The celebrated, figuratively executed “Clover Leaf Map.” Double-page woodcut map.
AUCTION 72 |
Thursday, March 16th,
2017 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Holy Land Maps & Fine Art
Lot 271
BUENTING, HEINRICH.
The celebrated, figuratively executed “Clover Leaf Map.” Double-page woodcut map.
Magdeburg, first edition 1581, (or later):
Est: $4,000 - $6,000
PRICE REALIZED $4,200
<<THE FAMED CLOVER-LEAF MAP OF THE WORLD.>>
The German theologian Heinrich Bünting (1545-1606) is renowned 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 separate shape at the bottom-left corner of the map, with the caption “The New World,” newly discovered, when the map was first conceived.