Bairische Landtafeln XXIIII darinnen das hochlöblich Fürstenthumb Obern unnd Nidern Bayrn sambt der Obern Pfaltz Ertz unnd Stifft Saltzburg Eichstet unnd andern mehrern anstossenden Herschafften /
Apianus, Philippus,1531-1589.
Amman, Jost,1539-1591.
Bartholomew, John,1890-1962.
Absol. et excusa Ingolst[adt] : [s.n.],
Anno sal. 1568.
Relief shown pictorially.
Dedication and notes in Latin: some notes and placenames in German; river names in both Latin and German.
Manuscript title page and lists of places (divided into the same categories as depicted by Apianus) on each sheet in contemporary Germanic hand.
Further MS. notes on verso of t.p. in later hand
Although issued in 24 sheets the map was designed to be mounted to form one map approximately five feet square; it has a continous decorative border.
Wants plates 1-4, t.p. and index map.
Reduced woodcut map based on the survey by Apianus between 1554 and 1561: a larger version was completed in 1563 but was too costly to publish.
This map of Bavaria was among the first produced using triangulation techniques of surveying.
Each sheet numbered in top left corner.
Plate 22 has initials I.A.G.Z. indicating Jost Amman Gardierer von Zurich who cut the decorations and border.
With: MS. notes in the hand of John Bartholomew, including a sketch map showing the division of the area into the 24 sheets.
Harvey, P.D.A., The history of topographical maps: symbols, pictures and surveys.
Strauss, Gerald, Sixteenth-century Germany: its topography and topographers.
John Bartholomew Collection.
Germany Ingolstadt