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Auction 125, Lot 455

"Les Isles Britanniques Comprenant les Royaumes d'Angleterre d'Ecosse et d'Irlande Divises en Grandes Provinces…", Janvier/Lattre

Subject: Britain

Period: 1780 (circa)

Publication: Atlas Moderne

Color: Hand Color

Size:
17.5 x 12.4 inches
44.5 x 31.5 cm
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Nicely engraved chart of Britain with an inset of the Orkney and Shetland Islands. Good detail throughout including coastal France through the Netherlands. Large and decorative title cartouche with the royal coat of arms, plus another rococo-style cartouche surrounding the four distance scales.

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Condition: A

Original outline color with some light surface soil in the margins.

Estimate: $150 - $200

Sold for: $110

Closed on 9/24/2008

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