[ŚLĄSK]. Schlesia nach aller gelegenheit in Stetten, Wässern und Bergen mit sampt andern anstossenden Ländern. Woodcut colored form. 30.7x36.5 on ark. 35.4x44 cm.
Map of Silesia taken from the German version of Sebastian Münster's "Cosmography" from the turn of the 16th/17th century. "Central Catalog of Cartographic Collections" notes the presence of a map under the same title in editions: 1598, 1614 and 1628 (CKZK II 31 and 71, CKZK I 87 and 148). Title above the upper frame, in the lower left corner in the frame a short text about the natural conditions of Silesia. Covers the area: Poznań-Olomouc, Kamnitz-Krakow. On the back on the right card a German text entitled: "Silesia. Schlesien nach beschreibung M. Martini Helvigij dem Elden [...] Anno 1561 und von M. Dauid Wolckenstein [...] verordnet Anno 1587" and pag. xiij. Contemporary line and surface color. Scattered vertical folds of sheet, trace of lower corner fold.
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