Live auction - Lot 866
[France - Lyon]
3 views on 2 sheets: "Lugdunum." and "Lugdunum vulgo Lion. Vienna vulgo Vienne de France.".
Hammer price: €
260
€ 200 / 300
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Lot description
Engr., 33,6/37,3 x 46,5/48,7 cm, hand-coloured (light traces of central folds).
Hinged at upper edges. Under passe-partout.
1. Large view of Lyon, at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, clearly depicted. (Marg. damp stains not affecting pl.). - 2. At the top, a view of the confluence of the rivers at Lyon; underneath a view on the French city Vienne with the fortifications on top of the Mont Pipet prominently in the middle. (Tiny spot in edge, tiny crack in the plate at upper edge). From the 1593 French (1) and 1617 Latin (2) "Civitates Orbis Terrarum" (text on verso, leaves 11 & 19).
Ref. Van der Krogt [Lyon:41A] & [Lyon;Vienne:41].