Valk’s Map of the Lower Danube
SKU: 7326
£500.00
Title:
Valk’s Map of the Lower Danube
Date of publication:
c.1700
Printed Measurement:
49 x 59 cm
Colour:
original
Mapmaker(s):
Bulgaria et Romania: divisa in singulares sangiacatus Silistriam, Nicopolin, Bodinum, Sardiam, Bysantium, Kirkeliam et Gallipolin, una cum finitimis regionibus Valachia, Servia etc.
Copper engraving, 49 x 59 cm, original hand-colour, blank verso. A map of the Lower Danube region on the western shore of the Black Sea, covering parts of modern Turkey and Bulgaria; Romania is here used in its earlier form, referring to the hinterland of Constantinople, the new Rome.