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Lot of 5 printed materials pertaining to Tunisian history, all are framed under glass/plexiglass:
a. High quality reprint produced by Alif (Tunis) of the painting "Ottoman fleet attacking Tunis at La Goulette", originally painted by Georg Braun (1541-1622ce) and Franz Hogenburg (1535-1590ce). The reprint, dated 1996ce, is pictured on page 17 of this catalogue.
b. Colorful poster: Les Beys de Tunis, 1705-1957, Imprimerie Simpact (Tunis). It has been reproduced on page 16
c. Colored lithograph: A View of Tunis on the Coast of Barbary, engraved for Middleton's "[New and] Complete System of Geography, the date "1778" has been added in pencil. Middleton's important work of two volumes was first published in 1779ce. The lithograph is pictured on page 73
d. Original map leaf: Partie de Barbarie ou Sont les Royaumes de Tunis et Tripoli (Tires de Sanut et d'Autres Par N. Sanson d'Abbeyville Geogr ordre du Roÿ), hand colored. Nicolas Sanson (1600-1667ce) was a French cartographer, widely known as the "father of French cartography." A rare find, pictured on page 19.
e. Orginal map leaf: Afrique Propre (Dessiné et gravé d'après M. le Colonel Lapis, par Ambroise Tardieu), hand colored [frontier areas only]. Ambroise Tardieu (1788-1841ce) was a Parisian cartographer and engraver. Another rare find.