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Nicolas Sanson d'Abbeville (1600-1667)
L' Hydrographie ou Description de l'Eau c'est a dire des Mers, Golfes, Lacs, Destroits et Rivieres principales, qui sont dans la Surface du Globe Terrestre, Paris: chez l' Auteur, 1652. Engraved twin-hemisphere world map, handcoloured in outline (very lightly browned at centrefold, closed marginal tear), 352 x 525mm. Shirley 394; Wagner 367.
With 8 other small world maps including Hermann Moll's A New Map of the World ([London, c.1720]), R. & G. Wetstein's Platte Kaart van de geheele Werelt (Amsterdam, [c.1730]), Nicolas de Fer's Mappe-Monde ou Carte Generale de la Terre (Paris, 1740), Emanuel Bowen's A New & Accurate Chart of the World ([London], 1744 [or later]) and Planisphère Général pour servir a l' Intélligence de la Navigation et du Commerce ([Paris?, n.d.]). (9)
L' Hydrographie ou Description de l'Eau c'est a dire des Mers, Golfes, Lacs, Destroits et Rivieres principales, qui sont dans la Surface du Globe Terrestre, Paris: chez l' Auteur, 1652. Engraved twin-hemisphere world map, handcoloured in outline (very lightly browned at centrefold, closed marginal tear), 352 x 525mm. Shirley 394; Wagner 367.
With 8 other small world maps including Hermann Moll's A New Map of the World ([London, c.1720]), R. & G. Wetstein's Platte Kaart van de geheele Werelt (Amsterdam, [c.1730]), Nicolas de Fer's Mappe-Monde ou Carte Generale de la Terre (Paris, 1740), Emanuel Bowen's A New & Accurate Chart of the World ([London], 1744 [or later]) and Planisphère Général pour servir a l' Intélligence de la Navigation et du Commerce ([Paris?, n.d.]). (9)
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