MISCELLANEOUS. Lot of portraits of geographers. XVIth to XIXth century. Black and white. Set of 20 portraits of different sizes. Nice set of portraits of geographers representing Theodore de Bry, Gérard Mercator by Hogenberg, Abraham Ortelius by Galle, Henricus Hondius by Bouttats, Theodore Galle, Petrus Bertius by de Larmessin et Buys, Mathieu Merian, Bertrand d'Argentré by Thomas de Leu, Pierre Duval by Langlois, A-H. Jaillot by Vermeulen, Nicolas de Fer by Dupin, Romein de Hooghe engraved by J. Houbraken, Mannesson-Mallet by Landy, Jean-Dominique Cassini, de Lacaille by Mle Devaux and Charles-François Beautemps-Beaupré.

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