Live auction - Lot 469
[Atlas - Belgium]
Cartes des Provinces des Pays Bas [...].
Paris, Crépy, 1744
€ 500 / 600
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Lot description
Folio: 15 maps (few brown stains on left side of the map of Ghent, clear stain on left side of the map of Calais, blank margin of the map of Kortrijk, sl. soiled, occ. spotting).
Contemp. half sheep, mottled paper boards with paper label on front board, spine with raised bands (spine worn, corners bumped, weak hinges).
Large wall map bound as atlas, consisting of an engraved title cartouche (with parts of the British coasts) and 14 partial maps of the surroundings of Ostend, Ghent, Bruges, Antwerp, Brussels, Calais, Dunkirk, Douay, Namur, etc.
Ref. Koeman II Fri 2A.
Enriched with: 1. Delisle, Guillaume - Comitatus Flandriae descriptio [...]. Augsbourg, T.C. Lotter, [18th c.]. (Wormtrack in upper blank margin). Hand-coloured map. - 2. Janvier, Jean - Partie méridionale des Pays Bas [...]. Paris, Lattré, [18th c.]. (Clear, light stain at left side of the map). Borders and large cartouche hand-coloured.