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Lot 2098
Two Early French Charts, Showing Lunar Phases and Earth's Ranges of Longitude
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
From de Mornas, Buy. Atlas Methodique et Elementaire de Geographie et d'Histoire Dedie a Monsieur Le President Henault (Paris: Louis Charles Desnos, 1762), copperplate engravings with color, being Des Planetes Subalternes et de La Pralaxe and Suite de Longitude. In conforming wooden frames. Professionally mounted and framed. 21-3/4 x 27-3/4 in.

From the Collection of Mr. & Mrs. Harry Trimborn, Raleigh, North Carolina

The longitude map in frame without glass and having areas of veneer loss; both maps with browning to edges; very good condition.