Pleasing age patina
Composed of 18 hand worked card stock leaves
Both transparent printed cellophane with original paper towels still inside
short closed split at bottom centerfold in blank margin
nice light age-dusty condition
Spain Portugal Pyrennes Balearic islands 1859 Dufour Dyonnet fine huge map Foochow Pleasing age patinaEspagne et Portugal. (Spain, Portugal, Iberian Peninsula, Balearic Islands, Straits of Gibraltars, Pyrenees Mountains, Anatolia, Cataloia, Leon). Issued 1859, Paris, by A. H. Dufour. Monumental and beautifully engraved mid 19th century map with original hand color. Beautifully engraving technique, lovely original hand coloring. A very large, oversized map, which is not to be confused with similar maps of this era which are typically half this size.