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Auction 96, Lot 472

"Carte Reduite de la Mer du Sud Pour servir a l'Histoire generale des Voyages", Bellin, Jacques Nicolas

Subject: South Pacific

Period: 1753 (dated)

Publication:

Color: Black & White

Size:
14 x 8 inches
35.6 x 20.3 cm
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A fine map of the South Pacific. Eastern Australia is shown with dotted lines connecting both Tasmania and New Guinea in a conjectural coastline. New Zealand is shown with only the western coastline. The Americas are shown from Baja California through Central America and the western coastline of South America including the Straits of Magellan and Cape Horn.

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Condition: A

Trimmed to neatline at binding side with margin extended, else fine.

Estimate: $350 - $400

Sold for: $250

Closed on 9/12/2001

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