Nuremberg, Antique Map from "Civitates Orbis Terrarum"

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

Very fine B/W aquatint  showing a view of Nuremberg .   Strongly influenced by Hartmann Schedel's Nuremberg Chronicles , Braun and Hogenberg represented a strongly-idealized city as an unconquered fortress and a  Great Imperial Castle. The gaps among the various parts of the city are greatly reduced, for the sake of a "flat" vision, evidently judged more harmonious.  Good conditions , with a usual medial fold and minor stains on the top left and right corners.

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, a while before the extensive devastation caused by the Thirty Years’ War.