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Auction 193, Lot 405

"Magna Britannia Complectens Angliae, Scotiae et Hyberniae Regn in suas Prov. et Comitat...", Homann Heirs

Subject: Britain

Period: 1750 (circa)

Publication:

Color: Hand Color

Size:
22.3 x 18.9 inches
56.6 x 48 cm
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This handsome and uncommon map of the British Isles is filled with details on provinces, towns, and counties, with the Orkney Islands included in an inset at upper right. A table at the lower right includes symbols for cities, market towns, bishoprics, roads, ferries and bogs, among other places of note. The richly decorated cartouche is topped with the crest of Britain. There is a second English title above the map, A General Map of Great Britain and Ireland with Part of Holland, Flanders, France &c. Agreeable to Modern History.

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Condition: A

A nice impression with full contemporary color on a watermarked sheet with minor soiling and remnants of paper tape along the top edge of the sheet on recto, well away from the image.

Estimate: $275 - $350

Unsold

Closed on 6/21/2023

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