A rare broadsheet chronology of the kings of Spain

NEGGES, Johann Simon.

Chronologia Hispanica seu Regum Hispaniae Series...
Augsburg, c.1760. Engraving, sheet 695 x 445mm, including map with original hand colour. Mezzotint portrait, 325 x 220mm, pasted on as issued.

Trimmed to plate, edged with paper.

An educational broadsheet, featuring a map of Iberia, a prospect of Madrid and portrait of Charles III (1716-1788, king of Spain from 1759), flanked by lists of the kings of Spain from AD 416 to 1759, with the lengths of reigns in Roman numerals.From a very scarce series of broadsides about European states, each with a list of rulers, portrait, map and prospect.


Stock ID : 24389