Live auction - Lot 886
[Netherlands - Zandvliet]
Tabula Castelli ad Sandflitam, qua simul inundati agri, alluviones, fossae, alvei, quae Bergas ad Zomam et Antverpiam interjacent, annotantur.
[Amsterdam, J. & C. Blaeu, 1640-1655]
€ 100 / 150
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Lot description
Engr., 38,3 x 49,8 cm (light traces of central fold).
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 an explanation in the left corner. From a Latin ed. of "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum" between 1640 and 1655. Text on verso (leaf K, p. 11).
Ref. Van der Krogt II:[3120:2]. - Guns, P. - De Antwerpse noorderpolders in de 16de-17de eeuw (figure 5).