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Auction archive: Lot number 157

MERCATOR, Gerard and Rumold. Galliae Tabule Geographicae. [Belgii Inferiores Geographicae Tabule. Germaniae Tabule Geographicae]. Duisburg: [not after 1595].

Auction 12.05.1993
12 May 1993
Estimate
£10,000 - £15,000
ca. US$15,487 - US$23,230
Price realised:
£16,100
ca. US$24,934
Auction archive: Lot number 157

MERCATOR, Gerard and Rumold. Galliae Tabule Geographicae. [Belgii Inferiores Geographicae Tabule. Germaniae Tabule Geographicae]. Duisburg: [not after 1595].

Auction 12.05.1993
12 May 1993
Estimate
£10,000 - £15,000
ca. US$15,487 - US$23,230
Price realised:
£16,100
ca. US$24,934
Beschreibung:

MERCATOR, Gerard and Rumold. Galliae Tabule Geographicae. [Belgii Inferiores Geographicae Tabule. Germaniae Tabule Geographicae]. Duisburg: [not after 1595]. 2° (410 x 285mm.).Three engraved titles and 51 maps, 50 double-page, all COLOURED IN A CONTEMPORARY HAND, letterpress on recto, blank on verso, woodcut initials, single blank leaves bound in before the first maps in the Netherlands and Germany sections, the first with a contemporary pen and ink architectural drawing for the ground-plan and elevation of a Flemish townhouse, maps on guards throughout. (Map of Switzerland Helvetia cum finitimis regionibus confoederatis detached and margins slightly soiled, a few small wormholes affecting some inner guards and across centrefolds with very minor damage.) Original limp vellum, covers panelled in gilt, ruled in black with ornate black central arabesques (lightly stained, ties lacking). Provenance : Dolignon (early 19th-century signature on front free endpaper; some early marginal annotations in a contemporary English hand). A VERY FINE COLOURED COPY of Mercator's earliest collection of modern maps, first issued in 1585 by Gerard Mercator, initially issued separately or combined with the second part Italia publihed in 1589. This copy conforms with Koeman's collation for the issue of the three parts as they were published as part of the first Mercator atlas Atlas sive Cosmographicae , 1595, issue A [Koeman Me13A], although this copy does not include the portrait and has the dedication dated 1585. Koeman argued that the resetting of the text was indicative of the later 1595 issues. Other authorities have argued against this hard and fast rule. The uncoloured copy in the Nordenskiold Collection [Nordenskiold 2, 138] conforms broadly to this copy, although with its later binding may well have been taken from a 1595 issue of the larger atlas. It is highly likely, given the popularity of Mercator's work, that the stocks of the 1585 issue ran out before Mercator's death in 1594. Gerard Mercator was paralysed by a stroke in 1590, and the existence of this atlas in its contemporary binding suggests that Gerard or Rumold had the text reset well in advance of the completion of the full atlas, and had continued to sell the three parts as a single volume.

Auction archive: Lot number 157
Auction:
Datum:
12 May 1993
Auction house:
Christie's
London, King Street
Beschreibung:

MERCATOR, Gerard and Rumold. Galliae Tabule Geographicae. [Belgii Inferiores Geographicae Tabule. Germaniae Tabule Geographicae]. Duisburg: [not after 1595]. 2° (410 x 285mm.).Three engraved titles and 51 maps, 50 double-page, all COLOURED IN A CONTEMPORARY HAND, letterpress on recto, blank on verso, woodcut initials, single blank leaves bound in before the first maps in the Netherlands and Germany sections, the first with a contemporary pen and ink architectural drawing for the ground-plan and elevation of a Flemish townhouse, maps on guards throughout. (Map of Switzerland Helvetia cum finitimis regionibus confoederatis detached and margins slightly soiled, a few small wormholes affecting some inner guards and across centrefolds with very minor damage.) Original limp vellum, covers panelled in gilt, ruled in black with ornate black central arabesques (lightly stained, ties lacking). Provenance : Dolignon (early 19th-century signature on front free endpaper; some early marginal annotations in a contemporary English hand). A VERY FINE COLOURED COPY of Mercator's earliest collection of modern maps, first issued in 1585 by Gerard Mercator, initially issued separately or combined with the second part Italia publihed in 1589. This copy conforms with Koeman's collation for the issue of the three parts as they were published as part of the first Mercator atlas Atlas sive Cosmographicae , 1595, issue A [Koeman Me13A], although this copy does not include the portrait and has the dedication dated 1585. Koeman argued that the resetting of the text was indicative of the later 1595 issues. Other authorities have argued against this hard and fast rule. The uncoloured copy in the Nordenskiold Collection [Nordenskiold 2, 138] conforms broadly to this copy, although with its later binding may well have been taken from a 1595 issue of the larger atlas. It is highly likely, given the popularity of Mercator's work, that the stocks of the 1585 issue ran out before Mercator's death in 1594. Gerard Mercator was paralysed by a stroke in 1590, and the existence of this atlas in its contemporary binding suggests that Gerard or Rumold had the text reset well in advance of the completion of the full atlas, and had continued to sell the three parts as a single volume.

Auction archive: Lot number 157
Auction:
Datum:
12 May 1993
Auction house:
Christie's
London, King Street
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