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

Featuring 830 lots of rare antique maps, charts, pocket maps, globes and atlases
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Lot #511: "Bonne ou Bonn, Ville Situee sur et deca le Rhein…" Nicholas de Fer

Antique map chart Bonne ou Bonn Ville Situee sur et deca le Rhein
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Estimate:
$75.00 - $100.00
Sold for: $60.00

Lot 511
By: Nicholas de Fer
Subject: Germany
Date: 1705

Publication: Les Forces de l' Europe…

Condition: A
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Color: hand color

Size: 11 x 7.8 inches
28.0 x 19.9 cm

Charming small plan shows the fortifications at Bonn during 1689 when it was destroyed by Elector Frederick III of Brandenburg. A decorative key at right names the important sites. Nicolas de Fer held the title of Geographer at Louis XIV's court. He was one of the most prolific publishers of plans of European cities in the late seventeenth century.




Ref: Pollak #21, p. 40.

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