Θ Ρ Η Σ Κ Ε Υ Τ Ι ΚΟ Ι - Ι Σ ΤΟ Ρ Ι ΚΟ Ι / S A C R E D G E O G R A P H Y
Θρησκευτικοί - Ιστορικοί / Sacred Geography
Lot. 8527
Starting Price: 500 €
ORTELIUS A., “ARGONAUTICA / Illustrissimo Principi Carolo Comiti Arenbergio, Baroni Septimontii, Domino Miravartii, Equiti Aurei Velleris, etc.”, 1601-1624. A stunning Ortelius’ map of the journeys of Jason and the Argonauts, tracing the path of the Argo, based on the geography of Apollonius of Rhodes’ Argonautica. Various tribes & nations as well as mythical elements such as the Symplegades, the mosters Scylla and Charybdis or the islands of Circe & Calypso are noted within the map. Three inset maps of Europe with reference to the Argonauts journey to the land of the Hyperboreans, of Iolcos in Thessaly, and the Propontis. Decorative strapwork cartouches with the design in title cartouche depicting the Golden Fleece hung on a tree. Full handcolouring. One brown spot on right, light foxing & tape along the edges of the margins on verso. Zacharakis 2509.
Lot. 8528
Starting Price: 180 €
JANSSONIUS J., “Geographia Sacra”, c.1610. Double-page engraved map of the Biblical world, depicting in details the Holy Land, with inset map of the world in the lower centre and a strapwork cartouche to the left and right. Partly handcoloured. Dim. 48x36cm, on sheet with full hand-colouring. No text on verso.
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Lot. 8530
Starting Price: 180 €
Pierre Du Val, “Pyrrhi Regis Epirotarum Expeditiones, Per Macedoniam Italium Sciliam, et Peloponesum ex Plutarcho... Amstelodami apud P. Mortier. Cum Privilegio.”, 1705. This du Val’s variant map of the expeditions of Pyrrhus, King of Epirus, was printed only once in “Atlas Antiquus, sacer, ecclesiasticus et profanus” by Le Clerc, pub. By P. Mortier, 1705. Map dim.43 x 30cm, outline hand-colouring. Active volcanoes in Sicily presented pictorially. Framed. Zacharakis 3572.
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