The Benevento Collection: Important Maps & Atlases - L10409

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The Benevento Collection: Important Maps & Atlases

06 May 2010 • London

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Sale Number: L10409

14. L'Africa divisa nelle sue Parti secondo le piu moderne relationi... [Venice, 1691], large engraved map in 2 double-page mapsheets, uncut and joined (butted together for framing), total dimensions 600 x 905mm.

Estimate: 1,500 – 2,500 GBP

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15. L'Asia... divisa nelle sue Parti secondo lo stato presente... [Venice, 1691], large engraved map on 2 double-page engraved mapsheets, joined (butted together for framing), total dimensions 600 x 925mm.

Estimate: 2,000 – 3,000 GBP

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16. Parte Occidentale della China divise nelle sue provincie... [&] Parte Orientale... [Venice, 1691], large general map on 2 double-page engraved mapsheets, joined (butted together for framing), total dimensions 600 x 925mm.

Estimate: 3,000 – 3,500 GBP

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18. Navi, o vascelli, galee, galeazze, galeoni, e galeotte, bucintoro... ed altre barche praticate dagli Europei, Africani, Asiatici, ed Americani, ne' mari, laghi, fiumi, e canali; in guerra, in pace, in ricreationi, ed in usi diversi. [Venice], 1697

Estimate: 25,000 – 30,000 GBP

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20. Le Porte-Feuille nécessaire à tous les seigneurs qui font le tour d'Italie, où l'on trouve une description exacte des villes, bourgs, villages & rivières... en vingt-six cartes topographiques... Il Porta foglio necessario a tutti quelli che fanno il giro d'Italia. London: A. Dury, 1774

Estimate: 3,000 – 4,000 GBP

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21. Untitled Ptolemaic map of the world. Nuremberg, 1493], 313 x 440mm., double-page woodcut map of the world, contemporary hand colour, stitch-holes to centre-fold infilled as usual, some light staining at upper edge

Estimate: 7,000 – 9,000 GBP

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22. Nova, et integra universi orbis descriptio. [Paris]: Christian Wechel, 1531, 285 x 410mm., folding woodcut double-cordiform map

Estimate: 25,000 – 30,000 GBP

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24. Typus Orbis Terrarum. [Antwerp, 1571], 335 x 495mm., double-page engraved map, Latin text on verso, contemporary hand colour, some light discoloration and marginal soiling

Estimate: 4,000 – 6,000 GBP

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25. Sacrae geographiae tabulam. Antwerp: C. Plantin, [1571-1572], 314 x 525mm., double-page engraved map of the world, trimmed to neatline and remargined

Estimate: 3,000 – 4,000 GBP

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26. Totius orbis cogniti universalis descriptio. [Antwerp: Arnold Coninx for Cornelis de Jode], 1589 [but 1593], 347 x 503mm., double-page engraved map, contemporary hand colour, small repair to lower fold

Estimate: 25,000 – 30,000 GBP

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28. Hemispherium ab Aequinoctiali linea, ad Circulum Poli Arctici... ad Circuli Poli A[n]tartici. [Antwerp, 1593], 320 x 523mm., double-page engraved world map on an equidistant polar projection, fine dark impression, very slight strengthening to lower fold

Estimate: 22,000 – 28,000 GBP

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29. Orbis terrarum typus de integro multis in locis emendatus. Amsterdam, 1594 [but 1599], 405 x 572mm., double-page engraved world map, hand-coloured, old folds with minor separation, narrow margins on three sides

Estimate: 10,000 – 15,000 GBP

BIDDING IS CLOSED

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