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Auction 108, Lot 367

"Bourdeaux", Munster/Petri

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 graphic 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: B

Lovely old color. Some uneven toning, mostly in margins.

Estimate: $350 - $400

Sold for: $250

Closed on 9/29/2004

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