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Auction 161, Lot 735

"Carte Reduite de la Mer du Sud pour Servir a l'Histoire Generale des Voyages", Bellin, Jacques Nicolas

Subject: South Pacific Ocean

Period: 1753 (dated)

Publication: Histoire Generale des Voyages

Color: Hand Color

Size:
14.3 x 8.3 inches
36.3 x 21.1 cm
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This map of the South Pacific presents nice detail of the region. Eastern Australia is shown with dotted lines connecting both Tasmania and New Guinea in a conjectural coastline. New Zealand is shown with only the western coastline demarcated. The Americas are shown from Baja California through Central America and the western coastline of South America including the Straits of Magellan and Cape Horn.

References: cf. Tooley (Australia) #158.

Condition: B+

Issued folding, now pressed flat on paper with a bunch of grapes and heart watermarks. There is light offsetting and a few minor extraneous creases.

Estimate: $350 - $425

Sold for: $180

Closed on 2/8/2017

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