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

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Lot #639: "[Lot of 2] Carte des Costes de Perse, Gusarat, et Malabar [with] Carte des Costes de Perse, Guzarat et Malabar" Bellin/Van Schley

Antique map chart Lot of 2 Carte des Costes de Perse Gusarat et Malaba
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Estimate:
$120.00 - $160.00
This lot was withdrawn

Lot 639
By: Bellin/Van Schley
Subject: India
Date: 1740-73

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Condition: A
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Size: 7.8 x 9.5 inches
19.9 x 24.2 cm

Two versions of Bellin's map of the west coast of Pakistan and India from C. Jaskes to C. Komorin. Includes a good depiction of the Maldives. First, dated 1740, is in full color with an ornamental rococo title cartouche with leaf and scroll motifs and a compass rose. It was published in Prevost's L'Histoire Generale Des Voyages. Second is a Dutch edition engraved by J. van Schley, published circa 1773. It is uncolored with a more decorative title cartouche and additional notes below the cartouche. Both approximately the same size.



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