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Auction 141, Lot 529
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"Partie de la Mer Glaciale Contenant la Nouvelle Zemble et le Pais des Samoiedes Suivant les Decouvertes des Hollandois et les Cartes des Russes pour Servir a 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:
13.8 x 8.5 inches
35.1 x 21.6 cm
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This map features Novaya Zemlya, the island off northern Russia in the Barents Sea, and extends to about Dikson in the east. Embellished with rhumb lines and a decorative cartouche.

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Condition: B+

Issued folding, now pressed on watermarked paper with minor offsetting. A binding trim and 1" binding tear at bottom left have both been professionally repaired.

Estimate: $75 - $95

Sold for: $55

Closed on 9/5/2012

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