Lot #: 43923
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Selling price: $325
Sold in 2020 |
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Description
A rare miniature map of California and Nova Mexico, published by Johann Ulrich Muller in Ulm .This attractive map shows the island of California and the contiguous parts of Mexico and the Southwest, covering all of what would now days be New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Nevada and parts of Oregon and Idaho.
A number of mythical places are named. The California as an island projection is based on that of Nicolas Sanson. The map has many other interesting features.
From one of the rarest and most coveted of all miniature atlases.
For such a small map it renders a wealth of detail, with mountains, forests, river, towns, cities all engraved in some detail.
From "Kurtz-bündige Abbild und Vorstellung Der Gantzen Welt. . .".
Johann Ulrich Müller (1633 - 1715) was a geographer and cartographer working in Ulm and Augsburg.
A number of mythical places are named. The California as an island projection is based on that of Nicolas Sanson. The map has many other interesting features.
From one of the rarest and most coveted of all miniature atlases.
For such a small map it renders a wealth of detail, with mountains, forests, river, towns, cities all engraved in some detail.
From "Kurtz-bündige Abbild und Vorstellung Der Gantzen Welt. . .".
Johann Ulrich Müller (1633 - 1715) was a geographer and cartographer working in Ulm and Augsburg.