Live auction - Lot 867
[France - Poitiers]
6 views on 2 sheets.
€ 250 / 300
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Lot description
Engr., 32,3/36,9 x 48,3/49,6 cm, hand-coloured (light traces of central folds).
Hinged at upper edges. Under passe-partout.
1. Pictavia vulgo Poictiers. Large bird's-eye view of Poitiers, with the "Pont Neuf" prominently depicted, underneath 2 smaller views of "la Pierre Levée" and Montargis. - 2. Monsiessulanus, Montpellier. Turo, Tours. Pictavis, sive Pictavia [...]. (Marg. damp stains sl. affecting pl., some very light soiling). 2 smaller views of Montpellier and Tours above a larger view of Poitiers, along the river Clain. From the 1582 (2) and 1600 (1) German "Civitates Orbis Terrarum" (text on verso, leaves 9 & 18).
Ref. Van der Krogt [Poitiers;Henrichemont:41] & [Montpellier;etc:41A.1-2].