Braun & Hogenberg’s Plan of Braunschweig, Lüneburg, Bremen with Stade Printed Area Measurement_51 x 58.5 cm

Braun & Hogenberg’s Plan of Braunschweig, Lüneburg, Bremen with Stade Printed Area Measurement_51 x 58.5 cmBrunopolis [with] Luneburgum [and] Brema [and] Aldenburgum Holsatiae Four north German towns are shown here on one sheet: Braunschweig, Lneburg and Bremen, with Stade mis captioned Oldenburg in Holstein. The Civitates Orbis Terrarum was one of the most significant cartographic works of the late sixteenth century, printed over 45 year period between 1572 and 1617. It was the first systematic city atlas (containing the first accurate surveys of many

from English into German

The map emphasises the landscape and outdoor activities such as fishing

Old repair to lower margin and corner of final leaf

von dem Venetiani – schen Geographo Herrn Pat

Breydenbach's Sanctae Perigrinationes of 1486

among others

and the advertisement for DH Evans on the back cover explains ‘why American ladies should shop in London and free-trade England… rather than high-protection France’

a few marks and spots

perhaps the last great decorative work of this type published in the British Isles

Il Sito de Curzolari (and Gulf of Lepanto)

dated on the cover

or had belonged to a Roman elephant