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Cartographer: Hartmann Schedel
Title: : Basilea
Date: 1493 Size: 21 x 15 inches
Published: Nuremberg
Description: Basel. Early woodcut panoramic view of the town.
Map Ref: SWAS1238

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Cartographer: Sebastian Munster
Title: : L'effigie de la ville de Soleurre, pourtraicte au vis, selonqu'elle est auiourdhuy de nostre temps
Date: 1552 Size: 13 x 10 inches
Published: Basel
Description: Early woodcut bird's-eye view of Solothurn, Switzerland depicting a wealthy, flourishing walled city with several large churches. French verso text.
Map Ref: SWAS699

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Cartographer: Sebastian Munster
Title: : La Ville de Choures, qui est la ville Capitale des Rhetiens, ou Grisons comme
Date: 1552 Size: 15 x 12 inches
Published: Basel
Description: Early woodcut panorama of Chur, the capital of the canton of Grisons in Switzerland. The city is depicted as a dense, walled city with many large buildings. There is a contemporary description in French below.
Map Ref: SWAS701

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Cartographer: Sebastian Munster
Title: : Basiliensis civitatis contrasactura adumbrata ad genuinum eius situm quen anno 1549 habuit
Date: 1558 Size: 13 x 10 inches
Published: Basel
Description: Important woodcut map of Basel, Munster's home city, from his highly influential geographical work.
Map Ref: SWAS1430

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Cartographer: Sebastian Munster
Title: : Clarissimae Civitatis Genuensis situs et figuratio latus que eius meridianum
Date: 1558 Size: 14 x 11 inches
Published: Basel
Description: Important woodcut map of Geneva from Munster's highly influential geographical work.
Map Ref: SWAS1431

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Cartographer: Sebastian Munster
Title: : Sedunensis ciuitas cun duabus arcibus & Valeria cathedrali ecclesia
Date: 1558 Size: 12 x 10 inches
Published: Basel
Description: Sion, an early woodcut of the town.
Map Ref: SWAS1435

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Cartographer: Sebastian Munster
Title: : Ober Baden
Date: 1558 Size: 12 x 10 inches
Published: Basel
Description: Baden, an early woodcut of the town.
Map Ref: SWAS1436

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Cartographer: Braun & Hogenberg
Title: : Zurych
Date: c. 1581 Size: 20 x 15 inches
Published: Cologne
Description: Celebrated early panoramic engraving of Zurich, one of earliest commercially available plans of the city.
Map Ref: SWAS1499

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Cartographer: Ludwig Fryg
Title: : Contrafactur der Statt Zurich anno 1588
Date: c. 1588 Size: 16 x 11 inches
Published: N/A
Description: Early woodcut plan of Zurich with text panels below.
Map Ref: SWAS1413

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Cartographer: Braun & Hogenberg
Title: : Zurich
Date: c. 1590 Size: 19 x 14 inches
Published: Cologne
Description: Beautiful bird's-eye view of Zurich from the first atlas of city views ever published, the 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum'. Latin text on verso. Coloured.
Map Ref: SWAS1491

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Cartographer: Matthaus Merian
Title: : Geneve
Date: c. 1640 Size: 11 x 7 inches
Published: Frankfurt
Description: Geneva. Early city plan. Coloured.
Map Ref: SWAS1239

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Cartographer: Matthaus Merian
Title: : Tigurvm, Zürich
Date: 1649 Size: 15 x 11 inches
Published: Frankfurt
Description: Early bird's eye view city plan of Zurich. With decorative insignia and legend. Coloured.
Map Ref: SWAS1457

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Cartographer: John Andrews
Title: : A Plan of the City of Geneva
Date: c. 1770 Size: 10 x 7 inches
Published: London
Description: Decorative 18th century city plan of Geneva with an index to the important buildings and a cartouche showing a man and his dog fighting a wolf. Coloured.
Map Ref: SWAS942

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Cartographer: SDUK
Title: : Geneva
Date: 1852 Size: 15 x 12 inches
Published: London
Description: Geneva. City plan. Panoramic vignette. Coloured.
Map Ref: SWAS1288

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Cartographer: John Dower
Title: : Geneva
Date: c. 1855 Size: 11 x 9 inches
Published: London
Description: City plan of Geneva with an index to the important public buildings and a vignette of Lake Geneva. Coloured.
Map Ref: SWAS812

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Cartographer: George Bradshaw
Title: : Geneva
Date: c. 1880 Size: 9 x 7 inches
Published: Manchester
Description: Attractive tourist map of Geneva with a key to the sites of interest. Published in Bradshaw's celebrated 'Continental Railway Guide'. Coloured.
Map Ref: SWAS1423

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