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MAPS - WORLD
SPEED (JOHN) A New and Accurat Map of the World

22 November 2011, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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MAPS - WORLD

SPEED (JOHN) A New and Accurat Map of the World, hand-coloured double-page engraved twin-hemisphere map, showing California as an island, the spandrel vignettes representing the Four Elements, two smaller celestial hemispheres, four portraits of circumnavigators, diagrams of the eclipses of the sun and moon, English text on verso, small hole near the Equator, area of restoration at fold, 393 x 515mm., Thomas Basset and Richard Chiswell, 1651 [but 1676]

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