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Carte Reduite du Golphe de Mexique et des Isles de L'Amerique.

  • ARTIST: Jacques Bellin

  • PUBLISHER: Depot de la Marine, Paris.

  • MEDIUM: Copper plate engraving,

    DATE: 1749.

  • EDITION SIZE: 21 1/8 x 32" (53.6 x 81 cm) plus margins.

  • DESCRIPTION: A pleasing and very well engraved chart. Issued in "Neptune americo-septentrional" by Depot General de la Marine, the official French Government agency of nautical charts. An accomplished work both as a sea chart and topographic work. Of interest, Florida is shown as an archipelago.

  • ADDITIONAL INFO:

  • CONDITION: Good condition save for some minor splitting along lower centerfold. Modern hand coloring.

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  • CATEGORIES: Maps