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Auction 133, Lot 9

"[Lot of 2] Gerardus Mercator [and] Petrus Plancius", Buys/Vinkeles

Subject: Portraits

Period: 1790-91 (dated)

Publication:

Color: Hand Color

Size:
3.5 x 5.8 inches
8.9 x 14.7 cm
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Matched pair of copper engravings of the famous cartographers from a Dutch dictionary. The oval portraits are surrounded in a handsomely engraved frame with title below.

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Condition: A+

Estimate: $150 - $200

Sold for: $170

Closed on 9/1/2010

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