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Description:
Western Europe [from] Claudius Ptholomeus Alexandrinus's Cosmographia. [Rome: Sweynheym & Buckinck, 1478]. Double-page copper-plate engraving on laid paper depicting Belgium and the Low Countries, France, and Central Europe down to the Mediterranean Sea, with southern Britain, Spain, and Germany sketched in with less detail, the sheet in two pieces, mounted, with some marginal losses and losses along folds, 21 x 15 1/2 in.
Estimate $300-500
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Keywords
Countries, Belgium, France, Germany, Spain, United KingdomJohn Dorfman
Director, Books & Manuscripts
508-970-3293
Fine Books & Manuscripts
The Fine Books & Manuscripts department delivers scholarship, expertise, and attention to detail in appraisals, evaluations, and auctions of rare books and historically important material ranging from medieval manuscripts to presidential documents.