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Murer Map of Zurich

MURER, Jos (1530-1580). Eigentliche Verzeichnuss der Stätten, Graffschafften, und Herrschafften, welche in der Statt Zürich Gebiet und Landschafft gehörig seind. Zürich: Bodmerscher Buchladen, 1670. 16 sheets, joined (42 x 49 4/8 inches), float-mounted and framed. A magnificent woodcut pictorial wall-map of the Canton/State of Zurich, centred on Zurich, the map itself in six sheets, surrounded by broad border depicting wind-heads/skulls and giving the compass directions, the title and the original date of the map appear within a banner lower right. Showing the area around Zurich, the actual Canton marked by a dotted line, in great detail, with Lake Geneva occupying a large portion of the lower right, mountains, other lakes, towns and villages all shown pictorially. The title upper left, the dedication to Otto von Friezinger upper right, a history of the state of Zurich lower left and the ancient history of the area within a superb mannerist strapwork cartouche lower right (margins torn with minor loss in one or two places) Third edition, according to Arthur Durst, first printed in 1566 (no extant copies known), then in 1568 by the nephew of the celebrated printer Christoffel Froschauer, Christoffel Froschauer the younger. Subsequent editions were published in 1700, 1759, 1765, and in the 19th and 20th-centuries. The early editions are very rare: OCLC locates on 3 examples of this 1670 edition in libraries, and those are all in Switzerland.