BRANDENBURG GERMANY & POLAND 1600 QUAD UNUSUAL ANTIQUE COPPER ENGRAVED MAP.
BRANDENBURG GERMANY & POLAND 1600 QUAD UNUSUAL ANTIQUE COPPER ENGRAVED MAP
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Description
Marca Brandenburgensis & Pomerania.
Description: Striking and highly detailed unusual copper engraved regional map of Germany, by Matthias Quad. regional map of Germany. The map is centered on Brandberg and extending to Meckelberg, Pomerania, Alte Marcke, Crossen and Lusatiae. Shows the Baltic in the North and part of Poland in the Southeast . The map provides excellent topographic details on cities, towns, rivers, lakes, reliefs and forests. Beautifully embellished with a strapwork title cartouche, a portrait of John George, Elector of Brandenburg, and a strapwork mileage cartouche .
Date: 1600 ( undated )
Dimension: Paper size approx.: cm 36,4 x 27,6
Condition: Very strong and dark impression on good paper. Paper with chains. Map uncolored. Wide margins. Paper browned. Small waterstains. Small warming repaired. Small hole along right lateral margin. Minor loose at the the text inside the map, restored. Map washed and restored. Conditions are as you can see in the images .
Mapmaker: Matthias Quad (1557–1613) was an engraver and cartographer from Cologne.
Matthias Quad was born and learnt engraving in the Netherlands. An engraver in wood and stone, Quad collaborated with the Cologine publisher Johann Bussemacher to publish a quarto atlas of Europe in 1592. This was expanded into a Geographisches Handtbuch (1599), with more text than maps, and then into a proper atlas, Fasciculus Geographicus (1608).
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