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Auction 92, Lot 338

"Carte des Isles de Java, Sumatra Borneo &c. Les Detroits de la Sunde, Malaca, et Banca, Golfe de Siam &c.", Bellin, Jacques Nicolas

Subject: South East Asia

Period: 1750 (circa)

Publication:

Color: Black & White

Size:
11.5 x 10 inches
29.2 x 25.4 cm
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Copper engraved map covering the Malaysian peninsula, Indonesia and Borneo. Singapore is not named, but several other lesser islands are named. Decorative title cartouche, fleur-de-lys and rhumb lines.

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Condition: A

Map has been cleaned and backed with Japanese tissue repairing a separation on the fold.

Estimate: $170 - $200

Sold for: $130

Closed on 9/13/2000

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