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Auction 141, Lot 528

"Carte de Detroit de Waeigats ou de Nassau Suivant les Navigateurs Hollandois pour l'Histoire Generale des Voyages", Bellin, Jacques Nicolas

Subject: Novaya Zemlya, Russia

Period: 1758 (dated)

Publication: Prevost's Histoire Generale des Voyages

Color: Hand Color

Size:
12 x 7.8 inches
30.5 x 19.8 cm
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A boldly engraved copperplate map that is centered on the Russian islands of Novaya Zemlya and Pechorskaya Guba, here Nouvelle Zemble and Grande Baye. The detailed chart shows the lower part of the island and mainland. Embellished with rhumb lines, fleur-de-lis and fancy cartouche.

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Condition: A

Issued folding, now pressed on watermarked paper with minor offsetting. A binding trim at bottom left has been repaired with old paper.

Estimate: $110 - $140

Sold for: $80

Closed on 9/5/2012

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