Map Lot.

Description:

Map Lot.
Five engraved maps on paper, including: 1) the Isles of Skye and Lewis-Harris, by Jansson, Tabula Leogi et Haraiae, Amsterdam: Valk & Schenk, [c. 1690], with hand-coloring and shading; 2) Expeditiones Hannibalis, including the Iberian peninsula, Italy, and Parts of France and Africa, by Pierre Duval, [Paris], 1666, with hand-colored outlining; 3) a large folding map of ancient Egypt removed from an octavo-format English book; 4) a map of the Russian Empire taken from Chambers's edition of Guthries's New System of Geography, with some hand-coloring, browned; and 5) J. Calvin Smith's Map of the State of New York, Albany: Disturnell, 1847, steel-engraved, hand-colored, with two insets: the St. Lawrence River, and New York City (including lower Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Williamsburg),matted and framed, old folds, minor tears, some darkening along folds, loose in frame, various sizes. (5)
Estimate $200-300


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