Lot 54: FLANDERS - LAFRERI SCHOOL.

Galliae Belgichae. Rome, 1558. Engraved map of Flanders, 349 x 502mm, trimmed with original extended margins. (Some light discolouration to upper-centre of map.) Tooley:1939 no.131, watermark of a tree in circle surmounted by six-pointed star, not in Woodward:1996.
LIGORIO, PIRRO (c.1513/4-1583).
Descriptio Totius Galliae Belgicae. Rome: Michele Tramezzino, 1558. Engraved map of Flanders engraved by Sebastiano di Ré, 378 x 489mm, trimmed with original extended margins (Some light discolouration to upper-centre of map.) Karrow 12/22.2, Tooley:1939 no.132, Woodward:1996 watermark 290.

Two scarce and important maps of Flanders. The first and anonymous map of the region is directly derived form Gilles Boileau de Buillon's map of Flanders, with north and south reversed, which was printed the year before. Listed in Ortelius' Catalogus auctorum, Boileau's map was published in Antwerp by Johannes Liefrinck, and is thought to have originally been intended to illustrate a book on Caesar's Gallic Wars; today it survives in only one copy (Karrow pp.86&87).
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