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<p>[QUOTE="moreotherstuff, post: 171552, member: 56"]Coloring can be added at any time and, if it was added much later, might be detrimental to the value.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here's a different, early 17th C book that uses paper with the same watermark. According to this page, the watermark is called "Pomme de pin", and has been associated with Augsburg, Austria.</p><p><a href="https://anguscarroll.wordpress.com/2010/06/10/the-hortus-eystettensis-how-paper-type-can-help-decipher-printing-history/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://anguscarroll.wordpress.com/2010/06/10/the-hortus-eystettensis-how-paper-type-can-help-decipher-printing-history/" rel="nofollow">https://anguscarroll.wordpress.com/2010/06/10/the-hortus-eystettensis-how-paper-type-can-help-decipher-printing-history/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>That page refers to two different editions of that book, one with watermarked paper and the other without. The "deluxe" edition (even back then!) used the watermarked paper, which was considered the better quality.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here's a link showing a 1655 Sanson/Mariette atlas. Not the source of your print but does say who these people were. Note that in this description engraved plates of maps seem to move pretty freely from one publisher to another.</p><p><a href="http://www.swaen.com/Sanson-world-atlas.php" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.swaen.com/Sanson-world-atlas.php" rel="nofollow">http://www.swaen.com/Sanson-world-atlas.php</a></p><p><br /></p><p>All in all, looks like a good chance that yours is mid-17thC, but I'm in no position to say so definitively.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="moreotherstuff, post: 171552, member: 56"]Coloring can be added at any time and, if it was added much later, might be detrimental to the value. Here's a different, early 17th C book that uses paper with the same watermark. According to this page, the watermark is called "Pomme de pin", and has been associated with Augsburg, Austria. [URL]https://anguscarroll.wordpress.com/2010/06/10/the-hortus-eystettensis-how-paper-type-can-help-decipher-printing-history/[/URL] That page refers to two different editions of that book, one with watermarked paper and the other without. The "deluxe" edition (even back then!) used the watermarked paper, which was considered the better quality. Here's a link showing a 1655 Sanson/Mariette atlas. Not the source of your print but does say who these people were. Note that in this description engraved plates of maps seem to move pretty freely from one publisher to another. [URL]http://www.swaen.com/Sanson-world-atlas.php[/URL] All in all, looks like a good chance that yours is mid-17thC, but I'm in no position to say so definitively.[/QUOTE]
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