Urbium Totius Germaniae Superioris Illustriorum Clariorumque Tabulae...
Product information: Urbium Totius Germaniae Superioris Illustriorum Clariorumque Tabulae...
Original antique old colored title page Original title page for Joan Janssonius's townbooks of Germany with decorative old colored woodcut vignette. The device hand colored features a flying Fama at top playing two trumpets; at center an armillary sphere on which sides are a farmer and a man looking at the sky with a Jacob's staff. A motto on a ribbon reads: 'VIVITUR INGENIO'. The book collected views of the cities from above. Date of print 1657, published in Amsterdam by Jan Janssonium.
Properties
| Category: | title pag for J. Jansson's townbooks |
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| Issue date: | 1657 |
| Published place: | Amsterdam |
| Publisher: | Joan Janssonius |
| Technique: | Copper engraving / hand colored. |
| Type: | map |