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• Auction House:
  Mossgreen
• Sale Name:
  Australian History
• Sale Date:
  11 Dec 2017 ~ 10am
• Lot #:
  615
• Lot Description:
  USA: MORTIER, Pierre - “Carte Particuliere de la Caroline, Dresse sur les Memoires le plus Nouveaux, Par le Sieur Sanson]”
  [Amsterdam, 1696], window mounted, framed & glazed, 48 x 60cm plate dimensions.
• Notes:
  First state of this scarce and detailed map of the area around Charleston, South Carolina (founded 1669), based upon the surveys and manuscript maps of Maurice Mathews and an extremely rare map of South Carolina by Thornton & Morden, published c.1695, and is widely regarded as the first obtainable map of the region around Charleston to appear in a commercial atlas. The map includes the names of dozens of early landowners, and notes a number of Indian Settlements and shows the early roads in the region.
• Estimate:
  A$3,000 - 4,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Books & Manuscripts

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