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Auction: 15040 - Antique Maps sale during the International Exhibition
Lot: 25

Maps
Asia
1790 map of Asia, by Louis Brion de la Tour; 26 x 20 inches, original colouring.

Copper palate engraving on stout blued laid paper; text at each side pasted in place from "Atlas General et Elementaire pour l'Etude de la Geographie et de l'Histoire Moderne". Very decorative map of Asia including all of Southeast Asia. The map is modeled on contemporary French sources, notably the work of Robert de Vaugondy. The seas are filled with a number of sailing ships, and there is a decorative cartouche surrounded in jungle with an elephant, peacock and a monitor lizard. An elaborate rococo border.

Usual central reinforcement and a printer's paper wrinkle in lower left corner. Photo

Estimate
SG$600 to SG$800