Nederland, België - Duchy of Brabant; A. Ortelius - Brabantiae Descriptio - 1601-1620

Map of the Duchy of Brabant from Abraham Ortelius’s famous atlas ‘Theatrum Orbis Terrarum’, 1612.
Title in a cartouche at the upper centre, with three other cartouches: one containing an inset map of the area around Mechelen, one with a dedication, and one at the lower right with a scale bar.
Published in Antwerp by Christoffel Plantijn, Antwerp, 1612. After a map by Jacob van Deventer from 1536. Engravers included Frans Hogenberg, Joris Hoefnagel, and others.
Good condition, complete sheet measuring 39.5 × 50 cm, with generous margins; centre fold as issued; hand-coloured at the time; verso with a description of ‘Brabanmtia’ in Latin; trace of previous framing, with reinforcements on the verso along the centre fold.