Dec 17, 2019 - Sale 2527

Sale 2527 - Lot 62

Price Realized: $ 375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(EGYPT.) Jacotin, Pierre. Carte Géographique de l'Egypte et des Pays Environnans. Large engraved case map of Egypt, the Levant, and part of Saudi Arabia. 51 1/2x34 1/2 inches, dissected into 36 segments and mounted to original linen with marbled self-wrappers; light foxing and offsetting; printed paper label: "Sold by James Wyld, (Successor to Mr. Faden)" pasted below title; housed in a custom contemporary gilt-lettered red morocco-backed marbled paper-covered sliding box. Paris, 1818

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Unusual format of this three-sheet map which appeared in the monumental Napoleonic "Description de l'Egypte", apparently marketed separately in London by James Wyld.