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Auction 128, Lot 717

"Italia", Bry, Theodore de

Subject: Italy

Period: 1597 (circa)

Publication: Romanae Urbis Topographia

Color: Black & White

Size:
16.5 x 13 inches
41.9 x 33 cm
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This is a very rare, copper engraved map of Italy. It was published in Jean-Jacques Boissard's six-volume description of Roman antiquities (1597-1602). The map is finely engraved with a stippled sea filled with ships and a fierce sea monster, and graced with a garland draped title cartouche. The map is densely packed with place names and extends to show Corsica, most of Sardinia and just a bit of Sicily. There is no record of this map having been on the market in the past 25 years.

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Condition: B+

Remargined at bottom margin with the border in expert facsimile. Issued folded, now flattened.

Estimate: $800 - $1,200

Sold for: $900

Closed on 5/20/2009

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