1969 Geographisch Handtbuch: Cologne 1600

Description

Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

Main body of the text is written in German, with some English sections of the introduction. Facsimile of the first German edition of this world atlas, now thought to have been published before the first Latin edition. Illustrated throughout. The first atlas produced by a German author, with maps mainly based on Ortelius with their own charm and delicacy of execution. Some are decorated with reigning monarchs, with six relating to America. Original maps drawn by Johan Bussemacher, a German engraver, publisher, printer, and art dealer based in Cologne. Written by Matthias Quad, an engraver and cartographer from Cologne who was the first European mapmaker to use dotted lines to indicate international borders. With an introduction by Wilhelm Bonacker, a German cartographer and map-historian.