Live Auction 5490Travel, Science and Natural History
Christie’s roundel
Lot 191

[DUDLEY, Robert (1573-1649)]. Carta particolare della costa di nuova Zembla. La longitudine comincia da l' Isola di Pico d' Asores. Di Europa Carta XXXXVIII. [Florence: ?Francesco Onofri, 1646 or later]. Engraved chart of the archipelago of Nova Zembla in the Russian arctic on 2 sheets, joined, by Antonio Lucini after Robert Dudley, title cartouche, compass rose, galleon (some light staining, light browning at join), 470 x 730mm., framed and glazed. Extracted from Dudley's monumental Dell' Arcano del Mare, the first sea atlas produced by an Englishman (albeit in Italy).

Closed23 September 2010

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[DUDLEY, Robert (1573-1649)]. Carta particolare della costa di nuova Zembla. La longitudine comincia da l' Isola di Pico d' Asores. Di Europa Carta XXXXVIII. [Florence: ?Francesco Onofri, 1646 or later]. Engraved chart of the archipelago of Nova Zembla in the Russian arctic on 2 sheets, joined, by Antonio Lucini after Robert Dudley, title cartouche, compass rose, galleon (some light staining, light browning at join), 470 x 730mm., framed and glazed. Extracted from Dudley's monumental Dell' Arcano del Mare, the first sea atlas produced by an Englishman (albeit in Italy).