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Auction 109, Lot 135
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"Plan de la Ville de Quebec", Bellin, Jacques Nicolas

Subject: Canada

Period: 1757 (circa)

Publication: Prevost's l' Historie Generale des Voyages

Color: Hand Color

Size:
11 x 7.7 inches
27.9 x 19.6 cm
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Attractive map of the city of Quebec showing the city's fortifications with a key at right identifying the major buildings, etc. Bellin's plan (first issued in 1744) was the definitive plan of the city for most of the eighteenth century. Finely engraved with a compass rose.

References: Kershaw #1054.

Condition: A

Damp stain in bottom margin, well away from map.

Estimate: $240 - $300

Sold for: $200

Closed on 12/1/2004

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