"Ducatus Breslanus sive Wratislaviensis", Blaeu, Johannes

This superbly decorated map is centered on Wroclaw (Breslau) and includes the cities of Sroda Slaska, Olawa, and Namyslow. A drape-style cartouche at top dedicates the map to Bernhard Gulielmus Nusler. The map is further adorned with the arms of Wroclaw, a distance scale cartouche featuring a costumed couple and two men measuring with a Gunter's chain, and a title cartouche surrounded by fruit and various species of birds. Spanish text on verso, published between 1659-72.

References: Van der Krogt (Vol. II) #2940:2.

Condition: A

A sharp impression with superb, full contemporary color on a bright sheet with a large watermark of the god Atlas. There is minor soiling and some extraneous creasing along the centerfold, faint pencil marks at top right, and minor chipping along the bottom edge of the sheet.