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Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(FLAGS & PENNANTS.) Pavillons des Puissances Maritimes en 1819. 48 hand-colored lithographed plates (29 called for in the table). Oblong 4to, 250x310 mm, contemporary 1/4 calf over blue-green boards, barely worn; professional repair to upper corner of title and table of plates, contemporary or near-contemporary ink annotations. With the ink stamp of the Etat Major Genr. Dr. Port Rochefort. [France, 1820s?]
Evidently an updated and modified copy of the 1819 catalog of flags of maritime powers, seemingly used as a reference by the authorities at the important French port of Rochefort. Includes the usual European powers, as well as newly-minted South American states, the United States, Haiti, and several long-gone nations.
