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Antique Map Auction Sale No. 136 - closed 6/1/2011

Featuring 845 lots of rare antique maps, charts, pocket maps, globes and atlases
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Lot #395: "Dominia Anglorum in Praecipuis Insulis Americae ut sunt Insula S. Christophori Antegoa Iamaica Barbados nec non Insulae Bermudes vel Sommers…" Homann Heirs

Antique map chart Dominia Anglorum in Praecipuis Insulis Americae ut s
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Estimate:
$450.00 - $550.00
Sold for: $250.00

Lot 395
By: Homann Heirs
Subject: Caribbean and Bermuda
Date: 1753-1759

Publication: Atlas Geographicus Maior

Condition: B+
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Color: hand color

Size: 21.8 x 19.3 inches
55.4 x 49.1 cm

A large and striking sheet that contains five charts describing the islands of St. Kitts, Antigua, Bermuda, Barbados and Jamaica. All of these maps were copied from separate maps made by Herman Moll in 1729. Each is finely engraved and meticulously detailed with its own compass rose, soundings, roads, forts, churches, topography and political divisions, as well as descriptive text and place name keys. The map has a second title in German: Die Englische Colonie-Laender auf den Insuln von America.

Strong impression and original color with small hole in upper left corner of St. Kitts map repaired with paper on verso. Minor foxing and toning in blank margins.


Ref: Sellers & Van Ee #1723.

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