Urbium Totius Germaniae Superioris Illustriorum Clariorumque Tabulae...

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Original antique old colored title page Original title page for Joan Janssonius's townbooks of Germany with decorative old colored woodcut vignette. The device hand colored features a flying Fama at top playing two trumpets; at center an armillary sphere on which sides are a farmer and a man looking at the sky with a Jacob's staff. A motto on a ribbon reads: 'VIVITUR INGENIO'. The book collected views of the cities from above. Date of print 1657, published in Amsterdam by Jan Janssonium.