Attractive small map featuring Antwerp and its vicinity. It provides excellent detail for its scale, including numerous fortifications, polders, forests, roads and even windmills. The fascinating cartouche features a man holding a severed hand, with two handless men next to him, in allusion to the legend of Brabo, who rescued Antwerp from a giant who cut the hands off of sailors after they refused to pay him a toll on the river. Brabo defeated the giant, and then he flung the giant's severed hand intro the River Scheldt. There is a bronze fountain in Antwerp's Grote Markt commemorating this event.

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Condition: B+

Faint toning along fold, else very good with a very sharp impression.