Name: Auction: Mortier, Pierre [Chart of the Indian Ocean on two sheets], Amsterdam, c.1700
Brand: Lyon & Turnbull
Price: 500 GBP
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Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs

Sale number: 694 Our July Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps &amp; Photographs sale was led by an important document signed by Sir Walter Raleigh, a very early edition of John Cleland's Memoirs of A Woman of Pleasure (c.1755), a work better known to posterity as Fanny Hill, and a rare first edition of John Law’s Money and Trade Considered (1705). Additional highlights featuring in the sale included a first edition, first impression, paperback issue of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (1997), a set of James Sowerby's The Mineral Conchology of Great Britain (1812-29) from the library of Andrew Carnegie, and an imposing 18th century atlas by Thomas Kitchin.

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Each sheet separately titled, 'Partie occidentale d'une partie d'Asie, ou sont les isles de Zocotora, de l'Amirante' and 'Carte particulière d'une partie d'Asie ou sont les isles d'Andemaon, Ceylan, les Maldives', and depicting the Horn of Africa, Arabian Penisula, modern Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, part of south-east Asia, etc., compass roses, numerous rhumb lines, hand-coloured in outline, mounted, framed and glazed, small worm-track to right-hand margin, discreet repairs, not examined out of frame, 61 x 95cm

[Chart of the Indian Ocean on two sheets], Amsterdam, c.1700

Mortier, Pierre

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Mortier, Pierre

[Chart of the Indian Ocean on two sheets], Amsterdam, c.1700

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