Live auction - Lot 957
[Zandvliet]
Tabula Castelli ad Sandflitam, qua simul inundati agri, alluviones, fossae, alvei, quae Bergas ad Zomam et Antverpiam interjacent, annotantur.
[Amsterdam, J. Blaeu, 1667]
Hammer price: €
200
€ 200 / 300
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Lot description
Engr., 38,2 x 49,8 cm, hand-coloured (sl. toned).
Hinged at upper edge. Under passe-partout.
Oriented to the East, this map depicts the Scheldt from Antwerp to Bergen-op-Zoom at the time of the Eighty Year's War (1566-1648). With explanation in upper left corner. From the 1667 "Grand Atlas" by Blaeu (French text on verso, leaf N, pagination 33-34).
Ref. Van der Krogt II [3120:2]. - Guns, P. - De Antwerpse noorderpolders in de 16de-17de eeuw. (figure 5).