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Auction 151, Lot 226
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"Piano del Porto, e Degli Stabilimenti di Pensacola", Pazzi, Giuseppe

Subject: Pensacola, Florida

Period: 1763 (circa)

Publication: Gazzettiere Americano

Color: Hand Color

Size:
10.3 x 7.2 inches
26.2 x 18.3 cm
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This scarce Italian edition is a very detailed plan of the port and harbor of Pensacola. It features soundings, anchorages, rivers, etc, and extends to show most of Isola de Santa Rosa. With several early coastal place names. A few rhumb lines and a fleur-de-lis add to the elegant composition. Two distance scales lie below title. Engraved by Giusepe Pazzi and drawn by Violante Vanni under the direction of Gio. Tommaso Masi, and published by Marco Colterllini.

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Condition: B

Very wide margins with a damp stain along the centerfold, resulting in two short tears that have been archivally repaired.

Estimate: $275 - $350

Unsold

Closed on 11/19/2014

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