Prague and Egra, Antique Map from "Civitates Orbis Terrarum"

Braun G. & Hogenberg F. , Praga, Egra , from the collection Civitates Orbis Terrarum , Cologne, T. Graminaeus, 1572-1617. Image dimensions: 39.5 x 47.5 cm. Dimensions: 41 x 52.5 cm.

Wonderful B/W aquatint showing a great view of Prague  and Egra . Good conditions, with a little hole and a medial usual fold on the paper sheet with two small rips on the upper and lower margins.

The Civitates Orbis Terrarum  ( Atlas of 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.