Jun 03, 2021 - Sale 2571

Sale 2571 - Lot 98

Price Realized: $ 531
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,000
ARROWSMITH, AARON. Chart of Rio de la Plata: The Coast Line from the Spanish Survey; The Banks and Soundings Principally from a Manuscript Chart Communicated by Capt. Donnelly, R.N. Large engraved chart of the Rio de la Plata with insets of the Port of Maldonado and Port of Monte-Video. 22 1/4x31 1/4 inches overall, dissected into 9 segments and mounted on original linen with silk selvage and vellum case-tab; light staining. London, October 1st, 1807

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Arrowsmith's characteristic exacting detail of the estuary's coasts of Uruguay and Argentina. OCLC locates three examples of an 1809 edition and two from 1820; one example of the present 1807 traced at auction, 1990.