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Author
Nicolosi, Giovanni Battista, 1610-1670
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Sheet 1 of 4 sheet map of Europe with inset maps of Italy and Germany.
Author
Blaeu, Willem Janszoon, 1571-1638
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2 maps on 1 sheet. Top is Rhenvs Fluviorum: 1 map : copperplate engraving, hand colour. Oriented with north at the right. Scale bars in the top left, below a row of putti holding the arms of the provinces and states lining the river from source to estuary: the lands of the Helvetii (mythical?), Alsace, the Palatinate, the Archbishoprics of Mainz, Trier and Cologne, the Duchy of Cleves, and the Dutch provinces of Gelderland, Utrecht, and Holland. Dedication to Andries Bicker (1586-1652) in the top right corner, in a cartouche surmounted with Bicker's arms. Accompanied by a personfication of (?) Justice at the left. Title in the bottom right, on a tablet next to a pool filled by multiple river gods, with the infant Bacchus above. Together with the identically-sized map of the Danube pasted immediately below, this sheet was engraved as a replacement for two maps published in the earliest German editions of Blaeu's new atlas (1634 and 1635), which were no more than revised extracts from his wall chart of Germany. Both substitutes were first printed in the Latin, French and Dutch editions of the altas published in 1635, and continued to appear in permutations of the atlas until the early 1670s. Bottome map is Danvbivs, Fluvius Europæ Maximus: 1 map : copperplate engraving, hand colour. Title in the top right corner, flanked by groups of oppsing figures: at the left Faith and Philip II, and at the right a Turk and Irreligion, who treads on a crucifix. Scale bars in the bottom left corner, below a group of (occasionally Michelangelesque) river gods. Together with the identically-sized map of the Rhine pasted immediately above, this sheet was engraved as a replacement for two maps published in the earliest German editions of Blaeu's new atlas (1634 and 1635), which were no more than revised extracts from his wall chart of Germany. Both substitutes were first printed in the Latin, French and Dutch editions of the altas published in 1635, and continued to appear in permutations of the atlas until the early 1670s.
Author
Hondius, Hendrik, 1597-1651
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1 map : copperplate engraving on 6 sheets, hand colour. Oriented with north at the top left. Inset map of Soest and its environs at the top of the map. Dedications to George William, Elector of Brandenburg (1595-1640) and Wolfgang Wilhelm, Count Palatine of Neuburg (1578-1653) in the top right corner, on a cartouche inset into a stele crowned with the combined arms of the Duchies of Jülich, Cleves and Berg. Below, at the foot of the structure, two putti support a compass. Scale bars at the bottom left, in a small cartouche which also contains Hondius' imprint. Map framed at the sides and bottom with a Dutch description of the three duchies, which also carries Hondius' imprint and the date 1636. As this map was published in Amsterdam the 'Henricus Hondius' responsible for this map must be Henricus II, and not his Hagenaar namesake.
Author
[Blaeu, Joan, 1596-1673, Mercator, Rumold, approximately 1545-1599, Blaeu, Willem Janszoon, 1571-1638, Visscher, Claes Jansz., 1586 or 1587-1652]
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1 map : copperplate engraving on 6 sheets, hand colour. Title above the map. Illustration of Neptune in the top left corner, accompanied by a (?) Dutch knight and two mermans blowing conch horns. Arms of the Holy Roman Empire in the bottom left, above Joan Blaeu's imprint. Three scale bars in the bottom left corner, next to a winged putto with a caliper. An additional scale bar is hidden at the very bottom of the map, to the right of the Adriatic Sea. Row of eight equestrian portraits along the top of the map, depicting the electors of the Empire, from left to right: Maxmilian Heinrich of Bavaria (1621-88), Archbishop-Elector of Cologne and Chancellor of the Empire in Italy; Johann Philipp von Schönborn (1605-73), Archbishop-Elector of Mainz and Chancellor of the Empire in Germany; Karl Kaspar von der Leyen (1618-76), Archbishop-Elector of Trier and Chancellor of the Empire in Burgundy; Leopold I (1640-1705), Holy Roman Emperor; Charles I Louis (1617-80), Elector Palatine; Ferdinand Maria (1636-79), Elector of Bavaria; Johann George II (1613-80), Elector of Saxony; Friedrich Wilhelm (1620-88), Elector of Brandenburg. Each portrait is printed on a separate sheet glued to the map, and the order in which the electors are presented here differs from other copies. Map flanked at the sides by two columns of ten small city prospects, which are engraved on two plates by Claes Jansz Visscher, often after designs by Braun and Hogenberg. The left column contains views of Prague, Speyer, Basel, Augsburg, Strasbourg, Brunswick, Heidelberg, Lübeck, Erfurt and Mainz, its pendant Frankfurt (Main), Nuremberg, Ulm, Vienna, Regensburg, Worms, Cologne, Leipzig, Trier and Hamburg. In other copies of the wall map this arrangment is reversed.
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