Description de touts les Pays-Bas, autrement appellez la Germanie Inferieure, ou Basse Allemagne

Alternative Title:

La description des Pays-Bas and Descrittione di M. Lodovico Guicciardini patritio fiorentino, di tutti i Paesi Bassi

Description:

par Messire Loys Guicciardin Gentil-Homme Florentin ; maintenant reveü, & augmentée plus que de la moitié par le mesme autheur. French version of atlas. Relief shown pictorially. Includes indexes. Vellum binding. Gold-leafed decorative borders and seals on front and back covers and spine. First 2 and last 2 pages blank (included in page description). Engraved title page, head and tail-pieces throughout. Illustrations of significant buildings (e.g. "Domus Senatoria Vlissingensis"). Descriptive text accompanies maps and on some maps. Decorative borders, banners, cartouches, compass roses, rhumb lines, bar scales, tables of statistical information, coats of arms. Maps show topography, vegetation, waterways, shoals, routes. Illustrations of figures, flora, fauna, ships, sea monsters. Bird's eye views (including city plans): Maps 3-5, 7-12, 14, 16-24, 26-29, 31-47, 49-52, 54-58, 60-65, 67-69, 71-78, 80, 83, 84; views: Maps 6, 13, 59, 82, 85. Indexes on Maps 13, 18, 24, 32, 35, 36, 37, 41, 51, 60, 62, 64, 69. Latin, German, and Dutch on maps.

Creator:

Guicciardini, Lodovico, 1521-1589, Jansson, Jan, 1588-1664, Keere, Pieter van den, 1571-approximately 1646, Visscher, Claes Jansz., 1586 or 1587-1652, and Doetichum, Johan van (the younger), active 1592-1630

Publisher:

apud Ioannem Ianßonium,

Provider:

Stanford

Resource Class:

Maps

Date Issued:

1625

Spatial Coverage:

Europe, Netherlands, Artois (France), and Luxembourg

Rights:

Images from the The Renaissance Exploration Collection courtesy Stanford University Libraries. This item is in the public domain. There are no restrictions on use. If you have questions, please contact the David Rumsey Map Center at rumseymapcenter@stanford.edu.

Rights Holder:

This work has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights. You can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission.

License:

https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

Access Rights:

Public

Format:

JPEG2000

Georeferenced:

More details at:

https://purl.stanford.edu/jm903zy4287