1316/6017
Engraved and handcoloured map entitled Aroe Insulae Delineatio Geometrica. Amsterdam 1662. On a sheet of Spanish text (from Atlas Maior). Measure c. 19.5×30.5 cm. Framed.
Map of Aero, a small Danish island in the Baltic Sea. The map was originally created by surveyor and cartographer Johannes Mejer in 1649 for an atlas on Schleswig Holstein. The plates were later sold to the Blaeu family, who republished them in 1662. The map is adorned with two strapwork cartouches, one of which credits Mejer.
Provenance: From a Danish private collector.
Condition
With brown spots. Examined in frame.
Auction
Maps, 16 April 2013
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Estimate
Sold
Price realised
One bid
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