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Auction 141, Lot 515

"Hungariae Descriptio, Wolfgango Lazio Auct", Ortelius, Abraham

Subject: Hungary

Period: 1573 (published)

Publication: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum

Color: Hand Color

Size:
19.6 x 13.8 inches
49.8 x 35.1 cm
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A handsome map of Hungary, eastern Transylvania and Bulgaria. Ortelius based this map on Wolfgang Lazius' 1556 five-sheet wall map. The map is densely engraved with rivers, lakes, mountains and hundreds of place names, each represented by a tiny castle and tiny animals fill the blank spaces. The title spans the top of the map in a strapwork cartouche. At bottom right is a large decorative cartouche containing the rules for Hungarian consonant pronunciation of the place names. This is the second state, published in the first Dutch edition in 1573.

References: Van den Broecke #150.

Condition: B+

Original color on watermarked paper with some damp stains in blank margins that just enter map border in corners. There are a couple of areas of paper weakness in blank margins, with a resulting small hole in bottom right corner, not affecting map.

Estimate: $400 - $500

Sold for: $300

Closed on 9/5/2012

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