Live auction - Lot 939
Live auction - Lot 939
Unrecorded state of a rare map
[Netherlands - Zeeland]
Comitatus Zeelandiae novissima descriptio.
[Antwerp], 1632
Hammer price: €
500
€ 250 / 300
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Lot description
Engr., 45,8 x 55,6 cm (sl. browned, sm. clear brown stain in the upper edge, sm. restoration in the right lower corner, 1 tiny hole).
Hinged at upper edge. Under passe-partout.
Early, unrecorded (preparatory?), state of Verbiest's map of Zeeland. Hollstein, Van Ortroy and Blonk-van der Wijst all mention the address in lower right corner in every state, here not (yet?) present. The map is dated 1632, the same year as the first state described in the bibliographies. Decorated with a large title cartouche and numerous ships.
Ref. Cp. Zelandia comitatus 28, Van Ortroy, F. - Les Verbist enlumineurs et cartographes anversois, in Le Compas d'Or, 7, 1929, p. 16, n. 19. - Hollstein XXXV.187.8.