Buda, Antique Map from "Civitates Orbis Terrarum"

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

Very fine B/W aquatint showing a view of Buda, an actual part of Budapest , Hungary, on the shore of the Danube river. Good conditions, with a little medial hole, some stains at the bottom and a restoration sign on the lower left corner.

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.