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GERMANY -- OUERRADT, PETER (fl.c.1600-1630)
GERMANY -- OUERRADT, PETER (fl.c.1600-1630) Germania totius Europae Regnum. Cologne: 1598. Engraved map of Germany, 370 x 490mm. On thin paper, title set in a baroque cartouche at lower left, portrait of Emperor Augustus at upper left corner, allegorical scene of Germania at lower right, the map set in a "frame" border. (Creases along several folds, a few small tears, three small holes at fold joins). AN IMPORTANT AND RARE MAP OF GERMANY, listed by Tony Campbell in Imago Mundi vol 42 pp 120-132, as very rare; together with 9 uncoloured maps of Germany by Blaeu and Jansson including Jansson, Tractuum Borussiae ; Principatus Anhaldinus et Magdeburgensis ; Bohemia ; Marchionatus Moraviae ; and Blaeu, Ducatus Lunebrugensis ; Inferioris Saxoniae circulus ; Madgeburgensis Archipiscopatus ; Nova totius Gemaniae Descriptio ; Mecklenburg ducatus , all with full margins, deckle edges, and versos blank without text. (10)