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World and Europe, Nine Early Maps. Engraved and woodcut maps from the 16th and 17th century, including two copies of the c. 1561 Ruscelli engraved Ptolemaei Typus from two different editions, one with text in Latin, the other in Italian; a hand-colored smaller-scale later version of the same map; an unidentified double-page woodcut map of Europe; Briet's Orbis Pars Veteribus Cognita, [and] Agathi-Daemonis Mechanici Alexandrini Orbis, Paris, c. 1649; two folio-format leaves from Solinus's Polyhistor Rerum Totu Orbe with inset woodcut maps, c. 1538; [and] Munster's Europa das ein Drittheil der Erden/nach Gelegenheit Unsern Zeiten Cosmographia, c. 1588, double-page woodcut map (mounted),sizes vary. (9)
Estimate $300-500
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COGNITA, Briet, ParisJohn Dorfman
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Fine Books & Manuscripts
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