Archived Record - Auction Closed!! Auction #102, closed March, 2003

Lot Number: Title: Period: Cartographer: Subject: Size: Hammer Price: Description:

53 Carte Reduite des Parties Septentrionales du Globe, Situees Entre l' Asie et l' Amerique 1777 Jacques Nicolas Bellin Arctic Regions 13.5" x 8.5" $230.00 Very unusual chart showing only the northeast coastline of Canada with Baffin and Hudson Bay and the St. Laurence. On the other side is the northeast coastline of Asia with the Kamchatka peninsula. In between are a few small areas of coastline with notations concerning reported explorations, including those of Juan de Fuca, and the Russians in 1728 and 1741. Decorative title cartouche and rhumb lines.