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Auction 127, Lot 570

"Le Cercle de la Haute Saxe ou sont Compris le Duche et Eslectorat de Saxe…", Sanson/Jaillot

Subject: Germany

Period: 1768 (dated)

Publication:

Color: Hand Color

Size:
25.5 x 18 inches
64.8 x 45.7 cm
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This attractive map depicts Eastern Germany with part of Poland and the Czech Republic. It includes Dresden, Prague, Gorzow, Berlin, Magdeburg, and Fulda. Embellished in opposite corners with two large cartouches enclosing the title and distances scales. The map is reduced slightly from the Sanson/Jaillot, two-sheet map of 1692.

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Condition: A+

Estimate: $230 - $275

Sold for: $120

Closed on 2/25/2009

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