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Gerard Mercator (1512-1594)
Exquisita & magno aliquot mensium periculo lustrata et iam retecta Freti Magellanici Facies, [Amsterdam: 1606 or later]. Handcoloured engraved map of South America and Tiera del Fuego, title and scale within baroque cartouches, galleons and sea monster, central compass rose, Latin text on verso, 345 x 460mm.
Guillaume Blaeu (1571-1638). Regiones Sub Polo Arctico, [Amsterdam: c.1640]. Handcoloured engraved map, galleons, figural cartouches (trimmed close to engraved frame and laid down on paper, very lightly browned), 410 x 530mm.
With Robert de Vaugondy's Carte des Nouvelles Decouvertes dressée par Phil. Buache (Paris, c.1775). (3)
Exquisita & magno aliquot mensium periculo lustrata et iam retecta Freti Magellanici Facies, [Amsterdam: 1606 or later]. Handcoloured engraved map of South America and Tiera del Fuego, title and scale within baroque cartouches, galleons and sea monster, central compass rose, Latin text on verso, 345 x 460mm.
Guillaume Blaeu (1571-1638). Regiones Sub Polo Arctico, [Amsterdam: c.1640]. Handcoloured engraved map, galleons, figural cartouches (trimmed close to engraved frame and laid down on paper, very lightly browned), 410 x 530mm.
With Robert de Vaugondy's Carte des Nouvelles Decouvertes dressée par Phil. Buache (Paris, c.1775). (3)
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