SECOND AND FINAL PRICE DROP! Beautiful fifty year old Czech lithographic offset reprint on quality paper of a sixteenth century map depicting Europe as Queen Margaret of Spain. Reproduced from A Map of Europe by Bohemian cartographer Daniel Adam. Rare!

Frame alone is worth three times the asking price.

550 x 800mm framed. Top quality reproduction of 1610 original by the Odeon Art and Literature publishing house of Prague in 1975 .

Map’s name, author and original date of publication are discretely detailed in small print in the bottom left hand corner in several languages (including Russian - Prague was part of the Soviet Union in 1975). Details of the Czech publishing house and printing technique are detailed on the right.

Professionally mounted in a matching as-new black quality frame measuring 550 x 800mm.

Queen Margaret of Spain was also the Hapsburg Queen of Austria, which is perhaps why Daniel Adam featured her in his map. Adam was based in Veleslavin, a district in the Bohemia capital of Prague.

He was a Czech translator, publisher and writer born in 1546. Adam studied at the University of Prague and was a professor there from 1569 to 1576. He was forced to leave the university when he married the daughter of the publisher Jiri Melantrich of Aventino. At that time, professors were required to maintain celibacy.

Adam began working at the Melantrich family printing business, eventually taking over its operations. He and his collaborators translated and published maps alongside many historical, religious, and scientific books.

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Collection only- this is too delicate to pack and ship - from North Dublin, ten minutes from
the Airport.

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