Live auction - Lot 960
A unique testimony of the Low Countries during one of the most turbulent times in its history
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Nieuwe caert vande ghelegentheijt vande Oost en Wester Schelde [...] nu is 1633.
Antwerp, 1633
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Lot description
Engr., 54,3 x 40,4 cm (sl. toned).
Hinged at upper edge. Under passe-partout.
Second state of this very rare map of the river Scheldt near Antwerp, showing the various connections between the East and West Scheldt by cartographer Pieter Verbiest II (c. 1605-1693), depicting the region between Bergen-op-Zoom and Antwerp. Remarkable for this map is that the different states show the changes in the military-political situation between the Dutch States army and the Spanish troops during the Eighty Year’s War. Verso blank.
Ref. Hollstein XXXV.181.3.II (of V). - Van Ortroy, F. - Les Verbist enlumineurs et cartographes anversois, in Le Compas d'Or, 7, 1929, p. 27, n. 39. - Danckaert, L. - Een kaart van het Antwerpse door Pieter Verbiest [...]. in De Gulden Passer, xviii, 1985, pp. -406-416. - Guns, P. - De Antwerpse noorderpolders in de 16de-17de eeuw. (figure 8).
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