ΕΛΛΑΔΑ / GREECE
Ελλάδα / Greece
Lot. 8371
Starting Price: 70 €
Lot. 8372
Starting Price: 65 €
ORTELIUS Abraham, “Graecia”, 1577-1609. Miniature map of Greece from a French pocket edition of Ortelius Atlas. Map dim. 12x8.8cm, text in French on verso. Modern full handcolouring. Zacharakis 2522.
ORTELIUS Abraham, “Graeciae Universae...”, 1577-1697. Miniature map of Greece from an Italian pocket edition of Ortelius Atlas. Map dim. 11x8cm, text in Italian on verso. Modern full hand-colouring. Soiling. Zacharakis 2522.
Lot. 8373
Lot. 8374
Starting Price: 260 €
ORTELIUS Abraham, “Ελλας. GRAECIA, Abrahamo Ortelio descriptore”, 1579-1624.
SOPHIANI./
Hand-coloured copper engr. map, depiction of ancient Greece, western Turkey and the Grecian islands based on the influential woodcut map prepared by the great Greek Hellenist and cartographer Nikolaus Sophianos (Νικόλαος Σοφιανός) and printed in Basel, 1545 (or in Rome 1542). The Sophianos map of Greece, was established as a model for the Geographic depiction of Greece, and has been issued for more than 150 years after the first issue, until 1699.
Starting Price: 160 €
Munster Seb., “ Griechenlandt nach seinen Landschafften und Eigenschafften”, c.1580. Woodblock 16x13cm very early map of Greece on sheet (24x35cm), from a German edition of “Cosmographia”with text in German on both sheet sides. Modern hand-colouring. Zacharakis 2443.
This is the first state of the map after the 1545 Sophianos issue, many other maps issued after are based on the current plate. Architectural title cartouche flanked by two mythological figures, and a strapwork scale of miles. Latin text on verso. Map dim.50x35cm. Zacharakis 2495.
Lot. 8375
Starting Price: 100 €
PTOLEMAEUS Claudius, “GRAECIA” copper engr. map from “Geographia” 1596-1617, with Latin text on verso. Map dim: 18x14cm. Very fine condition. Zacharakis 2848. R A R E B O O K S , M A P S , P R I N T S , P H OTO G R A P H Y & D O C U M E N T S
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