18th century - four intaglio maps on steel from the Jaillot/Samson geographical atlas, Académie des Sciences edition 1714 - 16 x 19 cm : - ASIA - general map of Barbary, Tartary, China, Philippine Islands, St Lazarus archipelago, Indian Sea, Japan, as known at the time... - THE EMPIRE OF MONOMOTAPA AND COSTE DES CAFFRES (lower Africa to Madagascar). - THE KINGDOM OF ABYSSINIA OR THE EMPIRE OF PRESTE JEAN. red sea and arabian peninsula, barbaric or Zanguebar bosom, ethiopia... - ASIA - another general map engraved by Denise Macquart. - AMERICA - Arctic Circle and North, Central, South. Superb and rare, highly accurate maps with instructive and touching ancient names, cities, distances, seas, islands and archipelagos etc. (defects, worm galleries).

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