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Auction 182, Lot 640
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"Canale di Costantinopoli, Gia Detto Bosforo Tracio...", Coronelli, Vincenzo Maria

Subject: Bosphorus, Turkey

Period: 1695 (circa)

Publication:

Color: Hand Color

Size:
17.3 x 10.3 inches
43.9 x 26.2 cm
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This uncommon map focuses on the Bosphorus Straits, an important waterway between the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara and the boundary between Europe and Asia. The map includes an inset of the same region that depicts the work of Count Luigi Ferdinando Marsili, an Italian scholar, soldier and emissary who traveled through Asia Minor collecting data on natural history.

References: Shirley (BL Atlases) T.CORO-11a #83.

Condition: B+

A sharp impression on a bright sheet with two small damp stains in the title cartouche and light soiling and foxing mostly confined to the blank margins.

Estimate: $800 - $950

Sold for: $450

Closed on 4/28/2021

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