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| Cartograph: |
Petrus Bertius (*1565 - †1629) |
| Title: |
Zurich |
| Publisher/ Year: |
Amsterdam, J. Janssonius, 1616 |
| Sheet Size: |
18.0 x 23.0 cm (7.1 x 9.1 inches) |
| Plate Size: |
13.5 x 18.5 cm (5.3 x 7.3 inches) |
| Early cooper engraved view of Zurich in Switzerland from P. Bertius' "Commentariorum Rerum Germanicarum" printed 1616 in Amsterdam. Latin text on verso. |
| Excellent conditions. |
About the Cartograph/ Printer: Petrus Bertius (Bert) was a Flemish theologian, historian, geographer and cartographer grown up in Beveren (Flanders). In 1593 he became a librarian and professor of mathematics at the University of Leyden. His main cartographic works are a miniature world atlas of 1600, a pocket atlas dedicated to the architecture, the maps and the views of towns of the German Empire of 1616 (26 engraved maps and 101 town views) and a version of Ptolemy's Geographia containing 28 maps engraved by Mercator for his 1578 edition and 14 maps of Ortelius' Parergon.
1600: Tabularum Geographicarum Contractarum
1616: Commentariorum Rerum Germanicarum libri tres waarin o.a. opgenomen de Tabula Peutingeriana
1618: Theatri Geographiae Veteris |
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