Live veiling - Lot 969
Rare and beautifully detailed woodcut of 13th-c. Zeeland
[Zeeland]
Die gheleghtheyt oft Situatie des lands van Zeelandt [...].
[Antwerp, wid. Henrick Peetersen [= Jacomyne Bars], 1551]
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Beschrijving lot
Woodcut, 19,5 x 29 cm (2 clear stains).
Hinged at upper edge. Under passe-partout.
Very rare and early map of Zeeland. Oriented to the South, this very detailed woodcut depicts many cities and villages, almost all with different and varied profiles. The map represents 13th-c. Zeeland.
Ref. Zelandia comitatus H-4a1.
Joined, under same passe-partout: Zeeland. [Middelburg, W. Abrahams, 1781]. Engr., 18,9 x 27,8 cm (folded). Copy of the map of Reygersbergh published in Jacobus Ermerins' "Eenige Zeeuwse Oudheden [...]". Ref. Zelandia comitatus H-4a3.