Itinerarium Belgicum.

Sm. folio: engr. title, [6] pp., 22 maps on double pp., [2] pp. (all mounted on strips, very slightly but unif. browned, 2 sm. ink and 1 clear small marg. water stain, first and last f. sl. soiled).

Mod. half calf, marbled paper boards, spine with raised bands.

First and only edition of this very rare and fine atlas of the Low Countries and Luxembourg by Georg Braun (1541-1622), German canon, cartographer and engraver, author of the series "Civitates Orbis Terrarum" (1572-1618), contemporary to Guicciardini, Ortelius and Mercator.
Contains: engraved title figuring the female personification "Belgica" seated in an antique porche, a dedication to Frederik II of Denmark, a notice on the geographical partition of the Low Countries, 1 general and 21 provincial maps on double pages (all very detailed and delicately engraved in varying dimensions from 13,7 till 19,8 x 19,3 till 28,2 cm) with text on verso and, at the end, a small word of the author, some "errata" and a table. Including the detailed particular map of Kerpen-Lommersum by Gerhard Stempel who was, as Georg Braun, a canon at St. George, Cologne.
Ref. VD16 S-8854.- Meurer BR1 (variant with "Belgium" in stead of "Germaniae Inferioris" in the cartouche of the gen. map).
Prov. 2 old ms. entries crossed out on engr. title.