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Auction 147, Lot 279

"Les Isles Antilles, et le Golfe du Mexique", Bonne/Raynal

Subject: Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean

Period: 1780 (circa)

Publication: Raynal's Atlas de Toutes les Parties Connues du Globe Terrestre

Color: Hand Color

Size:
12.8 x 8.4 inches
32.5 x 21.3 cm
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A beautiful and strongly engraved chart of the Caribbean also features good detail of Central America. It includes the Gulf Coast and Florida; St. Augustine, Pensacola and New Orleans are named. Some navigation routes, trade winds, rocks, and shoals are identified. At upper right is an inset of Bermuda.

References: Sellers & Van Ee #1705.

Condition: A

A crisp impression with a few minor spots confined to the blank margins.

Estimate: $160 - $200

Sold for: $80

Closed on 11/20/2013

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