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Lindau Lake Constance Swabia Woodcut Munster 1570
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Lindau on Lake Constance Germany old woodcut Seb. Munster 1570

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Die Statt Lindau am Bodensee auff einer freyen Inseln gelegen gerings umb mit Wasser umbgeben.

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Lindau on Lake Constance Germany old woodcut Seb. Munster  1570

Titel: Lindow.
Die Statt Lindau am Bodensee auff einer freyen Inseln gelegen gerings umb mit Wasser umbgeben.

Description: Lindau on Lake Constance Germany.
Old woodcut print in hand coloring.
The city, formerly was a free imperial city (until 1806), located on the eastern shore of Lake Constance in the border triangle of Germany-Austria-Switzerland.

Sebastian Munster (1488-1552)
Is one of the most important and famous mapmakers of the mid-sixteenth century, and published two books, an edition of Ptolemy's Geographia, in 1540, with 48 double-page woodcut maps, and his Cosmographia, published in 1544, which contained upwards of five hundred woodcuts, including 24 double-page maps.

The Cosmographia was published in 46 editions.

In German between 1544 and 1628, in Latin between 1550 and 1559, in Italian in 1558 and in French in 1575.

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Size:
Size sheet app.: 39 x 29 cm. 15.5 x 11.5 inches.
Image app. : 36 x 27 cm. 14.25 x 10.75 inches.
Condition : Overall very good, short borders, fold as published