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Auction 116, Lot 803
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"L'Afrique Dressee suivant les Auteurs les plus nouvea, et Sur les Observations de Messieurs de l'Academie Royale des Sciences", Chiquet, Jacques

Subject: Africa

Period: 1720 (circa)

Publication:

Color: Hand Color

Size:
8.5 x 6.3 inches
21.6 x 16 cm
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Charming map of the continent with some interesting cartography and filled with notations. The Nile is correctly shown with its origins in Abyssinia. A large Lac de Zaire appears just below the Equator as the source of the Zaire River. Decorated with a title cartouche and compass rose.

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Condition: A+

Crisp impression and original outline color. Faint damp stain in blank margin, still fine.

Estimate: $180 - $230

Sold for: $130

Closed on 9/20/2006

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