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Auction 101, Lot 439

"Carte Reduite de la Presque Isle de l'Inde…", Bellin, Jacques Nicolas

Subject: India & Sri Lanka

Period: 1766 (dated)

Publication:

Color: Hand Color

Size:
33.5 x 23.5 inches
85.1 x 59.7 cm
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A very lovely chart with a large curtain-style cartouche and oceans filled with rhumb lines. Extends from the Gulf of Khamblat just to the edge of Burma. Great detail in the Maldives and Ceylon. A very large and handsome chart with the signet of the Depot de la Marine.

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Condition: A

Dark impression and attractive color on a full sheet of thick hand laid paper with a huge crown watermark. Light tide mark at top center, still very good.

Estimate: $400 - $500

Sold for: $200

Closed on 12/4/2002

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