Aldenburgum Holsatiae

Aldenburgum Holsatiae , or  Stade , from the collection  Civitates Orbis Terrarum by  Braun Hogenberg.

Precious hand-colored aquatint, hand watercolored,  showing a view of  Stade , indicated in the title as " Aldenburgum Holsatie ".   The table illustrates in detail the view of the German city in Southern Saxony.

Good conditions, with some visible stains. The original plate is mounted on a cardboard passepartout (33.5 x 49 cm). 

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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