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Gros & Delettrez

138 - [Crete]. VISSCHER. MERIAN. CHIQUET...

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Estimation

€150 - 200

Sale fees

30%

[Crete]. VISSCHER. MERIAN. CHIQUET... [Set of 4 maps and plans and one costume print]. (17th–18th centuries). 5 black copper engravings (in good overall condition). - VISSCHER. Candia. [Amsterdam, late 17th century]. A bird’s-eye view engraved in black on copper, 18 x 29.5 cm. View of the island from the sea during the siege of Candia, during the Venetian-Ottoman War, between 1648 and 1669. - [GERMAN CARTOGRAPHY]. Die Insel und das Königreich Kandien, No. 19. Map engraved in black on copper, 22.3 x 29.3 cm, printed on azure paper, with colored boundaries and geographical labels in German. - MERIAN, Caspar & Matthäus the Younger. Genuina delineato insula Cretae, quam modemi Candiam appelant. [Frankfurt am Main, ca. 1670]. A black copperplate engraving, 22 x 68 cm (short side margins, small tear in the top margin) - CHIQUET. Map of the Island and Kingdom of Candia. Paris, 1719. A black copperplate engraving, 16.5 x 22 cm, with colored boundaries, accompanied by its text sheet. - GRASSET DE SAINT-SAUVEUR. Man from the Island of Candia. [ca. 1750–1800]. Black copper engraving (21 x 14.5 cm) depicting a man in traditional Cretan dress, printed on azure paper, hand-colored.

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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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