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Abcontrafeytung der Koeniglichen Stat Candij - Antique map

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Ceylon (Sri Lanka). "Abcontrafeytung der Koeniglichen Statt Candij, sampt den jenigen so sich alda mit dem Admiral Spielberger zugetragen" (title on verso). Orig. copper-engraving from T. de Bry's Grosse Reisen (German edition of Grand Voyages). Published in...

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de Bry, Theodore

Becker, Matthias

Frankfurt am Main

1605

Ceylon (Sri Lanka). "Abcontrafeytung der Koeniglichen Statt Candij, sampt den jenigen so sich alda mit dem Admiral Spielberger zugetragen" (title on verso). Orig. copper-engraving from T. de Bry's Grosse Reisen (German edition of Grand Voyages). Published in Frankfurt am Main by M. Becker, 1605. With many figures and animals. 27:35,5 cm (10 3/4 x 14 inch.).

A very decoratiev birds-eye-view of the city of Kandy (Central Province, Sri Lanka). - With a restored scratch in lower centerfold, ca. 5 cm affecting the picture.

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