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Hypra Flandriarum Civitas Munitissima, (Ypres, Belgium)

  • ARTIST: Willem Blaeu

  • MEDIUM: Copper plate engraving

    DATE: 1612.

  • EDITION SIZE: Image 9 x 12 1/8" (22.6 x 30.9) plus margins.

  • DESCRIPTION: Hypra, aka Ypres (leper), a town in the Belgian province of West Flanders. This map appeared in Lodovico Guicciardini's "Beschryvinghe van alle der Nederlanden". It is very similar to Braun and Hogenberg view that appeared in "Civitates Orbis Terrarum."

  • ADDITIONAL INFO:

  • CONDITION: Very good condition. B/W

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