The celebrated, figuratively executed “Clover Leaf Map.” Double-page hand-colored woodcut map.
AUCTION 62 |
Thursday, June 26th,
2014 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Graphic and Ceremonial Art
Lot 229
BUENTING, HEINRICH.
The celebrated, figuratively executed “Clover Leaf Map.” Double-page hand-colored woodcut map.
Magdeburg, 1581 (or later):
Est: $7,000 - $10,000
PRICE REALIZED $18,000
<<THE FAMED CLOVER-LEAF MAP OF THE WORLD. A FINE HAND-COLORED EXAMPLE.>>
The German theologian Heinrich Bünting (1545-1606) is famed for his Itinerarium Sacrae Scripturae, first published in 1581 and from where this map is extracted.
This celebrated figurative illustration depicts the world as three continents - Europe, Asia and Africa - on a clover-leaf projection with Jerusalem at the center.
The continent of America is represented as a separated shape at the bottom-left corner of the map, with the caption “The New World,” newly discovered as is was, when the map was first conceived.