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Austria - Oesterreich Title: Austriae Ducatus Chorographia, Wolfgango Lazio Auctore. Cartographer: Ortelius, Abraham. Published: Antwerpen, Platin Date: 1574 Size: [34 x 67 cm] Technic: Copper engraving / Original colour. Description: Copper-engraving, handcolored in wash when published. Decorative and early map of Austria published in a 1574 Latin 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. This is the first state of two, before the horizontal hatching in the Neusiedler See and Ebensee. 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 very good condition. Minor skillfully mendings of very small pin wholes verso at the centre-fold. A small printer's crease at the right side. Condition: VG Reference: Koe. Ort 1C / 27. Broe. 105. 1 of 1 Price: /
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