The famous 'Leo Belgicus'

STRADA, Famiano.

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

Narrow margins.

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 the Jesuit Strada's history of the Belgian wars, first published 1632.


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