1574 Braun & Hogenberg Antique Map View of Wesel North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany Russia The charter granted the company

The charter granted the company a monopoly over the region drained by all rivers and streams flowing into Hudson Bay in northern Canada

original copper-plate engraved antique map

including parts of New Zealand

Thus part of the art collection of the Florentine Medici family was inherited by the Farnese family

the latter two of which required two wars to subdue

1574 Braun & Hogenberg Antique Map View of Wesel North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany Russia The charter granted the companyTitle : Hermannus Hammelman Wesalia in Ducatu Cliuensi Size: 21in x 16in (545mm x 410mm) Condition: (A+) Fine Condition Date : 1574 Ref #: 81068 1 Description: This original copper plate engraved hnd coloured antique map, plan, a birds eye view of city of Wesel in North Rhine Westphalia, Germany was published by Georg Braun & Frans Hogenberg for the 1574 atlas of town plans Civiates Orbis Terrarum intended as a companion to Abraham Ortelius master