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Europe, Northern Ireland, and the East Indies: Five Framed Maps. Each is a hand-colored copperplate engraving on paper, framed: Herman Moll's Principal Islands of the East-Indies, London, c. 1720, double-page octavo, depicting Borneo, the Philippines, Sumatra, Java; Sebastian Munster's Basiliensis Territorii Descriptio Nova, single page small folio map; Gerardus Mercator's Miliaria Irlandica com, double-page folio map, with hand-outlining; Abraham Ortelius's Pomeraniae, Wandalicae Regionis Typ; Livoniae Nova Descriptio; Ducatus Oswieczensis, et Zatoriensis, Descriptio, depicting Pomerania, Latvia, and part of Southern Poland above the Carpathian Mountains, from Ortelius's Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, large folio double page, some discoloration, oxidation, spots; and Hondius's Totius Rheni, ab eius capitibus ad oceanum usque Germanicum in quem se exonerat novißima descriptio, Amsterdam, 1632, double folio. (5)
Estimate $800-1,200
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Keywords
Herman Moll, Sebastian Munster, Abraham Ortelius, Nova Descriptio, Poland, Amsterdam, Borneo, London, Latvia, Northern Ireland, Philippines, PomeraniaJohn Dorfman
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