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Auction 120, Lot 206

"Carte de la Coste de la Floride depuis la Baye de la Mobile jusqu'aux Cayes de St. Martin", Bellin, Jacques Nicolas

Subject: Colonial Southern United States

Period: 1764 (circa)

Publication:

Color: Black & White

Size:
13.5 x 8.5 inches
34.3 x 21.6 cm
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This attractive chart covers the Gulf coast from Mobile, Alabama to the Cayes ou Isles de St. Martin on the Florida coast. It shows little detail other than soundings along the coast and river entrances, a few forts and some Indian villages. It is nicely decorated with a rococo title cartouche, rhumb lines and two fleur-de-lis.

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Condition: A

Nice impression with a worm track and an old paper repair in upper margin.

Estimate: $400 - $550

Sold for: $425

Closed on 7/18/2007

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