Carte Nouvelle de la Mer Mediteranee:…

by P. / De Hooghe Mortier, R.

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23 x 55 1/2 inches. Fine hand color; fine condition. Rare. A resplendent map in a bright, richly colored example. One of the most elaborate works of early mapmaking, it contains 38 insets of the major ports and cities of the Mediterranean. It was the centerpiece of the monumental atlas, the Neptune François: “the most expensive sea-atlas ever published in Amsterdam in the 17th century. Its charts are larger and more lavishly decorated than

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