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Auction 111, Lot 703
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"Coste Occidentale d'Afrique, depuis le Xie. Degre de Latitude Meridionale…", Bellin, Jacques Nicolas

Subject: Africa - Southwestern

Period: 1739 (dated)

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Color: Hand Color

Size:
10.4 x 9.6 inches
26.4 x 24.4 cm
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A boldly engraved and colored map that covers the southwestern coast of Africa from the Cape of Good Hope up to about 11° and includes the coastlines of today's South Africa, Namibia, and Angola. Offshore from the Cape of Good Hope is a large sandbank labeled Banc des Eguilles. Decorated with a title cartouche and compass rose.

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Condition: A

Issued folded, now pressed. Very fine, later coloring. Some faint offsetting, else fine.

Estimate: $120 - $160

Sold for: $90

Closed on 6/8/2005

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