[HistMap-List] Arader Icons

[Török Zsolt Győző]

Arader Galleries, New York, USA announced their most important auction, ever,

for October 10, 2020 with the title 'Icons of Natural History and Cartography'.

Remarkable items offered for sale in the online catalogue include include the only life portrait  of Abraham Ortelius (a. 1570), the producer of the first modern atlas, the painting attributed to Adrien Thomaszoon Key (see Lot 180).

Some cartographic highlights of the auction:

* The first edition, first issue of John Mitchell's North America (1755) - perhaps the most important map in American history,  one of only two examples of the first issue of the first edition, the other is at the Library of Congress.
* Jean-Baptiste Benard de La Harpe manuscript map of Luisiana (1722-25) - 'The most important 18th century map of the American Southwest-'
* Apianus cordiform world map (1520) - the earliest available map to name the newly discovered continent 
* Cimerlino's heart-shaped world map (1566) - one of the most striking Lafreri-atlas maps from the golden age of cartography

*  Ruysch, Forlani, Evans, and much more....

 
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                     Dr. Zsolt Győző TÖRÖK, Assoc. Prof.   
Institute of Cartography and Geoinformatics, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University 
              H-1117 Budapest, Pázmány P. sétány 1/a, Hungary 
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