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Auction 117, Lot 520

"Tours", Munster/Petri

Subject: France

Period: 1628 (circa)

Publication: Cosmographiae Universalis

Color: Hand Color

Size:
13 x 10 inches
33 x 25.4 cm
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Attractive bird's-eye view of the city surrounded in an elaborate decorative border. Additional ribbon-style cartouche, titled "la Ville de Tours" with two coats of arms fill the sky above the city. From a German edition with text on verso.

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Condition: B

Lightly toned, slightly darker along centerfold.

Estimate: $160 - $200

Sold for: $80

Closed on 12/6/2006

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