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Auction 176, Lot 275

"Audience de Mexico", Sanson, Nicolas

Subject: Mexico

Period: 1721 (circa)

Publication: Nouvelle Relation, Contenent les Voyages de Thomas Gage

Color: Hand Color

Size:
11 x 6.5 inches
27.9 x 16.5 cm
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This is an attractive small map focusing on the region of central and southern Mexico with the Yucatan Peninsula. It is adorned with a drape-style title cartouche. This is a re-engraved edition published in Paul Marret's translation of Thomas Gage's account of the West Indies.

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Condition: B+

Issued folding on paper with a sundial watermark and light offsetting. A binding trim at right has been replaced with old paper and an adjacent short binding tear has been archivally repaired.

Estimate: $140 - $170

Sold for: $100

Closed on 2/12/2020

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