Hereditas Antikvárium

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16. Könyvárverés

Amsterdam, 1631.
Copper-engraved map of the Archduchy of Austria by Cornelis Danckerts (the elder). The sheet is almost identical to the work of the same title by Henricus Hondius and Joan Blaeu, yet different printing plates were used for all three, which were based on the regional depictions of Wolfgang Lazius. The copies can be identified by the cartouche decorated with an armillary sphere in the lower left corner of the engraving, in which the publisher’s name can be read. In addition, the upper part of the cartouche of the title field is less decorated than Danckerts’, and its name design is also somewhat different from the aforementioned ones. The centre of the map field is occupied transversely by the Danube, and the two-part cartouche at the bottom – decorated with the combined coat of arms of Lower and Upper Austria and the archducal crown above it – contains a legend in one part and the linear scale in the other. The engraver highlighted the capital, Vienna, with a small plan, and illustrated his work with seven additional coats of arms denoting the provinces (Upper Austria and the aforementioned combined version next to Vienna) and the surrounding countries (the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Styria, and Bavaria). Our piece is an early copy with a blank verso, sold either as a separate sheet or part of a composite atlas.
Dimensions: 355 x 525 (400 x 540) mm. The left edge of the sheet is cropped to the borderline – otherwise it is a clear, strong print.
van der Krogt II.: 2710:2.2.