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North America, East Coast, Six Maps. Including: Bellin's Carte du Golphe du Mexique et des Isles de l'Amerique, from Prevost's Histoire Generale des Voyages, 1754, large folding copper-plate engraving depicting Florida, the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America and coastal northern South America, uncolored; Bonne's Carte de la Louisane, et de la Floride c. 1770, (two copies, both colored in outline),Moll's Virginia and Maryland, folio sheet, engraved, verso blank, numbered "50" in top right corner, hand-outlined; Carte de la Partie Sud des Etats Unis de l'Amerique Septentrionale from Bonne's Atlas Encyclopedique, c. 1790, hand-outlined, depicting Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia; [and] A Chart of the Coast of North Carolina between Cape Hatteras & Cape Fear, with an attached inset of detail of Ocracoke Inlet, Newburyport: Blunt, c. 1809. (6)
Estimate $200-300
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Bonne, NewburyportJohn Dorfman
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Fine Books & Manuscripts
The Fine Books & Manuscripts department delivers scholarship, expertise, and attention to detail in appraisals, evaluations, and auctions of rare books and historically important material ranging from medieval manuscripts to presidential documents.