Live auction - Lot 1079
[Belgium - West Flanders]
5 town or siege plans of the Ypres region.
€ 300 / 400
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Lot description
Engr., ca. 40 x 50 cm, nicely hand-coloured.
Under passe-partout. In good overall condition.
1. "Cortracum, vulgo Cortrijck, Gallice Courtray". Amsterdam, J. Blaeu, 1652. - 2. "Ypra". Ibid. - 3. "Plan de la ville d'Ypre en Flandre [...]". Paris, S. de Beaulieu, 1694. Plan of the Siege of Ypres (1648). Most probably from "Les glorieuses conquestes de Louis le Grand [...]". Ref. Pastoureau [Beaulieu XV/II, 12]. - BnF P144944[Vc-80-Fol]. - 4. "Plan du siège de la ville de Menin [...]". Brussels, E.H. Fricx, 1706. Publ. separately or taken from "Table des cartes de Pays-Bas et des frontières de France [...]". Ref. Koeman II, 110 [Fri 1, 28]. - 5. "Menina vulgo Meenen". S.l., s.n., s.d. Similar but not identical to the plan in Blaeu's 1652 town atlas.
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