LOT #47034 |
Starting Bid: $1,500
Nicholas Sanson d'Abbeville. Le Nouveau Mexique, et La Floride....
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Description
Martin & Martin write that, despite the map's various errors, "it has served as a summary of the best information available for the greater Texas region during the middle of the seventeenth century...the map has continued to be studied as an extraordinary document of the cultural and geographical resources known in the centers of learning in Europe, and it served as an important beginning in the great strides made by French scientists in the eighteenth century."
Condition: Not examined out of frame. Lightly toned with a single smoothed fold at center. A few very light, scattered stains.
Reference: Martin & Martin 10.
Auction Info
2026 February 26 Historical Manuscripts & Texana Signature® Auction #6328 (go to Auction Home page)
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26th
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