LOW COUNTRIES -- "BELGIUM, Sive Inferior Germania post omnes in hac forma, exactissimè descripta auct. Abrahamo Goos". Amst., J. Janssonius, 1631. Plain engr. map of the 17 Provinces by A. Goos. 435 x 565 mm. Framed & glazed. (Fixed to (acid free) mount along (ample) margins; in very good condition). NOTE: Very elegant map, abundantly embellished with i.a.18 town views in the left, right and upper margin, coats of arms of the 17 Provinces in the lower margin, 6 'figures, a compass rose, 2 fine cartouches, etc. - Van der Heijden 85; Schilder VI, 54.3: "(…) based mostly on the 1608 map of the Seventeen Provinces by Willem Jansz [Blaeu]".

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