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Antique Map Auction Sale No. 121 - closed 9/26/2007

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Lot #494: "Duynkercke / Grevelinge / Borborch" Braun & Hogenberg

Antique map chart Duynkercke Grevelinge Borborch
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Estimate:
$250.00 - $325.00
Sold for: $180.00

Lot 494
By: Braun & Hogenberg
Subject: France, Belgium
Date: 1575

Publication: Civitates Orbis Terrarum

Condition: A
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Color: hand color

Size: 19.2 x 11.8 inches
48.8 x 30.0 cm

A handsome sheet with three views. At top is a panorama of Dunquerque showing a pastoral landscape leading up to the water surrounding the walled city. The two smaller bird's-eye views underneath are of Grevelines and Bourbourg France. German text on verso.

A few minor spots, mostly in the margins with one insignificant rust spot in the map.

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