Live auction - Lot 546
Rarissima
[Wind rose]
Tabula Anemographica seu Pyxis Nautica ventorum nomina sex linguis repraesentans.
JANSSONIUS, Joannes
€ 500 / 600
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Lot description
Amsterdam, J. Janssonius
Copper engr. 43,3 x 54,3 cm, hand-coloured (traces of central fold, little loss of col. in the middle of central fold).
Extraordinary decorative wind chart with a 32 point compass, delicately hand-coloured, from the "Atlantis majoris quinta pars [...]", first published in 1650. Verso blank.
Ref. Koeman Me 164.1. - Van der Krogt [P-Rose:1].
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