[ANTIQUE MAPS - GERMANY. ORTELIUS, ABRAHAM]

Thietmarsiae, Holsaticae Regionis Partis Typus. Auictore Petro Boeckel [with] Rugiae, Usedomiae, et Iulinae, Wandalicarum Insularum Vera Descriptio.
[Image of Dittmarschen, a part of Holstein, by Petrus Boeckel] [with] [A true image of Rügen and Iulinia, Islands of Wandalica. 1584].

(Antwerp). (Abraham Ortelius). (circa 1584). Stock ID #64215

Two engraved maps on laid paper each 30.3 x 19.5 cm printed on the one sheet 48 x 60 cm, original fold, attractive hand colour, with related French text on verso, slight toning and spotting to the margins, but the maps in very good condition, preserved in a modern window mount.

Attractive maps of the German coast published in Ortelius' great atlas "Theatrum Orbis...". The left-hand map showing the mouths of the Elbe (complete with sea monster) and Eider Rivers, and the coast of Schleswig-Holstein; the right-hand map of the Baltic coast, with the Pomeranian islands of Rugen and Usedom.        

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Price: $575.00 AU

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