Sale 2496 - Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books, December 13, 2018

170 c   ORTELIUS, ABRAHAM. Turcici Imperii Descriptio. Double-page engraved map of the Middle East. 16 3 / 4 x21 inches sheet size, ample margins, Latin text on verso; original hand-color in full; light finger soiling, corner of lower right margin replaced. Van den Broecke 169 1603L113. Antwerp, 1603 [500/750] 171 c   ORTELIUS, ABRAHAM. Typus Chorographicus, Celebrium Locorum in Regno Judae et Israhel. Double-page engraved map of the Holy Land. 16 3 / 4 x21 inches sheet size, wide margins, Latin text on verso; original hand-color in full; pigment oxidation offset, light finger soiling. Van den Broecke 180.1 1603Liij. Antwerp, [600/900] 172 c   OTTENS, REINIER and JOSUA. Carte des Possessions Angloises & Francoises du Continent de L’Amerique Septentrionale. Double-page engraved map of the French and English claims at the time of the French and Indian War. 21x23 1 / 2 inches sheet size, ample margins; original hand-color; archivally reinforced on verso, neat ink reinstatement of border and several toponyms at lower centerfold. Amsterdam, 1755 [1,000/1,500] 172