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Auction: 15040 - Antique Maps sale during the International Exhibition
Lot: 88

Maps
Asia
Macau
1796 A Plan of the City and Harbour of Macao, A Colony of the Portugueze Situated at the Southern Extremity of the Chinese Empire, by George Nicol; 22 x 30½ inches, uncoloured.

This large chart gives very fine detail of the town and harbour. Macao is shown with a key to 36 buildings and places including forts, parishes, colleges, convents and chapels. Terrain is shown as engraved hills and the waters are filled with soundings and notations on type of bottom. The fortified city of Tchinshang is shown well north of Macao. This uncommon map was engraved by B. Braker & Islington.

On stout paper with usual reinforced central fold. Some peripheral age marks. Photo

Estimate
SG$1,600 to SG$2,000