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Auction 193, Lot 374
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"Chili Magellans-Land, and Terra del Fuego &c.", Moll, Herman

Subject: Southern South America

Period: 1701 (circa)

Publication: A System of Geography...

Color: Hand Color

Size:
7.3 x 6.4 inches
18.5 x 16.3 cm
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This detailed copper engraved map shows the southern tip of South America with Tierra del Fuego, Le Maire Strait, and a partial outline of the Falkland Islands (Sybold de Waerds I.). It includes an inset of the fictitious Peypses Islands and a numbered table of locations along the Strait of Magellan. Decorated with a simple block style title cartouche. On a full sheet of English text measuring 7.9 x 12.4".

References: Shirley (BL Atlases) T.MOLL-1b #41.

Condition: A

A crisp impression on a sheet with a "W" watermark and faint dampstaining that just enters the map image at bottom left.

Estimate: $180 - $210

Sold for: $100

Closed on 6/21/2023

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