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Auction 99, Lot 268

"De Golf van Mexico, de Eilanden en het Omleggende Land", Elwe, Jan Barend

Subject: Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean

Period: 1792 (dated)

Publication:

Color: Hand Color

Size:
22.7 x 18.7 inches
57.7 x 47.5 cm
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Handsome large chart covering the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean. Nice detail including several Indian tribe place names in Louisiana and Florida. Major sea routes are noted. Decorated with a title cartouche held aloft by putti and a compass rose.

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Condition: B

Light surface soil and a tiny hole in blank ocean.

Estimate: $900 - $1,000

Unsold

Closed on 6/12/2002

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