Live auction - Lot 853
[Belgium - Flanders]
Flandriae descriptio.
Cologne, J. Bussemacher, [1596]
€ 150 / 200
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Lot description
Engr., 20,1 x 26,8 cm, hand-coloured (some spots in blank marg.).
Hinged at upper edge. Under passe-partout.
Rare map from Matthias Quad's (1557-1613) "Europae totius terrarum orbis partis praestantissimae, generalis ac particularis descriptio". Latin text on verso (foliated 38).
Ref. Bossu, pp. 14-15.
Joined, under same passe-partout: a second, uncoloured, copy of the same map. This map extracted from Johannes Rauw's "Cosmographia [...]" (1597). German text on verso (leaf KIII, p. 197).
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