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Maps, and Title-pages, Six Unframed Prints. Including: Homann's Magnae Britanniae Pars Meridionalis, in qua Regnum Angliae, Nuremberg, 1730, hand-colored; Table des Cartes, from a Sanson atlas, with large hand-colored borders; Chatelain's Carte Ancienne de la Suisse, Amsterdam, 1720, the map hand-colored; Kaerius's A New Mape of the XVII Provinces of Low Germanie, after Speed, a very small map from an English publication, hand-colored, matted; hand-colored engraved title page of Sanson's Description de L'Univers, Amsterdam: Halma, 1700; [and] engraved title of the Atlas du Voyage de La Perouse, [c. 1798], uncolored; sizes vary. (6)
Estimate $200-300
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Amsterdam, NurembergJohn Dorfman
Director, Books & Manuscripts
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