Map of Slavonia, Croatia, Istria...

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    Antwerp
    Augustin Hirschvogel, Abraham Ortelius
    1570
    Paper, engraving
    46.4 x 33.5 cm
    Scale: cca 1:700.000

    The map encompasses the same area as the map of Illyria by Sambucus. Hirschvogel uses poorer sources -Lazarus and Munster, resulting in an inferior cartographic depiction.

    Bought from Mirko Breyer in Zagreb in 1904.

    A. Pandzic, Stare karte i atlasi Povijesnog muzeja Hrvatske, Zagreb, 1987, page 61, catalogue number 5


    HPM/PMH-003823


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