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Christies: The Pierre S. duPont III Collection of Navigation, Voyages, Cartography and Literature of the Sea., 7324,

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Auction Date
October 08, 1991 - October 08, 1991
Page Size: 510 items in 6 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
ACOSTA, JOSE DE The Naturall and Morall Historie of the East and West Indies ... translated into English by E. G [? Edward Grimeston]. London

1604

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1 ACOSTA, JOSE DE. The Naturall and Morall Historie of the East and West Indies ... London

1604

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 1,760.00
ACUNA, CHRISTOVAL DE Voyages and Discoveries in South-America ... Done into English from the Originals. London

1698

USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 1,210.00
2 ACUNA, CHRISTOVAL DE. Voyages and Discoveries in South-America ... Done into English from the Originals. London

1698

USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 1,210.00
SAUNDERS, RICHARD [ALMANACS]

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3 ALMANACS. SAUNDERS, RICHARD, WHITTEMORE, NATHANIEL, TRAVIS, DANIEL, TAYLOR, JACOB, AMES, NATHANAEL, PARSONS, JESSE, WARING, WILLIAM Poor Richard improved, An Almanack For ... 1717, An Almanack of Coelestial Motions and Aspects ... for ... 1722, An Almanack, or Ephemeris ... for 1740, An Astronomical Diary, or, an Almanack For ... 1743-1771, and 1775, The American Ephermeris, or, an Al Philadelphia's, America, Boston, New York, Lancaster, Baltimore, Wilmington

1753 and 1758, 1717, 1722, 1740, 1757, 1787, Pa., 1794, 1775-1828

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[ALMANACS]. BANNEKER, BENJAMIN Banneker's Almanack, and Ephemeris for ... 1793 Philadelphia

[1792]

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4 ALMANACS. BANNEKER, BENJAMIN Banneker's Almanack, and Ephemeris for ... 1793. Philadelphia

1792

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ANSON, GEORGE A Voyage round the World, in the years MDCCXL [-] ... IV ... Compiled from papers ... by Richard Walter, M.A. Chaplain of his Majesty's Ship the Centurion, in that Expedition. London

1748

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5 ANSON, GEORGE; Richard Walter, M. A. A Voyage round the World, in the years MDCCXL [-]... IV ... Compiled from Papers ... London

1748

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 1,430.00
ASPLEY, JOHN Speculum Nauticum. A Looking Glasse for Sea-Men: Wherein they may behold a small Instrument called the Plain Scale: whereby all Questions nauticall, and Propositions Astromicall are very easily and demonstratively wrought ... The third Edition corrected. London

1638

USD 3,500.00 - 4,500.00 11,000.00
6 ASPLEY, JOHN Speculum Nauticum. A Looking Glasse for Sea-Men: Wherein they may behold a small Instrument called the Plain Scale: whereby all Questions nauticall, and Propositions Astromicall are very easily and demonstratively wrought ... The third Edition corrected. London

1638

USD 3,500.00 - 4,500.00 11,000.00
Atlante dell' America contenente le migliori carte geografiche, e topografiche delle principali citta, laghi, fiumi, e fortezze del nuovo mondo Livorno

1777

USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 1,760.00
7 Atlante dell' America contenente le migliori carte geografiche, e topografiche delie principali città, laghi, fiumi, e fortezze del nuovo mondo Livorno

1777

USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 1,760.00
AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES The Birds of America, from Drawings made in the United States and their Territories. New York, Philadelphia

1840--1844

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8 AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES The Birds of America, from Drawings made in the United States and their Territories. New York

1840-44

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BARKER, MATTHEW HENRY various

USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 990.00
9 BARKER, MATTHEW HENRY, BURTON, ALFRED and THOMAS ROWLANDSON, FALCONER, WILLIAM Greenwich Hospital, a Series of Naval Sketches ..., The Adventures of Johnny Newcome in the Navy, The Shipwreck, a Poem London's

1826, 1818, 1811

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BARLOW, WILLIAM The Navigators Supply. Conteining many things of principall importance belonging to Navigation, with the description and use of diverse Instruments framed chiefly for that purpose. London

1597

USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 9,350.00
10 BARLOW, WILLIAM, E.G.R. Taylor The Navigators Supply. Conteining many things of principall importance belonging to Navigation, with the description and use of diverse Instruments framed chiefly for that purpose., The Mathematical Practitioners of Tudor & Stuart England London, Cambridge

1597, 1954

USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 9,350.00
BAYNTUN, <i>binder.</i> RALFE, JAMES The Naval Chronology of Great Britain; or, an Historical Account of Naval and Maritime Events, from the Commencement of the War in 1803, to the End of the Year 1816. London

1820

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 3,080.00
11 BAYNTUN, binder. RALFE, JAMES The Naval Chronology of Great Britain; or, an Historical Account of Naval and Maritime Events, from the Commencement of the War in 1803, to the End of the Year 1816. London

1820

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 3,080.00
BERLINGHIERI, FRANCESCO (1440--1501) Geographia. Florence

[before September, 1482]

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12 BERLINGHIERI, FRANCESCO Geographia. Florence

1440-1501, before September, 1482

USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 46,200.00
BLIGH, <i>Admiral</i> WILLIAM A Narrative of the Mutiny, on board His Majestry's Ship Bounty; and the subsequent voyage of part of the crew, in the ship's boat, from Tofoa ... to Timor. London

1790

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 3,960.00
13 BLIGH, Admiral WILLIAM A Narrative of the Mutiny, on board His Majesty's Ship Bounty; and the subsequent voyage of part of the crew, in the ship's boat, from Tofoa ... to Timor. London

1790

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 3,960.00
BLIGH, <i>Admiral</i> WILLIAM A Voyage to the South Sea, undertaken by command of His Majesty, for the purpose of conveying the Bread-Fruit Tree to the West-Indies in His Majesty's Ship the Bounty ... including an account of the Mutiny ... and the subsequent voyage of part of the crew London

1792

USD 3,500.00 - 4,500.00 3,740.00
14 BLIGH, Admiral WILLIAM A Voyage to the South Sea London

1792

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BLOME, RICHARD A Description Of the Island of Jamaica; With the other Isles and Territories in America, to which the English are Related ... Taken from the Notes of Sr. Thomas Linch Knight, Governour of Jamaica; and other Experienced Persons in the said places. London

1672

USD 3,500.00 - 4,500.00 6,050.00
15 BLOME, RICHARD A Description Of the Island of Jamaica; With the other Isles and Territories in America, to which the English are Related ... Taken from the Notes of Sr. Thomas Linch Knight, Governour of Jamaica; and other Experienced Persons in the said places. London

1672

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[BLOME, RICHARD] The Present State Of His Majesties Isles and Territories in America. London

1687

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16 BLOME, RICHARD The Present State Of His Majesties Isles and Territories in America. London

1687

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BLUNDEVILLE, THOMAS His Exercises, containing sixe Treatises ... verie necessarie to be read and learned of all yoong Gentlemen that haue not bene exercised in such disciplines, and yet are desirous to haue knowledge as well in Cosmographie, Astronomie, and Geographie, as al London

1594

USD 3,500.00 - 5,500.00 3,520.00
17 BLUNDEVILLE, THOMAS His Exercises, containing sixe Treatises ... verie necessarie to be read and learned of all yoong Gentlemen that haue not bene exercised in such disciplines, and yet are desirous to haue knowledge as well in Cosmographie, Astronomie, and Geographie, as al London

1594

USD 3,500.00 - 5,500.00 3,520.00
BOND, HENRY The Longitude Found: or, a Treatise Shewing An Easie and Speedy way, as well by Night as by Day, to find the Longitude, having but the Latitude of the Place, and the Inclination of the Magnetical Inclinatorie Needle. London

1676

USD 500.00 - 700.00 1,045.00
18 BOND, HENRY The Longitude Found: or, a Treatise Shewing An Easie and Speedy way, as well by Night as by Day, to find the Longitude, having but the Latitude of the Place, and the Inclination of the Magnetical Inclina'torie Needle. London

1676

USD 500.00 - 700.00 1,045.00
BOUGAINVILLE, LOUIS ANTOINE DE A Voyage round the World. Performed ... In the Years 1766, 1767, 1768, and 1769 ... Translated from the French by John Reinhold Forster. London

1772

USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 1,650.00
19 BOUGAINVILLE, LOUIS ANTOINE DE. A Voyage round the World. Performed ... In the Years 1766, 1767, 1768, and 1769 ... London

1772

USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 1,650.00
BOUGAINVILLE, LOUIS ANTOINE DE A Voyage round the World. London

1772

USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 935.00
20 BOUGAINVILLE, LOUIS ANTOINE DE. A Voyage round the World. London

1772

USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 935.00
BOURNE, WILLIAM A booke called the Treasure for traueilers, deuided into fiue Bookes or partes, contaynyng very necessary matters, for all sortes of Traueilers, eyther by Sea or by Lande. London

1578

USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 Not Sold
21 BOURNE, WILLIAM, D. W. Waters A booke called the Treasure for traueilers, deuided into fiue Bookes or partes, contaynyng very necessary matters, for all sortes of Traueilers, eyther by Sea or by Lande., The Art of Navigation in England in Elizabethan and Early Stuart Times London, London

1578, 1958

USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 Not Sold
BOWDITCH, NATHANIEL The New American Practical Navigator. Newburyport, Mass.

1802

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22 BOWDITCH, NATHANIEL The New American Practical Navigator. Newburyport, Mass.

1802

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BOWDITCH, NATHANIEL The New American Practical Navigator. Newburyport, Mass.

1802

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 2,860.00
23 BOWDITCH, NATHANIEL The New American Practical Navigator. Newburyport, Mass.

1802

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 2,860.00
BOWDITCH, NATHANIEL The New American Practical Navigator ... Second Edition, with many improvements, Newburyport, Mass.: July, 1807; Third edition of the same, New York 1811, cover detached; Fifth Stereotype edition of the same, New York 1821; together 3 vols., 8vo

USD 700.00 - 900.00 990.00
24 BOWDITCH, NATHANIEL The New American Practical Navigator ... Newburyport, Mass, New York, New York

July, 1807, 1811, 1821

USD 700.00 - 900.00 990.00
BROUGHTON, WILLIAM ROBERT A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean: in which the coast of Asia ... the island of Insu ... Japan, the Lieuchieux ... Corea have been examined and surveyed. Performed in His Majesty's sloop Providence, and her tender, the years 1795[-] ... 179 London

1804

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25 BROUGHTON, WILLIAM ROBERT A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean: in which the coast of Asia ... the island of Insu ... Japan, the Lieuchieux ... Corea have been examined and surveyed. Performed in His Majesty's sloop Providence, and her tender, the years 1795[-] ... 179 London

1804

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BRY, THEODOR DE, JOHANN THEODOR DE BRY and JOHANN ISRAEL DE BRY The Great Voyages (America) and Small Voyages (India, etc.), in Latin. Frankfurt

1590--1634

USD 40,000.00 - 50,000.00 154,000.00
26 BRY, THEODOR DE, JOHANN THEODOR DE BRY and JOHANN ISRAEL DE BRY The Great Voyages (America) and Small Voyages (India, etc.), in Latin., Great Voyages, America, First Series, Parts I-IX, and the Continuation or Second Series, Parts X-XIII Frankfurt's

1590-1634, 1590-1602, 1619-1634

USD 40,000.00 - 50,000.00 154,000.00
BULKELEY, JOHN and JOHN CUMMINS A Voyage to the South-Seas, In the Years 1740--1. Containing, A faithful Narrative of the Loss of his Majesty's Ship the Wager. London

1743

USD 900.00 - 1,200.00 1,045.00
27 BULKELEY, JOHN and JOHN CUMMINS A Voyage to the South-Seas, In the Years 1740-1. Containing, A faithful Narrative of the Loss of his Majesty's Ship the Wager. London

1743

USD 900.00 - 1,200.00 1,045.00
BULLEN, FRANK T. Autograph manuscript signed of the sea novel A Bounty Boy: Being some adventures of a Christian Barbarian on an unpremeditated trip round the World.

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 3,300.00
28 BULLEN, FRANK T. Autograph manuscript signed of the sea novel A Bounty Boy: Being some adventures of a Christian Barbarian on an unpremeditated trip round the World.

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 3,300.00
BULLEN, FRANK T. Autograph manuscript of the sea novel Beyond. London

1909

USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 2,640.00
29 BULLEN, FRANK T. Autograph manuscript of the sea novel Beyond.

USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 2,640.00
BURCHETT, JOSIAH A Complete History of the Most Remarkable Transactions at Sea, from the Earliest Accounts of Time to the Conclusion of the Last War with France ... In Five Books. London

1720

USD 700.00 - 900.00 1,320.00
30 BURCHETT, JOSIAH A Complete History of the Most Remarkable Transactions at Sea, from the Earliest Accounts of Time to the Conclusion of the Last War with France ... London

1720

USD 700.00 - 900.00 1,320.00
[CALIFORNIA]. GENTLEMAN OF ELVAS A Relation of the Invasion and Conquest of Florida by the Spaniards, Under the Command of Fernando de Soto. Written in Portuguese by a Gentleman of the Town of Elvas. Now Englished. To which is Subjoined Two Journeys of the present Emperour of China into London

1686

USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 4,620.00
31 CALIFORNIA; GENTLEMAN OF ELVAS A Relation of the Invasion and Conquest of Florida by the Spaniards, Under the Command of Fernando de Soto. London

1686

USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 4,620.00
CAMPBELL, <i>Captain</i> JAMES Directions for navigating up Delaware-Bay, from the Capes to Reedy-Island. London

1776

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 3,850.00
32 CAMPBELL, Captain JAMES Directions for navigating up Delaware-Bay, from the Capes to Reedy-Island. London

1776

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 3,850.00
CARRANZA, DOMINCO GONZALES A Geographical Description of the Coasts, Harbours, and Sea Ports of the Spanish West-Indies; Particularly of Porto Bello, Cartagena, and the Island of Cuba. London

1740

USD 900.00 - 1,200.00 2,640.00
33 CARRANZA, DOMINCO GONZALES A Geographical Description of the Coasts, Harbours, and Sea Ports of the Spanish West-Indies; Particularly of Porto Bello, Cartagena, and the Island of Cuba. London

1740

USD 900.00 - 1,200.00 2,640.00
CARTER, GEORGE A Narrative of the Loss of the Grosvenor East Indiaman, which was Unfortunately Wrecked upon the Coast of Caffraria ... on the 4th of August, 1782. London

1791

USD 500.00 - 700.00 330.00
34 CARTER, GEORGE A Narrative of the Loss of the Grosvenor East Indiaman, which was Unfortunately Wrecked upon the Coast of Caffraria ... on the 4th of August, 1782. London

1791

USD 500.00 - 700.00 330.00
[CARWELL, THOMAS] The New Atlas: Or, Travels and Voyages in Europe, Asia, Africa and America, Thro' the most Renowned Parts of the World. London

1698

USD 700.00 - 900.00 4,180.00
35 CARWELL, THOMAS The New Atlas: Or, Travels and Voyages in Europe, Asia, Africa and America, Thro' the most Renowned Parts of the World. London

1698

USD 700.00 - 900.00 4,180.00
CASAS, BARTHOLOME DE LAS An Account Of the First Voyages and Discoveries Made by the Spaniards in America. Containing the most Exact Relation hitherto publish'd, of their unparallel'd Cruelties on the Indians, in the destruction of above Forty Millions of People. London

1699

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 1,320.00
36 CASAS, BARTHOLOME DE LAS An Account Of the First Voyages and Discoveries Made by the Spaniards in America. Containing the most Exact Relation hitherto publish'd, of their unparallel'd Cruelties on the Indians, in the destruction of above Forty Millions of People. London

1699

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 1,320.00
CHABERT, JOSEPH BERNARD DE, <i>Marquis</i> Extrait des Memoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences, Pour I'Annee 1783. Sur l'usage des Horloges marines, relativement a la Navigation, & sur-tout a la Geographie, ou l'on determine la difference en longitude de quelques points ... par des Observations Paris

1785

USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 5,280.00
37 CHABERT, JOSEPH BERNARD DE, Marquis Extrait des Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, Pour l'Année 1783. Sur l'usage des Horloges marines, relativement à la Navigation, & sur-tout à la Géographie, où l'on détermine la différence en longitude de quelques points ... par des Observations Paris

1785

USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 5,280.00
CHAMPLAIN, SAMUEL DE Les Voyages du Sieur de Champlain Xaintongeois, Capitaine ordinaire pour le Roy, en la marine. Divisez en deux livres. Ou, Journal tres-fidele des observations faites es descouvertures de la Nouvelle France. Paris

1613

USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 99,000.00
38 CHAMPLAIN, SAMUEL DE. Les Voyages du Sieur de Champlain Xaintongeois, Capitaine ordinaire pour le Roy, en la marine. Divisez en deux livres. Ou, Journal tres-fidele des observations faites és descouvertures de la Nouvelle France. Paris

1613

USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 99,000.00
CHAMPLAIN, SAMUEL DE Les Voyages de la Nouvelle France occidentale, dicte Canada, faits par le Sr Champlain Xainctongeois, Capitaine pour le Roy en la Marine du Ponant, & toutes les Descouvertes qu'il a faites en ce pais depuis l'an 1603. Iusques en I'am 1629. Paris

1632

USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 52,800.00
39 CHAMPLAIN, SAMUEL DE. Les Voyages de la Nouvelle France occidentale, dicte Canada, faits par le Sr Champlain Xainctongeois, Capitaine pour le Roy en la Marine du Ponant, & toutes les Descouvertes qu'il a faites en ce païs depuis l'an 1603. Iusques en l'an 1629. Paris

1632

USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 52,800.00
CHAPPELL, <i>Lieutenant</i> EDWARD various

USD 900.00 - 1,200.00 3,520.00
40 CHAPPELL, Lieutenant EDWARD, CHETWOOD, WILLIAM R., FURLONG, Capt. LAWRENCE, RHODES, JOHN, COTTER, RICHARD, WEST, Mrs. LUCY BREWER Narrative of a Voyage to Hudson's Bay in His Majesty's Ship Rosamond, The Voyages, Dangerous Adventures And imminent Escapes of Captain Richard Falconer, The American Coast Pilot ... Second Edition, Largely Improved, The Surprising Adventures and Sufferin London's, Newburyport, Mass., Newark, N.J., Portsmouth, N.H.

1817, 1720, 1798, 1799, 1828, 1816

USD 900.00 - 1,200.00 3,520.00
CHARLEVOIX, PIERRE FRANCOIS XAVIER DE Journal of a Voyage to North-America ... Containing The Geographical Description and Natural History of the Country, particularly Canada. London

1761

USD 700.00 - 900.00 1,540.00
41 CHARLEVOIX, PIERRE FRANCOIS XAVIER DE. Journal of a Voyage to North-America... Containing The Geographical Description and Natural History of the Country, particularly Canada. London

1761

USD 700.00 - 900.00 1,540.00
CLARKE, JAMES STANIER and JOHN M'ARTHUR The Life of Admiral Lord Nelson. K.B. London

1809

USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 3,520.00
42 CLARKE, JAMES STANIER and JOHN M'ARTHUR The Life of Admiral Lord Nelson. K.B. London

1809

USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 3,520.00
CONRAD, JOSEPH Almayer's Folly. A Story of an Eastern River. London

1895

USD 500.00 - 700.00 1,650.00
43 CONRAD, JOSEPH Almayer's Folly. A Story of an Eastern River. London

1895

USD 500.00 - 700.00 1,650.00
CONRAD, JOSEPH An Outcast of the Islands. London

1896

USD 900.00 - 1,200.00 1,430.00
44 CONRAD, JOSEPH An Outcast of the Islands. London

1896

USD 900.00 - 1,200.00 1,430.00
CONRAD, JOSEPH The Children of the Sea. A Tale of the Forecastle. New York

1897

USD 400.00 - 600.00 715.00
45 CONRAD, JOSEPH The Children of the Sea. A Tale of the Forecastle. New York

1897

USD 400.00 - 600.00 715.00
CONRAD, JOSEPH The Nigger of the "Narcissus." A Tale of the Sea. London

1898

USD 500.00 - 700.00 1,430.00
46 CONRAD, JOSEPH The Nigger of the "Narcissus." A Tale of the Sea. London

1898

USD 500.00 - 700.00 1,430.00
CONRAD, JOSEPH Tales of Unrest. London

1898

USD 700.00 - 900.00 1,320.00
47 CONRAD, JOSEPH Tales of Unrest. London

1898

USD 700.00 - 900.00 1,320.00
CONRAD, JOSEPH. Lord Jim New York

[1979]

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48 CONRAD, JOSEPH, Frederick R. Karl Lord Jim. A Romance., Joseph Conrad ... A Biography New York's

1900, 1979

USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 2,420.00
CONRAD, JOSEPH and FORD MADOX HUEFFER [FORD] The Inheritors. An Extravagant Story. New York

1901

USD 400.00 - 600.00 660.00
49 CONRAD, JOSEPH and FORD MADOX HUEFFER, FORD The Inheritors. An Extravagant Story. New York

1901

USD 400.00 - 600.00 660.00
CONRAD, JOSEPH Typhoon. New York

1902

USD 600.00 - 800.00 935.00
50 CONRAD, JOSEPH Typhoon. New York

1902

USD 600.00 - 800.00 935.00
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