PONTHIEU: Plastic card, from 'Itinerarium Orbis Christiani', 'Ponthieu comitatus.', with old border and surface coloring, around 1580, 14 x 19 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 Ponthieu along the Somme around Abbeville. Old colored copies of the IOC are very rare! Item number: 327718.
