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live November 20 | 02:00 PM
Gros & Delettrez

130 - [Greece - Set of four maps].

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Estimation

€180 - 200

Sale fees

30%

[Greece - Set of four maps]. (Paris or Frankfurt, 17th and 18th centuries). Four copperplate engravings in black, measuring between 32 x 39.5 cm and 49 x 66 cm; three with colored outlines (minor marginal defects; margins of the De Fer map have been restored; very faint water stains on the Boisseau map; central fold of the Merian map is oxidized). - MERIAN, Matthäus. Candia cum Insulis alijs proxime ei adiacentibus; Corfu; Cefalonia; Zante. [Frankfurt, ca. 1640]. - BOISSEAU, Jean. Description of the Island of Candia and the Neighboring Islands of Greece. Paris: Jean Boisseau, 1645. - DE FER, Nicolas. Morea and the Islands of Zante, Kefalonia, St. Maure, and Cerigo. &c. Paris, published by N. de Fer, 1686. Includes small maps dated on the title cartouche depicting the strongholds taken by the Venetians from the Turks: Navarino (1686), Modon (1686), Coron (1685), Passava (1686), Zarnata (1686), Calamata (1685), and Chielifa (1686). - ROBERT DE VAUGONDY, Gilles. Antiqui Illyrici Orientalis Episcopatus. Paris, published by Aeg. Robert Geog. Regis, 1743. Provenance: Samuelian Bookstore.

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Auction details

Travel Books, Atlases, and Maps
Friday, November 20
02:00 PM
22, rue Drouot
75009 Paris, France

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Gros & Delettrez +33 1 47 70 83 04 j.remaut@gros-delettrez.com
On Drouot for more than 10 years avec More than 280,000 lots published

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