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Auction 192, Lot 523

"Seconde Partie de la Crimee, la Mer Noire &c...", Delisle/Covens & Mortier

Subject: Black Sea

Period: 1740 (circa)

Publication: Atlas Nouveau

Color: Hand Color

Size:
24.1 x 18.6 inches
61.2 x 47.2 cm
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This is the southern half of a two-sheet map showing the theater of war in the region around the Black Sea, which has long been a contested region between Russia, Poland and Lithuania. There is good detail throughout including watershed, roads, villages and cities, forests and mountains. Includes Constantinople, the Sea of Marmara, Mount Olympus, and the southern tip of Crimea. This sheet stands on its own with full borders and its own title.

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Condition: A

Contemporary outline color on a sheet with an "IS" watermark. There is tissue repair of a fold separation in bottom margin and small area of very faint offsetting, still near fine.

Estimate: $200 - $230

Sold for: $150

Closed on 4/26/2023

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