Lot 55
Lot 55
Alexandri Magni Macedonis Expeditio. [Amsterdam: 1652-1700].

JOANNES JANSSONIUS (1588-1664)

Price Realised GBP 875
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Alexandri Magni Macedonis Expeditio. [Amsterdam: 1652-1700].

JOANNES JANSSONIUS (1588-1664)

Price Realised GBP 875
Price Realised GBP 875
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[JANSSONIUS, Joannes (1588-1664).] Alexandri Magni Macedonis Expeditio. [Amsterdam: 1652-1700].

Double-page engraved map, coloured by a modern hand, title cartouche to lower left depicting Alexander with soldiers and standards, a second cartouche to lower right with a soldier, putto and medallions with Alexander's portrait, mountain ranges, towns, cities and watercourses delineated, the Black and Caspian Seas stippled, others plain, the Caspian with the older orientation of east-west rather than the geographically correct north-south orientation, with numerous textual explanations, verso blank, 369 x 469mm. (plate mark), 406 x 507mm. (sheet)

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