Ioannis Henrici à Pflaumern IC. Mercvrivs Italicvs Hospiti Fidus per Italiæ Præcipuas Regiones et Vrbes Dux: Indicans Explicans Quæcumque in ijs sunt Visu ac scitu digna
A 1625 Latin guidebook to Italian cities by Johann Heinrich von Pflaumern, with engraved plates from Heidelberg University Library, written for travellers and visitors to Italy. The pictures are bird's-eye city plans of Pisa, Ticino (Pavia), Parma and Verona, each with a numbered key of churches, gates and streets printed below. A designer could take the dense, hand-engraved line work of street grids, fortified walls and river edges as a model for historical city maps.
