Topographia Superioris Saxoniæ, Thüringiæ, Misniæ, Lusatiæ, etc : das ist, Beschreibung der vornen vnd bekantesten Stätt vnd Plätz in Churfürstenthum Sachsen, Thüringen, Meissen, Ober vnd Nider Laussnitz, vnd einverleibten Landen, auch in andern zu dem hochlöblichsten sächsischen Craisse gehörigen Fürstentumen (ausser Brandenburg vnd Pommeren) Graff: vnd Herrschafften, etc.

In Franckfurt : Herausgegeben vnd verlegt durch Matthæum Merian, MDCL [1650]

[4], 210, [14] p., [62] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill. (engravings), maps, plans ; 39 cm (fol.)

BAC: British Art Center copy bound in quarter leather and paste paper boards; edges untrimmed. Title label written in ms on spine. Similarly bound with the BAC copies of other titles in the Topographia Germaniae series (D917.Z45 T67+).

Collection of views and maps of Lower Saxony and Cologne. Part of the 21-volume set of townbooks known collectively as the Topographia Germaniae, published between 1642 and 1688. The text was provided by the German geographer, Martin Zeiller. With over 2000 plates, the series was the most extensive publication of its kind. Most of the plates were engraved by Matthäus Merian (1593-1650) and his sons Matthäus (1621-1687) and Caspar (1627-1686).

German

September 29, 2014

Schuchhard, C. Die Zeiller-Merianschen Topographien, 58A