ARTOIS: Plastic card, from 'Itinerarium Orbis Christiani', 'Artesia', with old border and surface coloring, around 1580, 13.5 x 18 Schuler: 'The oldest travel atlas in the world' with illustration. Meurer, Atlantes Coloniensis, p. 116 ff. Regarding the authorship of the maps from the 'Itinerarium...', Meurer (p. 125) comes to the conclusion: 'Ultimately this question must remain open'. Here present without text on the back in the 1st. Condition before the numbering on the right side. Edge. Shows the historic northern French county of Artois. Old colored copies of the IOC are very rare! Quite narrow in the upper right corner, entire sheet doubled. Item number: 327720.
