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Auction 116, Lot 358

"Cuba Insula [on sheet with] Hispaniola Insula [and] Insula Iamaica [and] Ins. S. Ioannis [and] Is. Margareta", Mercator/Jansson

Subject: Greater Antilles

Period: 1640 (circa)

Publication: Atlas Minor

Color: Hand Color

Size:
7.2 x 5.5 inches
18.3 x 14 cm
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This charming small sheet includes maps of several Caribbean islands. The map of Cuba is positioned above Hispaniola with smaller insets of Havana, Jamaica, Puerto Rico and Margarita Island. Dutch text on verso.

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Condition: A

Overall very good. Later impression with a couple of plate cracks visible in right border.

Estimate: $400 - $500

Sold for: $325

Closed on 9/20/2006

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