AACHEN GERMANY 1588 GUICCIARDINI UNUSUAL ANTIQUE COPPER ENGRAVED CITY MAP

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AACHEN GERMANY 1588 GUICCIARDINI UNUSUAL ANTIQUE COPPER ENGRAVED CITY MAP
AACHEN GERMANY 1588 GUICCIARDINI UNUSUAL ANTIQUE COPPER ENGRAVED CITY MAP
Description
Aquisgranum Vulgo Aich Per antiqua Imperij urbs, monumento Caroli Magni, Thermar prestantia et Mem orablis.
Description:
Striking and highly detailed fine unusual copper engraved map featuring an aereal plan of the city of Aachen, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The view shown the city with his buildings, churches, town walls, canals and surrounding landscape. A block-style title cartouche, two Armorials and costumed traditional figures adorn the map.
Source:
Ludovico Guicciardini. Descrittione di tutti i Paesi Bassi, altrimenti detti Germania inferiore. Riveduta di nuovo, et ampliata per tutto la terza volta dal medesimo autore.
Plantin, Anversa, 1588.
Date:
1588 ( undated )
Dimension:
Paper size approx.:
cm 38,7 x 30,9
Condition:
Very strong and dark impression on good paper. Paper with chains and wiremarks. Map uncolored. Wide margins. Paper with foxing and browning. Tear to the top central side. Sheet folded. Conditions are as you can see in the images
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Mapmaker:
L
odovico Guicciardini (19 August 1521 – 22 March 1589) was an Italian writer and merchant from Florence who lived primarily in Antwerp from 1542 or earlier. He was the nephew of historian and diplomat Francesco Guicciardini. His best-known work, the “Descrittione di Lodovico Guicciardini patritio fiorentino di tutti i Paesi Bassi altrimenti detti Germania inferior” (1567, Description of the Low Countries), was an influential account of the history and the arts of the Low Countries, accompanied by city maps by various leading engravers. Guicciardini died in Antwerp in 1589; he was buried there in the Cathedral of Our Lady
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