Auction 72
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Holy Land Maps & Fine Art
By Kestenbaum & Company
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Mar 16, 2017
Brooklyn, NY, United States
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Time in Israel: 22:00, Time in New York: 15:00 EST
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LOT 268:
(PTOLEMY).
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Sold for: $5,500
Estimated price :
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5,000 - $7,000
Buyer's Premium: 25%
sales tax: 8.875%
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Tabula Terre Sanctae. Hand-colored double-page woodcut map by Lorenz Fries.
15.75 x 21 inches. Laor 612 (citing Servetus).
Lyon, Melchior and Gaspar Trechsel, 1535
From the 1535 Lyon edition of Ptolemy's Geographia and printed from the 1522 woodblocks.
This "modern" map of the Holy Land - in contrast to the "old" Ptolemaic map - is based on the first "modern" depiction of the Holy Land by Vesconte-Sanuto in 1320. Oriented to the east with the Mediterranean shore line from Sidon to Gaza, this map depicts the whole of Palestine on both sides of the Jordan with the Biblical Twelve Tribe divisions.
