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![Beschreibung der Statt Antorff? [Antwerp ]](/uploads/cache/27204-250x250.jpg)
Beschreibung der Statt Antorff? [Antwerp ]
RECTO: a bird's-eye-view of a Antwerp. VERSO: a woodcut portrait of Alfa. Taken from Sebastian Munster's encyclopedic work, the "Cosmographia Universalis". The ...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1564
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2010
Anvers.
Charming and highly detailed bird’s-eye plan of Antwerpen with attractive pictorially drawn buildings, walls, churches, ships, and towers. Very early woodblock print pr...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1567
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2018
Brusselles.
Charming bird’s-eye plan of Brussel with attractive pictorially drawn buildings, walls, churches, and towers. Very early woodblock print printed in 1567 by Silvius with...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1567
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2014
Brugae - Brugge
Rare and charming woodcut of Brugae or Brugge. Extensive legend below the plan including thirty-four letter press names of churches, palaces, monasteries, and more. Coat ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1567
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2018
Louvain - Leuven.
Rare and charming woodcut of Louvain or Leuven. Extensive legend below the plan including thirty letter press names of churches, palaces, monasteries, and more. Coat of a...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1567
Selling price: $190
Sold in 2015
Malines - Mechelen
Rare and charming woodcut of Malines or Mechelen. The extensive legend below the plan including nineteen letterpress names of churches, palaces, monasteries, and more, an...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1567
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2018
Yprae - Ieper
Rare and charming woodcut of Yprae, or Ieper. Extensive legend below the plan including twenty letter press names of churches, palaces, monasteries, and more. Coat of arm...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1567
Selling price: $140
Sold in 2015
Anversa (Antwerp)
Rare Lafreri School town-plan of Antwerp, engraved by Paolo Forlani, of the Lafreri school of mapmakers, first published in "Il Primo Libro Delle Citta, Et Fortezze ...
Place & Date: Venice, Zaltieri, (1567) 1568
Selling price: $590
Sold in 2016
Anverpia, nobile in Barbantia oppidum, parrim maritimum...
This work is the smaller version of the two plans of Antwerp that were included in Braun & Hogenberg's great city atlas. The bird's-eye plan provides an excellent vie...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca. 1572
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2008
ANVERPIA
Superb bird's-eye plan of Antwerp. Highly detailed plan showing the town with buildings, streets, places, churches and squares. The river and the harbour are filled with ...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca. 1572
Selling price: $550
Sold in 2014
Anverpia.
Superb bird's-eye plan of Antwerp. Highly detailed plan showing the city with buildings, streets, places, churches and squares. The river and the harbour are filled with ...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca. 1572
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2013
Beaumont en Hainaut.
A bird's-eye plan of Beaumont south of Charleroi, near Walcourt, in Belgium. Walls and a moat protect the city.It provides an excellent view of the city's defences, bridg...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1572
Selling price: $11
Sold in 2018
Bruxella...
A highly detailed 16th-century plan of Brussels with numerous buildings, streets, places, churches, and squares. Further with the city walls and bridges across the river,...
Place & Date: Cologne, c1572
Selling price: $230
Sold in 2017
Hypra Flandriarum Civitas Munitissima.
A very detailed, panoramic view of Leper, from Braun & Hogenberg’s “Civitates Orbis Terrarum." This town is located in Belgium, on the border with France. Po...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1572
Selling price: $130
Sold in 2020
Lovanium Brabanticarum Urbium Caput. . .
A lovely birds-eye view of Louvain with detail even of single buildings. Translated “Louvain, capital of Brabant, unrivalled site of the muses and the most distinguishe...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1572
Selling price: $135
Sold in 2018
Atrebatum Episcopa Lis et Metropolica Artesiae Vivitas.
An early city views of Arras, in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais, North of France, from an early edition of Braun & Hogenberg's Civitates Orbis Terrarum, the most prolific com...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1572
Selling price: $55
Sold in 2018
Anverpia, nobile in Brahantia . . .
A Very Early Plan of Antwerp - an Excellent Example. First issue. A beautiful, well-detailed glimpse of Antwerp, portrayed prior to the Spanish Fury when it was a great c...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1572
Selling price: $325
Sold in 2019
Liege. Leodium... Civitatis Leodiensis Genuina Delineatio.
A Very Early Plan of Liege - an Excellent Example. Earliest issue of the earliest acquirable, detailed view of Liege, showing the walled city in rich detail. With 64 spec...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1572
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2019
Hypra Flandriarum Civitas Munitissima.
A very detailed, panoramic view of Leper (Ypres), from Braun & Hogenberg’s “Civitates Orbis Terrarum." This town is located in Belgium, on the border with Fr...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1572
Selling price: $55
Sold in 2020
![Gandavum, Amplissima Flandriae urbs. . . [Ghent (Gent)]](/uploads/cache/84181-250x250.jpg)
Gandavum, Amplissima Flandriae urbs. . . [Ghent (Gent)]
A bird's-eye view plan of Ghent, by Georg Braun and Frans Hogenberg. TRANSLATION OF CARTOUCHE TEXT: Ghent, the most splendid city in Flanders, was founded by Julius Caesa...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1572
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2020
Leodium. (Luik or Liège)
Very desirable and early of Liège, which shows the city with the Meuse flowing in its favorable location amongst gentle hills, sturdy trees and fertile fields. With a n...
Place & Date: Cologne, (1572) 1577
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2017
Nitidissimae Civitatis Mechlineensis in meditullio Brabantiae sitae, exactis: delineatio. (Mechelen)
Very desirable and early town-plan of Mechelen with the city scape is dominated by the massive tower belonging to the cathedral of Sint-Rombout, which measures almost 100...
Place & Date: Cologne, (1572) 1577
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2016
Tiena, Brabantiae Opp: ad amnem Geta, ... (Tienen)
Very desirable and early town-plan of Tienen. "Shown from the southwest shows the formerly more populous Belgian town lying within extensive walls that also encompas...
Place & Date: Cologne, (1572) 1577
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2017
Gandavum (Ghent)
Very desirable and early town-plan of Ghent. In lower left corner a numbered key (1-103). "The view of Ghent shows the city from the northwest in plan view from a gr...
Place & Date: Cologne, (1572) 1577
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2019
Bruxella, Urbs Aulicorum Frequentia, Fontium Copia, Magnificentia Principalis Aulae (Brussels)
Very desirable and early town-plan of Brussels. To the left a numbered key (1-56). "This plan view from a bird's-eye perspective shows an idealized, almost circular ...
Place & Date: Cologne, (1572) 1577
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2015
Brugae, Flandricarum Urbium Ornamenta. (Brugge)
Very desirable and early town-plan of Brugge. "from a northwesterly direction, ringed by numerous windmills. At the center can be seen the market square with the clo...
Place & Date: Cologne, (1572) 1577
Selling price: $475
Sold in 2013
Anverpia, nobile in Brabantia oppidum, . . (Antwerp)
Very desirable and early town-plan of Antwerp. "The eye is struck by the star-shaped citadel built by the Duke of Alba on Antwerp's southern side, the defensive moat...
Place & Date: Cologne, (1572) 1577
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2016
Lovanium Perantiqua Brabantiae urbs . . . (Leuven)
Very desirable and early of Leuven. "On a grassy slope on the left stands the castle (Borcht), below it, further left again, the tall viewing tower (Verloren Cost) ...
Place & Date: Cologne, (1572) 1577
Selling price: $170
Sold in 2013
Anverpia, nobile in Brabantia oppidum, . . (Antwerp)
Very desirable and early town-plan of Antwerp. "The eye is struck by the star-shaped citadel built by the Duke of Alba on Antwerp's southern side, the defensive moat...
Place & Date: Cologne, (1572) 1577
Selling price: $255
Sold in 2018
Leodium. (Luik or Liège)
Very desirable and early of Liège, which shows the city with the Meuse flowing in its favorable location amongst gentle hills, sturdy trees and fertile fields. With a n...
Place & Date: Cologne, (1572) 1577
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2019
Gandavum (Ghent)
Very desirable and early town-plan of Ghent. In lower left corner a numbered key (1-103). "The view of Ghent shows the city from the northwest in plan view from a gr...
Place & Date: Cologne, (1572) 1577
Selling price: $340
Sold in 2019
Mechelen - Nitidissimae Civitatis Mechlineensis in meditullio Brabantiae sitae, exactis: delineatio.
Very desirable and early town-plan of Mechelen with the city scape is dominated by the massive tower belonging to the cathedral of Sint-Rombout, which measures almost 100...
Place & Date: Cologne, (1572) 1577
Selling price: $225
Sold in 2020
Brugae, Flandricarum urbium ornamenta.
Very desirable and early town-plan of Bruges.From volume one of the greatest publication in this genre!. The Civitates was compiled and written by George Braun, Canon of ...
Place & Date: Cologne, (1572) 1577
Selling price: $550
Sold in 2020
Leodium. (Luik or Liège)
Very desirable and early town-view of Liège, which shows the city with the Meuse flowing in its favorable location amongst gentle hills, sturdy trees and fertile fields....
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: Cologne, (1572) 1577
Mons. Arras.
Early views of Mons and Arras, a bird's eye view from the greatest publication in this genre ! The Civitates was compiled and written by George Braun, Canon of Cologne Ca...
Place & Date: Cologne, c.1580
Selling price: $320
Sold in 2008
Bruxella.
A bird's-eye-view of the town.From the greatest publication in this genre! The Civitates was compiled and written by George Braun, Canon of Cologne Cathedral. Braun gathe...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1580
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2009
Lovanium, Brabanticarum..
A very decorative town-plan from the famous university-city Leuven in Belgium. From the greatest publication in this genre!. The Civitates was compiled and written by Geo...
Place & Date: Cologne 1580
Selling price: $390
Sold in 2018
![Tiena, Brabantiae. [Fr. Tirlemont]](/uploads/cache/81841-250x250.jpg)
Tiena, Brabantiae. [Fr. Tirlemont]
Fine oblique aerial plan of the central Belgium city, famed for its cloth in the Renaissance.From the greatest publication in this genre!. The plates from Georg Braun and...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1580
Selling price: $55
Sold in 2018
![Niitidissimae Civitatis mechlineensis, in Meditulli O Brabantiae Sitae, Exactis Delineatio.[Mechelen]](/uploads/cache/84180-250x250.jpg)
Niitidissimae Civitatis mechlineensis, in Meditulli O Brabantiae Sitae, Exactis Delineatio.[Mechelen]
A bird's-eye plan of Mechelen, costume figures at bottom right, engraved after a plan by Jacob van Deventer. TRANSLATION OF CARTOUCHE TEXT: Faithful view of the illustrio...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1581
Selling price: $240
Sold in 2021
![Philippopolis vulgo Philippeville munitiss. comitat Hannoniae opp. [on sheet with]: Marieburgum [on sheet with]: Cimacum, comuniter Chimay, principatus titulo, in Han prestas opp [on sheet with]: Walcourt, haud ignobile comitatus Namurcensis oppidum.](/uploads/cache/84186-250x250.jpg)
Philippopolis vulgo Philippeville munitiss. comitat Hannoniae opp. [on sheet with]: Marieburgum [on sheet with]: Cimacum, comuniter Chimay, principatus titulo, in Han prestas opp [on sheet with]: Walcourt, haud ignobile comitatus Namurcensis oppidum.
Four bird's-eye views on one sheet: Philippeville, Mariembourg, Walcourt. The 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum', or the "Braun & Hogenberg", is a six-volume town a...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1581
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2021
Tiena, Brabantiae Opp: ad amnem Geta, unde casei, qui inde nomen habent, magnus proventus, Estque hic templum S. Germani, Canonicorum Collegio, ornatum (Tienen)
Decorative early view of Tienen in Flemish Brabant in Flanders, Belgium.From Braun & Hogenberg's Civitatus Orbis Terrarum, the most important book of town plans and v...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1581
Selling price: $130
Sold in 2020
Bruxella, Urbs Aulicorum Frequentia, Fontium Copia, Magnificentia Principalis Aulae ... (Brussels)
Bird's-eye view plan of Brussels by Braun and Hogenberg, with key to locations.TRANSLATION OF CARTOUCHE TEXT: Brussels is a very well-known city due to its large number o...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1581
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2020
Anverpia, nobile in Brabantia oppidum, ... (Antwerp)
Bird's-eye view of Antwerp by Braun and Hogenberg.TRANSLATION OF CARTOUCHE TEXT: Antwerp is a well-built and noted trade city in Brabant, which attracts many Germans, Fre...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1581
Selling price: $675
Sold in 2020
Leodium. (Luik or Liège)
Very desirable and early town-view of Liège, which shows the city with the Meuse flowing in its favorable location amongst gentle hills, sturdy trees and fertile fields....
Place & Date: Cologne, 1581
Selling price: $330
Sold in 2020
Namurcum, Elegantissima ad Mosae Flume Civitas. (Namur)
Bird's-eye plan of Namur by Braun and Hogenberg.CARTOUCHE: Namur, a very fair city on the River Meuse.COMMENTARY BY BRAUN: "The council for the whole county is held ...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1581
Selling price: $140
Sold in 2020
Lympurch. - Limburgum oppidum Galliae Belgicae, vulgo Lympurch, gallice, Lembor dr. .. (Limbourg)
Bird's-eye view of Limbourg by Braun and Hogenberg, with key to locations.The Civitates Orbis Terrarum, or the "Braun & Hogenberg", is a six-volume town atl...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1581
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2020
Eigentliche Beschreibung der Schlacht zwischen den Staten und Spaniarden nitt weit von Namur gehaltten.
Representation of the battle of Gembloux, between the Spanish army under Don Juan de Austria and the Dutch troops. In the background the city of Namur. Verso with Latin t...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1583
Selling price: $56
Sold in 2013
Siege on Antwerp - Ship bridge blown up.
Large anonymous engraving of a famous event on the 5th of April, 1585. On this day the ship bridge on the Schelde, build by the Duke of Parma, was blown up. However, by t...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1586
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2021
Brugae Flandricarum Urbium Ornamentia.
The city of Bruges in western Flanders is shown in a plan-like bird's-eye view from a northwesterly direction, ringed by numerous windmills. At the center can be seen the...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca 1588
Selling price: $490
Sold in 2020
TORNACUM (Tournai, Belgium).
A detailed antique copper engraved view of the second oldest city in Belgium with its fortifications in decorative color. The view is supplemented by three city coats of ...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1588
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2021
Lier - Lira, elegans et amoenum Brabantiae Opp: adeo, Ut multorum huius tractus nobilium in ocio degentium, a curise turba, iundissimus sit recessus.
Antique copper engraved map - a bird's-eye view plan of Lier by Braun and Hogenberg. An attractive map of the Brabantine town, belonging to the diocese of Antwerp. The to...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1588
Selling price: $160
Sold in 2021
![Von dem Hertogthumb Braband. . . [Brabant]](/uploads/cache/32239-250x250.jpg)
Von dem Hertogthumb Braband. . . [Brabant]
On recto an early birds-eye view of Luik in Belgium.From a German text edition of his Geographia , that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge.
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1590
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2012
![Contrastung der Statt Löven. . . [Leuven]](/uploads/cache/32240-250x250.jpg)
Contrastung der Statt Löven. . . [Leuven]
On verso an early birds-eye view of Leuven and on recto a plan of Tongeren in Belgium, with a lettered key underneath.From a German text edition of his Geographia , that ...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1590
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2012
Brugae, Flandricarum Urbium Ornamenta. (Brugge)
Very desirable and early town-plan of Brugge. "from a northwesterly direction, ringed by numerous windmills. At the center can be seen the market square with the clo...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1590
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2014
Antverpia.
Prepared for Volume V of Braun & Hogenberg "Civitates Orbis Terrarum", which was first published in 1598. Two sheets joined, for a total dimension of 450mm ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, circa 1590
Selling price: $495
Sold in 2017
Naues a Gandauo submissae obuias Antwerpiensium naues fugant.
Striking and highly detailed rare copper engraved panoramic view of the siege of Antwerp, Belgium. In the middle we see the pontoon bridge by the Duke of Parma, Alessandr...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1590
Selling price: $130
Sold in 2016
Antwerpia
Siege of Antwerp and blockade of the river "Schelde" by the Duke of Parma, 1584-1585.Originally engraved by Frans Hogenberg. For this second edition the text un...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1596
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2020
Brugge (Brughes).
A fine bird's-eye view of the city of Venice. From his "Cosmographia, that great compendium of Renaissance knowledge. An exciting print.
Place & Date: Basle 1598
Selling price: $60
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ANVERS
Uncommon copper engraved plan of Antwerp, with the harbor, the fortifications, and the surrounding area. Latin text on verso. Shows the streets and city walls, plus fiel...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1600
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2012
Antverpia.
A spectacular bird's-eye view plan of Antwerp by Braun and Hogenberg after Georg Hoefnagel, with key to locations. From the famous Civitates Orbis Terrarum.COMMENTARY BY ...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca 1600
Selling price: $1080
Sold in 2020
Lovanium.
Striking early view of Louvain (Leuven), engraved by Jodocus (Josse or Joost) Vander Baren in 1610.Very rare. Jodocus (also Joost or Josse) Van der Baren was a painter wh...
Place & Date: Leuven, 1610
Selling price: $270
Sold in 2018
Oostende.
Handcolored copper engraving of the city of Oostende from Guicciardini's publication "Beschrijving van alle de Nederlanden", edited by Blaeu in 1612.Nice colori...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1612
Selling price: $160
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Mechelen.
From Ludovico Guicciardini.'s description of the Netherlands ' Beschrijvinghe van alle de Nederlanden anderssins ghenoemt Neder-Duytslandt ', published by Willem Blaeu.A ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, W.Blaeu, 1612
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2018
Temple D. Virginis Mariae vera delineatio.
From Ludovico Guicciardini.'s description of the Netherlands ' Beschrijvinghe van alle de Nederlanden anderssins ghenoemt Neder-Duytslandt ', published by Willem Blaeu.A ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, W.Blaeu, 1612
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2020
Domus Senatoria Antwerpiensis.
From Ludovico Guicciardini' s description of the Netherlands Beschrijvinghe van alle de Nederlanden anderssins ghenoemt Neder-Duytslandt , published by Willem Blaeu.A pri...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1612
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2016
Oostende.
From Ludovico Guicciardini.'s description of the Netherlands 'Beschrijvinghe van alle de Nederlanden anderssins ghenoemt Neder-Duytslandt', published by Willem Blaeu.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, W.Blaeu, 1612
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2019
Mons.
From Ludovico Guicciardini.'s description of the Netherlands ' Beschrijvinghe van alle de Nederlanden anderssins ghenoemt Neder-Duytslandt ', published by Willem Blaeu.A ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, W.Blaeu, 1612
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2020
Domus Senatoria Antwerpiensis.
From Ludovico Guicciardini.'s description of the Netherlands ' Beschrijvinghe van alle de Nederlanden anderssins ghenoemt Neder-Duytslandt ', published by Willem Blaeu.A ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, W.Blaeu, 1612
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2013
Domus Hansae Teutonicae / Sacri Romani Imperii.
Important print of the townhall in Antwerp, Belgium from Guicciardini's "Beschrijvinghe van Alle de Nederlanden", published by Blaeu in Amsterdam in 1612. Lod...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1612
Selling price: $130
Sold in 2013
Liege.
Decorative view of Liege with a title cartouche and a coat of arms. After the engraving of Braun and Hogenberg.From Ludovico Guicciardini.'s description of the Netherland...
Place & Date: Blaeu, Amsterdam, 1612
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2020
Temple D. virginis Mariae Vera Delineatio.
Copperplate engraved print showing the Virgin Maria Church in Antwerp. From Ludovico Guicciardini's description of the Netherlands, published by Blaeu. Lovely figural tit...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1613
Selling price: $75
Sold in 2014
Walcourt and Charlemont (2 prints)
Two fine city maps of Walcourt & Charlemont (Belgium) by L. Guicciardini, published by J. Janssonius in 1613. Lodovico Guicciardini (1521–1589), was an Italian wr...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1613
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2016
Antwerpia.
Scarce miniature birds-eye view of Antwerp. With numerous buildings and ships. From Willem Baudartius "Les Guerres De Nassau", published by Michel Colin Thovoyo...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1616
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2015
Ostend (Oostende), - Ostenda
A bird's-eye view plan of Ostend (Oostende) by Braun and Hogenberg. From the rare last volume ! of : Civitates Orbis Terrarum, ... Part 6: De Praecipuis, Totius Universi...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1617
Selling price: $420
Sold in 2022
MECHLINIA
Original copper-engraving MECHLINIA, by P. Kaerius (P. van den Keere), Amsterdam, here in the second state published by Claes Jansz. Visscher (1624). Originally published...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1617
Lier, Belgium
The plates from Georg Braun and Frans Hogenberg's landmark Civitates Orbis Terrarum are the most valuable source for the study of Renaissance urban topography, and among ...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1572-1618
Selling price: $105
Sold in 2010
Wie ist dass gluck so gar ungleich... . . Plate 63.
Execution by hanging ordered by Alva of the Provost Hans de Greef, alias Spell or Spelleken in Brussels, 11 February 1570. To the right Spell kisses one of his associates...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca. 1620
Selling price: $35
Sold in 2021
Marchionatus Sacri Romani Imperii.
A wonderfully decorative map showing in the middle of the image a town plan from Antwerp and in the lower part an inset with a panoramic view of the city and harbour of A...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1617- 1624
Marchionatus Sacri Romani Imperii.
Plan of the city of Antwerp in Belgium, by Claes Janszoon Visscher and first published by his son. The map is surrounded by 3 city views and 10 building vignettes and inc...
- $1750 / ≈ €1638
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1624
Anverpia, nobile in Brabantia oppidum, . . (Antwerp)
Very desirable and early town-plan of Antwerp.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1625
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2018