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Auction 124, Lot 509

"Circulus Saxoniae Inferioris in omnes suos Status et Principatus accurate divisus ex conatibus", Homann, Johann Baptist

Subject: Germany

Period: 1716 (circa)

Publication:

Color: Hand Color

Size:
22.2 x 18.6 inches
56.4 x 47.2 cm
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This map is filled with information and hundreds of villages and towns. Dozens of fortified cities are shown, including Berlin, Bremen, Hamburg, Osnabruck, Minden, and Magdeburg. The large title cartouche features the goddess Diana and a river god.

References:

Condition: B

There are a few creases and repairs on the lower centerfold and margin. A faint damp stain at the top of the map. The cities of Bremen, Goslar and Lubeck have manuscript ink notations.

Estimate: $130 - $180

Sold for: $80

Closed on 5/7/2008

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