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Auction 193, Lot 367
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"Chili Provincia Amplissima", Wytfliet, Cornelis

Subject: Chile

Period: 1597 (circa)

Publication: Histoire Universelle des Indes Occidentales et Orientales...

Color: Hand Color

Size:
11.2 x 9 inches
28.4 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: B+

A nice impression on a lightly toned sheet with a large "C" watermark, light foxing, and a couple short worm tracks in the left blank margin that have been repaired with archival materials.

Estimate: $350 - $425

Sold for: $250

Closed on 6/21/2023

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