CONSTANTINOPLE CONSTANTINOPOLIS
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Full title Constantinopolitanae urbis effigies ad vivum expressa, quam Turcae Stampoldam vocant. A° MDCXXXV
Superb early panorama of Constantinople by Merian.
Highly decorative view of the city of Constantinople, with legend across the bottom. It is beautifully engraved with quaint scenes of everyday life, including hunters with their dogs in the near foreground. Across the Golden Horn the various palaces, mosques and principal buildings.
Slight reinforcement in left margin.
Uncoloured as issued.
Very good condition
RESERVED
code : P1744
Cartographer : BELLEFOREST François de Belleforest
Date : 1638 Frankfurt
Size : 23*69.5 cms
availability : Sold
Price : Sold
François de Belleforest was a French writer, translator and poet during the Renaissance. In 1568 he became historian of King Henry III, but had to give up soon because of inaccuracies. He worked as a writer and translator and transferred the Cosmography of Sebastian Munster into French. La Cosmographie universelle de tout le monde was published 1575 in Paris and was created in collaboration with the two Parisian publishers Nicolas Chesneau and Michel Sonnius. He has not used Sebastian Munster as sole source, several maps and views are based on Ortelius and Braun / Hogenberg, but also own work and unknown sources are found in the important work.
