Wurzburg Germany, scarce early map of Belleforest 1575

Title: VVIRCEBOVG.

Description: Scarce early map of Würzburg, from De Belleforest's Cosmographie.
François de Belleforest (1530 -1583) was a French writer poet and translator from the Renaissance period
He wrote on cosmography, morals, literature and history, and he translated the works of Matteo Bandello, Boccaccio, Antonio de Guevara, Lodovico Guicciardini, Polydore Vergil, Saint Cyprian, Sebastian Münster, Achilles Tatius, Cicero and Demosthenes into French.

Origin: La Cosmographie Universelle de tout le Monde. Paris, Nicolas Chesneau - Michel Sonnius, 1575. (French edition of Münster's Cosmographia).

Size app.:
Sheet : 9.5 x 14.75 inches. 24 x 38 cm.
Image: 6.75 x 7.75 inches. 17 x 20 cm.
Condition: View very good, light browned paper, edges chipping, a few small losses at lower corners.

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