VLISSINGEN NETHERLANDS 1581 GUICCIARDINI UNUSUAL ANTIQUE COPPER ENGRAVED VIEW ANTIQUE COPPER ENGRAVED CITY VIEW OF VLISSIBGEN 1581 Condition: --not specified Ended:Jul 09, 2022 , 7:03AM Winning bid: US $76.99 VLISSINGEN NETHERLANDS 1581 GUICCIARDINI UNUSUAL ANTIQUE COPPER ENGRAVED VIEW Description Vlissinghe Dlant van Walcheren. Description: Striking and highly detailed fine unusual copper engraved plate including an aerial plan of the city of Vissingen, Netherlands. The plan shows the city with his buildings, churches, streets, harbor, towns wall as well as surrounding landscape. A simple title, an armorial and several sailing ships adorn the plate. The plate originates from the 1613 edition of 'Discrittione di tutti i Paesi Bassi', by L. Guicciardini. Date: 1581 ( undated ) Dimension: Paper size approx.: cm 29,9 x 19,2 Condition: Very strong and dark impression on good paper. Paper with chains. Plate uncolored. Wide margins. Corners partially missing. Paper with foxing and browning. Small marginal tears. Sheet folded. Conditions are as you can see in the images. Mapmaker: Lodovico Guicciardini (19 August 1521 – 22 March 1589) was an Italian writer and merchant from Florence who lived primarily in Antwerp from 1542 or earlier. He was the nephew of historian and diplomat Francesco Guicciardini. His best-known work, the “Descrittione di Lodovico Guicciardini patritio fiorentino di tutti i Paesi Bassi altrimenti detti Germania inferior” (1567, Description of the Low Countries), was an influential account of the history and the arts of the Low Countries, accompanied by city maps by various leading engravers. Guicciardini died in Antwerp in 1589; he was buried there in the Cathedral of Our Lady.