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Auction 95, Lot 358

"Plate XXI - Wie sie ire acker bauwen uns beseen", Bry, Theodore de

Subject: Florida

Period: 1591 (circa)

Publication: Grand Voyages, Part II

Color: Black & White

Size:
8.4 x 5.8 inches
21.3 x 14.7 cm
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Pleasant scene of native Floridians cultivating the land. The men are seen preparing the garden with hoes made of fish bones while the women carefully place seeds in holes made with a long pole.

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Condition: B

Soiled margins and printer's crease.

Estimate: $200 - $230

Sold for: $150

Closed on 6/13/2001

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