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Lot 21 Details
A Distant View of India: Books, Maps, Prints and Photographs from the 17th to 20th Century 6-7 August 2025
Neueste Karte...
Copper engraving on paper
View Dimensions Four engraved and hand-coloured sheets 24.5 x 33.5 in (61.2 x 83.7 cm) (each); will form a large joined map approximately 49 x 67 in (124.4 x 170.1 cm) if assembled; unmounted and unjoined, as issued. This work will be shipped unframed, in four separate sheets in a roll form.
Winning bid $1,379 Rs 1,20,000 (Inclusive of buyer's premium)
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Lot 19 Details
Passages to India: A Journey Through Rare Books, Prints, Maps, Photographs, and Letters 24-26 July 2024
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Franz Anton Schraembal, Erster...
View Dimensions Rare two sheet later hand-coloured copper engraved mounted map of India, Persia and Arabia.Northern Sheet: 15.9 x 31.1 in (40.5 x 79 cm) (Without Mount)22.2 x 37.5 in (56.5 x 95.5 cm) (With Mount)Southern Sheet: 17.1 x 31.1 in (43.5 x 79 cm) (Without Mount)23.5 x 37.5 in (59.7 x 95.5 cm) (With Mount)Will form a huge map of 37 x 31.1 in (94 x 79 cm) approximately, when both the sheets are joined together.
Winning bid $940 Rs 78,000 (Inclusive of buyer's premium)
Lot 62 Details
Hindoostan Mapped: Absolute Tuesdays 8 June 2021
View Dimensions Franz Anton Schrambl, Neueste Karte von Hindostan, Bengalen etc. Mit der Anzeige der Strasen, Paesse und Genauester Eintheilung der Britischen Besitzungen in Ostindien, Vienna, 1788 Rare four sheet unmounted map of India. Each measuring 24.5 x 33.5 in (61.2 x 83.7 cm)Will form a huge map of 49 x 67 in (124.4 x 170.1 cm) approximately, when all four sheets are joined togetherPerhaps the finest 18th century map of India by Franz Anton Schrambl 1788 based on Rennell Map of 1782.This map is an outcome of the best scientific surveys ever done during the East India Company administration. "The cartouche of the 1782 map depicts, according to Rennell: "Brittannia receiving into her Protection, the sacred Books of the Hindoos, presented by the Pundits, or Learned Brahmins: in Allusion to the humane Interposition of the British Legislature in Favor of the Natives of Bengal, in the Year 1781. Britannia is supported by a Pedestal, on which are engraven the Victories, by means of which the British Nation obtained, and has hitherto upheld, its Influence in India: amongst which, the two recent ones of Porto Novo and Sholingur, gained by General [Eyre] Coote, are particularly pointed out by a Sepoy to his Comrade." (Source: Wikipedia)Franz Anton Schraembl was an Austrian cartographer. He started producing maps in 1787 . He produced the first Austrian world atlas which was the based on the latest cartographic information available at that time.This work will be shipped unframed. The sheets are unmounted and in 4 un-joined parts as issued. It needs to be joined together to make complete map of India.NON-EXPORTABLE
Winning bid $1,377 Rs 97,770 (Inclusive of buyer's premium)
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