Three View of Cities (Goa, Azaamurum, Div) - SOLD

Citiesfrom the collection  Civitates Orbis Terrarum by  Braun Hogenberg.

Precious black and white etchings showing a view of different old cities.

Good conditions.

The plates are mounted on a cardboard passepartout and in a gilded frame.

Civitates Orbis Terrarum  ( Atlas of the Cities of the World ) was the second oldest printed atlas in the history of world cartography and the  first atlas totally dedicated to topographical views . The first volume of this collection was published in Cologne in 1572; the following in 1575, 1581, 1588, and 1598. The sixth and final volume appeared in 1617, just before the extensive devastation wreaked by the Thirty Years’ War.

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