Rare books & maps, a small selection of western and Oriental manuscripts, continental printed books, Americana, voyage, travels, and explorations, fete books
Publisher: Parke-Bernet Galleries
Published: 1969
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 64
Subjects: Catalogs; Library
Other titles: Rare books and maps
Notes: Sale code: 2901

Including Alexander de Villa Dei's 'Doctrinale', Nuremberg, 1492, Bordone's 'Isole del mondo', Venice, 1528, Jeffery's 'French dominions in North and South America', London, 1760, The Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493, Ogilby's translation of Montanus's 'America', London, 1671, Ptolemy's 'Geographicae', Strassburg, 1525, Johannes de Sacro Busto's 'Sphaera mundi', Venice, 1488, Thibault's 'Académie de l'espée', Leyden, 1628, a late 14th century Bolognese illuminated leaf, a Blaeu atlas, 1645, with fifteen maps of America, four Hondius maps of the continents, Amsterdam, ca. 1636, five Homann maps of the world and the continents, Nuremberg, 1759-1781, Münster's series of maps of the world, Basel, ca. 1575; from various owners including Allen L. Owens.

Date of sale: October 7, 1969.

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Place of auction: New York.