![Title page of Matthaeus Merian, Topographia Helvetiae, Rhaetiae et Valesiae. Coats of arms of the Thirteen Cantons as a ring surrounding the title, numbered in order of precedence as: Zürich, Bern, Lucerne, Uri, Schwyz, Unterwalden, Zug, Glarus, Basel, Fribourg, Solothurn, Schaffhausen, Appenzell. Coats of arms of associates in vertical rows on either side: left: Abbey of St. Gallen, Grey League, League of the Ten Jurisdictions, Rottweil, Biel, right: City of St. Gallen, League of God's House, Valais, Mulhouse, Geneva, Neuchatel. Text in the title panel: TOPOGRAPHIA Heluetiae, Rhaetiae et Valesiae, Das ist, Beschreibung und Eigentliche Abbildung der Vornembsten Stätte und Plätz in der Hochlöblichen Eydgnoszschafft, Grawbündten, Wallisz und etlicher Zugewanten Orten. In Truck gegeben u Verlegt durch Matthaeum Merian M. DC. XLII. Above the title the stork as the printer's device of Merian, an the inscription Concordiae et pacis autor ichoua This is the title page of the first edition of Matthäus Merian's (1593-1650) famous and richly illustrated topography of Switzerland, containing two general maps (of Germany and Switzerland), and 74 copper-engraved views on 55 plates by Merian and others; the text is by Martin Zeiler (1589-1661).[1]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Merian_Topographia_1642_title.png/365px-Merian_Topographia_1642_title.png)
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