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Auction 138, Lot 35

"Planisphere Suivant la Projection de Mercator", Bonne, Rigobert

Subject: World

Period: 1780 (circa)

Publication:

Color: Hand Color

Size:
12.5 x 8.3 inches
31.8 x 21.1 cm
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Attractive copper-engraved map of the world with the direction of ocean currents shown throughout with little arrows. Alaska, here Alaschka, is depicted as a small island and Tasmania is still attached to a truncated Australia.

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Condition: B+

Faint soiling.

Estimate: $180 - $220

Sold for: $130

Closed on 12/7/2011

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