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Lot 68
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Bohemia, wall map--Le Rouge, G.L.

Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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Description

  • Carte chorographique de la Boheme. Paris, 1757, large engraved map in 9 sheets, 1440 x 1680mm., contemporary outline colour, cartouches plain
  • paper

Catalogue Note

A reduced version on nine sheets of the twenty-five sheet detailed survey of Bohemia, compiled by the military engineer Johann Christoph Müller and published in Augsburg in 1730. The map is dominated by four striking allegorical engravings, one around the title and another around the large view of Prague.