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Auction 89, Lot 5

"Atlas Minor"

Subject: Title Page

Period: 1651 (dated)

Publication:

Color: Black & White

Size:
8 x 6.2 inches
20.3 x 15.7 cm
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A great decorative sheet filled with allegorical figures of the continents, cherubs, Atlas, geographers, astronomers and exotic animals. A bit of surface soil and a small worm track just barely entering the neatline at left, else crisp fine engraving.

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Condition: B

Estimate: $250 - $325

Sold for: $170

Closed on 12/8/1999

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