Live auction - Lot 511

Impressive ornated map with pronounced decorative elements

[Wall map - America]

NOLIN, Jean-Baptiste

L'Amérique dressée sur les relations les plus recentes rectifiées sur les dernières observations [...].

Paris, Crepy, 1784

€ 3.000 / 4.000

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Engr., on 12 sheets, together 122,2 x 136,2 cm, hand-coloured (few cracks nicely restored, few spots).

Edges enlarged and reinforced with laid paper, c. 8,5 cm (few spots and pinholes).

Very large wall map (on 4 sheets), incl. the separate decorative borders with its historical vignettes (on 8 sheets). The map figures the America’s in great detail and parts of Europe, Africa and the South Indies on a curved projection at the outer right side. Ornated with a very large title cartouche and a vignette with 5 scale bars surrounded by Natives and European missionaries and colonists; many ships and sea monsters in the oceans. The borders contain an extensive historical and geographical description of America and 30 detailed historical scenes with text. With a dedication to Louis XVI, added by Crepy who bought some plates of Nolin.

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Lot 511

Impressive ornated map with pronounced decorative elements

L'Amérique dressée sur les relations les plus recentes rectifiées sur les dernières observations [...].

NOLIN, Jean-Baptiste

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