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"Geography A Map of the World in Three Sections, Describing the Polar Regions to the Tropics In Which Are Traced the Tracts of Lord Mulgrave and Captain Cook Towards the North & South Poles and the Torrid Zone or Tropical Regions...", Bell, Andrew

Subject: World

Period: 1786 (circa)

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Color: Hand Color

Size:

16.6 x 9.3 inches
42.2 x 23.6 cm

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A finely engraved double polar projection, with a rectangular map of the tropical regions centered on the equator across the bottom. The southern hemisphere shows Capt. Cook's voyages of 1773, '74, and '75. The northern hemisphere focuses on the 1773 voyages of Captain Phipps, now Lord Mulgrave.

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Condition: A

Issued folding, now pressed flat, on watermarked paper with a few tiny wormholes near the fold just outside the North Pole map and some faint soiling.

Estimate: $275 - $350

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Closed on 11/20/2013

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"Geography A Map of the World in Three Sections, Describing the Polar Regions to the Tropics In Which Are Traced the Tracts of Lord Mulgrave and Captain Cook Towards the North & South Poles and the Torrid Zone or Tropical Regions...", Bell, Andrew

Subject: World

Period: 1786 (circa)

Publication:

Color: Hand Color

Size:

16.6 x 9.3 inches
42.2 x 23.6 cm

A finely engraved double polar projection, with a rectangular map of the tropical regions centered on the equator across the bottom. The southern hemisphere shows Capt. Cook's voyages of 1773, '74, and '75. The northern hemisphere focuses on the 1773 voyages of Captain Phipps, now Lord Mulgrave.

References:

Condition: A

Issued folding, now pressed flat, on watermarked paper with a few tiny wormholes near the fold just outside the North Pole map and some faint soiling.

Estimate: $275 - $350

Unsold

Closed on 11/20/2013

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"Geography A Map of the World in Three Sections, Describing the Polar Regions to the Tropics In Which Are Traced the Tracts of Lord Mulgrave and Captain Cook Towards the North & South Poles and the Torrid Zone or Tropical Regions...", Bell, Andrew

Subject: World

Period: 1786 (circa)

Publication:

Color: Hand Color

Size:

16.6 x 9.3 inches42.2 x 23.6 cm

A finely engraved double polar projection, with a rectangular map of the tropical regions centered on the equator across the bottom. The southern hemisphere shows Capt. Cook's voyages of 1773, '74, and '75. The northern hemisphere focuses on the 1773 voyages of Captain Phipps, now Lord Mulgrave.

References:

Condition: A

Issued folding, now pressed flat, on watermarked paper with a few tiny wormholes near the fold just outside the North Pole map and some faint soiling.

Estimate: $275 - $350

Unsold

Closed on 11/20/2013

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16.6 x 9.3 inches
42.2 x 23.6 cm