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Auction 118, Lot 1

"Atlas Minor Gerardi Mercatoris", Mercator/Jansson

Subject: Title Pages

Period: 1628 (dated)

Publication:

Color: Hand Color

Size:
8 x 6 inches
20.3 x 15.2 cm
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Decorative title page filled with allegorical female figures of the continents, geographers measuring the globe, and Atlas holding it aloft.

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Condition: A

Remargined on binding side. Faint manuscript ink scribbling in top blank margin.

Estimate: $200 - $240

Sold for: $150

Closed on 3/6/2007

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