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[BRAUN, Georg (1541-1622) and Frans HOGENBERG]. Civitates Orbis Terrarum. Cologne: Braun & Hogenberg and Philip Galle in Antwerp, 1572-75.
Parts I and II only in one volume, 2° (385 x 282mm). Engraved titles (the first cut down and mounted as a frontispiece), dedications to Maximilian II, 115 (of 118) engraved double-page maps, plans and birds-eye-views, all mounted on guards. (Lacking the views of Granada in part I and "Tunetis Urbis" and "Algerii Saracenorum" in part II, text leaves at beginning of first part and the end of the second with old spotting and dampstaining, the final leaves creased, 2 plates shaved with loss to the image, many with sections of blank margins torn or cut away, some torn at fold.) 18th-century half calf (worn). Provenance: Lengthy early inscription in an English hand (on recto of view of London, giving some details of the amount of wheat, malt and 'bere corne' used during a week, together with the number of bakers and other similar details, dated March 1574); I.A.Aubert (name-slip pasted onto first dedication leaf).
An early issue of the first two parts of the first systematic city atlas; the work was finally completed with the publication of the sixth part in 1617. The first two parts include, amongst others, views of London, Canterbury, Oxford, Paris, Rome, Barcelona, Amsterdam. Vienna, Brussels, Frankfurt, Venice, Genoa, Constantinople, Cairo, Mexico, Leiden, Moscow, Alexandria, Cairo and Mexico City. This collection, although without three plates, is probably as issued by Philip Galle in Antwerp. The dedications to Maximilian (who died in October 1576) can be taken as an indication of an early issue, as can the absence of letterpress numbers on the plates in the first part. cf.Koeman II, B.& H. 1 and 2.
Parts I and II only in one volume, 2° (385 x 282mm). Engraved titles (the first cut down and mounted as a frontispiece), dedications to Maximilian II, 115 (of 118) engraved double-page maps, plans and birds-eye-views, all mounted on guards. (Lacking the views of Granada in part I and "Tunetis Urbis" and "Algerii Saracenorum" in part II, text leaves at beginning of first part and the end of the second with old spotting and dampstaining, the final leaves creased, 2 plates shaved with loss to the image, many with sections of blank margins torn or cut away, some torn at fold.) 18th-century half calf (worn). Provenance: Lengthy early inscription in an English hand (on recto of view of London, giving some details of the amount of wheat, malt and 'bere corne' used during a week, together with the number of bakers and other similar details, dated March 1574); I.A.Aubert (name-slip pasted onto first dedication leaf).
An early issue of the first two parts of the first systematic city atlas; the work was finally completed with the publication of the sixth part in 1617. The first two parts include, amongst others, views of London, Canterbury, Oxford, Paris, Rome, Barcelona, Amsterdam. Vienna, Brussels, Frankfurt, Venice, Genoa, Constantinople, Cairo, Mexico, Leiden, Moscow, Alexandria, Cairo and Mexico City. This collection, although without three plates, is probably as issued by Philip Galle in Antwerp. The dedications to Maximilian (who died in October 1576) can be taken as an indication of an early issue, as can the absence of letterpress numbers on the plates in the first part. cf.Koeman II, B.& H. 1 and 2.