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Auction 95, Lot 225

"An Accurate Chart of the English Channel, wherein all the Sea Port Cities, and Towns, Bays & Harbours are carefully laid down from London to the Lands End &c…", Bowen, Emanuel

Subject: Northern Europe

Period: 1757 (dated)

Publication: General Magazine of Arts and Sciences

Color: Black & White

Size:
13 x 13.3 inches
33 x 33.8 cm
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Very detailed naming dozens of towns and ports along the shoreline of France and England. Extends to include the southern tip of Ireland and south to Bayonne, France. Handsome and well engraved sheet with rhumb lines radiating from a large compass rose and decorative cartouche. Complete with it's accompanying August, 1757 issue of the magazine. Ref: Jolly GENT-81. Foxed with some repaired splits.

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Condition: C

Estimate: $250 - $300

Sold for: $0

Closed on 6/13/2001

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