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Auction 105, Lot 48
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"Chart of the Antarctic Polar Circle, with the Countries Adjoining, According to the New Hypothesis of M. Buache", Anon.

Subject: South Pole

Period: 1763 (published)

Publication: Gentleman's Magazine

Color: Hand Color

Size:
9 x 7.7 inches
22.9 x 19.6 cm
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A circular south-polar projection including part of southern South America, South Africa and all of Australia (with Tasmania and New Guinea attached to the mainland). The map shows several different coastlines for Antarctica based on various explorers and cartographers. From the memoirs of the Royal Academy of Science.

References: Jolly GENT-166.

Condition: A

Good impression and color on thick paper.

Estimate: $220 - $250

Sold for: $140

Closed on 12/3/2003

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