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Auction 147, Lot 681

"Le Pays des Hottentots aux Environs du Cap de Bonne Esperance", Bellin, Jacques Nicolas

Subject: Southern Africa

Period: 1754 (circa)

Publication:

Color: Hand Color

Size:
13.6 x 9.6 inches
34.5 x 24.4 cm
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A beautifully engraved copper-plate map of the Cape of Good Hope from Saint Helena Bay to Mossel Bay. Dutch settlements are mostly confined along the coast and southern regions. The inland regions are depicted as deserts, savannas, forests and mountain ranges with tribal names indicated and a few Boer colonies.

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Condition: B+

Issued folding, now pressed with minor offsetting and a few extraneous creases. A binding trim at top right has been replaced with old paper, and the map has also been remargined at top with old paper.

Estimate: $160 - $200

Sold for: $130

Closed on 11/20/2013

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