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Auction 158, Lot 29

"Diversi Globi Terr-Aquei Statione Variante et Visu Intercedente, per Coluros Tropicorum...", Seutter/Lotter

Subject: World

Period: 1770 (circa)

Publication: Atlas Minor

Color: Hand Color

Size:
10 x 7.6 inches
25.4 x 19.3 cm
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This is the reduced edition after Seutter's larger and beautiful map that is considered one of the most graphic 18th century world maps. California is an Island, Japan is shown in a bizarre shape that incorporates the fictional Terra Yedso. An elongated stretch of land, Terra Esonis extends from Japan to California. The map is filled with detail including the tracks of several explorers. Between the hemispheres are celestial charts of the northern and southern skies, while diagrams of the solar system based on the theories of Ptolemy, Copernicus, Descartes and Tycho Brahe fill the corners. It is set in a richly engraved background of clouds with numerous wind heads and four cartouches. Engraved by Andrea Silbereisen.

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Condition: B+

Issued folding with full original color, light soiling, and several short separations along the folds.

Estimate: $350 - $450

Sold for: $250

Closed on 6/22/2016

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