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Auction 162, Lot 410
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"La Terre Magellanique, avec son Detroit et la Terre de Feu, avec ses Petites Iles, Bayes et Rivieres...", Aa, Pieter van der

Subject: Strait of Magellan

Period: 1729 (circa)

Publication:

Color: Hand Color

Size:
14.1 x 11.4 inches
35.8 x 29 cm
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Superb copper engraving of the southern tip of South America with the important Straits of Magellan and Le Maire well depicted. Delicately engraved with two compass roses and a pictorial title cartouche featuring a native with a feathered headdress, surveyor tools, two galleons, and three pairs of Europeans, with two of the pairs engaged in fist and knife fights.

References:

Condition: A

A dark, crisp impression on paper with the watermarks of a large fleur-de-lis coat of arms and the initials "MC." There are professional repairs to a few minor chips in the bottom corners of the sheet, well away from the image.

Estimate: $400 - $500

Sold for: $240

Closed on 4/26/2017

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