Lot 93
World.- Doppelmayr (Johann Gabriel) Basis Geographiae Recentioris Astronomica in qua Situs Locorum Insigniorum Geographici ea Exactitudine, qua Celeberrimi Astronomi Eosdem per Observationes..., engraved map with hand-colouring, [c. 1742].
Estimate: £400 - 600
Description
World.- Doppelmayr (Johann Gabriel) Basis Geographiae Recentioris Astronomica in qua Situs Locorum Insigniorum Geographici ea Exactitudine, qua Celeberrimi Astronomi Eosdem per Observationes..., double hemisphere world map showing the continents without political divisions, with California as an island, and only the western and northern coastlines of Australia shown, the surrounds are decorated with vignettes of putto with scientific instruments, and with solar events occurring in the sky, engraving with vibrant hand-colouring, on laid paper with indistinct text-based watermark, platemark 490 x 580 mm (19 1/4 x 22 3/4 in), sheet 530 x 615 mm (20 3/4 x 24 1/4 in), central vertical fold, minor handling creases, scattered surface dirt, unframed, Johann Baptist Homann, [circa 1742]
Description
World.- Doppelmayr (Johann Gabriel) Basis Geographiae Recentioris Astronomica in qua Situs Locorum Insigniorum Geographici ea Exactitudine, qua Celeberrimi Astronomi Eosdem per Observationes..., double hemisphere world map showing the continents without political divisions, with California as an island, and only the western and northern coastlines of Australia shown, the surrounds are decorated with vignettes of putto with scientific instruments, and with solar events occurring in the sky, engraving with vibrant hand-colouring, on laid paper with indistinct text-based watermark, platemark 490 x 580 mm (19 1/4 x 22 3/4 in), sheet 530 x 615 mm (20 3/4 x 24 1/4 in), central vertical fold, minor handling creases, scattered surface dirt, unframed, Johann Baptist Homann, [circa 1742]
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