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Auction 149, Lot 384
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"Description des Mines d'Argent de Potose", Hondius/Bertius

Subject: Potosi, Bolivia

Period: 1618 (published)

Publication: Tabularum Geographicarum Contractarum…

Color: Hand Color

Size:
4.9 x 3.8 inches
12.4 x 9.7 cm
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This charming view shows the Cerro de Potosi, a mountain containing large amounts of silver and around which the city of Potosi was built. Miniature miners appear along the side of the mountain, with a church and several rows of buildings below. The majority of the maps for Bertius' geographical treatise were engraved by Jodocus Hondius Jr. after Mercator. French text on verso.

References: King (2nd ed.) pp. 96-99; Van der Krogt (Vol. III) #Potosi:342.

Condition: B+

A nice impression with marginal soiling.

Estimate: $100 - $130

Sold for: $75

Closed on 5/21/2014

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