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Auction 105, Lot 468

"Tabula Geographica, in Qua Iisraelitarum, AB AEgypto ad Kenahanaeam usque profectiones omnes, et stationes deseribuntur Auctore, D.R.M. Mathes…", Plancius/Cloppenburg

Subject: Holy Land

Period: 1625 (circa)

Publication:

Color: Hand Color

Size:
19.5 x 11.5 inches
49.5 x 29.2 cm
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Superb Bible map of the region surrounding the Dead Sea through the Nile Delta depicting the wanderings of the Children of Israel. Panels at top and bottom include vignettes of important events of the Exodus. This is the second state with improvements by D.R.M. Mathes, published by Cloppenberg. Dutch text on verso.

References: Poortman & Augusteijn # 76.

Condition: A

Fine sharp impression and lovely later color. Side margins professionally extended to accommodate framing with top right neatline in facsimile.

Estimate: $1,100 - $1,300

Sold for: $1,500

Closed on 12/3/2003

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