Live auction - Lot 558
[Belgium - France]
Les frontières de France et des Pais Bas ou se trouvent l'Artois, la Flandre, le Brabant, le Hainaut, le comté de Namur, le Cambresis, et grande partie de Picardie.
Paris, N. de Fer, 1710
€ 700 / 1.000
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Lot description
Engr., 68,5 x 130,5 cm, borders old hand-coloured (sm. marginal stain).
Framed.
Rare large wall map of Northern France and the Netherlands in a 1st state, engraved by P. Starckman. Reduced size of the identically named map assembled from 25 engr., initially published by N. de Fer as a portable atlas for the convenience of army officers. Depicting most of the Southern Netherlands from Beveland to Kleve in the north, and from the Boulonnaise coast in the west to Limbourg in the east.
Ref. Pastoureau, Fer X (the large map). - BnF (later state). - Lemoine-Isabeau - Les militaires et la cartographie des Pays-Bas méridionaux. Bruxelles, Musée royal de l'Armée (Travaux du Centre d'Histoire militaire, 19), 1984, pp. 51, 95-100 (the large map).