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Auction 149, Lot 640
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"Carte de l'Entree de la Riviere de Canton Dressee sur les Observations les Plus Recentes", Bellin, Jacques Nicolas

Subject: Guangzhou (Canton), China

Period: 1748 (circa)

Publication: Prevost's Histoire Generale des Voyages

Color: Hand Color

Size:
8.1 x 10.1 inches
20.6 x 25.7 cm
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This copper engraved map centers on the mouth of the Canton River with the island of Macao and the future site of Hong Kong, here called Sinn-gan-hien. The fortified city of Canton is divided into Tartar and Chinese districts. Soundings and anchorages are shown and the map is decorated with a cartouche, rhumb lines, and fleur-de-lis. "Tom. V. No. 16" at lower right outside neatline.

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Condition: A

Issued folding, now flat, with some minor offsetting most evident in the blank margins.

Estimate: $160 - $200

Sold for: $120

Closed on 5/21/2014

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