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Auction: 15040 - Antique Maps sale during the International Exhibition
Lot: 19

Maps
Asia
1780 (c.) Asia from the latest authorities, engraved by T. Conder; 10 x 8½ inches, uncoloured.

Copper engraving with ornamental cartouche in the upper corner which includes a camel and palm tree. From a London publication. Japan is shown in a very incorrect outline. This map, with suitable changes in the margin was used by John Payne's "A New and Complete Universal Geography", New York, J. Low & Willis, 1798.

The usual two vertical folds, small splits at foot. Photo

Estimate
SG$400 to SG$500