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Auction 117, Lot 519

"Artesia Comitatus", Mercator/Jansson

Subject: France

Period: 1628 (published)

Publication: Atlas Minor

Color: Hand Color

Size:
7 x 4.8 inches
17.8 x 12.2 cm
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Very decorative oval map of the northern province of Artois embellished with title and scale cartouches and set within an elaborate scrolled border. Most likely engraved by Abraham Goos who also published this plate in his Nieuw Nederlandtsch Caertboeck. Latin text on verso.

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Condition: A

Minor soil in blank margins, else fine.

Estimate: $140 - $180

Sold for: $100

Closed on 12/6/2006

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