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Auction 187, Lot 439

"Comitatus Hanoniae", Peeters, Jacques

Subject: France & Belgium

Period: 1692 (published)

Publication: L'Atlas en Abrege, ou Nouvelle Description du Monde

Color: Hand Color

Size:
7.3 x 5.9 inches
18.5 x 15 cm
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This small map describes the border region between France and Belgium and includes the fortified cities of Douai, Valenciennes, Mons, and Cambrai. The map is filled with minute detail with hundreds of tiny villages, forests, rivers and lakes. Decorated with a pictorial cartouche featuring soldiers.

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Condition: A

Contemporary outline color on a clean sheet.

Estimate: $95 - $120

Sold for: $70

Closed on 4/27/2022

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