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Auction 113, Lot 16

"[Lot of 2] Gerardus Mercator [and] Petrus Plancius", Buys/Vinkeles

Subject: Cartographer Portraits

Period: 1790 (circa)

Publication:

Color: Black & White

Size:
3.5 x 6 inches
8.9 x 15.2 cm
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Pair of finely engraved portraits of Dutch cartographers. Each oval portrait is surrounded in a handsomely engraved frame with title below. They are from a Dutch dictionary.

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Condition: A+

Estimate: $130 - $180

Sold for: $100

Closed on 12/7/2005

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