Lot 89: POLAND and RUSSIA -- GASTALDI, GIACOMO (c.1500-1566).

Il Desegno de Geographia Moderna Del Regno di Polonia, e parte Del Ducado di Moscovia. Venice: Giacomo Gastaldi, 1562. Engraved map of Poland and Eastern Europe, on two separate sheets, northern sheet 392 x 523mm, southern sheet 368 x 522mm, trimmed with original extended margins.

AN IMPORTANT AND RARE MAP OF OF POLAND AND EASTERN EUROPE; rarely appreciated as a two sheet map, showing the Baltic Sea and numerous northern lakes in the upper section, and the lower section prominently featuring Poland, the city of Cracow and the Wistula River basin. The geography of this map was largely derived from Gerhard Mercator's 1554 map of Europe. Paolo Forlani issued a subsequent edition in 1568. Karrow no, Niewodniczanski no.85, Ruge:1904-16 4:no.85, Tooley:1939 no.453, both sheets have a watermark that does not appear in Woodward:1996; the southern sheet has a watermark of a man with a pickaxe, the northern sheet has a watermark of a crossbow in a circle.
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