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Auction 128, Lot 753

"[Lot of 2] Sardinia Insula [and] Calaris Sardiniae Caput", Munster, Sebastian

Subject: Sardinia

Period: 1578 (published)

Publication: Cosmographia oder beschreibung Aller Lander…

Color: Hand Color

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Nice pair of maps from a German edition of Munster's monumental world history. The first is a charming early woodblock map of Sardinia with towns and cities featured together with dramatic topography. Title in ribbon style banner. There is an illustration of a city in ruins following an earthquake on verso (6 x 10"). The second is a bird's-eye plan of Cagliari, the important fortified capital city on the southern tip of Sardinia (7 x 7.3). Both of full sheets (8 x 13.5") with German text.

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Condition: A

Damp stains in the blank margins.

Estimate: $275 - $325

Sold for: $170

Closed on 5/20/2009

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