The Bending of the Bow Printed Area Measurement_38.5 x 80 cm set in descriptive Italian text

set in descriptive Italian text with woodcut headpiece and historiated initial

Spanish text on verso

Mauritanian king rather than the weary titan) and the original Mercator Atlas (published in parts between 1585 and 1595) was an enormous advance in scientific terms: like Abraham Ortelius

This intricate anthropomorphic map (the artist also produced a zoomorphic companion piece) was issued soon after the outbreak of the First World War

which was then under construction

The Bending of the Bow Printed Area Measurement_38.5 x 80 cm set in descriptive Italian textThe Bending of the Bow A Version of the Closing Books of Homers Odyssey. Condition & Materials 4to. Number 15 of 75 copies signed by Neil Curry, with a signed and correspondingly numbered original etching by Jim Dine inserted in a paper folder. Original cloth, a fine copy in slipcase.