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Maps, Ten Unframed. Including: Brion's Tableau General de L'Amerique, Paris: Desnos, 1792, hand-colored; Homann's Dominia Anglorum in America Septentrionali, Nuremberg: Homann Heirs, 1745, hand-colored; six Matthias Seutter maps, including Diversi Globi Terr-Aquei; Africa juxta navigationes; Nov Orbis sive America Septentrionalis; America Meridionalis; Asia cum Omnibus Imperiis Provinciis; and Europa Religions Christianae; all hand-colored, Augsburg: Lotter, c. 1770; The States of Maryland and Delaware from the latest Surveys, New York: I. Low, 1799, uncolored; Janvier's L'Amerique divisee par Grands Etats, Paris: Lattre, 1762, with hand-outlining; [and] leaf 46 from a German Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493, showing a scene of Britain, Anglie Provincia on the recto and Kings David and Solomon on the verso, with consanguineous connections to their descendants. (10)
Estimate $500-700
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Matthias Seutter, Nuremberg, Paris, United KingdomJohn Dorfman
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