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Sale 945 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
Lots 1-307
Nov 9, 2021 4:00AM CT
Lots 308-687
Nov 10, 2021 4:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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ORTELIUS, Abraham (1527-1598). Russiae, Moscoviae et Tartariae descriptio... [Antwerp, 1588].


Engraved map with hand-coloring in wash and outline of Russia including Moscow, Spanish text verso 410 x 537 mm sheet. (Some minor soiling, a few mostly marginal holes, repair to lower margin.) 

The map, based on the surveys of English merchant Anthony Jenkinson, includes a depiction of Ivan the Terrible top left, with illustrations of encampments, armies, Cossacks, and a burial scene with the dead hanging from trees. Van den Broecke, 162. 

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