Noye vnd richtige abbildung so aus der Vngerischen Mappn gezochen vmb was Reuir Bargam vnd Gran offen vnd anderer vmbligerten Orten zu ersöhen ist auch die Briggen so die Tirgen gemacht habn, vnd in der Flucht mit menge viler Tirgen, selbige gebrochen vnd Viller 1000 Tirgen erseifft die Donau geschwolt das man iber die Todten als wie iber grobe Plockh gehn khinen

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Noye vnd richtige abbildung so aus der Vngerischen Mappn gezochen vmb was Reuir Bargam vnd Gran offen vnd anderer vmbligerten Orten zu ersöhen ist auch die Briggen so die Tirgen gemacht habn, vnd in der Flucht mit menge viler Tirgen, selbige gebrochen vnd Viller 1000 Tirgen erseifft die Donau geschwolt das man iber die Todten als wie iber grobe Plockh gehn khinen

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Print shows a birdseye view of battlefields along the banks of the Danube River in Hungary. Includes representations of Budapest, Gran (Esztergom) and Vienna. Includes allegorical images of angels, an eagle, a dog and portrait of "Emiricy Teckely" (Count Imre Thököly). Individual details are labeled throughout the print refer to specific historical incidents and battles. Includes depictions of Polish cossacks, Hertzog von Lothrin and the King of Poland on horseback and bridges along the Danube, etc. Polish troops under King John III Sobiesky defeated the Turkish army allied with Imre Thököly to avert the capture of Vienna in 1683.
Title from uppermost cartouche on print.
Subtitle translation: [and around the area of Bargam and Gran and other surrounding areas can be seen, also the bridges that the Turks built and where many thousands of Turks drowned in the Danube where so many dead swelled the river Danube that one could walk across].
Reference copy in LOT 4601, no. 124.
Illustration in: Hauslab Album, plate 124.
Original album; Purchase; 1950.
Formerly: PR13 CN1950:R01. Originals were housed in blind-tooled morocco album 11 x 17 in. Original binding in P&P Suppl. Archives.

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