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Lot 1059

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Mappe-monde, ou Carte générale de la terre et des mers [...], dans lequel [sic] sont marquées les nouvelles découvertes des plus célèbres navigateurs, tel [sic] que les capitaines Cock, Fourneaux, Mrs de Bouquainville [sic] et Kerguelen [...].

NOLIN, Jean-Baptiste


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Paris, L.J. Mondhare, 1783

Engr., 51,8 x 75,5 cm, part. hand-coloured (sl. browned).

Framed (not studied outside frame).

Rare issue of de Nolin's world map in 2 hemispheres (1st issue: ca. 1740), surrounded by the world systems of Ptolemy, Copernicus, Descartes and Tycho Brahe and by various zonal maps and an armillary sphere. The northwest coast of the Americas shows the "Fou-sang des Chinois" after a mythical account about the Chinese having reached the West Coast prior to Columbus.
Ref. BnF. - Not in Pastoreau, Shirley.

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Mappe-monde, ou Carte générale de la terre et des mers [...], dans lequel [sic] sont marquées les nouvelles découvertes des plus célèbres navigateurs, tel [sic] que les capitaines Cock, Fourneaux, Mrs de Bouquainville [sic] et Kerguelen [...].

Lot 1059

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