Live auction - Lot 600
[France - Loire]
3 views on 2 sheets: "Bloys" and "Turones vulgo Tours. Le jardin de France" - "Andegavum vulgo Angiers".
[Cologne]
Hammer price: €
70
€ 120 / 150
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Lot description
Engr., 30,8/34,5 x 43/46,3 cm, hand-coloured (traces of central folds).
Hinged at upper edges. Under passe-partout.
1. [G. von Kempen, 1575 or 1580]. Large view of Blois, from across the Loire. - 2. [P. von Brachel, 1617]. A view on Tours, "The garden of France", as seen from across the Loire, above a view on Angers, as seen from across the Maine, with the production of slate in the foreground, refering to its industry and the quarries in Trélazé. From 2 diff. Latin ed. of the "Civitates Orbis Terrarum" (text on verso, leaves 14 & 20).
Ref. Van der Krogt [Blois:41.1] & [Tours;Angers:41].