Netherlands - Nijmegen; naar Braun & Hogenberg - Nimmegen / Novimagiu

City map of Nijmegen inside the city walls in a bird’s-eye perspective, with the buildings shown in elevation. Above the river with a few ships. Bottom-left, two figures in regional costume. Title 'Nimwegen' at the top between two coats of arms, and also in a cartouche with rococo scrollwork lower right: 'Novimagiu, sive Noviomagus vulgo Nijmmegen inclijta quondam Francorum Regia urbs Gelriae prima'. Bottom-right page number '19'. After Braun & Hogenberg, here from Ludovico Guicciardini, Descriptions of all the Netherlands, Amsterdam, Willem Jansz (=Blaeu), 1612; or: Cornille Nicolas, 'Description de Tous les Pays-Bas', Amsterdam, 1609. Good condition, full sheet 31.2 x 37.5 cm with full generous margins, center fold as issued, not colored, verso blank; very light moisture stain in the upper margins.

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