Catalog Archive
Auction 115, Lot 400

"Anglesey [on sheet with] Wight ol: Vectis [and] Garnesay [and] Iarsay", Mercator/Jansson

Subject: Channel Islands

Period: 1634 (published)

Publication: Atlas Minor

Color: Hand Color

Size:
7.7 x 5.3 inches
19.6 x 13.5 cm
Download High Resolution Image
(or just click on image to launch the Zoom viewer)

This is a reduced version of Mercator's folio map with four maps on one sheet depicting the English islands of Jersey, Guernsey, Wright and Alderney. Each map is embellished with its own decorative title cartouche. Latin text on verso.

References:

Condition: A

Printer's ink flaw at upper left, still overall very good.

Estimate: $140 - $170

Sold for: $100

Closed on 6/21/2006

Archived