$1,230
Geographer Portraits and Atlas Title Pages, Four Framed Prints. Period engravings with hand-coloring, including: the double portrait of Mercator and Hondius from Mercator's L'Atlas ou Méditations Cosmographiques de la Fabrique du Monde , c. 1613-19; engraved allegorical title from Atlas Historique , Amsterdam: Les Freres Chatelain, early 18th century; engraved title from Guillaume and Jean Blaeu's Le Theatre du Monde , second part, Amsterdam: Blaeu, 1640; [and] the Galle portrait of Abraham Ortelius, which first appeared in the 1579 edition of his Theatrum Orbis Terrarum ; all pieces matted and framed, sizes vary. (4)
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2017-05-23