BRAUN, Georg (1541-1622) and Frans HOGENBERG (d.c.1590). Civitates orbis terrarum . Cologne: Bertram Buchholtz, 1599, 1597, 1599, [1599]. An attractive set of the first four volumes of Braun and Hogenberg’s famous early town atlas, fully-coloured by a contemporary hand and uniformly bound in Van der Krogt’s ‘ Civitates binding […] provided by Hogenberg in Cologne’. The Civitates is the first comprehensive atlas of town plans and is one of the great cartographical achievements of the 16th century. It is 'justly celebrated as the first general collection devoted solely to topographical views. Many of the towns depicted are the first engraved views. Apart from its topographical value, the work is of great interest for its record of the domestic life of the period. Town views, heraldic coats of arms, rural scenes, land and water transport, public buildings and so on are vividly depicted' (NMM). The text was written by Georg Braun of Cologne, the engraving of the plans executed by Frans Hogenberg and Simon Novellanus. Braun and Hogenberg relied on existing maps, including maps made after drawings by the Antwerp artist Joris Hoefnagel who had travelled extensively throughout Western Europe. cf. NMM 459; cf. Phillips Atlases 59 (1612 edition); Van der Krogt 41:1.1-4. 4 volumes (of 6, lacking vols. V & VI), folio (278 x 402mm). Text in Latin. Each volume with engraved allegorical title, 224 (of 236) double-page engraved plans and views all in contemporary hand-colour (some staining and marginal thumb-soiling, some repairs on verso, occasional short tears mostly in margins, the map of London and one of Jerusalem loosely inserted, possibly supplied from another copy from the same edition). Contemporary gilt-stamped calf, gilt border enclosing title on upper cover and allegorical representation on lower cover (extremities rubbed, some loss to spines).
BRAUN, Georg (1541-1622) and Frans HOGENBERG (d.c.1590). Civitates orbis terrarum . Cologne: Bertram Buchholtz, 1599, 1597, 1599, [1599]. An attractive set of the first four volumes of Braun and Hogenberg’s famous early town atlas, fully-coloured by a contemporary hand and uniformly bound in Van der Krogt’s ‘ Civitates binding […] provided by Hogenberg in Cologne’. The Civitates is the first comprehensive atlas of town plans and is one of the great cartographical achievements of the 16th century. It is 'justly celebrated as the first general collection devoted solely to topographical views. Many of the towns depicted are the first engraved views. Apart from its topographical value, the work is of great interest for its record of the domestic life of the period. Town views, heraldic coats of arms, rural scenes, land and water transport, public buildings and so on are vividly depicted' (NMM). The text was written by Georg Braun of Cologne, the engraving of the plans executed by Frans Hogenberg and Simon Novellanus. Braun and Hogenberg relied on existing maps, including maps made after drawings by the Antwerp artist Joris Hoefnagel who had travelled extensively throughout Western Europe. cf. NMM 459; cf. Phillips Atlases 59 (1612 edition); Van der Krogt 41:1.1-4. 4 volumes (of 6, lacking vols. V & VI), folio (278 x 402mm). Text in Latin. Each volume with engraved allegorical title, 224 (of 236) double-page engraved plans and views all in contemporary hand-colour (some staining and marginal thumb-soiling, some repairs on verso, occasional short tears mostly in margins, the map of London and one of Jerusalem loosely inserted, possibly supplied from another copy from the same edition). Contemporary gilt-stamped calf, gilt border enclosing title on upper cover and allegorical representation on lower cover (extremities rubbed, some loss to spines).
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