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Auction 147, Lot 568

"[Title on Verso] Terra Santa", Munster, Sebastian

Subject: Holy Land

Period: 1550 (circa)

Publication: Cosmographia

Color: Black & White

Size:
6.5 x 10.2 inches
16.5 x 25.9 cm
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This untitled woodblock map of the Holy Land and Cyprus covers the region from Southern Turkey to the Nile Delta. Contains two inset panels of Italian text. On verso is an illustration of Moses and the Ten Commandments, also accompanied by Italian text.

References: cf. Laor #528.

Condition: B+

Trimmed close to the neatline at left with light soiling at bottom right.

Estimate: $140 - $170

Sold for: $100

Closed on 11/20/2013

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