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Auction 169, Lot 435
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"Comitatus Salopiensis; Anglice Shrop Shire", Blaeu, (Family)

Subject: Western England

Period: 1646 (circa)

Publication:

Color: Hand Color

Size:
19.6 x 14.9 inches
49.8 x 37.8 cm
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This exquisite county map of Shropshire is filled with detail of the mountains, forests, estates, and towns. The four corners are richly embellished with cartouches, coats-of-arms, cherubs, and a distance scale. Latin text on verso. Published 1646-62 in either Theatrum Orbis Terrarum sive Atlas Novus Pars Quarta or Geographiae Blavianae Volumen Quintum.

References: Van der Krogt (Vol II) #5355:2.

Condition: B+

A crisp impression with original color on a watermarked sheet with light foxing and soiling.

Estimate: $200 - $230

Sold for: $180

Closed on 9/12/2018

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