1 000 CZK
| 42 €
Lot 211
MAPS OF BOHEMIA AND MORAVIA
1628
coloured copper engraving, paper
21 x 27 cm (h x w)
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Pair of maps Bohemia and Moravia. Map of Bohemia. "Bohemia". Copperplate map of Bohemia, old flat coloured in gouache and watercolour. By Petrus Kaerius, actually Pieter van den Keere (1571-1646), Flemish cartographer, engraver, publisher and globe maker, active mainly in England and Holland. Verso Latin text on the subject of the map, included in the "Atlas minor" by G. Mercator and J. Hondius in 1628.
To this: Map of Moravia. "Moravia". See description above.
A pair of rare early maps of our territory still in the spirit of the Renaissance Ptolemaic concept, framed on both sides.