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Auction 141, Lot 521

"La Pologne, Divisee en Royaume de Pologne et les Etats y Apartenans la Pologne Prussienne Autrichienne & Russienne", Elwe, Jan Barend

Subject: Eastern Europe, Poland

Period: 1792 (circa)

Publication:

Color: Hand Color

Size:
23.8 x 19 inches
60.5 x 48.3 cm
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This large map covers Poland, Lithuania, Belarus and part of Ukraine. It illustrates the Partitions of Poland when the entire territory of the Kingdom of Poland was divided between Prussia, Austria and Russia. The map is filled with detail and decorated with a title and scale cartouche flanked by mythological figures and putti.

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Condition: A

Watermarked paper with marginal soiling and a few tiny tears confined to blank margins.

Estimate: $600 - $800

Sold for: $475

Closed on 9/5/2012

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