Live auction - Lot 572
[Belgium - Flanders]
Flandriae comitatus descriptio.
1590 [= 1598]
€ 250 / 300
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Lot description
Engr., 37,5 x 48,5 cm, hand-coloured (very light trace of a central fold).
Hinged at upper edge. Under passe-partout.
First state with the date of the privilege "1590" still present. With inset map of ancient Walcheren and NW-Flanders. Extracted from the 1598 French "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum" (leaf 45, no pagination). This map succeeds the renowned ovoid map of Flanders (see lot 571).
Ref. Van den Broecke (2011) Ort77. - Van der Krogt IIIB [3200:31C].