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Auction 128, Lot 706

"Graecia", Langenes, Barent

Subject: Greece

Period: 1598 (published)

Publication: Caert-thresoor

Color: Hand Color

Size:
4.8 x 3.3 inches
12.2 x 8.4 cm
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Handsome miniature map of Greece including the islands and adjacent Turkish coastline. The maps of this rival to Ortelius' pocket atlas were engraved by two of the finest Flemish engravers: brothers-in-law Jodocus Hondius and Pieter van den Keere. This map doesn't have an engraver's signature. Dutch text on verso.

References: King (2nd ed.) pp. 80-82.

Condition: B+

Margins soiled with paper loss in the lower right margin.

Estimate: $200 - $250

Sold for: $130

Closed on 5/20/2009

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