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Auction 94, Lot 3

"America", Meurs, Jacob van

Subject: Title Page

Period: 1675 (circa)

Publication:

Color: Hand Color

Size:
7 x 11.5 inches
17.8 x 29.2 cm
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Beautiful copper engraved frontispiece with America held aloft in a seashell and surrounded by natves and indigenous animals. Title in banner across the top and blank cartouche at bottom.

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Condition: A

Lovely later color with some light offsetting in margins.

Estimate: $275 - $350

Sold for: $230

Closed on 3/7/2001

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