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Olissippo quae nunc Lisboa, civitas amplissima Lusitaniae, ad Tagum, totius Orientis, et multarum Insularum Aphricaeque et Mericae emporium nobilissimum
by Braun, Georg and Hogenberg, Frans:
- Used
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About This Item
Cologne, c. 1596. Copper engraving, 37 x 47.5 cms, original hand colour, a couple of marginal nicks and tears, French text on verso. Lisbon on the banks of the River Tagus, at the height of its prosperity as the hub of a Portuguese empire and trade network which stretched between south America and east Asia. A legend at the foot identifies 120 key buildings and places of interest, many of which were destroyed in the 1755 earthquake. 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 towns) and was inspired in part by the scope of Abraham Ortelius Theatrum Orbis Terarrum which gathered together the best available geographical sources. Town views and plans were all taken from direct observation rather than improvised in the manner of some earlier geographical works - it had not been unknown for the same view to appear in more than one guise. Georg Braun wrote the text and Ortelius himself - who travelled through Italy with the artist Joris Hoefnagel - supplied a significant proportion of the material, which was then engraved by Simon Novellanus and Frans Hogenburg. Later contributors included Abraham Hogenberg and Jacob Hoefnagel, who continued their fathers work. There were a number of editions, mostly with Latin text, but it is extremely difficult (and, according to Koeman 'of secondary importance') to differentiate between them, as the state of the plates and their number and order does not vary. Koeman B&H V Map
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- Bookseller
- Bryars and Bryars
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9844
- Title
- Olissippo quae nunc Lisboa, civitas amplissima Lusitaniae, ad Tagum, totius Orientis, et multarum Insularum Aphricaeque et Mericae emporium nobilissimum
- Author
- Braun, Georg and Hogenberg, Frans:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Place of Publication
- Cologne
- Date Published
- c. 1596
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- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.