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"Atlas Minor Sive totius Orbis Terrarum", Visscher, Nicolas

Subject: Title Page

Period: 1682 (circa)

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Color: Black & White

Size:

12.2 x 20.5 inches
31 x 52.1 cm

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A very unusual title page in that it is printed in a sepia ink. It is a beautifully engraved scene of two women drawing maps with a lion curled at their feet, Neptune astride a large globe (showing the Atlantic Ocean), a trumpeting angel, and Atlas bearing the earth on his shoulders.

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Condition: B

Small oil stain on lion's face, else very good.

Estimate: $275 - $325

Sold for: $200

Closed on 12/6/2000

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"Atlas Minor Sive totius Orbis Terrarum", Visscher, Nicolas

Subject: Title Page

Period: 1682 (circa)

Publication:

Color: Black & White

Size:

12.2 x 20.5 inches
31 x 52.1 cm

A very unusual title page in that it is printed in a sepia ink. It is a beautifully engraved scene of two women drawing maps with a lion curled at their feet, Neptune astride a large globe (showing the Atlantic Ocean), a trumpeting angel, and Atlas bearing the earth on his shoulders.

References:

Condition: B

Small oil stain on lion's face, else very good.

Estimate: $275 - $325

Sold for: $200

Closed on 12/6/2000

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"Atlas Minor Sive totius Orbis Terrarum", Visscher, Nicolas

Subject: Title Page

Period: 1682 (circa)

Publication:

Color: Black & White

Size:

12.2 x 20.5 inches31 x 52.1 cm

A very unusual title page in that it is printed in a sepia ink. It is a beautifully engraved scene of two women drawing maps with a lion curled at their feet, Neptune astride a large globe (showing the Atlantic Ocean), a trumpeting angel, and Atlas bearing the earth on his shoulders.

References:

Condition: B

Small oil stain on lion's face, else very good.

Estimate: $275 - $325

Sold for: $200

Closed on 12/6/2000

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12.2 x 20.5 inches
31 x 52.1 cm