11-15-200911-15-2009
Skinner Auctions
Skinner AuctionsBoston MA
2483Boston
November 15, 2009 11:00 AMCalender
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(Atlas, World)

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$5,333$4,500
Auction: Books & Manuscripts - 2483Location: BostonDate / Time: November 15, 2009 11:00AM

Description:

(Atlas, World), Visscher, Nicolaus and Others, Atlas Minor Sive Totius Orbis Terrarum, Amsterdam, [1705], original limp vellum, with pictorial title page and forty-eight double-page folding maps with original hand-coloring, uncolored cartouches and inset vignettes, (binding heavily worn, some oversize maps with weakness and minor losses along folds, iron burn through and some offset throughout, North America map with heavy losses to lower section, brittleness around colored borders in spots).
Estimate $10,000-15,000

binding heavily worn, some oversize maps with weakness and minor losses along folds, iron burn through and some offset throughout, North America map with heavy losses to lower section, brittleness around colored borders in spots

Keywords

Orbis Terrarum, Amsterdam