Live auction - Lot 572

[Belgium - Flanders]

ORTELIUS, Abraham. MERCATOR, Gerard (after)

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].

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Lot 572

Flandriae comitatus descriptio.

ORTELIUS, Abraham. MERCATOR, Gerard (after)

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