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Lot 168
By: Jacques Nicolas Bellin
Subject: Spitsbergen, Norway
Date: 1758 (dated)

Publication: Prevost's Histoire Generale des Voyages

Condition Code: A

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Color: hand color

Size: 11.9 x 8.6 inches
30.3 x 21.9 cm

Copper engraved map of Spitsbergen (Svalbard) with the adjacent islands of Franz Josef Land and Jan Mayan. There is good detail of the rocks, shoals, regions of ice, and anchorages with notations concerning discoveries and explorations. A French-style decorative title cartouche, fleur-de-lis and rhumb lines complete the chart.

Condition Description: Watermarked paper with attractive color and faint offsetting.

Estimate:
$110.00 - $140.00

Sold for: $55.00

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