This masterful engraving served as the title page for the sixth part of Volume II of Daniel Meisner's emblem book. It features putti and eagles in a strapwork structure incorporating cannons and musical instruments. Meisner's work contained over 800 pictorial-poetic compositions and was enormously popular throughout Europe in the 17th century. The plan views were based on the work of De Bry, Braun & Hogenberg, Merian, and others, with the addition of emblematic figures or scenes in the foreground, juxtaposed with moralizing and edifying verses beneath the image and a Latin motto at top. It was originally issued with 52 plates as the Thesaurus Philo-politicus in 1623-24. After Meisner's death in 1625, publisher Eberhard Kieser, with assistance from Johann L. Gottfried and Kilian Liebolt, completed the work and published it until 1631. The title page is attached to 13 pages of text from the volume.

See also lot 734 for Geoffrey King's Miniature Antique Maps that describes this map.

References: King (3rd ed.) #1623.

Condition: B+

A dark impression on a lightly toned sheet with a few spots of foxing in the image. Light soiling and faint dampstaining is mostly confined to the margins.