Live auction - Lot 511

Impressive ornated map with pronounced decorative elements

[Wall map - America]

NOLIN, Jean-Baptiste

L'Amérique dressée sur les relations les plus recentes rectifiées sur les dernières observations [...].

Paris, Crepy, 1784

€ 3.000 / 4.000

Place your (telephone) bid
Live bidding (Drouot*) Live bidding (Invaluable*)

* 2% online commission in addition to our 28% commission

Lot description

Engr., on 12 sheets, together 122,2 x 136,2 cm, hand-coloured (few cracks nicely restored, few spots).

Edges enlarged and reinforced with laid paper, c. 8,5 cm (few spots and pinholes).

Very large wall map (on 4 sheets), incl. the separate decorative borders with its historical vignettes (on 8 sheets). The map figures the America’s in great detail and parts of Europe, Africa and the South Indies on a curved projection at the outer right side. Ornated with a very large title cartouche and a vignette with 5 scale bars surrounded by Natives and European missionaries and colonists; many ships and sea monsters in the oceans. The borders contain an extensive historical and geographical description of America and 30 detailed historical scenes with text. With a dedication to Louis XVI, added by Crepy who bought some plates of Nolin.

More photos

Lot 511

Impressive ornated map with pronounced decorative elements

L'Amérique dressée sur les relations les plus recentes rectifiées sur les dernières observations [...].

NOLIN, Jean-Baptiste

Please log in to bid
create an account here .
Log in
© Arenberg Auctions 2024 – Webdesign Webit
Voorwaarden | Privacy Policy | Cookiebeleid