Subject: Germany
Period: 1644 (published)
Publication: Novus Atlas
Color: Hand Color
Size:
19 x 14.7 inches
48.3 x 37.3 cm
Beautiful map of East Frisia and its important shipping center of Emden and the Watten Islands. An inset shows the region inundated by the great flood on Christmas Day, 1277. Finely adorned with cartouches, animals, Neptune, sea monsters, ships, surveyors, a compass rose and two elaborate coats of arms. Engraved by Hondius from the cartography of Ubbo Emmius, a local cartographer and historian (1547-1625). This plate was among those purchased by Bleau in 1629 after the death of Jodocus Hondius, and reissued with his imprint added to the right of the scale of miles.
References: Koeman Bl1-19.
Condition: A
Short fold separation, well away from map.
