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Auction 130, Lot 568

"Prussiae Nova Tabula", Cluver, Philipp

Subject: Northeastern Europe, Poland

Period: 1697 (circa)

Publication: Introductio in Universam Geographicam…

Color: Hand Color

Size:
13.3 x 10.5 inches
33.8 x 26.7 cm
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This finely engraved map covers northeastern Poland from about Gdansk to Lithuania, and includes the present-day Russian enclave of Kaliningrad Oblast. The map is filled with detail and engraved with forests, mountains, fortresses. A large decorative title cartouche and a compass rose completes the composition.

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Condition: B+

Issued folded, now flattened with the binding trim at lower left replaced and a tiny binding tear repaired.

Estimate: $240 - $300

Sold for: $180

Closed on 12/2/2009

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