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Karl Spruner von Merz: Britannia et Hibernia.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Karl Spruner von Merz  (1803–1892)  wikidata:Q6186030 s:it:Autore:Karl Spruner von Merz
 
Alternative names
Karl von Spruner / Carl von Spruner
Description German cartographer and historian
Date of birth/death 15 November 1803 Edit this at Wikidata 24 August 1892 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Stuttgart Munich
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artist QS:P170,Q6186030
Title
Britannia et Hibernia.
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English: This is Karl von Spruner’s 1865 map of England, Scotland, and Ireland (Britannia et Hibernia) in antiquity. Shows names of ancient tribes and peoples and the areas they inhabited. In addition to the main map there are three insets detailing Hadrian’s Wall, Britannia according to the Alexandrian cartographer Ptolemy, and Britannia according to Strabo. Map includes a scale and a legend in the upper-left quadrant. Map notes important cities, rivers, mountain ranges and other minor topographical detail. Territories and countries outlined in color. The whole is rendered in finely engraved detail exhibiting throughout the fine craftsmanship of the Perthes firm.
Date 1865 (undated)
Dimensions height: 16 in (40.6 cm); width: 13 in (33 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,16U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,13U218593
Source/Photographer INTERNET ARCHIVE: [1]; direct link to the image: [2]
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