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Auction 141, Lot 118
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"Carte de la Baye de Hudson pour Servir a l'Histoire Generale des Voyages", Bellin, Jacques Nicolas

Subject: Hudson Bay, Canada

Period: 1757 (dated)

Publication: Prevost's Histoire Generale des Voyages

Color: Hand Color

Size:
12 x 8.8 inches
30.5 x 22.4 cm
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Handsome first state example of this chart of the Hudson Bay and Labrador, depicting the mountains and coastal features and including numerous forts. There is a note in French in the far northwest corner of the map explaining that the English had searched for a Northwest Passage in that region, but it did not exist. Embellished with a decorative title cartouche.

References: Kershaw #459; Protinaro & Knirsch, p. 242; Sellers & Van Ee #304.

Condition: B+

Issued folding, now pressed on watermarked paper with light offsetting. A binding trim and binding tear that just enters map border at bottom right have both been professionally repaired.

Estimate: $110 - $140

Sold for: $80

Closed on 9/5/2012

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