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Auction 174, Lot 150

"Virginie", Mallet, Alain Manesson

Subject: Colonial Mid-Atlantic United States

Period: 1685 (published)

Publication: Beschreibung des Gantzen Welt-Kreisses

Color: Hand Color

Size:
4 x 5.8 inches
10.2 x 14.7 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, with German title above map: Der Jungfrauen Landt.

References: Burden #567; Pastoureau, MANESSON-MALLET I B.

Condition: A+

A nice impression on a clean, bright sheet.

Estimate: $275 - $350

Sold for: $140

Closed on 9/11/2019

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