresoor

Condition: B+
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Color: hand color

Size: 5 x 3.8 inches
12.7 x 9.7 cm

This little map is centered on Michelsberg (Cisnadioara) in the historical region of Transylvania in central Romania. It was published by Cornelius Claesz and printed by Langenes in the first edition of the popular Map-treasury. Dutch text on verso.

Some soil and minor repairs in blank margins.


Ref: King (2nd ed.) pp. 80-82.

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