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Auction 94, Lot 315

"Carte du Detroit de Waeigats ou de Nassau Suivant les Navigateurs Hollandois…", Bellin, Jacques Nicolas

Subject: Russia

Period: 1758 (dated)

Publication:

Color: Black & White

Size:
12 x 7.9 inches
30.5 x 20.1 cm
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This map is centered on the Russian islands of Novay Zemlya and Pechorskaya Guba, here Nouvelle Zemle and Grande Baye. Detailed chart shows only the lower part of the island a mainland. Embellished with rhumb lines, fleur-de-lys and fancy cartouche.

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Condition: A

Estimate: $60 - $80

Sold for: $45

Closed on 3/7/2001

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