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Jodocus Hondius. Transylvania. 1625. *** An engraved woodcut with hand coloring. The map appeared in Purchas His Pilgrimes, a book of foreign travels compiled by English clergyman and scholar Samuel Purchas, and published in 1625. Much of Purchas's material came from a large body of manuscripts left behind by Richard Hakluyt upon his death in 1616. This map depicted that part of Transylvania visited by Captain Smith during his travels through Italie and Stiria. *** Clear, clean impression with printing on verso. *** The map image is just under 5.75 inches high by just under 7 inches. The whole page is 12.5 inches high by 8 inches.