The Great Fire

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Platt Grondt der Stadt London.

DOORNICK, Marcus Willemz
Amsterdam,
Marcus Willemsz Doornick Boekverkoper op den Vygendam,
1666
Broadsheet engraved plan, letterpress text in Dutch, French, and English below, minor loss to imprint.
530 by 555mm (20.75 by 21.75 inches).
1497

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The map was published in Amsterdam in the year of the Great Fire of London, and shows the devastation it wrought. Below the map is an accompanying text in Dutch, French, and English. The text gives a detailed account of the blaze, from its inception in a "Bakers howse in Pudding Lane" (marked with an 'A' on the plan), on Sunday morning of the 12th of September, to when it was "wholy extinguished and quenched on Thursday by reason of diverse Howses were blown up by powder, s...

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Howgego 17 (1).