“Give me a map. Then let me see how much is left for me to conquer all the world.” Christopher Marlowe, ‘Tamburlaine’.

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Gelegenhait Teutscher lannd unnd aller anstos Das man mithilff

eins Compas gewislich wie einem ortt zu dem andern ziehenn mag [The location of all German and neighbouring countries, so that with the help of a compass one may with certainty travel from one place to another] [Title to border:] Romischer und Hyschpanischer Küniglicher Maiestat Künigreich und Lender Wappen [The Roman and Hispanic Royal Majesty's Kingdoms' and Countries' Coats-of-Arms].

SKU: 1837 Type:

ERLINGER, Georg
Bamberg,
Georg Erlinger of Augsburg,
1530
Woodcut map, printed in red and black, fine original hand colour, with a heraldic border detailing the possessions of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, a few old tears skilfully repaired.
720 by 550mm (28.25 by 21.75 inches).
1837

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The only known surviving example of Georg Erlinger's map of central Europe. The map is not only one of the earliest published to specifically aid travel through Europe, but also the first separately published map to celebrate Charles V coronation as Holy Roman Emperor, in 1530; with the additional lands, Charles became the ruler of the largest European empire since classical times; an empire on which, it was said at the time, the sun would never set.

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BL Cartographic Items Maps C.2.cc.6 for 1524 edition. Leo Bagrow and R.A. Skelton, History of Cartography (London: C.A. Wattis & Co. Ltd., 1964), pl.LXXX; Tony Campbell, The Earliest Printed Maps 1472-1500, (The British Library, 1987); Susan Dackerman, Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe, (Yale: New Haven and London, 2011), pp.318-320; F. Grenacher, 'The "Universae Germaniae Descriptio" Map of Jermone de Gourmont', Imago Mundi 14 (1959), p.55-63; A. Herman, Die altesten Karten Deutschlands bis Gerard Mercator, (Leipzig: Koehler, 1940); Herbert Kruger, 'Erhard Etzlaub's "Romweg" Map and Its Dating in the Holy Year of 1500', Imago Mundi 8 (1951), pp.17-26; Wilhelm Lang, 'The Augsburg Travel Guide of 1563 and the Erlinger Road Map of 1524', Imago Mundi 7 (1950), pp.84-88; David Woodward, The History of Cartography, Vol. III,(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007), pp.559, 565, 1195, 1597.