A Rare Portolan Atlas Showing the Shift in Focus from the Mediterranean to Northern Europe - SOLD
A Rare Portolan Atlas Showing the Shift in Focus from the Mediterranean to Northern Europe - SOLD
By DOSSAIGA, Jaime [DOUSAIGO, Jacques], 1590
Price: £385,000 - SOLD
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Author: DOSSAIGA, Jaime [DOUSAIGO, Jacques]
Publication place: [Portugal?]
Publication date: 1590.
Physical description: Ten vellum leaves, four bifolia with two blank leaves (one at each end) pasted together, four double page maps. Coastlines drawn in brown ink and heightened in green or gold wash, places names in brown ink, major place names and rivers in red ink, rivers in silver, islands in red, blue, or gold, mountain ranges (imaginary) in brown and green wash heightened with gold. Each map decorated with compass roses and scale bar in blue, green, red, and gold, cartouche with author’s name and date on map of Western Europe. Folio (367 by 238 mm), French nineteenth century brown morocco binding by Marcelin Lortic, binder’s stamp “Lortic Fils” to lower turn-in of front board, gilt fillet border to covers, spine divided into six compartments with raised bands, lavishly gilt, title lettered to spine in gilt, board edges and turn ins gilt.