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Wit. Maps of the four continents. [c.1675]. with splendid contemporary hand-colour.
Auction Closed
July 28, 03:29 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 9,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property of the Late Gunnar Skoog
WIT, FREDERICK DE
Four continents, comprising:
Novissima et accuratissima totius Americae descriptio, (530 x 614mm.), showing California as an island, [Burden, 465, STATE 1, c.1675]
Accuratissima totius Asiae tabula recens emendata, (530 x 620mm.)
Totius Africae accuratissima tabula, (531 x 620mm.)
Nova et accurata totius Europae descriptio, (535 x 620mm.),
together 4 double-page engraved maps, fine contemporary hand-colour, heightened in gold, Amsterdam, [1680]
A MAGNIFICENT AND UNIFORM SET WITH SPLENDID CONTEMPORARY HAND-COLOUR, by one of the most prominent and successful map publishers in Amsterdam in the latter part of the seventeenth century.