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Antique Map Auction Sale No. 127 - closed 2/25/2009

Featuring 870 lots of rare antique maps, charts, pocket maps, globes and atlases
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Lot #85: "L'Amerique Septentrionale" Le Rouge

Antique map chart L Amerique Septentrionale
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Estimate:
$300.00 - $375.00
Sold for: $325.00

Lot 85
By: Le Rouge
Subject: North America
Date: 1748

Publication: Atlas Nouveau Portatif…

Condition: A+
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Color: hand color

Size: 8 x 10.8 inches
20.4 x 27.5 cm

This is an uncommon map of North America with some very interesting theoretical cartography concerning a Northwest Passage. The most prominent feature is a River of the West (Riv. De l'Ouest), which connects Lake Superior with the Lake of the Woods and Lake Winnipeg and then flows off the map supposedly to the Pacific. It also links through a system of streams and lakes to Hudson Bay. In Northern Canada are faint engraved lines showing the Sea of the West with a passage between it and Hudson Bay.

Very nice impression.

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