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Antique Map Auction Sale No. 109 - closed 12/1/2004

Featuring 818 lots of rare antique maps, charts, pocket maps, globes and atlases
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Lot #9: "Atlas National Illustre des 86 Departements et des possessions de la France…" Victor Levasseur

Antique atlas title page Atlas National Illustre des 86 Departements e
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Estimate:
$140.00 - $180.00
Sold for: $80.00

Lot 9
By: Victor Levasseur
Subject: Title Pages
Date: 1845

Publication:

Condition: A+
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Color: hand color

Size: 16 x 11.5 inches
40.7 x 29.3 cm

The steel engraved scenes surrounding the script title are fully hand-colored and enclosed in a border of tree branches and grapevines engraved by Eugene Duchez. Surrounded by infantry and naval battle scenes, portraits, armor and weaponry, ballooning, early railroad engine, a river god and goddess and a group of cherubs engaged in a variety of scientific and artist pursuits.



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