Jan Amos Komenský (1592-1670)

Matthäus Merian (1593-1650)

MAPS OF MORAVIA AND BOHEMIA

1650
Pair of copperplate engravings on laid paper. I. Moravia marchionatvs Auctore I. A. Comenio: 26.8x34.8 cm (40.5x50.5 cm). Title cartouche with heraldic depiction in the upper left corner. With scale and geographical coordinates. Based on J. A. Comenius’s map of Moravia, published by Matthäus Merian in 1650 as part of the extensive work Topographia Bohemiae, Moraviae et Silesiae. Mounted, framed, glazed. II. Map of Bohemia: 27.2x35.5 cm (31.5x41.5 cm). From Merian’s series Topographia Bohemiae, Moraviae et Silesiae (Frankfurt/M. 1650). Framed, glazed. Minor stains within and outside the image area, upper left corner bent.