Lovely small map of Upper Sachsen and Schlesien centered roughly on Meissen with place names, rivers and forests. From the Mercator Hondius “Atlas Minor” published in Amsterdam in 1648 at Jannsonius. In 1607 Jodocus Hondius published a reduced size version of Mercator’s “Atlas”, itself suitably titled “Atlas Minor”. The maps were copied from those of the great cartographer Mercator of around 1580-90 or were reductions of Hondius’ own maps of 1606.
- Author: MERCATOR Gerard - HONDIUS Henricus
- Year: 1648
- Dimension: 195 x 145 mm
- Place of publication: Amsterdam
A most decorative map of Prussia. It replaced the older map (v.d.Broecke, map 156) in the editions from 1595 on. It is based on the large woodcut map of Prussia by Caspar Henneberg of 1576. Van den Broecke: 157
- Author: ORTELIUS Abraham
- Year: 1603
- Dimension: 367 x 468 mm
- Place of publication: Antwerp
Very detailed and decorative map in two sheets of Rhine Valley from Coronelli’s Corso Geografico Universale published in Venice in 1690. Inset map of the entire River. Vincenzo Maria Coronelli is widely recognised as one of Italy?s most famous and greatest cartographers. He received an ecclesiastical education at the convent of the Minor Conventuals and also studied theology in Rome. However, his interests in geography and cartography were awoken early in his ecclesiastical career and never supp
- Author: CORONELLI Vincenzo Maria
- Year: 1690
- Dimension: 605 x 450 mm each
- Place of publication: Venice
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Color pictorial map, with decorative border and title cartouche over compass rose. Shows vignettes of landmarks and buildings, vessels and steam boats, rivers and mountains. Includes inset 8 vignettes showing allegories of science, transport, aeronautics, technics, art, architecture, sport and music. Published by Reichsbahnzentrale fur den Deutschen Reisenverkher in Berlin at Erasmusdruck, 1930.
- Author: Reichsbahnzentrale fur den Deutschen Reisenverkher
- Dimension: 58 x 42 cm
- Place of publication: Berlin
- Year: 1930