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Auction: 15040 - Antique Maps sale during the International Exhibition
Lot: 183

Maps
Europe
Sardinia
1734 Sardiniae Regnum Et Insula ..., by Erben Homann; 20 x 23½ inches, old coloured with hand-coloured cartouche.

Copper plate engraving from the atlas "Isolario Geographical descrittione. Historica ...," published in Nuremberg. A large map of Sardinia alone, with inset view of Cagliari. With a key in the top right-hand corner to archbishoprics, bishoprics and towns which are known to have existed since antiquity. Showing fortresses and salt pans, and decorated with an elaborate title cartouche, formed of horns of plenty and sheaves of wheat. A good example of this detailed and uncommon map.

Usual central reinforcement, slightly reduced margins at right and foot and a little surface soiling. Photo

Estimate
SG$800 to SG$1,000