Subject: Eastern Europe, Poland
Period: 1740 (circa)
Publication: Hedendaagsche Historie
Color: Hand Color
Size:
13.6 x 11.1 inches
34.5 x 28.2 cm
This is an Italian edition of Tirion's copper-engraved map of the Kingdom of Poland. The map extends from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea and gives excellent detail of boundary lines, topography, villages, and cities. Ukrania is noted just north of the Black Sea. It is embellished with a simple compass rose.
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Condition: B+
A crisp impression, issued folding, with two ink marks in the image at top center. A binding trim at left has been replaced with old paper and the adjacent 1/2" binding tear has been archivally repaired.