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Auction 131, Lot 217

"Carte de la Baye de Chesapeack et Pays Voisins", Bellin, Jacques Nicolas

Subject: Colonial Mid-Atlantic

Period: 1757 (circa)

Publication: l' Histoire Generale des Voyages

Color: Black & White

Size:
11.3 x 7.5 inches
28.7 x 19.1 cm
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Finely engraved colonial map covering most of Virginia, Maryland, Delaware with a bit of Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The interior is fully engraved with mountains and great detail along the rivers. An early network of trails and wagon roads are delineated, plus watershed and some topographical information. It extends west to beyond Fort Cumberland and locates Annapolis, Fredericksburg, Williamsburg, Norfolk, and Philadelphia. The delicate rococo-style title cartouche incorporates the distance scale.

References: Sellers & Van Ee #1383.

Condition: A

Delicate impression on clean paper with full margins. Apparent discoloration along vertical fold is actually a darkened line on verso, otherwise a fine example that has been left uncolored, as issued.

Estimate: $275 - $350

Sold for: $160

Closed on 3/17/2010

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