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Auction 147, Lot 154

"Virginie", Mallet, Alain Manesson

Subject: Colonial Mid-Atlantic

Period: 1683 (circa)

Publication: Description de l'Univers

Color: Black & White

Size:
4.1 x 5.9 inches
10.4 x 15 cm
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Well engraved miniature map of the Chesapeake Bay region locating the colony of Jamestown and the village of Pomejok. Several Indian tribes are named including the Powhatan. Virginia is bounded to the west and north by Canada ou Nouvelle France. Title is in a curtain draped cartouche at top. French text on verso.

References: Burden #567.

Condition: A

On watermarked paper with faint show-through of text on verso, a small amount of printer's ink residue, and hinge tape remnants on verso.

Estimate: $200 - $250

Sold for: $250

Closed on 11/20/2013

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