Maestrich and the country west

Containers:
Oversize_Folder 5
Scope and content:

(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.

Subjects:
Holland--Maps

Access and use

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