[Title page] LIBER QUARTUS - URBIUM PRAECIPUARUM TOTIUS MUNDI

Maker / Publisher:		BRAUN, Georg / HOGENBERG, Frans.
Place & Date:		Cologne, 1588
Colored:		Colored.
Size:		363 x 225 mm / 14.3 x 8.9 inches
Condition:		In generally very fair to good condition, professionally restored , laid on japan paper , margins of right corners restored.

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Engraved pictural title page to volume four of the 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum', by Braun & Hogenberg, 1588

The 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum', or the "Braun & Hogenberg", is a six-volume town atlas and the greatest book of town views and plans ever published: 363 engravings, sometimes beautifully colored. It was one of the best-selling works in the last quarter of the 16th century. Georg Braun wrote the text accompanying the plans and views on the verso.

A large number of the plates were engraved after the original drawings of Joris Hoefnagel (1542-1600), who was a professional artist. The first volume was published in Latin in 1572, the sixth volume in 1617.

Frans Hogenberg created the tables for volumes I through IV, and Simon van den Neuwel created those for volumes V and VI. Other contributors were cartographer Daniel Freese, and Heinrich Rantzau.

Works by Jacob van Deventer, Sebastian Münster, and Johannes Stumpf were also used. Translations appeared in German and French.

Reference: Taschen

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