Live auction - Lot 537
[Nautical chart - English channel]
Carte nouvelle des costes d'Angleterre depuis la rivière de la Tamise jusques à Portland [...].
Amsterdam, P. Mortier, 1693
Hammer price: €
950
€ 300 / 400
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Lot description
Engr., 58 x 95 cm, hand-coloured (traces of folds, sm. tears in lower edge, outer edges sl. toned).
Large nautical chart of England, showing the mouth of the Thames and the city of London. With a beautiful, allegorical cartouche, 2 inset views (Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight, Rochester and Chatham) and an inset map of the Strait of Dover within an ornamental frame. One of the 9 charts from the "Atlas maritime [...]" by Mortier, the continuation of the "Neptune François".
Ref. Koeman M.Mor 5 (6).
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