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Auction 168, Lot 336
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"Pianta del Porto d'Acapulco Sopra la Costa de Messico nel Mar del Sud"

Subject: Acapulco, Mexico

Period: 1763 (circa)

Publication: Gazzettiere Americano

Color: Hand Color

Size:
6.5 x 8.6 inches
16.5 x 21.8 cm
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Attractive small plan of the walled fort, town and bay of Acapulco with numerous soundings in the bay. A lettered key locates fourteen features on plan. Fleur-de-lys orients the map with north to the left, and the plan is surrounded in an engraved picture-frame style border. Engraved by Giuseppe Maria Terreni.

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Condition: A+

A nice impression on a clean, bright sheet.

Estimate: $180 - $210

Unsold

Closed on 6/6/2018

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