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Auction 147, Lot 540
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"Candia [on sheet with] I Corfu [and] Zante [and] Milo [and] Nicsia [and] Scarpanto", Hondius/Purchas

Subject: Crete

Period: 1625 (circa)

Publication: Purchas His Pilgrimes

Color: Black & White

Size:
7.2 x 5.6 inches
18.3 x 14.2 cm
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Crisply engraved, reduced version of Mercator's handsome map of Crete with small inset maps of the islands of Corfu, Zante, Milos, Naxos, Santorini and Scarpanto at top. It is decorated with a strapwork title cartouche and a moiré patterned sea. English text on verso.

References: Shirley (BL Atlases) G.PUR-1a #35.

Condition: B+

A nice impression with light show-through of text on verso, minor soiling mostly confined to the blank margins, and some small remnants of hinge tape on verso.

Estimate: $110 - $140

Sold for: $80

Closed on 11/20/2013

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