Low Countries] - GUICCIARDINI, Lodovico - Niderlands Beschreibung in welcher aller darinn begriffnen Landtschafften, Fürstenthumben, Graueschafften, Herzschafften, Bisthumben, Abteyen, Stetten (...). Mit Geographischen Tafeln, Stetten und andern Figuren (...). Basel, Sebastian Henricpetri, 1580, folio, mod. calf "à l'antique"(sl. rubbed), spine on 4 raised bands, [24]-cccxxxv-[2] pp. (wormtrack in inner margin of title, inner margin title underlaid, foxing throughout, dampstaining, maps trimmed to plate border, some tears, large tear near inner margin 1st "Rhein" map). Acceptable copy.
Rare 1st German ed. by Daniel Federman von Memmingen of the famous description of the Low Countries. Woodcuts : 4 double-page maps (Low Countries & 3 maps of the Rhine), each with a separate title on recto within a different woodcut historiated border, 20 maps, cityplans or city-views in text (i.a. Brabant, Louvain, Antwerp, 's Hertogenbosch, Malines, Groningen, Haarlem, Bruges, Arras, Mons, Liege, etc.) and 84 ills in text showing portraits, views, ships, coats-of-arms, battle-scenes etc. Henricpetri used for this ed. some woodblocks already used for Sebastian Münster's "Cosmographei" (Basel 1550 and later). Title in red & black. Woodcut printer's mark on last p. Ownership entry "Sum Johannis Gmünderi Herisoviani . Anno 1610". Ref. Guicc. Illustr. 4, pp. 32-33.
Low Countries] - GUICCIARDINI, Lodovico - Niderlands Beschreibung in welcher aller darinn begriffnen Landtschafften, Fürstenthumben, Graueschafften, Herzschafften, Bisthumben, Abteyen, Stetten (...). Mit Geographischen Tafeln, Stetten und andern Figuren (...). Basel, Sebastian Henricpetri, 1580, folio, mod. calf "à l'antique"(sl. rubbed), spine on 4 raised bands, [24]-cccxxxv-[2] pp. (wormtrack in inner margin of title, inner margin title underlaid, foxing throughout, dampstaining, maps trimmed to plate border, some tears, large tear near inner margin 1st "Rhein" map). Acceptable copy.
Rare 1st German ed. by Daniel Federman von Memmingen of the famous description of the Low Countries. Woodcuts : 4 double-page maps (Low Countries & 3 maps of the Rhine), each with a separate title on recto within a different woodcut historiated border, 20 maps, cityplans or city-views in text (i.a. Brabant, Louvain, Antwerp, 's Hertogenbosch, Malines, Groningen, Haarlem, Bruges, Arras, Mons, Liege, etc.) and 84 ills in text showing portraits, views, ships, coats-of-arms, battle-scenes etc. Henricpetri used for this ed. some woodblocks already used for Sebastian Münster's "Cosmographei" (Basel 1550 and later). Title in red & black. Woodcut printer's mark on last p. Ownership entry "Sum Johannis Gmünderi Herisoviani . Anno 1610". Ref. Guicc. Illustr. 4, pp. 32-33.
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