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SPEED (JOHN) A New and Accurat Map of the World, Thomas Basset and Richard Chiswell, 1651 [but 1676]

10 – 20 March 2025, 12:00 GMT
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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, 393 x 515mm., Thomas Basset and Richard Chiswell, 1651 [but 1676]

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