ASIA MINOR - TURKEY - BALKANS
Asia Minor - Turkey - Balkans
Lot. 8534
Starting Price: 60 €
Lot. 8535
Starting Price: 280 €
ORTELIUS Abraham, “Natoliae, Quae Olim Asia Minor Nova Descriptio”, 1606. From the very rare English edition of Ortelius’s “Theatrum Orbis Terrarum”, printed only once in 1606. Map presenting Asia Minor, Turkey and Cyprus, based on the cartography of Gastaldi/Forlani, with east oriented to top for better presentation. Text in English on verso. Full hand-colouring. Map dim.23x33 cm. Fragile paper worn and teared along the edges. Zacharakis 2489.
FER de Nicolas, “L’Empire des Turcs en Europe, en Asie, et en Afrique”, 1715.
Lot. 8536
Lot. 8537
Starting Price: 35 €
GAUTTIER Pierre Henri, “Ports de Marmorice & Karagatch”, 1859. Sea chart of Marmaris and Karagach in SW Asia minor. Dim. 22.5 x 17cm.
Very rare map of the Turkish Empire engraved by P. Starckman, extending from Italy and the Eastern Mediterranean in the west to the Caspian Sea and Persia in the East and from the Ukraine and Hungary in the north to the Gulf of Arabia in the south. This highly detailed map is centered on Cyprus, presents contemporary toponyms and includes a 24 line informative text referring to the possessions of the Ottomans in the world and the Ottoman administrative divisions. Partly outline colouring. Spotting, one bumped spot (north of Sanaa), printer’s paper creasing.
Starting Price: 100 €
[ISTRIA] SALMON T., “Carta geografica dell’ Istria”, Venezia, Albrizzi, c.1750. Map dim. 42.5 x 33cm. Full hand-coloured copper plate map of the Istria peninsula within the Adriatic Sea, folded as issued. Light soiling and creasing.
Lot. 8538
Starting Price: 120 €
[DALMATIA] SALMON T., “Carta geografica della Dalmazia”, Venezia, Albrizzi, c.1750. Map dim. 42.5 x 33cm. Full hand-colouring, folded as issued. Light soiling, upper margin ununiformed cut. 118
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