Tractus Rhenanus multos olim Romanus... occupant Helvetij, olim Gall., nunc Alemani

Antique map of Switzerland. Printed in Antwerp by G. de Jode in 1578.

Reference 12613

Description

Rare antique regional map around the Lake Constance by Gerard de Jode. The map in southwest orientation shows southwestern Germany, the northern Switzerland and Vorarlberg, with the area between Ulm, Lake Thun, Bern, Basel and Offenburg. With Zurich and the Lake Constance in the centre. Top left a title cartouche, to the lower left a compass and mileage scale with the text line Gerardus de Jode excudebat Anno Do. 1569.

From the rare first edition of Gerard de Jode's atlas Speculum Orbis Terrarum, published in 1578. Identifiable by the pagination and sheet signature XXV-Bb on verso.

Details

Cartographer	Gerard de Jode
Title	Tractus Rhenanus multos olim Romanus... occupant Helvetij, olim Gall., nunc Alemani
Publisher, Year	G. de Jode, Antwerp, 1569 (1578)
Plate Size	34.1 x 46.0 cm (13.4 x 18.1 inches)
Sheet Size	39.2 x 54.2 cm (15.4 x 21.3 inches)
Reference	Van der Krogt, P.: Koeman's Atlantes Neerlandici, 1120:/1:32, 1st state; Karrow, R. W.: Mapmakers of the Sixteenth Century and their Maps, 79/8.4a; Stopp, K.: Die monumentalen Rheinlaufkarten aus der Blütezeit der Kartographie, No. 3

Condition

Excellent condition.

Cartographer

Gerard de Jode was a printer, publisher, cartographer and engraver in Antwerp, active the same time period as his business rival A. Ortelius. His main work Speculum Orbis Terrarum a major World Atlas, which is extremely rare today, could not be published until 1578, eight years later than the Ortelius Atlas Theatrum Orbis Terrarum in 1570. His son Cornelius de Jode reissued the Altas in 1593. The copper plates have been sold to J.B. Vrients after the death of Cornelius, but no further publication was done. Compared to Ortelius or Mercator maps, only a small number of copies have been printed and makes the maps of G. de Jode vary rare items today.

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Gerard de Jode: Tractus Rhenanus multos olim Romanus... occupant Helvetij, olim Gall., nunc Alemani.

Antique map of Switzerland. Printed in Antwerp by G. de Jode in 1578.

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