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Auction 172, Lot 503

"Partie de Lithuanie ou est le Palatinat de Nowogrodeck Litawiski, Subdivise en ses Chastellenies...", Sanson/Mariette

Subject: Belarus

Period: 1665 (dated)

Publication: Cartes Generales de Toutes les Parties du Monde

Color: Hand Color

Size:
22 x 16 inches
55.9 x 40.6 cm
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This map details much of present-day southwestern Belarus, with Minsk at top right and extending into northern Ukraine (to Olevsk) and eastern Poland (to Chelm and Bielsk). Engraved by Antoine Peyrounin and published by Mariette.

References: Pastoureau, SANSON V D [198].

Condition: B+

Contemporary outline color on paper with a large coat of arms watermark, light offsetting at top right, minor soiling, old manuscript page numbers at top right, and light toning along the edges of the sheet. There are a few soft, extraneous creases at top and a small chip also at top left has been archivally repaired.

Estimate: $350 - $450

Sold for: $210

Closed on 4/17/2019

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