Furniture, Works of Art & Clocks - 4th April 2023
Lot 158
A MAP OF AFRICA BY JOHN SPEED
Estimate £300 - £500 | Hammer £650
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Description
A MAP OF AFRICA
BY JOHN SPEED, C.1676
'Africae described the manner sof their Habits and buildings newly done into English by J.S. Are to, to be sold by Thomas Bassett in Fleet Street and Ric. Chiswell in St. Pauls Church Yard', a hand-coloured engraved 'carte a figure' map, with ten costumed figures and eight oval topographical vignettes, unframed
39.5 x 51.5cm