Hogenberg Franz George Braun - Jerusalem - Aquatint on paper (1575)
Estimate: £1,000 - £1,200
From the collection "Civitates Orbis Terrarum", Cologne, T. Graminaeus, 1572-1617, an interesting etching on coeval paper, representing a detailed view of the saint city of Jerusalem, the “Hierosolyma urbs sancta”. The Title is on plate in higher and in lower-left there is a capture in Latin in a cartouche. Good conditions with the usual medial fold and some light foxings in margins. Including passepartout, cm 50 x 64.4.
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 others 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.
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 others 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.