Auction 69 · Lot 275
ZIEGLER, JACOB.
- Estimate
- $2,000–$3,000
- Hammer price
- $1,900
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
Place
Strassburg, Petrus Opilius, 1532
Description
Five (of 8) woodcut maps.
* (1) Continet Syriam… Damascum, Carras Mesopotamiae, Et Cypri… * (2) Constinet Partem Phoeniciae, Galilaeam utrancq. superiorem & inferiorem. * (3) Tercia tabula continet Samariam, Tribus autem Isaschar rursus explicatam… * (4) Continet Iudeam proprie dictam. Tribus autem, Partem rursus Ephraim… * (5) Universalis Palaestinae, continens superiores partuculares tabulas.
summary
From: Quae Intus Continentur Syria, Palestine, Arabia, Aegyptus, Schondia, Holmiae, Regionum Superiorum (= Schondia).
Jacob Ziegler (1470-1549) was a German theologian, mathematician, astronomer, geographer and humanist. These maps were the first to display the Holy Land featuring magnetic and other physical forces.
(Each) 10 x 14.5 inches.
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