Lot #: 85032
L'effigie de la ville de Saleurre. . . [Solothurn] |
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Selling price: $120
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Description
A fine (woodcut) panoramic town-view of Solothum with the River Aar in the foreground. In lower right CS. There is no information available for the monogamist CS, however, he was probably German or Swiss, and active from 1540-1560. The first state of two, by Sebastian Muenster, ca 1550.
Solothurn is regarded as the finest Baroque town in Switzerland, where Italian grandeur is combined with French charm and German practicality. The so-called "ambassador's town" is at the southern end of the Jura by the River Aare, about 30 km east of Biel/Bienne.
Sebastian Munster (1489-1552) was one of the three most renowned cartographers of the sixteenth century, along with Mercator and Ortelius. Munster's 'Geographia' and 'Cosmographia Universalis' were two of the most widely read and influential books of the period. His editions of Ptolemy's 'Geographia', published between 1540 and 1552, were illustrated with 48 woodcut maps, the standard 27 Ptolemaic maps and supplemented by 21 new maps.
These new maps included a separate map of each of the known continents and marked the development of regional cartography in Central Europe. The antique geography was a prelude to Munster's major work, the 'Cosmographia', which was published in nearly 30 editions in six languages between 1544 and 1578 and then was revised and reissued by Sebastian Petri from 1588 to 1628.
The 'Cosmographia' was a geographical as well as historical and ethnographic description of the world. It contained the maps from the 'Geographia' plus additional regional maps and city views with originally nearly 500 illustrations [later expanded to over 1000] which made it one of the most popular pictorial encyclopedias of the sixteen century.
Solothurn is regarded as the finest Baroque town in Switzerland, where Italian grandeur is combined with French charm and German practicality. The so-called "ambassador's town" is at the southern end of the Jura by the River Aare, about 30 km east of Biel/Bienne.
Sebastian Munster (1489-1552) was one of the three most renowned cartographers of the sixteenth century, along with Mercator and Ortelius. Munster's 'Geographia' and 'Cosmographia Universalis' were two of the most widely read and influential books of the period. His editions of Ptolemy's 'Geographia', published between 1540 and 1552, were illustrated with 48 woodcut maps, the standard 27 Ptolemaic maps and supplemented by 21 new maps.
These new maps included a separate map of each of the known continents and marked the development of regional cartography in Central Europe. The antique geography was a prelude to Munster's major work, the 'Cosmographia', which was published in nearly 30 editions in six languages between 1544 and 1578 and then was revised and reissued by Sebastian Petri from 1588 to 1628.
The 'Cosmographia' was a geographical as well as historical and ethnographic description of the world. It contained the maps from the 'Geographia' plus additional regional maps and city views with originally nearly 500 illustrations [later expanded to over 1000] which made it one of the most popular pictorial encyclopedias of the sixteen century.
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