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Lot 192
Sale 741 - Books and Manuscripts including Americana
Jun 23, 2020
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$1,500 -
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$2,125
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Lot Description
[MAPS & ATLASES]. BLAEU, Willem (1571-1638) -- BLAEU, Jan (1596-1673). Americae nova Tabula. [Amsterdam, ca 1635 or later].
Engraved map with hand-coloring of the Americas, visible area 16 1/2 x 22 in. (420 x 555 mm). Decorative top border with vignette views of Havana, St. Domingo, Cartagena, Mexico, Cusco, Potosi, I. la Mocha, Rio Janeiro, and Olinder decorative side borders depicting natives from 10 areas, including Greenland, Virginia, Florida, Mexico, Peru and Brazil, galleons and sea monsters, decorative cartouche, inset of Greenland, Dutch text on verso.
3rd state with the imprint "Auct. Guiljelmo Blaeuw." Burden 189; Tooley America p. 297.