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Two 18th Century Maps: West Indies and Persia.Partie de la Mer du Nord ou se trouvent les Grandes et Petites Isles Antilles, et les Isles Lucayes, by Gilles Robert de Vaugondy, Paris, 1750, copper-plate engraved, hand-outlined, 30 x 21 1/4 in. [and] Imperii Persici, by Johann Baptist Homann, Nuremberg, c. 1730, copper-plate, hand-colored, 25 x 21 in. (2)
Estimate $20-200
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Johann Baptist Homann, Gilles Robert de Vaugondy, Nuremberg, ParisJohn Dorfman
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Fine Books & Manuscripts
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