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

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Lot #679: "Tartaria" Ortelius/Vrients

Antique map chart Tartaria
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Estimate:
$140.00 - $180.00
This lot was withdrawn

Lot 679
By: Ortelius/Vrients
Subject: Asia - Northern
Date: 1604

Publication: Epitome Theatri orbis Terrarum

Condition: B+
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Color: hand color

Size: 4.7 x 3.2 inches
12.0 x 8.2 cm

Charming miniature map covering the northern part of Asia. Corea is depicted as a long peninsula protected by the kingdom of China and the Great Wall. The map was engraved by the brothers Ambrose and Ferdinand Arsenius who had been assistants to Frans Hogenberg and co-engravers of Ortelius' folio Theatrum. This series of maps was accompanied by text by Michel Coignet, which was translated into German by Levinus Hulsius, and was published by Jan B. Vrients. German text on verso.

A small stain in lower blank margin just entering neatline.


Ref: King (2nd ed.) p. 86-87; Tooley p. 319

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