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Auction 135, Lot 390

"Venezuela, atque Occidentalis pars Novae Andalusiae", Gerritsz/De Laet

Subject: Venezuela

Period: 1633 (circa)

Publication: Novus Orbis seu descriptionis Indiae Occidentalis

Color: Hand Color

Size:
14 x 11 inches
35.6 x 27.9 cm
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This handsome map shows a well detailed coastline, but only a few interior place names, and a nice depiction of the Lesser Antilles. The map is beautifully engraved with decorative title and distance scale cartouches and a large compass rose. Hessel Gerritsz was apprenticed to Blaeu as an engraver before starting his own business. He then was appointed Cartographer to the Dutch East India Company and subsequently held the same position in a newly formed West India Company. Gerritsz traveled to South America and the West Indies in 1628, and his maps of South America laid the foundation for many other cartographers.

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Condition: B+

Trimmed to neatline at bottom left with a couple minor creases.

Estimate: $400 - $475

Sold for: $300

Closed on 2/16/2011

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