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Antique Map Auction Sale No. 94 - closed 3/7/2001

Featuring 514 lots of rare antique maps, charts, pocket maps, globes and atlases
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Lot #47: "Continent Arctique" A. Mallet

Antique map chart Continent Arctique
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Estimate:
$80.00 - $100.00
Sold for: $140.00

Lot 47
By: A. Mallet
Subject: North Pole
Date: 1683

Publication: Description de l'Univers

Condition: A
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Color: uncolored

Size: 4.2 x 5.8 inches
10.7 x 14.8 cm

Miniature map of the North Pole on a azimuth equidistant polar projection. Only the landmass outlines shown. The northern tip of the ISLAND OF CALIFORNIA is shown, as well as "Terre de Jesso" which is prominently named. Ref: McLaughlin #82-1. Minor damp stains in margins.



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