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Auction 185, Lot 716
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"La Guinee et Pays Circomvoisins; Tires de Mercator de Blommart &c.", Sanson, Nicolas

Subject: Western Africa

Period: 1683 (circa)

Publication:

Color: Hand Color

Size:
12.1 x 6.5 inches
30.7 x 16.5 cm
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This attractive copper engraved map of the Guinea coast includes Guinea, Benin, and Congo. It is nicely detailed and decorated with a title cartouche that credits the information as being from Gerard Mercator and Samuel Blomaart, an African trader and West Indies Company director.

References:

Condition: B+

A nice impression with faint offsetting. Left and right margins have been extended with old paper to better accommodate framing, with slight loss of neatline at top left and top right.

Estimate: $90 - $110

Sold for: $65

Closed on 11/17/2021

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