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Auction 166, Lot 697
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"Carte de la Barbarie, Contenant les Royaumes de Maroc, de Fez, d'Alger, de Tunis et de Tripoli...", Robert de Vaugondy/Santini

Subject: Northern Africa

Period: 1775 (dated)

Publication:

Color: Hand Color

Size:
21.6 x 18 inches
54.9 x 45.7 cm
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This is the classically detailed and hard-to-find Italian edition of de Vaugondy's map of North Africa. The map covers the region from the Sahara to the southern reaches of Portugal, Spain, and Italy. There are plenty of place names and excellent detail of coastal features. The interior is left mostly blank except for several comments in French. It features a decorative title cartouche with a lion and female figure reclining beneath palm trees and three distance scales.

References:

Condition: A

Original outline color on a watermarked sheet with a small spot along the left border.

Estimate: $200 - $230

Unsold

Closed on 2/14/2018

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