Maps, East Prussia, Poland, Germany, Philipp Cluever
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East Prussia, Poland, Germany, Philipp Cluever
"Sueviae qui cis Codanum fuit finum antiqua descriptio"
Copper etching by Philipp Cluever (1580-1622)
Map of antique (Northern) Germany, falsely titled "Sveviae".
The area shown is North of the river Danube to the Baltic Sea and from rivers Lech, Main, Weser in the West to what used to be East Prussia (now Poland) and to the Vistula (and a little beyond) in the East.
The names of ancient German tribes are printed in.
Clüver published his work on classic geography "Introductio in Universam Geographicam"
in Amsterdam (1624-29).
This map is from the Clüver atlas published (post mortem) in Amsterdam, 1661
Copper etching with original borderline hand color.
12 x 12,5 cm (ca. 4.7 x 4.9")