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Auction 128, Lot 477

"Plan de la Ville de Lima ou des Rois capitale du Perou", Bellin, Jacques Nicolas

Subject: Peru

Period: 1764 (circa)

Publication: Le Petit Atlas Maritime

Color: Hand Color

Size:
13.8 x 8.3 inches
35.1 x 21.1 cm
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This attractive city plan of Lima shows streets and fortifications and a numbered key locates 61 places. The compass rose orients north to the lower left corner. The map was engraved by Croisey.

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Condition: A

There is some faint foxing on the verso and in the blank margins.

Estimate: $150 - $200

Sold for: $110

Closed on 5/20/2009

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