Danzig, Antique Map from "Civitates Orbis Terrarum"

Braun G., Hogenberg F., Dantziat, from the collection Civitates Orbis Terrarum, Cologne, T. Graminaeus, 1572-1617.

Image dimensions: cm 32.8 x 47.9; dimensions: cm 42 x 55.3; passepartout dimensions: cm 50 x 64.7.

Wonderful B/W etching representing a view of the Polish city of Danzig, with an interesting caption in Latin, in a cartouche, on the lower left. Title is on plate in a cartouche on the upper center. Good conditions with a usual medial fold; lightly brown paper and some foxings on the margins.

The 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.