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Auction 185, Lot 110

"Carte qui Contient une Description des Iles & Terres que les Anglois Possedent dans l'Amerique Septentrionale, et en Particulier de la Jamaique...", Chatelain, Henry Abraham

Subject: Colonial Eastern North America, Caribbean & Bermuda

Period: 1720 (circa)

Publication: Atlas Historique

Color: Black & White

Size:
20.5 x 15.5 inches
52.1 x 39.4 cm
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A very interesting folio sheet containing seven maps inset into panels of French text. The largest map, Carte de la Jamaique Nouvelle... (9 x 5.7"), shows the island in great detail and includes a large inset of the Gulf of Mexico and West Indies. The other maps illustrate Barbados, Bermuda, and the British colonies in North America (in four regional maps, including Chatelain's only map to exclusively focus on New England). Together these maps cover all of the regions colonized by the English at the early part of the 18th century.

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Condition: A

A crisp impression issued folding on a sheet with a Strasbourg bend and lily watermark. There is some faint scattered foxing.

Estimate: $160 - $190

Sold for: $170

Closed on 11/17/2021

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