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Auction 91, Lot 454

"Atlas to Illustrate the Travels in the Ottoman Empire, Egypt and Persia",

Subject: Atlas

Period: 1801 (dated)

Publication:

Color: Black & White

Size:
10 x 12.5 inches
25.4 x 31.8 cm
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Complete with 8 maps, four folding engraved by Russell and Neele. Including a nice map titled "Greece, the Archipelago and Asia Minor", and a plan with Constantinople (Bosphorus or Thrace or Channel of the Black Sea). Also with seven engravings of costumes, plants, reptiles and shells. Scattered foxing and damp stain, binding tear in map of the Grecian Archipelago. Covers missing. Sold as a collection of maps and plates - not subject to return.

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Condition: C

Estimate: $100 - $150

Sold for: $160

Closed on 6/14/2000

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