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Auction 180, Lot 327

"Carte des Provinces de Tabasco, Chiapa, Verapaz, Guatimala, Honduras, et Yucatan. Situees dans l'Amerique Meridionale pour l'Histoire Generale des Voyages", Bellin/Van Schley

Subject: Southern Mexico & Central America

Period: 1773 (circa)

Publication: Historische Beschryving der Reizen... en Land-Togten...

Color: Black & White

Size:
13.3 x 8 inches
33.8 x 20.3 cm
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Nice detailed map of the Yucatan peninsula and northern Central America. Locates primary harbors, shoals and offshore islands including Cosumel, Ruatan and Bonacca. Guatemala is limited to a narrow strip along the Pacific coast and El Salvador has yet to be carved out of Honduras. Decorated with a fine title cartouche. This map was published in a Dutch edition of Antoine Francois Prevost d'Exiles' influential collection of travel narratives, L'Histoire Generale des Voyages with alternate Dutch title below the map.

References: Kapp (MCC-103) #45 plate X.

Condition: A

Issued folding on a bright sheet of watermarked paper with a faint dampstain confined to the bottom left blank margin.

Estimate: $80 - $100

Sold for: $120

Closed on 11/18/2020

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