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"L'Afrique Dressee Suivant les Auteurs les Plus Nouvea et sur les Observations de Messieurs de l'Academie Royale des Sciences", Chiquet, Jacques

Subject: Africa

Period: 1719 (dated)

Publication: Le Nouveau et Curieux Atlas Geographique et Historique

Color: Hand Color

Size:

8.9 x 6.6 inches
22.6 x 16.8 cm

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Charming map of the continent with some interesting cartography and filled with notations. The Nile is correctly shown with its origins in Abyssinia. A large Lac de Zaire appears just below the Equator as the source of the Zaire River. Decorated with a title cartouche and compass rose.

References: Mickwitz & Miekkavaara #43-5; Shirley (BL Atlases) T.MEN-1b.

Condition: A

A nice impression with marginal soiling and creasing.

Estimate: $120 - $150

Sold for: $90

Closed on 6/10/2020

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"L'Afrique Dressee Suivant les Auteurs les Plus Nouvea et sur les Observations de Messieurs de l'Academie Royale des Sciences", Chiquet, Jacques

Subject: Africa

Period: 1719 (dated)

Publication: Le Nouveau et Curieux Atlas Geographique et Historique

Color: Hand Color

Size:

8.9 x 6.6 inches
22.6 x 16.8 cm

Charming map of the continent with some interesting cartography and filled with notations. The Nile is correctly shown with its origins in Abyssinia. A large Lac de Zaire appears just below the Equator as the source of the Zaire River. Decorated with a title cartouche and compass rose.

References: Mickwitz & Miekkavaara #43-5; Shirley (BL Atlases) T.MEN-1b.

Condition: A

A nice impression with marginal soiling and creasing.

Estimate: $120 - $150

Sold for: $90

Closed on 6/10/2020

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"L'Afrique Dressee Suivant les Auteurs les Plus Nouvea et sur les Observations de Messieurs de l'Academie Royale des Sciences", Chiquet, Jacques

Subject: Africa

Period: 1719 (dated)

Publication: Le Nouveau et Curieux Atlas Geographique et Historique

Color: Hand Color

Size:

8.9 x 6.6 inches22.6 x 16.8 cm

Charming map of the continent with some interesting cartography and filled with notations. The Nile is correctly shown with its origins in Abyssinia. A large Lac de Zaire appears just below the Equator as the source of the Zaire River. Decorated with a title cartouche and compass rose.

References: Mickwitz & Miekkavaara #43-5; Shirley (BL Atlases) T.MEN-1b.

Condition: A

A nice impression with marginal soiling and creasing.

Estimate: $120 - $150

Sold for: $90

Closed on 6/10/2020

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8.9 x 6.6 inches
22.6 x 16.8 cm