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GERMANY - LILY, GEORGE (fl.1528-1559).
Nove Germaniae description evm adiacentibus Italiae, Galliae, Britanniae, Poloniae, et Pannoniae partibus. Venice: Michele Tramezzino, 1553. Engraved map of Germany by Nicolas Beatrizet, 468 x 710mm, on a Royal sheet. (Some minor discolouration, a tear with minor loss to lower-right and creasing to right of map.)
An important and highly decorative map of Germany. It was made by George Lily, an English Catholic who was exiled to Rome, and is best known as the creator of the first separately-printed map of the British Isles. Geographically, it is directly derived from Giacomo Gastaldi's map of the region, printed in Venice in 1552, which it turn was based on the, now lost, map of Germany by Heinrich Zell, made in 1549/50. A visually engaging composition, it features the armorial crests of the dozens of entities that comprised the Holy Roman Empire and its neighbours. Karrow no.1, Tooley:1939 no.252, watermark similar to Woodward:1996 watermark 194.
Nove Germaniae description evm adiacentibus Italiae, Galliae, Britanniae, Poloniae, et Pannoniae partibus. Venice: Michele Tramezzino, 1553. Engraved map of Germany by Nicolas Beatrizet, 468 x 710mm, on a Royal sheet. (Some minor discolouration, a tear with minor loss to lower-right and creasing to right of map.)
An important and highly decorative map of Germany. It was made by George Lily, an English Catholic who was exiled to Rome, and is best known as the creator of the first separately-printed map of the British Isles. Geographically, it is directly derived from Giacomo Gastaldi's map of the region, printed in Venice in 1552, which it turn was based on the, now lost, map of Germany by Heinrich Zell, made in 1549/50. A visually engaging composition, it features the armorial crests of the dozens of entities that comprised the Holy Roman Empire and its neighbours. Karrow no.1, Tooley:1939 no.252, watermark similar to Woodward:1996 watermark 194.
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