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Auction 179, Lot 604

"Partie de la Mer Glaciale, Contenant la Nouvelle Zemble et le Pais des Samoiedes...", Bellin, Jacques Nicolas

Subject: Novaya Zemlya, Russia

Period: 1758 (dated)

Publication: Histoire Generale des Voyages

Color: Hand Color

Size:
13.8 x 8.4 inches
35.1 x 21.3 cm
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This map features Novaya Zemlya, the island off northern Russia in the Barents Sea, and extends to about Dikson in the east. Embellished with rhumb lines and a decorative cartouche.

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Condition: A

A crisp impression, issued folding on a bright sheet with a bunch of grapes watermark and light toning along the edges of the sheet.

Estimate: $75 - $95

Unsold

Closed on 9/16/2020

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