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Auction 99, Lot 320

"De insulis Britannicis, Albione, quae est Anglia & Hibernia, & de ciuitatibus earum in genere", Munster, Sebastian

Subject: Britain

Period: 1540 (circa)

Publication: Geographia

Color: Hand Color

Size:
5.2 x 3.1 inches
13.2 x 7.9 cm
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Charming woodblock map presenting a broad outline of the British Isles with no detail other than the location of the cities of Edinburg, London, Oxford, Dover and Wexford.

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Condition: B

Attractive old color. Trimmed from a sheet of Latin text and pasted onto old board at the left margin.

Estimate: $200 - $250

Sold for: $180

Closed on 6/12/2002

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