Live veiling - Lot 524
[Atlas - Belgium]
Carte de la Belgique d'après Ferraris, augmentée des plans des six villes principales et de l'indication des routes, canaux et autres travaux exécutés depuis 1777 jusqu'en 1831.
Brussels, Établissement géographique [Vandermaelen]], s.d
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Beschrijving lot
Folio: 43 maps, some partly heightened (maps 1, 22, and 28 torn with some tears restored, map 2 detached, lower central folds of some maps split, sometimes continuing in map (maps at the end more severely affected), some spotting, stronger on the maps at the end).
Contemp. half calf, marbled paper boards, flat spine (rubbed, spine defected, corners bumped).
The first major national atlas of Belgium, published shortly after its independence, containing 43 maps (numbered 1-42, with the last map numbered 41-42bis). With maps of Brussels, Antwerp, Ghent, Namur, Mons, Liège, etc.
Ref. Silvestre, M.; Fincoeur, M.-B. - Inventaire raisonné des collections cartographiques Vandermaelen I3(B).