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Auction 147, Lot 690

"Carte de l'Oceanie Contenant l'Australie, la Polynesie et les Iles Asiatiques", Lapie/Tardieu

Subject: South Pacific Ocean

Period: 1841 (dated)

Publication: Atlas Universel

Color: Hand Color

Size:
21.7 x 15.7 inches
55.1 x 39.9 cm
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This finely engraved chart covers the islands of the South Pacific from Southeast Asia through Hawaii, and from Australia through the Bass Islands. The map is intensely detailed, showing names of islands and island groups, harbors, channels, and straits. This interesting map was published by Colonel Pierre Lapie (1777-1850) and his son Alexandre Emile, who was the Royal Geographer to the King in Paris. The map was first published in 1820, and here has been updated with the addition of Sydney on the coast. Engraved by Pierre Tardieu.

References: cf. Tooley (Australia) #850.

Condition: B

Original outline color with wide margins, some scattered foxing, and light toning along sheet edges.

Estimate: $120 - $150

Unsold

Closed on 11/20/2013

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