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Antique Map Auction Sale No. 94 - closed 3/7/2001

Featuring 514 lots of rare antique maps, charts, pocket maps, globes and atlases
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Lot #45: "Regiones Sub Polo Arctico" Blaeu

Antique map chart Regiones Sub Polo Arctico
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Estimate:
$1,100.00 - $1,200.00
Sold for: $1,200.00

Lot 45
By: Blaeu
Subject: North Pole
Date: 1638

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Condition: B
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Color: hand color

Size: 20.7 x 16 inches
52.6 x 40.7 cm

One of the many cases of duplication by the firms of Blaeu and Hondius/Jansson. In this case, Blaeu has copied Jansson's map of 1637. It depicts rhumb lines radiating from the North Pole. A large title cartouche, with two figures and numerous wind heads, conveniently hides the unknown northwest coast of America. The map is further decorated with several compass roses, ships and an additional cartouche that features men in parkas, a polar bear and foxes. This is the first state of the plate. Ref: Burden #252. Lovely outline color on map and fully colored decorations including gold highlights in the compass roses. Expert repair of centerfold and some faint offsetting.



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