6095. Miniature map of Guinea by Mercator-Hondius.

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6095. 1741929. Miniature map of Guinea by Mercator-Hondius.

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AFRICA. MERCATOR, GERHARD - HONDIUS, H. Guinea. Amsterdam c. 1613.

Engraved map with strapwork cartouche, sea monster and inset map of the island of Sao Tome. Page 575. C. 150x190 mm. French text on verso. Some slight browning. Framed.

Small map of the west coast of Africa covering the coast from Sierra Leone to Gabon. From Atlas minor.

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6095. 1741929. Miniature map of Guinea by Mercator-Hondius.

Description

AFRICA. MERCATOR, GERHARD - HONDIUS, H. Guinea. Amsterdam c. 1613.

Engraved map with strapwork cartouche, sea monster and inset map of the island of Sao Tome. Page 575. C. 150x190 mm. French text on verso. Some slight browning. Framed.

Small map of the west coast of Africa covering the coast from Sierra Leone to Gabon. From Atlas minor.

Condition

See catalog text.
For further information, please contact: katharina.fahlstedt@auktionsverket.se.

Sale

Books, Maps & Manuscripts Spring 2021

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Books, Maps & Manuscripts Spring 2021

Welcome to browse our latest catalogue for Books, Maps and Manuscripts!

Among the 173 lots, you will find the 2nd printing of Joyce Ulysses, a fine Dickens in a fine Rivière-binding, a few interesting works on spiders by Clerck, Blackwell and Albin, Gerard’s herbal published in 1633, some first editions of the Swedish economist Knut Wicksell together with a lithograph poster by Alphonse Mucha. In the map section you will find the impressive map of Russia by Schmidt and Treskot published in Venice in 1782.

Amongst the highlights are a few items regarding the Andrée Polar Expedition from 1897, with two unpublished diaries, photographs and a fine album, all belonging to Axel Stake, the chemical engineer who worked with the balloon at Danskön.

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