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Auction 104, Lot 419

"Bourdeaux", Munster, Sebastian

Subject: France

Period: 1550 (circa)

Publication: Cosmographia

Color: Hand Color

Size:
12 x 9 inches
30.5 x 22.9 cm
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A very fine bird's-eye plan of the city with particularly good renderings of the castles, churches and Roman ruins. Ships and fishing boats fill the harbor. The plan is surrounded in a picture-frame style border.

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Condition: A

Fine later color. Soiled margins.

Estimate: $220 - $275

Sold for: $425

Closed on 9/10/2003

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