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Amsterdam: Chez Jean Covens et Corneille Mortier, [1714 or later]. Engraved map, hand-colored. The map went through several revisions to reflect later discoveries. This edition shows California as a peninsula with a dotted line and with the Northwest coast and Alaska completely absent. Later editions depicted the Northwest Passage. Wide margins. Center fold split and reinforced at the verso; some light toning to margins; otherwise fine with fine hand-coloring. 20 1/4 x 20 inches.


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Leslie Hindman Auctioneers

Date:
2010-08-12

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Amsterdam, ca. 1783. Double-page engraved map hand-colored in outline, with hand-colored cartouche flanked by three figures. A later edition of Guillaume de Lisle's map of Read more…


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