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Auction 185, Lot 506
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"Comte, et Gouvernement de Provence avec les Pays Circonvoisins Cotat. Venaiscin, Printe. d'Orange, Cotat. de Nice, &c.", Sanson, Nicolas

Subject: Southern France

Period: 1652 (dated)

Publication: Cartes Generales de Toutes les Parties du Monde

Color: Hand Color

Size:
18.3 x 12.5 inches
46.5 x 31.8 cm
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This fine map of Provence is crisply engraved and detailed throughout with hundreds of tiny towns, political boundaries, and pictorial mountains. Adorned with a decorative title cartouche. Printed with a crack in the copper plate, leaving a crescent-shaped mark across lower border. Engraved by Robert Cordier.

References: Pastoureau, SANSON V A [46].

Condition: B+

A nice impression with contemporary color on a bright sheet with a large coat of arms watermark, minor toning along the centerfold, and marginal soiling. There are archival repairs to a number of separations along the centerfold.

Estimate: $240 - $300

Sold for: $130

Closed on 11/17/2021

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