Lot 470
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SOUTH AMERICA -- BRAZIL -- "MARITIMA BRASILIÆ UNIVERSÆ". (Amst., Blaeu, 1647). Cold. engr. map w. the coastline of Brazil from Rio de San Francisco to S. Sebastian within a representation of a horn of plenty, which forms the left outer lower corner of a larger map titled 'Brasilia qua partie paret Belgis' by Marcgrave. 395 x 535 mm. (Outer blank right corner replaced, some wear to central fold).
Georg Marcgrave (also spelled "Marcgraf" "Markgraf") (1610-1644) was a German naturalist and astronomer, whose posthumously published Historia Naturalis Brasiliae was a major contribution to early modern science. Not in Van der Krogt.€ 300
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