Quad’s rare map of the Danubian Lands

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Celeberrimi Tractus Danubiani pars Praecipua ab Austrie Vienna

Constantinopolim usque se Protendens Ungariam Transilvaniamqs Complectens.

SKU: 10751 Type:

QUAD, Matthias
Cologne,
Peter Overradt,
1596
Engraved map on three sheets, joined.
480 by 1150mm (19 by 45.25 inches).
10751

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Rare separately published map of the Danubian Lands.
The map stretches from Vienna in the west to Constantinople in the east, and charts the course of the Danube from Vienna to the Black Sea. A key to the map shows Ottoman towns marked with a crescent, baths marked by a wooden tub, Weinland marked by an arrow, and Nosnerland marked by a star. There are numerous battle scenes along the banks of the Danube, including the Battle of Varna in 1444. A triumphant inscription...

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bibliography:

Peter Meurer, "The Cologne Map Publisher Peter Overadt", Imago Mundi 53 (2001): 28-45.