LA VILLE DE SOLEURRE (Solothurn). Original woodcut double-page map / town plan / bird's-eye view c1575, from Münster's Cosmographia.

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From section "De la Cosmographie - Universelle livre III" of one of the six French editions (the latest 1575). Folding leaf - pages 409-412 - with title "La Ville de Soleurre" etc in type of decreasing size on page 409, text with woodcut on page 412, and map with inset coat-of-arms within ruled border on inside-pages 410 & 411 headed by "L'effigie de la ville de Soleurre, pourtraicte au vif, selon qu'elle est auiourdhuy de nostre temps". Leaf 275x360mm when unfurled, map 230x305mm. All pages faintly toned; with a number of short tears and nicks confined to lower margins and lower parts of fore-edge margins, two of which with paper repairs applied at page 409, and three with paper repairs applied at page 412. Pages 411/412 damp-affected in form of small brightly-whitened patch up to 10mm wide along 33mm of fore-edge from just below upper corner, sharply divided from tan stain extending with diminishing effect further into these pages. The tan staining on page 411 just overlapping corner of map border, and final word of heading and page number above; otherwise both tan staining and whitening confined to fore-edge margin. The tan staining on page 412 (with narrower fore-edge margin) overlapping page number, up to first three words on first 10 lines of text, and corner of illustration below; the whitening confined to margin. Map in GOOD condition, overall condition reasonably good. N° de ref. del artículo 27120

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