Antiquarian Books Wednesday, 12 May 2021 / 11:00 am start
Hondius - Abissinorum Regnu
Realised: $200 plus premium
Lot Details
uncoloured engraved map with text verso issued by Purchase (London) for his epic Relations of the World. Strapwork cartouche upper left with German military miles distance scale below. Source of the Nile shown as giant, mythical lake in the Congo as well as the Mountains of the Moon, the mythical home of King Prestor John. See Tooley's Dictionary of Mapmakers, Vol 2, pp364-6. Framed, 16 cm by 18.
