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Auction 147, Lot 120

"Partie Orientale du Canada, avec la Nouvelle Angleterre, l'Acadie, et la Terre-Neuve...", D'Anville/Santini

Subject: Colonial New England & Canada

Period: 1776 (dated)

Publication: Atlas Universel

Color: Hand Color

Size:
23.8 x 19.2 inches
60.5 x 48.8 cm
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This large, attractive map covers New England, the St. Laurence River, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland. It presents good detail of boundaries, towns and cities, harbors, bays, rivers and lakes, Indian tribal territory, and fishing grounds. Though crediting D'Anville, the map is also partially based on the cartography of Bellin and Robert de Vaugondy. The large cartouche, featuring a ferocious-looking beaver, is copied from Robert de Vaugondy's 1755 map of Canada and the Great Lakes. Second state without pagination.

References: Kershaw #714; McCorkle #776.4; Sellers & Van Ee #138.

Condition: A

A fine impression on watermarked paper with a small faint stain in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

Estimate: $400 - $500

Sold for: $700

Closed on 11/20/2013

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