Vue des Îles de L'Amirauté

by Jacques-Julien Labillardiere, Jean Piron, C. M. F. Dien

A$225 · Offered by Asia Bookroom

(Paris.): (circa 1800). Engraving on watermarked laid paper, 30 x 44.5 cm (plate-mark), sheet trimmed almost to the platemark, margins spotted, but a very good dark impression. Idyllically composed view of the Admiralty Islands, (now often referred to as Manus after the largest island), Papua New Guinea, prepared for the..... More

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