Description
Nice woodcut view of Straubing on front page and Landshut on back side on a full text sheet. The view of Straubing labelled Regensburg by mistake, copied from the first Braun and Hogenberg plate. From "Parvum Theatrum Urbium sive Urbium Praecipuarum totius orbis Brevis & Methodica Descriptio" by Adrianus Romanus printed 1608 in Frankfurt. First printed 1595 with the same woodcuts by Abraham Saur published by N. Basse.
Condition
Some overall browning, otherwise fine.
Cartographer
Abraham Saur, a German lawyer and historian, born 1545 in Frankenberg. He was author of several legal book, but also of the city book Theatrum Urbium. He died in 1593.
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Abraham Saur: Regenspurg / Landeshutsium.
Antique woodcut town view of Straubing / Landshut, Bavaria. Printed in Frankfurt by W. Richter in 1608.
Germany - Saur, Abraham - Regenspurg / Landeshutsium