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Item Details
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| Author: |
Ortelius, Abraham |
| Title: |
America |
| Place: |
Antwerp |
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| Date: |
[1601 or later] |
| Item # : |
142411 |
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| Sale Number |
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289 |
| Lot Number |
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221 |
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| Maps & Atlases: The Collection of Ernst W. Gerber, Part III (with additions) |
| Sale Date |
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07/15/2004 |
| Price realized |
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$ 632 |
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| Description: |
| Copper-engraved map. 8.4x121.2 cm. (3¼x4¾"), matted. |
| Charming miniature map of North and South America, from "Epitome theatri orbis terrarum Abrahami Ortelij" produced by Johannes Keerbergen in 1601. Several editions of the little atlas were produced, the last in 1612, with those issued after 1604 published by Jan Baptist Vrients. As Burden relates, "In 1601 Johannes Keerbergen produced this competitive version of the successful miniature Ortelius atlas. The text was provided by Michel Coignet and a new series of copperplates was cut by Ambrosius and Fredinand Arsenius. These new maps all had latitude and longitude markings. Well engraved, the map is hemispherical and drawn from no particular discernible source. The most interesting features, however, are the rivers near Virginia and a "R. grande" on the west coast of North America. The upper part of the Gulf of Califonria is also enlarged and fed by three more rivers..." It has not been determined from which issue of the atlas the present map comes. Latin text on the verso, visible through the margins and, just barely, through the map. Burden 143. |
| Condition: |
| Fine condition. |
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