Schenk & Valk’s Map of Syria Printed Area Measurement_39.5 x 52.5 cm there are details of churches

there are details of churches

Tabula ex observationibus astronomicis et hodometricia jussu et sumtibus Potentissimor Daniae Regnum Friderici V

Combined title and key in the panel

Mappa Totius Mundi adornata juxta Observationes dnn

it may have come from the same source: the British Library holds an anonymous example which has been tentatively dated to c

Schenk & Valk’s Map of Syria Printed Area Measurement_39.5 x 52.5 cm there are details of churchesSyriae sive Soriae, nova et accurata descriptio Petrus Schenk and Gerard Valk often worked in partnership, towards the end of the Dutch Golden Age, when the United Provinces still led Europe in the field of map making. Together they purchased the surviving copper printing plates of the famous Janssonius firm, among others, and reissued them under their own imprint. This map, covering the region of Syria in antiquity, was originally issued by