LITHUANIA Obiter Adumbrata, 1658

1658 Gabriel Bucelin (Swiss genealogist/mapmaker): “LITHUANIA Obiter Adumbrata,” Ulm, 10.5 x 6.3 cm, from the first edition of “Praecipuarum Universi Terrarum Orbis.” Historians criticized the map as uninformative (no Vilnius, Trakai, Kaunas, etc.) and as an imprecise copy of Ortelius’ or J. Jansonius’ maps. Created to illustrate the expansion of Protestantism in Lithuania. Published six times between
1650 and 1678.