PRINTED MAPS AND EARLY BIRD'S-EYE VIEWS
QUAD, Matthias and Johann HOGENBERG. Germania. Cologne: Johann Bussemacher, 1595.
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QUAD, Matthias and Johann HOGENBERG. Germania. Cologne: Johann Bussemacher, 1595.
Engraved double-page map (400 x 525mm.). Circular map of Germany, extending from Jutland to Mantua, Lille to Presburg (Bratislava), filled with rivers, lakes and mountains with numerous place names of towns, set within a wide and elaborate strapwork border, incorporating the medallion portraits of Emperor Rudolph II and six electors, each with their accompanying arms, lower cornerpieces enclosing explanation and dedication to Canon Johann Wildner of Strassburg. (Slight and unobtrusive strengthening and repair on centre fold verso and at foot.) Provenance: Hauslab-Liechtenstein Collection.
apparently unique copy of this striking broadside map by one of the most important late-16th-Century German cartographers. Matthias Quad (1557-1613) was born in Deventer; he established himself as a geographer and engraver in Cologne in the early 1590's. His works include maps of Brunswick 1593, Europe 1592 and two other issues,as well as his Geographisch Handtbuch and Fasciculus geographicus, 1608. In most of his work he collaborated with his friend, the print dealer Johann Bussemacher of Cologne. Hogenberg, who was active in Cologne from 1594-1614, worked and designed the elaborate borders of this map. Thieme-Becker XVII, 308 (citing this copy); Benzing, "Der Kupferstecher, Kunstdrucker und Verleger Johann Bussemacher zu Köln," Festschrift für Rudolf Juchhoff, p.135 no 23.
Engraved double-page map (400 x 525mm.). Circular map of Germany, extending from Jutland to Mantua, Lille to Presburg (Bratislava), filled with rivers, lakes and mountains with numerous place names of towns, set within a wide and elaborate strapwork border, incorporating the medallion portraits of Emperor Rudolph II and six electors, each with their accompanying arms, lower cornerpieces enclosing explanation and dedication to Canon Johann Wildner of Strassburg. (Slight and unobtrusive strengthening and repair on centre fold verso and at foot.) Provenance: Hauslab-Liechtenstein Collection.
apparently unique copy of this striking broadside map by one of the most important late-16th-Century German cartographers. Matthias Quad (1557-1613) was born in Deventer; he established himself as a geographer and engraver in Cologne in the early 1590's. His works include maps of Brunswick 1593, Europe 1592 and two other issues,as well as his Geographisch Handtbuch and Fasciculus geographicus, 1608. In most of his work he collaborated with his friend, the print dealer Johann Bussemacher of Cologne. Hogenberg, who was active in Cologne from 1594-1614, worked and designed the elaborate borders of this map. Thieme-Becker XVII, 308 (citing this copy); Benzing, "Der Kupferstecher, Kunstdrucker und Verleger Johann Bussemacher zu Köln," Festschrift für Rudolf Juchhoff, p.135 no 23.