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Auction 105, Lot 288

"Carte Reduite des Mers du Nord…", Bellin, Jacques Nicolas

Subject: Atlantic & Arctic Oceans

Period: 1758 (dated)

Publication:

Color: Hand Color

Size:
17.7 x 13 inches
45 x 33 cm
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Copper engraved chart centered roughly on Iceland. Includes all of Great Britain, Scandinavia, the Baltic Sea, Gulf of Bothnia and the Gulf of Finland. In the west are a largely blank Greenland, Isle James and Labrador. A fine chart with decorative title cartouche and rhumb lines.

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Condition: A

Fine impression and coloring.

Estimate: $160 - $200

Sold for: $140

Closed on 12/3/2003

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