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Auction 105, Lot 108

"Carte de la Nouvelle Angleterre, Nouvelle Yorck, Pensilvanie…", Bellin, Jacques Nicolas

Subject: Colonial New England

Period: 1760 (circa)

Publication: Prevost's Histoire Generale des Voyages

Color: Black & White

Size:
11.7 x 8 inches
29.7 x 20.3 cm
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Very nice French & Indian War period map of the English colonies from Pennsylvania through Maine with their early boundaries. Fully engraved with topographical features. The colonies are shown confined east of the Allegheny Mountains, with the Nations Iroquoises, Indian villages and several French forts located west of the mountains. Decorative cartouche in the flourishing French style.

References: McCorkle #757-1; Sellers & Van Ee #721.

Condition: A

On hand laid paper with small watermark.

Estimate: $400 - $500

Sold for: $300

Closed on 12/3/2003

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