The famous 'Leo Belgicus'

STRADA, Famiano.

Nova XVII. Inferioris Germaniae Provinciarum.
Antwerp, c.1648. Coloured. 180 x 135mm.

Folds flattened, repair to bottom left margin.

The famous map of the Netherlands depicted as a 'Leo Belgicus'. The lion faces right, with the title on a shield held upright by the lion's right paw. It appeared as the engraved titlepage of a Latin edition of the Jesuit Famiano Strada's history of the Eighty Years' War (in which the Seventeen Provinces fought for independence from Spain), first published 1632.


Stock ID : 20919