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Auction 105, Lot 47
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"Hemisphere Meridional pour voir plus distinctement les Terres Australes…", Delisle/Covens & Mortier

Subject: Southern Hemisphere

Period: 1730 (circa)

Publication: Atlas Nouveau

Color: Hand Color

Size:
18 x 18 inches
45.7 x 45.7 cm
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Important map depicting the Southern Hemisphere and showing the tracks of the explorers and circumnavigators around the southern oceans including Magellan in 1520, Abel Tasman in 1642, and Edmund Halley in 1698-1700. The map provides very good detail, particularly of the discoveries in Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific.

References: Phillips (A) #3486.

Condition: B

Good impression and coloring on very thick paper with wide margins. A little scattered foxing and short repair on centerfold, else very good.

Estimate: $400 - $500

Unsold

Closed on 12/3/2003

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