"Marchionatus Sacri Imperi", La Feuille, Daniel de

Attractive small map featuring Antwerp and its vicinity. It provides excellent detail for its scale, including numerous fortifications, polders, forests, roads and even windmills. The fascinating cartouche features a man holding a severed hand, with two handless men next to him, in allusion to the legend of Brabo, who rescued Antwerp from a giant who cut the hands off of sailors after they refused to pay him a toll on the river. Brabo defeated the giant, and then he flung the giant's severed hand intro the River Scheldt. There is a bronze fountain in Antwerp's Grote Markt commemorating this event.

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Condition: B+

Faint toning along fold, else very good with a very sharp impression.