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Descrittione di m. Lodovico Gvicciardini, gentilhvomo fiorentino, di tvtti i paesi Bassi, altrimenti detti Germania inferiore : con tutte le carte di geographia del paese, & col ritratto al naturale di molte terre principali : riueduta di nuouo, & ampliata per tutto la terza volta dal medesimo autore : con amplissimo indice di tutte le cose piu memorabili

Guicciardini, Lodovico, 1521-1589, Bruyn, Abraham de, 1538 or 9-1587?, Broeck, Crispin van den, 1524-approximately 1591, Leest, Antoine van, ca. 1545-ca. 1592, Borcht, Petrus van der, 1545-1608 · 1588 · In Anversa : Apresso Christofano Plantino ... · 32 pictures

A 1588 Italian-language description of the Low Countries by Lodovico Guicciardini, printed by Christophe Plantin in Antwerp with plates by Abraham de Bruyn, Crispin van den Broeck and Antoine van Leest, written for an Italian-reading audience. The pictures are engraved town plans that run across the gutter, each showing a walled city's streets, canals, a heraldic cartouche and small figures of townspeople and boats, which a designer might use as references for early modern urban cartography and decorative map borders.

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