Descrizione

Silografia, dipinta a mano, mm 255x350 raffigurante una fascinosa carta geografica della penisola iberica. L'incisione è tratta dalla versione tedesca di "Cosmographia universalis", una delle prime descrizioni del mondo intero e la più importante opera geografica tedesca dopo la Cronaca di Norimberga del 1493. Buon esemplare con alcune tracce di sporco superficiale, piccolo difetti marginali.<BR>Woodcut, colored, mm 255x350, featuring the iberic peninsula. Some defects in margins and surface dirt.<BR>From a german edition of "Cosmographia universalis" one of the most important geographical description of the XVI century after the Nuremberg Chronicle. Printed for the first time in 1544 by Heinrich Petri, has been updated and increased for several times with new geographic maps and views of cities, it had numerous editions in different languages: latin, italian, french, english and czech. It passed trough 24 editions in about 80 years. This success was due to the notable woodcuts, some by Hans Holbein the younger, Urs Graf, Hans Rudolph Deutsch, and David Kandel<BR>