Hand coloured copper engraving map by Lodovico Guicciardini, Amsterdam, C.Claesz, 1609 A.D. The map illustrating the historical area of the city of Cambrai in the region of Nord-Pas-de-Calais in France.
TITLE:
'La Ville de Cambray...'
ENGRAVER:
Lodovico Guicciardini (Florence, 19 August 1521–Antwerp, 22 March 1589) was an Italian writer and merchant who lived primarily in Antwerp. His best-known work, the Descrittione di Lodovico Guic-ciardini patritio fiorentino di tutti i Paesi Bassi altrimenti detti Ger-mania inferiore (1567)—published in English in 1597 as The Descrip-tion of the Low Countreys—was an influential account of the history and the arts of the Low Countries. Lodovico was the nephew of Francesco Guicciardini. He has been buried in the Cathedral of Our Lady, Antwerp.
DESCRIPTION:
Wonderful coloured copper engraving view of Lodovico Guicciardini. On the view you can see the city Cambrai in the region of Nord-Pas-de-Calais in France. Fine coloured and in good preservation. Published in Amsterdam, 1609.
SIZE:
Leaf app.: h 29,8 cm x w 35,9 cm
View app.: h 23,6 cm x w 31,7 cm
CONDITION:
- good condition
- age-appropriate brownish and slighlty stains
- D884/A
