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Auction 178, Lot 265

"Chili Provincia Amplissima", Wytfliet, Cornelis

Subject: Chile

Period: 1598 (circa)

Publication:

Color: Hand Color

Size:
11.3 x 9 inches
28.7 x 22.9 cm
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This important early map covers Chile from Valdivia to Camana. The map details rivers, mountains, and numerous cities and villages west of the Andes. It is simply adorned with a strapwork cartouche in a stipple engraved sea. This was published in either Wytfliet's Descriptionis Ptolemaicae Augmentum or Histoire Universelle des Indes Occidentales et Orientales…

References: cf. Mickwitz & Miekkavaara #307-3.

Condition: A

A nice impression on a bright sheet with a seahorse watermark and a pair of small worm holes at center that have been professionally infilled.

Estimate: $400 - $500

Sold for: $250

Closed on 6/10/2020

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