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DE JODE, Gerard; TRAMEZZINO, Michele (after);...

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DE JODE, Gerard; TRAMEZZINO, Michele (after); MERCATOR, Gerard (after) Exactissima Flandriae descriptio. Antwerp G. de Jode [1578] Engr. 36,7 x 49 cm, hand-colored (min. traces of central fold). Hinged at upper edge. Under passe-partout. Mercator's famous wall map from 1540, of which the only surviving copy hangs in the Museum Plantin-Moretus, here published in a smaller version by Gerard de Jode after the Rome edition by M. Tramezzino. Delicately hand-coloured copy of this rare first state with imprint, published in the 1578 "Speculum Orbis Terrarum" (leaf Nn, foliation XXXVI). Ref.Van der Krogt [3200:32.1]. - Karrow 56/6.12.