Dec 08, 2005 - Sale 2060

Sale 2060 - Lot 4

Price Realized: $ 3,450
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
ANVILLE, JEAN BAPTISTE BOURGUIGNON d'. [Atlas General]. Composite atlas consisting of 36 maps (including a duplicate of the map of France), 34 by Anville, one by Brion and Maire, and one by Paultre, most double-page, but including some folding and single-page; 25 maps with color, the remaining without. Folio, 560x435 mm, 1/4 contemporary morocco; maps in lovely condition. Paris, circa 1803

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Anville maps dated 1743-1786. Most located copies of this atlas have no title page and sometimes no contents page. There are 4 Anville maps of North American interest in this atlas: Amerique Septentrionale publiee sous les auspices de Monseigneur le Duc d'Orleans premier Prince de Sang, consisting of two triple-page mapsheets, 828x863 mm overall,1746, ; Carte de la Louisiane, a triple-page map (double-page and single-page mapsheets joined), 518x920 mm overall,1752; Canada, Louisiane et Terres Anglois, a large map on 4 double-page mapsheets, 868x1137 mm overall, 1755; Hemisphere Occidental ou du Nouveau Monde, 670x630 mm, 1786. Rumsey 2603 - variant.