1578 / 1593 - GERMANIAE TOTIUS NOSTRAE EUROPAE - Gerard De Jode - MAP OF GERMANY

GERMANIAE TOTIUS, NOSTRAE EUROPAE CELEBERRIMAE REGIONIS DESCRIPTO SINGULARIS - [GERMANY - EUROPE'S MOST FAMOUS REGION WITH DETAILED DESCRIPTION BY GERARD DE JODE. 1578/1593. FROM THE ATLAS - THE GLOBAL MIRROR OF THE EARTH] - MAP BY GERARD DE JODE, 1578/93, FROM ATLAS SPECULUM ORBIS TERRARUMBook Details + Condition: Original copper-engraved map of Germany by the famous cartographer, Gerard de Jode. We are unsure if this is from 1578 or 1593 (please see below). De Jode was a printer, publisher, cartographer and engraver in Antwerp, active during the same time as his rival A. Ortelius. His 'Speculum Orbis Terrarum' is a major World Atlas, and extremely rare today. It could not be published until 1578, eight years later than the Ortelius Atlas Theatrum Orbis Terrarum in 1570. His son Cornelius de Jode reissued the Atlas in 1593. The copper plates were sold to J.B. Vrients after the death of Cornelius, but no further publications were done. Compared to Ortelius or Mercator maps, only a smal