Sambucus, Johannes (sold)
János Zsámboky, or Johannes Sambucus,(June 1, 1531 - June 13, 1584) was a Hungarian humanist polymath. He is best known for his emblem book, Emblemata cum aliquot nummis antiqui operis, published in five editions starting in 1564. He had studied in Vienna, but traveled broadly: he studied and worked in Leipzig, Wittenberg, Ingolstadt, Strasbourg, Paris, Venice, Padua, Genoa, Naples, Milan, Ghent, and Antwerp. He would be appointed court physician of Emperor Maximilian II, and prospered in that association, allowing him to amass wealth, influence, and an impressive library. His works included several maps - Hungary, Transylvania and Illyricum - which provided the basis for Abraham Ortelius' maps of those regions. Ortelius' decision to use Sambucus' maps speaks both to his influence, as well as a shared interest: Like Ortelius, Sambucus collected coins.
The Danube below Vienna.
Ungariae Loca Praecipua Recens Emendata Atque Edita, per Ioannem Sambucum Pannonium, Imp. Ms. Historicum. 1579.
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This is Ortelius' updated map of Hungary, derived from the similarly-titled and unacquirable 1571 map of János Zsámboky aka Johannes Sambucus. This new map supplemented Ortelius' earlier map of Hungary, based on the much older (1556) map of Wolfgang Lazio. (more details)
An attractively-engraved 16th century map of Transylvania.
Transsilvania.
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This is a miniature edition of Abraham Ortelius' 1595 map of Transylvania, in what is now central Romania: the map shows the region northwest of Bucharest (the city, which had not yet become the capital, is not named: it is overshadowed by Târgoviște (here in an archaic Germanized spelling Tervisch), then the capital of Walachia.) The full-size map appearing in Ortelius' 1570 Theatrum Orbis Terrarum was the first atlas map of the region. It was sourced from a Vienna map published in 1566 by Johannes Sambucus, and engraved by the Venetian engraver Michael Tramezzini (that map is unacquirable). Ortelius' Theatrum, the first modern atlas, proved popular, and his full-size atlas was sufficiently successful that demand was recognized for a smaller, less-expensive option to the original work, and several miniature, so-called Epitome atlases of Ortelius' work appeared in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. (more details)