Live auction - Lot 454
Rare and important 16th-c. map
[Belgium - Brabant]
Brabantiae Belgarum provinciae recens exactaque descriptio.
Venice, M. Tramezzino, 1558
Hammer price: €
1.000
€ 1.500 / 2.000
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Lot description
Engr., 51,5 x 39,5 cm (very sm. clear stain in lower edge).
Hinged at left edge. Under passe-partout.
Finely engraved map of Brabant, after Jacob van Deventer, engraved by Jacob Bos for the important Venetian publisher Michele Tramezzino. At the top, the finely engraved coats of arms of Philip II of Spain (left) as king of Spain and at the time England due to his marriage to Mary I, and of Charles V (middle), Holy Roman Emperor, and of Brabant (right). Many cities and villages with detailed profiles. Second state (1st 1556). Verso blank.
Ref. Brabantia ducatus 4.2.1558. - Karrow 25/1.2.
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