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Auction 126, Lot 754
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"Barbaria", Mercator/Hondius

Subject: Northern Africa

Period: 1610 (circa)

Publication: Atlas Minor

Color: Hand Color

Size:
7 x 5.5 inches
17.8 x 14 cm
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Charming map of the whole of North Africa and the famed Barbary coast. Two large insets at bottom; Carthaginensis Sinus with the city of Tunis, and a map of the Nile Delta. Richly engraved with place names, mountains, and numerous spurious lakes in the Sahara Desert. Strapwork title and scale cartouches. Latin text on verso.

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Condition: A

Some minor spots and printer's creases in the blank margins.

Estimate: $160 - $200

Sold for: $90

Closed on 12/3/2008

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