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Antique Map Auction Sale No. 115 - closed 6/21/2006

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Lot #117: "Plan de la Ville de Quebec" Jacques Nicolas Bellin

Antique map chart Plan de la Ville de Quebec
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Estimate:
$230.00 - $275.00
Sold for: $170.00

Lot 117
By: Jacques Nicolas Bellin
Subject: Canada, Quebec
Date: 1757

Publication: Prevost's l'Historie Generale des Voyages

Condition: A+
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Color: uncolored

Size: 11 x 7.8 inches
28.0 x 19.9 cm

Attractive map of the city of Quebec showing the city's fortifications with a key at right identifying the major buildings, etc. Bellin's plan (first issued in 1744) was the definitive plan of the city for most of the eighteenth century. Finely engraved with a large compass rose.




Ref: Kershaw #1054.

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