Live auction - Lot 637
[World map]
Mappemonde à l'usage du roy.
Paris, G. Delisle, 1720
€ 400 / 500
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Lot description
Copper engraving, 43,5 x 66 cm, coloured margins (central folding, used margins, small spots).
Double hemisphere map of the world, with the voyages of discovery in the 16th and 17th century, but without the Russian discoveries added to this map after 1641. Interesting is incomplete North America, New Zealand, and Australia.