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Auction 152, Lot 722
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"[Lot of 3] [Untitled - Caribbean Plants] [and] 1, 2, Plantes de la Nle. Guinee, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, Plantes de la Nle. Hollande [and] 1, 2, 3, 4, Plantes de la Nle. Hollande, 5, 6, 7, 8, Plantes que Dampier Trouva au Bresil", Tardieu

Subject: Prints Botanical

Period: 1750 (circa)

Publication: Histoire Generale des Voyages...

Color: Black & White

Size:
10.9 x 7.3 inches
27.7 x 18.5 cm
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The focus of this interesting lot of engravings is exotic plantlife from Australia, New Guineau, and Brazil. Among the many plants depicted are some noted by English explorer William Dampier. In addition to being the first man to circumnavigate the globe three times and the first Englishman to explore areas of Australia, Dampier was also an influential natural historian who helped pave the way for Alexander von Humboldt and Charles Darwin.

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Condition: B+

Dark impressions, issued folding, with light offsetting. On all three sheets the margins have been trimmed to the neatline.

Estimate: $90 - $120

Sold for: $45

Closed on 2/18/2015

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