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Australian & Colonial (#448) Closed

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Lot 312BELLIN, Jacques Nicolas [1703-1772] Carte reduite des terres Australes pour servir a l'histoire des voyages / par le Sr. Bellin, Ing. de la marine de la Societe Royale de Londres & ca. 1753; 22 x 29.5cm (plate size). Original copperplate-engraved map of a Reduced Chart of the Southern Lands by Jacques Nicolas Bellin for Prevost’s L’Histoire Generale des Voyages (General History of Voyages) published in Paris in 1753. Published nearly 20 years prior to Cook’s "discovery" of the east co...

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Estimate: $1,250 - $1,500

Australian & Colonial (#448) Closed

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  • BELLIN, Jacques Nicolas [1703-1772] Carte reduite des terres Australes pour servir a l'histoire des voyages / par le Sr. Bellin, Ing. de la marine de la Societe Royale de Londres & ca. 1753; 22 x 29.5cm (plate size). Original copperplate-engraved map of a