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Auction 120, Lot 777
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"Carte de la Barbarie, le la Nigritie et de la Guinee", Delisle/Elwe

Subject: Western Africa

Period: 1792 (dated)

Publication:

Color: Hand Color

Size:
23.8 x 17.5 inches
60.5 x 44.5 cm
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Deftly engraved 18th century map of western Africa from Barbary, Nigeria and Guinea to below the equator. There is a mass of geographic detail and notations in the interior with information on the rivers and lakes. Numerous tent encampments are depicted throughout the Sahara Desert. This map first appeared in Delisle's Atlas de Geographie (1700-1712) and was here re-issued by Jan Elwe with his imprint at bottom.

References: cf Norwich #317.

Condition: A

Superb impression on sturdy paper with nice old color. There are a couple of insignificant printer's smudges in the blank margins.

Estimate: $400 - $500

Sold for: $230

Closed on 7/18/2007

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