Girolamo Ruscelli - Vincenzo Valgrisi

LN 0548

Western Europe > Flanders, Belgium, Holland, Westfalia

"Flandra, Brabantia, et Holanda Nuova"

Modern map of Western Europe with Flanders, Belgium, Holland, and parts of Westfalia.

Etching from a Geography of Ptolemy edited by Girolamo Ruscelli, printed and published by Vincenzo Valgrisi, Venice 1561, 19 x 25 cm.

€ 240,-

Maps by Italian mapmakers of the 16th century are worked out very fine and are famous for their elegant design. Remained copies are quite rare. Zögner, Imago Germaniae, p 14.

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