Subject: Germany & Poland
Period: 1690 (circa)
Publication:
Color: Hand Color
Size:
23 x 19.7 inches
58.4 x 50 cm
A handsome and detailed map of the historical regions of Brandenburg and Pomerania, straddling the modern-day border between Germany and Poland. The map is fully engraved with towns, political boundaries, rivers, and forests. The map is embellished with a drape-style title cartouche floating in the clouds held aloft by putti, and a distance scale featuring bee hives and a field of wheat.
References:
Condition: B+
Contemporary outline color in the map with later color in the cartouches. There is light soiling and light toning mostly confined to the edges of the sheet. Short centerfold separations at top and bottom have been archivally repaired on verso. Trimmed to the neatline at bottom, as issued.