Antique Map of Enkhuizen by Guicciardini (c.1620)

Description: Antique map titled 'Die stadt Enchuijsen.' Detailed copper engraved city map of Enkuizen, the Netherlands, by Lodovico Guicciardini and published by Janssonius. Highly decorated with dozens of ships, windmills and a mermaid holding an informational cartouche. Published by Johannes Janssonius (1588 – 1664) or Jan Janszoon in English, a Dutch cartographer who lived and worked in Amsterdam in the 17th century.

Artists and Engravers: Made by 'Lodovico Guicciardini' after an anonymous artist. Lodovico Guicciardini (19 August 1521 – 22 March 1589) was an Italian writer and merchant from Florence who lived primarily in Antwerp. He was the nephew of historian and diplomat Francesco Guicciardini.