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Auction 141, Lot 682

"Carte Reduite de l'Ocean Oriental Septentrional, qui Contient une partie des Cotes d'Afrique, de l'Arabie, de la Perse, et celles de l'Indostan, avec les Isles de Ceylon, Maldives et Laquedives", Apres de Mannevillette, Jean B. N. D.

Subject: Indian Ocean

Period: 1775 (published)

Publication: Le Neptune Oriental

Color: Black & White

Size:
26.3 x 19 inches
66.8 x 48.3 cm
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Large-scale sea chart covering the northern Indian Ocean and the Arabian Sea with fine coastline and island detail. The chart is centered on a compass rose with radiating rhumb lines.

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Condition: B

On watermarked paper with wide margins, a few faint spots, and a printer's crease near centerfold at bottom. Two small holes at bottom and a tear at right have been professionally repaired with a minor amount of rhumb lines in facsimile.

Estimate: $160 - $200

Sold for: $100

Closed on 9/5/2012

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