Georg Braun and Frans Hogenberg

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Los 69 | Georg Braun and Frans Hogenberg
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Georg Braun and Frans Hogenberg

Civitates orbis terrarum. 1612-18

BRAUN, Georg (1541-1622) and Frans HOGENBERG (d.c.1590). Civitates orbis terrarum. Cologne: Petrus von Brachel, 1612-1616-1616-1617-1617-1617/18.



An attractive set of Braun and Hogenberg’s famous early town atlas, fully-coloured by a contemporary hand. 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 41:1.1-6.



6 volumes bound in three, folio (405 x 280mm). Text in Latin. 4 engraved allegorical titles (of 6, lacking those to parts 2 and 3), 362 plates (of 363, pt 5 lacking pl. 16 'San Adrian' but with duplicate of pl.14 of Granada, 6 plates supplied from other copies, viz 3 & 19 in pt 2, 14, 15, 37 in pt 5, and pl. 2 in pt 6, browning and staining throughout, numerous short tears and repairs, pt 1 with map of London loose). Contemporary vellum, yapp edges, gilt edges (covers lightly soiled and rubbed, short splits to joints and yapp edges, vol. 2 with small loss at foot of spine, vol. 3 with joints split and backstrip peeling away but holding, together with small loss to spine at foot).

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