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L12405

15 November 2012 • London

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Sale Number: L12405

193. Representation symbolique et ingenieuse projettée en Siege et en Bombardement comme il faut empecher prudemment les attaques de l'Amour. Augsburg, c.1730, 500 x 580mm., double-page engraved map depicting budding romance in military terms with the heart besieged, contemporary body colour

Estimate: 1,500 – 2,000 GBP

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194. Hark! Hark! The dogs do bark! London: G.W. Bacon, [1914], 530 x 705mm., folding chromolithographed map, printed in colour, folding into the 4to original wrappers

Estimate: 2,500 – 3,000 GBP

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195. Spain, c.1780?], folding paper fan with a fine large hand-coloured engraved view of the siege of Gibraltar with Spanish ships and troops in the foreground, the verso with engraved key in Spanish decorated with weapons of war on either side, mounted on ivory sticks, the sticks decorated in silver and gilt with a fort, ship and flag, the guardsticks carved and pierced and with silver and gilt depicting a ship and drums, 27.5cm. (11in.), framed and double glazed, a few short tears at folds, fragile

Estimate: 15,000 – 20,000 GBP

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196. [Spain, c.1775], folding paper fan with a hand-coloured engraved view of the Plaza Mayor with mounted and foot soldiers and spectators, either side with manuscript explanatory key within watercolour frame, decorated with putti, flowers and leaves, the verso with a watercolour scene of bull-fighting set in the country, both sides heightened with gilt, mounted on enamelled, pierced and carved ivory sticks, 26.5cm. (10.3in.)

Estimate: 4,000 – 5,000 GBP

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197. Ethnographic Exhibition in Prague, 1895. Prague: L.J. Cecha, [1895], folding paper fan with a chromolithographed view of the exhibition depicting numerous historic buildings, captioned in Czech, backed with cloth, mounted on pale green wooden sticks with silver gilt decoration, 34.5cm. (13.5in.)

Estimate: 2,000 – 3,000 GBP

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198. Paris with the names of the principal streets, buildings &c from a new plan publish'd in Paris in 1792. [London], John Quenet, 20 March 1802, folding paper fan with engraved plan of Paris, to the left a map of northern France and southern England, to the right "The French Calendar explain'd", mounted on bone sticks, 24.5cm. (9.6in)

Estimate: 3,000 – 4,000 GBP

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199. tel quil etoit a son origine. [French, c.1797], folding paper fan with hand-coloured engraved plan of pre-Christian Paris, with explanatory text and a costumed figure on either side, mounted on wooden sticks, 24cm. (9.5in.), slightly soiled

Estimate: 3,500 – 4,000 GBP

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200. Leo Belgicus. Amsterdam, [c.1710], 435 x 555mm., double-page engraved map, contemporary hand colour [Van Heiden 15.6 & 15.7, noting only three examples with Doncker’s imprint]

Estimate: 20,000 – 25,000 GBP

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201. Untitled map of the environs of Amsterdam. [Amsterdam, 1648], 415 x 515mm., contemporary outline colour, trimmed to neatline and laid down

Estimate: 2,500 – 3,000 GBP

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202. Untitled Leo map, the engraved title for De Bello Belgico decas II. [Rome: Francisco Corbelletti, 1632 or 1647], 315 x 220mm., hand-coloured

Estimate: 3,000 – 4,000 GBP

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203. Nova et accurata totius Europae Tabula. Amsterdam: Frederik de Wit, [c.1690]

Estimate: 40,000 – 60,000 GBP

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204. Septentrionalium Terrarum descriptio. [Amsterdam, 1595 or later], 375 x 40mm., double-page engraved general map of the North Pole notable for the mythical islands around the Pole, French text on verso, contemporary hand colour, overall light browning

Estimate: 2,500 – 3,000 GBP

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