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

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Lot #745: "Coste Occidentale d'Afrique, depuis le XIe. Degre de Latitude Meridionale…" Jacques Nicolas Bellin

Antique map chart Coste Occidentale d Afrique depuis le XIe Degre de L
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Estimate:
$120.00 - $140.00
Sold for: $90.00

Lot 745
By: Jacques Nicolas Bellin
Subject: Africa - Western
Date: 1739

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Condition: A
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Color: hand color

Size: 10.3 x 9.8 inches
26.2 x 24.9 cm

A boldly engraved and colored map that covers the southwestern coast of Africa from the Cape of Good Hope up to about 11° S. and includes the coastlines of today's South Africa, Namibia, and Angola. Offshore from the Cape of Good Hope is a large sandbank labeled Banc des Eguilles. Extends to include the island of St. Helena and names Fort St. James. Decorated with a title cartouche and compass rose.

Lovely, dark impression and fine hand coloring. Some faint offsetting in blank area, close trimmed at bottom, as issued.

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