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Lot 361
Sale 697 - Fine Books and Manuscripts including Americana
Nov 6, 2019
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$1,000 -
2,000
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$2,000
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Lot Description
APIANUS. Charta Cosmographica, cum Ventorum... Antwerp, circa 1553. Block 2 (of 3) with border text in Latin and Dutch.
Woodcut world map, truncated cordiform projection, sheet 9 1/4 x 12 3/8 in. (235 x 314 mm). (Some minor browning particularly to margins.) Within woodcut border of clouds, wind heads, two large figures at top, text surrounding border in Latin and Dutch. "The second woodblock cut for the world map in Apian Cosmographia is very similar to the first one" (Shirley 96).