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Auction 120, Lot 4
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"Atlas Methodique et Elementaire de Geographie et l'Histoire…", Buy de Mornas, Claude

Subject: Title Pages

Period: 1761 (dated)

Publication:

Color: Hand Color

Size:
21 x 15 inches
53.3 x 38.1 cm
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Gorgeous, large title page topped with an angel of knowledge bringing the geographical sciences to the gentlemen and woman lounging on a pastoral hillside while a group of cherubs seem blinded by the brilliance of it all. The hillside and title is garlanded with flowers and the foreground is filled with waterfalls, herons, foliage, globes, telescopes, maps and an incongruent hunting scene.

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Condition: A

Strong impression with a couple spots of marginal foxing.

Estimate: $200 - $275

Sold for: $150

Closed on 7/18/2007

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