Lot 250
Ortelius, Abraham DATES FROM 1592, NOT 1573
Rare Books, Maps and Manuscripts
Auction: 29 August 2012 at 12:00 BST
£1,000
Description
Scotiae tabula. Engraved map, hand-coloured in outline, also with towns marked in red and mountains in green, 38 x 49 cm., [Antwerp, 1592, although the date 1573 has been neatly added in manuscript at the foot of the map], Latin text on verso, state 2 with positioning of No. 11 under the second to last word, slight discolouration at centre fold, otherwise very good condition
Note: Koeman: Atlantes Neerlandica, edited by Peter van der Kruyk, 5800:31:041], Moir vol. 1 p. 166; Potter p. 95. Based on Mercator's map of the British Isles of 1564
Footnote
Provenance: Viscount Strathallan, Stobhall, Perthshire