Live auction - Lot 460
One of the oldest maps of the Duchy
[Belgium - Brabant]
Brabantia V Rheni et X nova tabula.
[Basel, H. Petri, 1540]
Hammer price: €
400
€ 200 / 300
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Lot description
Woodcut, 25,7 x 33,7 cm, hand-coloured.
Hinged at upper edge. Under passe-partout.
Scarce early map of the Low Countries, very probably after Van Deventer as the hydography is virtually identical. Münster showed the course of the Rhine in 5 maps, this one being the last, covering the lower course; showing o.a. the cities Antwerp, Brussels, Roermond, Cologne, Bonn, etc. After 1542, Münster reworked the 5 Rhine-maps to just 3 (see lot 461), thus this map only appeared in 2 editions. Extracted from Münster's 1540 ed. of "Geographia universalis [...]". Latin text on verso (numb. 38).
Ref. Brabantia ducatus 2. - Karrow 58/110.