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; p assepartout  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.