A scarce 16th century woodcut prospect of Edinburgh

BELLEFOREST, François de.

Alexandrie Alesie Escossois, d'Edinbourg.
Paris: Michel Sonnius & Nicolas Chesneau, 1575. Woodcut, printed area 100 x 180mm, set in a larger page of text, overall size 370 x 240 mm. Some old red ruling.

A woodcut map of Edinburgh from the north, with a nine-point key of buildings. It was published in the ''Cosmographie Universelle', which contained the text of Munster's 'Cosmography' translated into French by Belleforest, and maps copied from sources including Ortelius and Braun & Hogenberg as well as Munster.


Stock ID : 21187