Ware Contrafehtung der Reichstatt Landau, wie sie zu unseren zeiten in der Mauren steht.

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Woodcut map, uncolored as published in the,Cosmographia' by Sebastian Münster in Basel, German text edition 1578. Decorative bird's eye panoramic city view of Landau in the,Rheinpfalz'. This view of Landau is one of the earliest views of Landau in the 16th century published in the, Cosmographia' by Sebastian Münster. Landau in the Rheinland-Pfalz is depicted here with rural landscape in the foreground. The woodcut shows here the city of Landau with its surrounding city walls. Churches, towers and buildings are detailed shown and fine engraved. Dekoratives Stadtpanorama von Landau in der Rheinpfalz aus der Vogelperspektive. Diese Ansicht von Landau ist eine der frühesten Ansichten von Landau im 16. Jahrhundert, die in der Cosmographia von Sebastian Münster veröffentlicht wurde. Landau in der Rheinland-Pfalz ist hier mit ländlicher Landschaft im Vordergrund dargestellt. Der Holzschnitt zeigt die Stadt Landau mit der umgebenden Stadtmauer. Kirchen, Türme und Gebäude sind detailliert dargestellt und fein graviert. This fine antique map was was published 1578 in a German text edition of Sebastian Münster's,Cosmographia', the first detailed scientific and popular description of the world in Sebastian Münster's native language as well as a supreme effort of geographical study and literature of the Reformation period. One of the most popular treatises of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the Cosmographia reached a total of forty-six editions in six languages by 1650 each incorporating additions and revisions. Sebastian Münster was a professor of Hebrew at Basel university and a most distinguished Hebraist linguist mathematician and geographer. This encyclopedic work was his major undertaking. In its completion, which occupied him for fifteen years, Münster received the assistance of more than one hundred and twenty collaborators, who provided him with the most up-to-date information relating to the towns and places described. The scientifically most valuable sections are those which deal with Germany and Central Europe. Tadelloses Exemplar in ausgezeichnetem Erhaltungszustand.

Die Statt Landau Nach Ihrem lager gebildet, wie sie...