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<div><font size="2"><font size="3" face="georgia,times new roman,times,serif"><b>Arader Galleries</b>, New York, USA announced their <b>most important auction, ever</b>,
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<div><font size="2"><font size="3" face="georgia,times new roman,times,serif">Remarkable items offered for sale in the <b><a href="https://araderlive.com/auctions/4-PPO0Q/october-sale">online catalogue</a></b> include include t</font></font><font size="2"><font size="3" face="georgia,times new roman,times,serif">he <b>only life portrait </b></font></font><font size="2"><font size="3" face="georgia,times new roman,times,serif"><b> of Abraham Ortelius</b> (a. 1570), the producer of the first modern
atlas, </font></font><font size="2"><font size="3" face="georgia,times new roman,times,serif"><font size="2"><font size="3" face="georgia,times new roman,times,serif">the painting attributed to </font></font><font size="2"><font size="3" face="georgia,times new roman,times,serif">Adrien Thomaszoon Key (see Lot 180)</font></font>.
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<div><font size="2"><font size="3" face="georgia,times new roman,times,serif">Some cartographic highlights of the auction:
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The first edition, first issue of <b>John Mitchell's North America</b> (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
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<li><font size="2"><font size="3" face="georgia,times new roman,times,serif">Jean-Baptiste Benard de La Harpe <b>manuscript map of Luisiana </b>(1722-25) - '</font></font><font size="2"><font size="3" face="georgia,times new roman,times,serif">The most important 18th century map of the American Southwest-'</font></font></li>
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<b>Apianus cordiform world map</b> (1520) - the earliest available map to name the newly discovered continent
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<b>Cimerlino's heart-shaped world map</b> (1566) - one of the most striking Lafreri-atlas maps from the golden age of cartography
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<li><font size="2"><i><font face="georgia,times new roman,times,serif"> Ruysch, Forlani, Evans, and much more.... </font></i></font>
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Dr. Zsolt Győző TÖRÖK, Assoc. Prof.
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Institute of Cartography and Geoinformatics, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University
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H-1117 Budapest, Pázmány P. sétány 1/a, Hungary
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