Maestrich and the country west, 1699

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Identifier: id189690

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Scope and Contents

(Wright Belgium/Holland Map No. 15)

Leodiensis Episcopatus Pars Septentrionalis, comprehendens Comitatum Lossensem et Hornanum

[Liege Bishopric of the Northern Hemisphere, which includes the Cape County Lossensem]

The Limburg region of Southeastern Netherlands and northern Belgium.

Relief shown pictorially. Roads shown. Legend of symbols representing cities, villages castles and water mills shown.

Nikolas Visscher II, Amsterdam - geographer

Peter Schenk the Younger, Amsterdam - publisher

copper engraving, hand-colored, canvas backed folding map of 4 sheets

50 cm x 51 cm

1 : 133,000

Map appears in Vissher's atlas titled : Atlas maior sive collectio mapparum variis autoribus. 1677.

Dates

Creation: 1699

Creator

From the Collection: Wright, John Womack, 1876-1953 (Collector, Person)
From the Collection: Blaeu, Willem Janszoon, 1571-1638 (Cartographer, Person)
From the Collection: Homann, Johann Baptist, 1663-1724 (Cartographer, Person)
From the Collection: L'Isle, Guillaume de, 1675-1726 (Cartographer, Person)
From the Collection: Lotter, Tobias Conrad, 1717-1777 (Cartographer, Person)
From the Collection: Saint Helene, Placide de (Cartographer, Person)
From the Collection: Senex, John, d. 1740 (Cartographer, Person)
From the Collection: Seutter, Matthaeus, 1678-1756 (Cartographer, Person)
From the Collection: Visscher, Nicolaes, 1649-1702 (Cartographer, Person)

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