FRIES SUPERB WOODBLOCK MAP OF THE RHINE HEIDLEBERG STRASBOURG FRANKFURT ETC 1525

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£650

THE RHINELAND AND ALSACE

Very attractive, early woodcut map of southwestern Germany depicting the Black Forest region and Rhine River valley along the German borders with France and Switzerland.

Cities marked include Strasbourg, Heidelburg and Frankfurt.

One of the earliest available maps of the region.

Second edition (of four) of this map based on Waldseemüller's modern map of Rheinland-Pfalz.

Recto is a map of Lorraine ( 33.5 x 23 cm. ) and . text contained within elaborate Renaissance woodcut panels which may have been designed by Albrecht Dürer, the known contributor to diagrams elsewhere in the atlas.

Excellent hand colour

Mint condition