Map of Saxony

Lot 1523 limit € 80

Partially colored copper engraving, Saxony in the year 1000, "Ducatus Saxoniae Superioris ut status ipsius antiquissimus suit per secula Xpriora ...", engraved by Friedrich Zollmann at Homann Erben in Nuremberg in 1732, large cartouche with battle scene and smashing of pagan gods on the bottom left, 6 coats of arms and Explanation of the text, shows the area from Duderstadt to Görlitz and from Frankfurt to Braemberg, mileage meter on the edge, signs of age (inter alia center fold, browned, slightly stained), mounted behind passe-partout, sheet approx. 52.5 x 64 cm, with passe-partout approx. 65 x 75 cm