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Austria - Oesterreich Title: Austriae Ducatus Chorographia, Wolfgango Lazio Auctore. Cartographer: Ortelius, Abraham Published: Antwerpen, Date: 1588 Size: [34,1 x 46,8 cm] Technic: Copper engraving / Original colour. Description: Copper-engraving, handcolored in wash when published. Decorative and early map of Austria published in a 1588 in the first Spanish text edition of the 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum' by A. Ortelius. A highly decorative early map of the duchy of Austria, towns are still shown as miniature engraved city views, mountains, woods, rivers and lakes are decorative engraved. The map was engraved after the cartographic source by Wolfgang Lazius. In the lower right corner a milage scale with a coat of arms and a circle. In the center of the map we find Vienna. The map reaches in the west from Linz towards the Neusiedler lake in the east. In the south with the neighbouring Carintia and Salzburg. Notes: In excellent condition. Condition: Excellent Reference: Koe. Ort 23 / # 56 (27). Broe. 105 State 2/2. Price: /
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