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 271:
BUENTING, HEINRICH.
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Sold for: $4,200
Estimated price :
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4,000 - $6,000
Buyer's Premium: 25%
sales tax: 8.875%
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The celebrated, figuratively executed “Clover Leaf Map.” Double-page woodcut map.
12.25 x 15.125 inches.
Magdeburg, first edition 1581, (or later)
THE FAMED CLOVER-LEAF MAP OF THE WORLD.
The German theologian Heinrich Bünting (1545-1606) is renowned for his Itinerarium Sacrae Scripturae, first published in 1581 and from where this map is extracted.
This celebrated figurative illustration depicts the world as three continents - Europe, Asia and Africa - on a clover-leaf projection with Jerusalem at the center. The continent of America is represented as a separate shape at the bottom-left corner of the map, with the caption "The New World," newly discovered, when the map was first conceived.
