18th Oct, 2023 11:00

Art & Music

 
Lot 66
 

66

An 18th century atlas containing fifty three maps, mostly hand-coloured and mounted in an 18th century folio volume (55 x 40cm) bound in half leather with marbled boards (boards detached). Maps extend from the Ottoman lands in Europe, including Ukraine, through Hungary, Poland, Prussia, Bohemia, Austria, German principalities, Alsatia, Luxembourg to Holland and Flanders. Cartographers and publishers include N. Visscher, Thomas Jeffrey, G. De l'Isle, M. Sentier, and J. B. Homann.

Maps, some three and four fold are numbered in ink. Map 2, showing the province of Zeeland has the book stamp of George II's younger son William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland (Commander-in-chief of British forces in Germany at the start of the Seven Years War)

A full list of the maps included available on request

Estimated at £800 - £1,200

 

An 18th century atlas containing fifty three maps, mostly hand-coloured and mounted in an 18th century folio volume (55 x 40cm) bound in half leather with marbled boards (boards detached). Maps extend from the Ottoman lands in Europe, including Ukraine, through Hungary, Poland, Prussia, Bohemia, Austria, German principalities, Alsatia, Luxembourg to Holland and Flanders. Cartographers and publishers include N. Visscher, Thomas Jeffrey, G. De l'Isle, M. Sentier, and J. B. Homann.

Maps, some three and four fold are numbered in ink. Map 2, showing the province of Zeeland has the book stamp of George II's younger son William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland (Commander-in-chief of British forces in Germany at the start of the Seven Years War)

A full list of the maps included available on request

Auction: Art & Music, 18th Oct, 2023

 

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To include the studio collection of Harry Barr (1896-1987)

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