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Maps & Charts

545

1757 Chart of the East Coast of North America,

by Jacques Nicolas Bellin.

A hand-coloured engraved sea-chart on heavy

paper, laid on paper, with a large inset map of

Boston harbour. Carte Reduite des Costes Orientales

de l’Amerique Septentrionale. 1re Feuille Contenant

l’Isle Royale, l’Accadie, la Baye Francoise, la Nouvelle

Angleterre et la Nouvelle Yorc...., by Jacques Nicolas

Bellin. published Paris, 1757. First state of this

detailed and decorative map, from the Depot de la

Marine charts. The first state is distinguishable by

the lack of rhumb lines in the inset map.

22.25 by 35in. (56.5 by 88.9cm)

Estimate €1500-€2000 (approx £1275-£1700)

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546

1758 Map of Louisburg, Cape Breton Island, Nova

Scotia.

A plan of the city & harbour of Louisburg, shewing

that part of Gabarus Bay in which the English

landed, also their encampment during the Siege in

1745, uncoloured, unframed.

7.75 by 10.25in. (19.7 by 26cm)

Estimate €120-€180 (approx £102-£153)

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547

1774 North America as Divided amongst the

European Powers.

A hand-coloured, engraved map, by Samuel Dunn,

North America as Divided amongst the European

Powers, from The American Military Pocket Atlas

(London, 1776), used by the British forces in the

American Revolutionary War, unframed.

12.75 by 17.75in. (32.4 by 45.1cm)

Estimate €200-€300 (approx £170-£255)

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