Autumn Auction: Decorative Art, Interiors, Silver, Jewellery, Classic Cars and Books & Prints
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[WORLD-MAP] – “WERELT CAERT”.
Handcol. engr. world-map (in 2 hemispheres) with 2 small inset polar hemispheres (“Polus Arcticus” & “Polus Antarcticus”) & 4 allegorical figures in the corners (representing the 4 continents). (Publ. in a Dutch “Keur-Bijbel”, after 1704). Ca. 31 x 46 cm. Behind passepartout & framed (behind glass).
¶ Shirley 498. Poortman/ Augusteijn pp. 204-205. Second state (without the name of D. Stoopendaal & number “6” in the plate) of an attractive early 18th-cent. world-map (dep. California as an island) engraved by the Dutch print-maker Daniël Stopendaal (1672-1726). – Three vertical folds (as publ.), but else in good conditon (not examined out of frame).